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1970’s Polaroid – Still Got It After All These Years

Polaroid has still got it after all these years. As proof, and for some Friday fun, check out this 1970’s retro how-to video/advert/documentary. Still cool and amazingly poignant.

Polaroid – the original social network.
Snap a picture, show your friends = Create. Share Sustain.
Note the range, accessibility and the diversity.
Pretty impressive.

Reminder to check out the Impossible Project, plus one of my recent Polaroid snapshots after the jump.
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[btw, just picked up the polaroid vid from my homie, APE.]

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1970’s Polaroid – Still Got It After All These Years

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  1. James says:
    August 21, 2010 at 9:50 am

    There’s still demand for Polaroid film and companies are still producing it – there’s still life in the old dog. Check out http://www.the-impossible-project.com. Commission payments can be made to…

  2. David Dvir says:
    August 14, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    Very cool!

  3. Ajani says:
    August 14, 2010 at 9:17 am

    Very cool!

    This video makes me want to get a polaroid camera even more.

    I’m from Toronto, Canada and they’re very difficult to find. Same goes for the paper used in polaroid cameras.

    Kind of frustrating.

  4. Gato says:
    August 13, 2010 at 9:09 pm

    Polaroid saved my creative life. After 30 years of photography (pro and amateur), in the mid-’90s I had to give up my darkroom. From then until I went all digital around 2000 Polaroid was my main creative outlet. After a 60-hour week in corporate mid-management, on the weekend I could put in an hour or so playing photographer with Polaroid. Maybe it wasn’t great art, but it gave me an outlet and helped keep me sane — more or less.

    I used a ton of SX-70 and more than a few packs of 4×5 in those years. I still have a very nice SX-70 in the closet, if only I could get film.

    Gato

  5. adam says:
    August 13, 2010 at 12:00 pm

    Incredible. Thanks.

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