My depressing visit to Waltham last week resulted in photos of a half-demolished plant that once made Polaroid film. In the latest installment of curios from The Polaroid Newsletter, I’ve got photos of a factory that had a considerably happier turn in the 21st century. It’s the plant in Enschede, the Netherlands, that supplied Europe with […]
Most Polaroid freaks know about Dr. Florian Kaps, a.k.a. “Doc,” who is the guy more than any other who kept SX-70 and 600 film from disappearing forever. But there’s another Doc who figures in Polaroid’s history (and I don’t mean Dr. Land, whose only widely used nickname, as far as I know, was “Din”).
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While researching the book, I managed to obtain (don’t ask; it involved cash and a very long drive) a bound set of Polaroid’s in-house newspaper.
First called the Polaroid News Letter, then the Polaroid Newsletter, and later the Polaroid Update and briefly Viewpoint, the newspaper grew in polish […]
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