Polavision Cassette Super8 by Polaroid
Yes, we can digitize your Polavision movie film!
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The Polavision film, by Polaroid Land Co, was used in the late 1970s but never really caught on.
You took the movies with the film cassette in a camera and then developed the film within chemicals within the cassette and you could also view it from within the cassette. The cassette held 33.5 feet of film compared to a super 8 which would hold 50 feet of film.
A proprietary projection system was needed to project the film onto a screen. Light would go in one side of the casssette and out the other side.
The film has to be removed from the cassette and we do not put it back in but you probably are not going to want it back in the cassette anyhow. YOu have to be very careful when opening the cassette since it will still have the developing chemicals inside.
Polavision Cassette Super8 by Polaroid
Here you can see a Polavision cassette in a fully rewound position. You can tell because it says "rerun".
Due to the light-loss caused by the filtering layer (only one of red, green or blue was let through for a given portion of film), the resulting film had relatively low light sensitivity (40 ASA) and the resulting footage was much denser than with other processes.[1] As a result, Polaroid designed a standalone table-top projector/viewer, which was intended to reduce the problems inherent in projecting such dense film. The viewer used a translucent screen, projecting the image from behind, but critics from publications like Consumer Reports called the images "murky and dark." Despite this, the format was used by artists, including Charles Eames, Ray Eames, and Andy Warhol.
One market niche Polaroid promoted was the field of industrial testing, where the camera would record, for example, the destruction of a pipe under pressure. This type of use was moderately price insensitive, with the ability to get the images quickly (thus reducing wasted crew time) a very positive selling feature.
In addition to the density problems, the process was late to market and had to compete with upcoming videocassette-based systems like Betamax and VHS. Unlike videotape, Polavision films, once developed, could not be reused nor played on a television. Polavision proved to be an expensive failure, and most of the manufactured equipment was sold off in 1979 as a job lot at a loss of $68.5 million. In the wake of those losses, Polaroid chairman and founder Edwin H. Land resigned the chief executive position in 1980 and left the company two years later
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