POLAVISION Instant Home Movies | FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2020
- In 1977 Polaroid decided they would try their hand at reinventing the home movie market giving us POLAVISION. I got my hands on the entire setup and figured it would be fun for the whole family!
Thanks to Ben at In An Instant for sending some packs my way!
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Polavision homies unite!
Hi everyone, four years ago I purchased two boxes of Polaroid Polavision Phototape 608, which had survived unopened in a refrigerator for 34 years! I own several Polavision cameras and players and I was able to shoot and develop one of these Polavision cassette without any problem on May 16, 2016 here in Munich, Germany. If somebody wants to see the results, I can upload the videos, where I documented every minute of this experiment. Yours, Thomas from Munich, Germany
Dope! You definitely should upload those videos man
Would love to see the results!
yes please!
upload them!
My entire life was captured on the Polavision camera. I can attest the sound had always been that loud playing.
Great memories.
So happy to see you cover this finally. The rarest and most obscure Polaroid hardware and needs some love!!!!
Also. Lmfao at you blowing on the cassette like a Nintendo cartridge. Crossover.
They also made instant 35mm film, which you can still get the stuff for on ebay sometimes.
Hi Noah, I watched your Polavision posting from 2 years ago about the film cartridge that had been kept refrigerated since 1982 and the pretty good results. That post led me to this video. I have to admit, even though the many carts of old film were a bust, this video was one of the best I have ever watched! The content represented real, actual responses from you and your family! No fancy made-up situations, just real people making a great little video! Thanks for posting this, I am a subscriber and look forward to watching all of your videos. Bravo!
Man.... I was so hoping at least one of those would have worked.... I was on the edge of my seat,, lol... I have been waiting for this review for a long time... but one thing is certain, you all had a great time playing with all this stuff,, which is the magic of film photography anyway... great video Noah
Spoilers!
When you're a big fan and can recognize reocurring characters from Noahs example-rolls, but don't know their names: "Aw yeah, it's all coming together."
it was so funny to watch you and your family mess around, your content has only gotten better!
My parents still have their Polavision player and some videos. I remember watching them - the player was incredibly loud, and even when the videos were new, they were kind of grainy/blurry. We had never had a video camera before, though, so we though it was very cool.
“Two good size babies. Two good size babies”😂
I was born August 31, 1973 when I was six years old my grandfather had one of those and it worked pretty good back in the day I wish I still had some of the film that he didn’t shoot because he did keep it in refrigerator then they used to put unused 35 mm film and stuff in the 80s in the refrigerator I never knew why and I don’t know if that really Does anything but yeah I’m 46 And the reason why I love your channel is all the stuff that I remember when I was a kid my grandfather used to have I think super eight and we used to watch all their Old home movies old Christmas movies birthdays in different places where they lived because my grandfather was in the Marine Corps so they moved around a lot.
Polaroid aren't to be frozen. Just keep below 15 C
this is amazing even though it failed! i love the fun of analog!
Cool video! I have never heard of polavision, seems cool though!
hey dude! my autistic ass’s newest special interest/fixation is film photography, and i am loooooving your videos. plz keep em coming!! i’m almost out of videos to watch haha. thanks for all your hard work😊
Awesome -- The whole Resurgence Family!!! Like a 1960's sitcom! I'm amazed that the mechanics of the projector and cartridges still work -- not surprised about the chemicals though -- have gotten some various expired Polaroid film along with vintage cameras and of course the development process failed -- cut open the "packets" and powder or gunk was left in there. It's a shame since the rest of it all seems to work.
If this was still made, I would so buy it! Very cool!
Woh, I just released a video on polachrome, (in French but English subtitles if you wanna check it) ! So cool to see you talking about pola vision! Too bad non of the cassette turned out...
I remember seeing these at monkey wards. And by the tv’s were the beta max and black and white camera. In 1978 my dad got an RCA VHS VCR. And I was converted to video. My dad had super 8 but when my grandpa died, I inherited his 16mm camera and projector. Still have them
damn man, the content is getting better and better! thanks for doing what you do!
Thats so cool!!! You know that they were made by Eumig in Austria for polaroid. The failure if this product was one of the reasons eumig eventually went bankrupt. Also my polavision player has a broken gear so it wil never work again.
That was great! I really enjoyed that video! 😀😀😀👍👍👍
If you could come up with the chemical developer mixture, and you hadn't run those films through the projector, you could run the films through the chemical mixture, maybe in a dish with a pencil or something.
love this video!!
Loved this vlog, love it, more videos trying out strange formats
This must be some kind of father's day cameo special!
In search of a polavision projector. We have the tapes but lost the viewer during a move.
The cassetes are smaller than I thought.
Talking about color being rly b&w, Will you do an episode about autochrome?
I had that and it was fun to be able to film. I had the projector and I wish I still had it. I ended throwing it all away when I moved. It hurts thinking about that. But watching this brings back memories.
SCOTT IS FUNNY AS HELL
My former business partner was working for the Montgomery Ward camera department when we met in 1978. He tried to sell me on 2 absolute pieces of junk. A GAF super 8 sound camera ( he ended up bringing that one home free as it was a floor model and never sold so they wrote it off the books. We already had our production company by that time) and a Polavision which we tested in the store. The results were acceptable for what it was, but I had less than a zero interest in it as I was looking for more professional equipment. Less than a year later, we bought a Beaulieu R 16 and started doing sports analysis films, time lapse for industrials and animation for commercials. We would see the Polavision system a few years later when we started transferring films to videotape in the mid 80s. Transferring Polavision film to video in a conventional telecine was a real pain. It was dark, so the amperage in the lamp had to be turned up, shortening the life, AND, Polavision cameras ran at around 14-16fps and our telecines ran at 20fps, a significant speed difference, so we would have to master on 3/4 inch, take the tape to a TV station so they could put it on their machine with dynamic tracking and slow it down so it would look normal.
excellent 😎
Wow! I don't remember this thing at all. I did see a movie one time, the title of I don't know where the actor pulls the film out of a 35mm roll and it is color slides so now I know what that was. This Polavision stuff should be brought back, further developed and refined with a new camera and larger capacity cartridge. You would shoot the film, then put the cartridge in some motorized device to develop it. The cartridge would not be viewed in a big monitor like that but opened up and the film spooled onto a standard projector reel to be viewed, edited or whatever. The used cartridge could be put in a prepaid mailer and sent back to the factory for reuse. This could work out to cost less that what it costs to shoot regular super 8 as it exists today and thus make it more popular which would also bring prices down.
Polavision would have had a brief shot if Sony Beta and VHS weren't right on the verge at the same time. But it was too little, too late, and competing with technology that handled motion capture far far better. Never mind the intramural wars between Edwin Land and Polaroid management over the product itself.
A friend of mine's partner was on the Polavision project, doing some of the color development and inspection testing for it. I've seen some of her small personal archive of clips she made with it that look very nice.
The sister product ... 35mm Polavision film, in color and two B&W versions ... was much more usable and sensible. I used them frequently in the early 1980s when I needed to do a job that had to be out the door very quickly. Somewhere I might have some of my saved slides from that ... I'll see if I can find any of them.
I need some way of playing my old polar vision cartridges.
Polavision would still be in demand!
What is in the cartridge is “lenticular” color film. Kodak had previously tried this in the late ‘20s/early ‘30s with “Kodacolor” in 16mm. That’s why you need a bright light source (and RGB tri-color filter.) What you need to do is extract the raw stock in the dark, and shoot it through a tri-band filter. Develop as a reversal and project through the same tri-band filter.
Aren't the filters on the film itself? I thought it was like dufaycolor film- panchromatic b&w with microscopic strips of alternating red, green, and blue filters printed on top of the emulsion. If so it'd be neat to shoot the film in a polavision camera, develop it in b&w reversal, put it back in the cartridge, then view it on a polavision viewer.
I wonder... if Polavision had come out maybe 5-10 years earlier, and if maybe instead of a contained screen/projector hybrid thing if it had been a normal projector that could take the cartridges and then project them onto a larger screen or wall, maybe it could have had some success? Back in the early 1970s, videotape wasn’t really a thing except for those who were either extremely rich or large TV studios (and it was extremely difficult to use), so having a quick, simple little format you could watch instantly afterwards would have had a market
I actually saw a polavision set at a Savers thrift store for like $35 but I didn't bother to get it because I had no idea what it was at the time.
Hello! There was no sound on these, correct? I came across old home movies on these cassettes that I'd like to get developed. (Online service has a sound option.) Thank you!
Nope! Polavision film never had a sound version produced
Maybe you could still develop the film you shot if you submersed it in fresh new chemicals identical to the original ones which dried up.
Some ten years ago people were still getting results. Even without the machine. Just advance the film using a battery-drill or such on slow rpm. The result isn't very bright as it is additive RGB technology and you need a lot of light to get something on screen.
I'm about to shoot Polachrome and Polapan instant slide film.
I imagine even if it did work but the chemicals were dried out that the light killed it afterwards. So perhaps try shooting the film and then developing it manually outside of the camera?
Any chance you have a cassette you'd be willing to sell as a sample?
I have a dozen of these cassettes and would LOVE to see the movies again no matter how crappy they look. The majority of the people on them have passed. My viewer is long since gone but cassette/movies have been at stored away. Can they be transferred to USB or CD? Or any viewable method?
Labs that scan Super 8 might be able to transfer these cassettes for you but the results might be poor because of how dense the film was. It also involves breaking open the cartridge. Places like Pro8mm of the Film Photography Project might be able to do it, but it's best to contact the lab beforehand and ask.
it was a cool idea they where just a bit late
I got only one tape to work kinda it was a off purple and blurry
Hmm, and what if you squeeze the chemical pads from few FP100C sheets and than inject the liquid into the cassette's chemical pad that is dried out? Maybe than it would work.
Imagine that, the equivalent of the Lumiere Bros'. Autochrome additive color movies. (I would have stuck with 8mm Kodachrome, if I were still "doing movies" back then.;) "Polachrome"? Mama don't take my Kodachrome awaay. (She did, anyway.;) I was hoping that the process would work, though the odds were long.
hi all - just acquired - 1 player, 1camera &12 tapes - but the player wont work - power is good, all fuses are good, bulb is good - anyone know where i can get a strip down dismantle process etc - i want to get inside the machine to look for any obvious reason why the machine wont play.
Bens funny I’ll have to check his channel out.
Never mind who the hell was the guy with the white hair, he’s funny!
Hahaha that’s my father and I will absolutely pass that compliment along. Definitely check out Ben’s channel though!
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Good old Nintendo 64 Cartridge Blowing :D sadly it does not work here :(
Millennials thinking N64 had cartridges that needed blowing have no idea what the original NES was like I guess.
this for sure isn't William Freeze Greene and his Magic Box
Why does he have so much bread?
Who's channel is this ? 🤣
Yes, Kilos !!! Am I the only metric viewer???
Not at all. In fact I'm confused. Aren't they Canadian? Canada like 99% of the world uses the metric system 🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷
When the first film failed, then the second, should have tried a different camera on the rest....
The problem wasn’t the camera, but the age of the film which used chemicals that had completely dried up! I actually had luck eventually: ua-cam.com/video/MYMRtNKEhiQ/v-deo.html
very good, but don't handle, fiddle, move stuff so quickly. we can't see details well. you might happen to be tired sometimes for spending so much time with these things, but we are not.
I am seeking a Polavision viewer in New Zealand if anyone is willing to send one.
Sad, it’s a shame the film didn’t give any results
Whatever youre gonna compare to Kodachrome in the 70s will not look good. Good try though
A technical tour de force! Of a totally misguided product. The list of negative aspects is huge!!!! How does one edit these films??? How did the management struggle through all the contra indications?? Mind is boggled.
did I ever tell you the definition of insanity? It's trying the same thing over and over again, expecting things to change