Word: polaroiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Salesmen at Boston's Jordan Marsh department store just before Christmas 1948 proudly touted the new cameras with the slogan "Snap it, see it." As curious customers watched in fascination, Polaroid pictures almost miraculously developed right inside the camera in one minute. Photography's professionals dismissed it as a gimmick, but Edwin Land had just founded the instant-photo industry, now a $1.2 billion business. Last week Land, 70, one of the premier tinkerers of American history, announced his retirement as chief executive officer of Polaroid amid a whirlwind of controversy. Land's departure will...
Three years ago, when Land introduced Polavision to an amazed stockholders' meeting, Polaroid had been one of the great success stories of corporate America. Founder and boss for 43 years, Harvard Dropout Edwin Land is an inventive genius ranking not far behind Thomas Edison. He personally holds 524 U.S. patents. Starting with the development of Polaroid filters to stop the harsh reflection of automobile headlights, Land moved on to nonglare Polaroid sunglasses and World War II antiaircraft goggles...
...negative and positive print. The film and paper could be separated after 60 sec. to reveal the picture. During the 1950s and 1960s, the wizard of light turned out a steady stream of new cameras, faster developing films and color films. During its go-go Wall Street era, Polaroid became the epitome of a glamour stock. A $1,000 investment in the company in 1938 was worth more than $4 million at its peak...
...bought the land in hopes of eventually selling it to the Polaroid Corporation for an office complex, but Milne said last night that that company scrapped its plans for the site last November because of slumping profits...
Milne told the council MIT real estate officials had received "flickers" of interest over the site from two companies, one in California and the other in the Boston area. He added, however, that "there aren't many Polaroids," and that the land will probably have to be sold in pieces instead of one large chunk as envisioned for the Polaroid deal...