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...When the Polaroid film factory in the Dutch town of Enschede shut down in June 2008, it seemed to signal the end for one of the most ingenious and iconic innovations of the 20th century. Almost 60 years after American inventor Edwin H. Land sold the first Model 95 of his new instant-picture camera in Boston in November 1948, the troubled Polaroid Corp. halted its cassette-film production for good. Demand was still relatively high - the plant churned out 30 million cassettes in 2007 and 24 million in the first half of 2008 - but the plant...
...When Paul Simon sang, "Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away" in 1973, Kodak was still expanding its Kodachrome line, and it was hard to believe that it would ever disappear. But by the mid-1980s, video camcorders and more easily processed color film from companies like Fuji and Polaroid encroached on Kodachrome's market share, and the film fell into disfavor. Compared to the newer technology, Kodachrome was a pain to develop. It required a large processing machine and several different chemicals and over a dozen processing steps. The film would never, ever be able to make...
...stay, the delegates saw as much of Cambridge and Boston as possible—they visited John Hancock Building, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Commons, Widener Library and the Yard. In addition, smaller groups paid visits to hospitals, a reform school, Newton High School, and a Polaroid-Land factory. In addition, they met with Dean McGeorge Bundy to discuss American-Soviet student exchange programs, attended a closed luncheon in Quincy House, and strolled through Widener Library; the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Peabody Museums; and the Russian Research Center.The delegates noticed large differences between life...
...York City audience, who viewed the short documentaries through anaglyph (red-green) glasses. In the 1920s, many 3-D shorts appeared on programs at theaters such as New York's Roxy. MGM presented three 3-D talkie shorts from 1936 to 1941, the last one in Technicolor. The Polaroid filters created by Edwin Land were used for a short shown at the Chrysler Pavilion of the 1939 New York World's Fair...
...right is Canaday, the newest dorm in Harvard Yard, completed in 1974. The architect, Ezra Ehrenkranz, built this dormitory in the shape of a question mark. And right ahead is our Science Center, which I’ve been told, looks like a Polaroid camera from an aerial view.” While these architectural tidbits certainly add some flair to the Yard, they are not the only Harvard buildings with an interesting history.Massachusetts Hall and Harvard HallBuilt in 1718, Massachusetts Hall is the oldest building still standing at Harvard and the second oldest academic building in the country. Like...