Word: polaroiding
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...growing reluctance to move has not been lost on the big corporations, which have always felt free to move their people with abandon. A Delta Airlines spokesman reports: "People are absolutely putting their foot down about being hauled out of a city." Polaroid says that applications for transfers abroad, once in the hundreds for every job, are now in the dozens. Like many companies, FMC, an international conglomerate based in Chicago, is responding to employee pressure by eliminating many executive transfers around the country. Says a spokesman: "We are trying to slow down the revolving door...
...York hotel clerk who betrays visiting Eastern European guests to their native apparatchiks. This deed over, Levanter privately gloats because authorities cannot discover a plot linking killer and victim. As he does so, the murder is already fading from memory: "It was nothing but an old Polaroid snapshot; no negative, photographer unknown, camera thrown away...
...device that made this remarkable picture possible is more than a king-size copy of the familiar Polaroid camera. Occupying an otherwise empty room at the museum, the camera is in effect a room within a room, a light-tight box 3.6 meters (12 ft.) wide, 3.6 meters high and 4.8 meters (16 ft.) deep. In addition to a large conventional lens, it contains a Rube Goldbergian arrangement of pulleys, ropes and rollers. While conventional Polaroid cameras are operated from the outside, the three technicians who work Land's invention position themselves inside...
...distance being double the focal length of the lens. Then the tapestry is illuminated with banks of lights (see diagram) while, inside the camera, technicians fine-focus the image on a screen 3.9 meters behind the focal point of the lens. Next, they lower a huge sheet of standard Polaroid negative stock, hold it flat against the screen with a vacuum pump and trip the shutter, thus exposing the negative...
With a whirring of gears, a set of spools turns, unrolling a sheet of printing paper against the negative. The technicians meanwhile spread the patented Polaroid chemical reagent-a viscous mixture they call "goo"-onto both sheets simultaneously. After passing between a pair of rollers, the sandwich of photographic papers is raised, by rope and pulley, toward the ceiling. Then the sandwich is lowered to the floor, and the negative is lifted off, revealing the huge full-color print. "It's nothing but a small Polaroid process made larger," says Technician Peter Bass...