Instant camera lore dates back to WWII. Here's how we got to the Polaroid Land Camera

There is still some fondness out there for the old-style cameras, and one that often evokes sighs of remembrance is the ...
KPBS

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Mr. Polaroid

Long before the iPhone, another inventive device allowed everyone to instantly chronicle their lives — the Polaroid camera. The product, and the company’s unique culture, would launch not only instant ...
PBS

How Polaroid Captured Cool

The Polaroid Supercolor 635 camera was produced from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Rawpixel. From the release of the first instant camera in 1948—a bulky, accordion-style apparatus that sold for ...
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10 Fun Facts About Polaroid

This month, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE introduces viewers to Edwin Land, the visionary scientist and inventor of the Polaroid camera. Because of his invention, people could snap a picture and see it nearly ...