Box VI.197

Scope and Contents: This series includes video formats either created by or about the Polaroid Corporation. The formats include U-matic, Beta, VHS, and open reel video. Content includes Polaroid history, shareholder's and quarterly business meetings, television commercials, press conferences, focus groups, trade shows, and events. Also included are local news segments about Polaroid (in particular the company's 50th Anniversary), PBS shows, such as Dinner at Julia's, which Polaroid sponsored, and a short clip...

Scope and Contents: This series includes video formats either created by or about the Polaroid Corporation. The formats include U-matic, Beta, VHS, and open reel video. Content includes Polaroid history, shareholder's and quarterly business meetings, television commercials, press conferences, focus groups, trade shows, and events. Also included are local news segments about Polaroid (in particular the company's 50th Anniversary), PBS shows, such as Dinner at Julia's, which Polaroid sponsored, and a short clip...

Scope and Contents: This series includes video formats either created by or about the Polaroid Corporation. The formats include U-matic, Beta, VHS, and open reel video. Content includes Polaroid history, shareholder's and quarterly business meetings, television commercials, press conferences, focus groups, trade shows, and events. Also included are local news segments about Polaroid (in particular the company's 50th Anniversary), PBS shows, such as Dinner at Julia's, which Polaroid sponsored, and a short clip...

Scope and Contents: This series includes video formats either created by or about the Polaroid Corporation. The formats include U-matic, Beta, VHS, and open reel video. Content includes Polaroid history, shareholder's and quarterly business meetings, television commercials, press conferences, focus groups, trade shows, and events. Also included are local news segments about Polaroid (in particular the company's 50th Anniversary), PBS shows, such as Dinner at Julia's, which Polaroid sponsored, and a short clip...

Scope and Contents: This series includes video formats either created by or about the Polaroid Corporation. The formats include U-matic, Beta, VHS, and open reel video. Content includes Polaroid history, shareholder's and quarterly business meetings, television commercials, press conferences, focus groups, trade shows, and events. Also included are local news segments about Polaroid (in particular the company's 50th Anniversary), PBS shows, such as Dinner at Julia's, which Polaroid sponsored, and a short clip...

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Advertising commercials that appeared on NBC in 1987. This a loop of the same six commercials.

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1980 annual shareholder's meeting in which Edwin Land gives the opening remarks about Time Zero. Speakers include Edwin Land and William J. McCune. Dr. Land steps down as CEO of Polaroid and receives two bullmastiff puppies as a parting gift from McCune and Polaroid. There is a question and answer session in which Land and McCune answer direct questions with the stockholders.

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1980 annual shareholder's meeting. This is the business portion of the shareholder's meeting in which the board of directors is approved, the auditors for the company resolved, and William J. McCune gives the financial results for the year. Land gives opening remarks.

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1976 Polaroid Corporation annual meeting. Edwin Land introduces the directors of the company; William J. McCune presents the business portion of the meeting including votes on proposed motions and the financial results from the previous year. McCune also introduces the Polaroid Pronto Land Camera and mentions Kodak's entrance into the instant photograph market. Land is presented with the 3 millionth SX-70 camera to be manufactured by Polaroid.

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Male narrator describes the meeting of the Optical Society of America when Land introduced the first Polaroid camera. Mentions the newspaper articles that came out following Land's presentation, including "The Camera Does the Rest." Also tells the story of how Land came up with the idea from his daughter's question in New Mexico. There is background music from 6:30 or so to around 9:30, then narrator picks up again and talks until 10:50.

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Side 1: There is some cutting out between clips. Also some quotes are cut short and a couple cut out in the middle of the quote. Quotes about invention and discovery, mentions Beethoven, Hegel, and colleagues at Polaroid. Side 2: Quotes by Land about photographers and amateur artists/photographers. There is a great deal of cutting out within clips. Quotes on amateur vs. professional, responsibility, photography as art, how things work at Polaroid Corp. There is quite a bit of skipping.

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Quotes cut out at various points. Quotes related to art, art collection, SX-70 film, time zero, environment at Polaroid Corp., Polarizers. 3-D film, the longevity of the one-step process, industry. Some quotes toward the end have a lot of background static.

Scope and Contents: Side 1: Land on science and industry, social progress, Land's goal of "the autocracy of ideals," and social responsibility of industry, fantasy to reality (includes the "hacking away at the components" quote). There seems to be some fast forwarding and thus quotes are divided up by a sound. Side 2: The first quote has a buzzing sound behind it and the first few quotes cut in and out, not really clear what the context is. Land presentation on changing the world of photography, clearly he is...

Scope and Contents: Woman narrator talks about the various products created by Polaroid for different industries and the importance of the employees for innovation. This is a clearly an internal video for new employees. Male narrator covers the early years of Polaroid. Female narrator talks about the corporate structure of the company. At this point McCune and Booth are in control of the company, probably late 1980s or early 1990s. Male narrator discusses Polaroid products in scientific and engineering fields....

Scope and Contents: This series includes recorded sound audio created by the Polaroid Corporation. The bulk of the formats are compact audiocassette tapes and 1/4 inch open reel audio tapes. The content varies widely and includes recordings of annual shareholder's meetings, press conferences, commercials, discussions about the development of various products including vectographs and Polavision, Dr. Land's speeches and lectures at different events, and interviews with key Polaroid executives including Edwin...

Scope and Contents: This series includes recorded sound audio created by the Polaroid Corporation. The bulk of the formats are compact audiocassette tapes and 1/4 inch open reel audio tapes. The content varies widely and includes recordings of annual shareholder's meetings, press conferences, commercials, discussions about the development of various products including vectographs and Polavision, Dr. Land's speeches and lectures at different events, and interviews with key Polaroid executives including Edwin...

Scope and Contents: This series includes recorded sound audio created by the Polaroid Corporation. The bulk of the formats are compact audiocassette tapes and 1/4 inch open reel audio tapes. The content varies widely and includes recordings of annual shareholder's meetings, press conferences, commercials, discussions about the development of various products including vectographs and Polavision, Dr. Land's speeches and lectures at different events, and interviews with key Polaroid executives including Edwin...

Scope and Contents: This series includes recorded sound audio created by the Polaroid Corporation. The bulk of the formats are compact audiocassette tapes and 1/4 inch open reel audio tapes. The content varies widely and includes recordings of annual shareholder's meetings, press conferences, commercials, discussions about the development of various products including vectographs and Polavision, Dr. Land's speeches and lectures at different events, and interviews with key Polaroid executives including Edwin...

Scope and Contents: This series includes recorded sound audio created by the Polaroid Corporation. The bulk of the formats are compact audiocassette tapes and 1/4 inch open reel audio tapes. The content varies widely and includes recordings of annual shareholder's meetings, press conferences, commercials, discussions about the development of various products including vectographs and Polavision, Dr. Land's speeches and lectures at different events, and interviews with key Polaroid executives including Edwin...

Scope and Contents: This series includes recorded sound audio created by the Polaroid Corporation. The bulk of the formats are compact audiocassette tapes and 1/4 inch open reel audio tapes. The content varies widely and includes recordings of annual shareholder's meetings, press conferences, commercials, discussions about the development of various products including vectographs and Polavision, Dr. Land's speeches and lectures at different events, and interviews with key Polaroid executives including Edwin...

Scope and Contents: This series includes recorded sound audio created by the Polaroid Corporation. The bulk of the formats are compact audiocassette tapes and 1/4 inch open reel audio tapes. The content varies widely and includes recordings of annual shareholder's meetings, press conferences, commercials, discussions about the development of various products including vectographs and Polavision, Dr. Land's speeches and lectures at different events, and interviews with key Polaroid executives including Edwin...

Scope and Contents: This series includes recorded sound audio created by the Polaroid Corporation. The bulk of the formats are compact audiocassette tapes and 1/4 inch open reel audio tapes. The content varies widely and includes recordings of annual shareholder's meetings, press conferences, commercials, discussions about the development of various products including vectographs and Polavision, Dr. Land's speeches and lectures at different events, and interviews with key Polaroid executives including Edwin...

Scope and Contents: This series includes recorded sound audio created by the Polaroid Corporation. The bulk of the formats are compact audiocassette tapes and 1/4 inch open reel audio tapes. The content varies widely and includes recordings of annual shareholder's meetings, press conferences, commercials, discussions about the development of various products including vectographs and Polavision, Dr. Land's speeches and lectures at different events, and interviews with key Polaroid executives including Edwin...

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This audio recording consists solely of a musical composition. The title suggests it’s a tribute to Adams.

Scope and Contents: Two marketing pieces narrated by Eelco Wolf which appear to be directed at professional photographers. In the first piece Wolf describes experimentation with Polaroid Type 105 P/N film, specifically mentioning the portfolio 12 Instant Images with photographs by Ansel Adams, Sarah Moon, and Allen Porter. Also describes 2 subsequent portfolios "SX-70 Experience" and "Instant Variations". The second piece describes a challenge to two photographers (Stephan Shore and Eelco Wolf) to photograph in...