@toddanthony6664
Blue jeans, Monopoly, and now Polaroid Cameras?!?!? Shout out to the producers of American Experience! These docs are amazing.
@sarahalbers5555
My dad was Dr. Land's wife, Marjorie 's physician. They owned a magnificent home on Miami Beach. My brother and I enjoyed weekends with them. Dr. and Mrs. Land were very special. This was in the 60's, and Miami Beach was like a paradise then. I am appreciative of your documentation of his extraordinary career. And yes, he was a really nice man.
@aodhganmerrimac
My father worked at Polaroid for 39 years. We grew up with Polaroid Land cameras ever present in our lives. We visited the plant in Waltham on family days, enjoyed a yearly trip to an amusement park courtesy of Polaroid, and got to test new products before they hit the market-like the SX-70 & Big Shot. My first camera was a Swinger Model 20 when I was 9 yrs old! I do have to say I always preferred the quality of pack film over the 600 film. Thank you for a wonderful documentary!
@amandaduerk5866
One thing that stood out here is how Land valued technological progress over everything else - humanity included at times. This is a huge existential problem we are dealing with in present day as well. History is always relevant, and I love PBS for giving us true history to chew on!
@stevenfoon2194
I'm one of those millions he touched and have recently gone back to the medium and have rediscovered my love of photography that initially started with a Polaroid Super Colorpack camera in 1970. It's an obsession with a wide variety of Polaroid new and old along with the Fuji version of instant photography which oddly can trace it's roots back to the Polaroid/Kodak lawsuit. The JOY Dr. Land created still works. Yesterday at a family gathering, I shot instant and the looks on everyone's face when I gave them the print - priceless. My 4 year old granddaughter was handed a print - she just said "white, white, white" We told her to just look and wait. When the image started to appear, the wonder, fascination and wanting to hold on to the print said it all about this. Thank You Dr. Land and the good people at American Experience / PBS for creating this !!
@mackpines
What an incredible story. Once again, PBS makes a documentary that’s so well produced and researched. As an amateur shutterbug and retro nerd, I found this so fascinating. I regret my grandmother selling her Polaroid years before I got into photography. She had a OneStep from the late 70s.
@ARKHAMxMaverick
These are the kind of shows I miss from back in the TV days. Learning about something and someone you never knew.
@akheem7515
I remember growing up with Polaroid in West Africa. I don’t think I have any left but I can still see those pics in my memory.❤️
@ntsecrets
While a college student I got an internship at Polaroid in IT and I chose the job because I felt like they needed me. I worked there for 7 years into the 2000s and owe my career to my start there.
@cshubs
I learned a few years ago that Dr Land was my kin! He was my paternal grandfather's cousin. (His father, Harold, sponsored my grandfather to come to America.) He was an interesting guy with more than 500 patents, placing him 3rd on the most US patents list behind Edison and Thomson.
He got the idea for instant photography on a trip to Santa Fe. His daughter asked why she had to wait so long to see the pics. (I now live in NM.)
@InAnInstant
Nothing but respect for MY Mr. Polaroid
@cloudymoney2895
Stefanie Schneider’s work is one of the most evocative testaments to Edwin Land’s vision — not only because of the haunting beauty of her expired Polaroids, but because her art played a direct role in saving the medium itself. It was Schneider’s poetic use of deteriorating film that caught the attention of Florian Kaps and helped spark the rescue of the last remaining Polaroid factory in 2008. Through her dreamlike tableaux of longing, love, and desert light, Schneider showed the world that Polaroid was more than a product — it was a language. In a way, her images helped keep Land’s dream alive.
@MrSuzuki1187
Back in the 1970s, my mom, who worked for the McDonnell Aircraft company in St. Louis got a retired 1957 Polaroid Land camera from her work and gave it to me along with a ton of black and white film. I took many photos with it that I still have today. Great camera! In fact, I am looking at one that was taken of me 19 1975 and enlarged to about 14 inches by 18 inches and the fidelity is still very sharp. It is hanging on my office wall not 5 feet away.
@chuckmosca2379
Thank you PBS for yet another in depth and well produced documentary. I hope we can withstand the threats to independent journalism and historical perspectives that we count on from your network. I hate to imagine an America without it.
@Girlytang
Our Polaroid cameras captured time in a bottle and was ever present throughout my early childhood, but I was too young to truly appreciate the genius behind it. Thank you for this riveting documentary! I absolutely savored every second!
@roberste
When I was a kid (5 years old in 1969), my parents had a Polaroid camera. I remember seeing those pictures come out and the amazement of what the camera captured on film. Thank you American Experience for yet another terrific film on another amazing person and his works.
@marcinna8553
My family must have had an early model. I remember as a kid having to coat the photos with the coating solution, a slightly gelatinous, sticky stuff with a very distinct smell that you had to be careful not to get on your fingers. My dad used to point out Mr. Land's house on Fresh Pond Parkway in Cambridge and tell me what great inventor he was.
@xjAlbert
Brilliant & Entertaining Documentary. So glad I support PBS with monetary donations.
@robertclark9
I grew up in the Boston suburbs. Many of my parents friends worked at Polaroid’s Waltham plant. And loved it there.
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