that makes some sense, Mitsubishi did sell colour film, but I never saw any in the Market where I live. if they cooperated with Sakura/Konica they both may have had some input on the products. beside the "K, F" frame numbers, the Konica Private label stuff came in a film can similar but different to what EFKE used. and the later SR had blue streaks to code the type in the perforation area.Mitsubishi owned a large fraction of Konishiroku and coated some materials for them. Their founder, Konishiroku Emon, was a personal friend of George Eastman.
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Polachrome (and Polapan), which I used to use in the early 90's was apparently made in the US. Polaroid also marketed "One Film" and a Business Use film. I have some rolls of the latter which don't really have the same signatures as Ferrania film in the rebate area and more closely resembles Agfa or Fuji with the "dot matrix" lettering.
I have one of the plastic developing gizzmos for this process. I never used it, and I suppose it is useless now.IIRC Polaroid also made an "instant roll film". One would put it in some kind of box with some cartridge of chemicals, and one would end up with slide film that could be mounted and projected, in 135 format.
Did I dream about it?
Was it a Polaroid product?
Was that also made by Ferrania?
EDIT: I found it: Polachrome system, introduced in 1983. Is that the material which was made by Ferrania?
Polavision was launched in the late 70s and dropped after about three years. The images it yielded were very muddy, poor quality compared to other super 8 movie films of the time (Kodachrome K40, anyone?). The Polaroid desktop viewer managed to mask the fact that in a regular super 8 projector the film looked terrible.
Didn't 3M make color film at one point?
IIRC Polaroid also made an "instant roll film". One would put it in some kind of box with some cartridge of chemicals, and one would end up with slide film that could be mounted and projected, in 135 format.
Did I dream about it?
Was it a Polaroid product?
Was that also made by Ferrania?
EDIT: I found it: Polachrome system, introduced in 1983. Is that the material which was made by Ferrania?
I lived stateside in the late 90s and used to buy some Polaroid branded colour negative film in Wal-Mart from time to time....I had the impression it was Ferrania material as it reacted very much like their films except one roll which I would swear is Agfa.
As stated above....probably the deal changed every year or so depending on the lowest bidder. The stuff was good value for everyday photos.
I even wonder if Polavision was Polaroid 's undoing. It was a colossal marketplace failure, and a very large investment had been made to bring it to market. After Polavision, their successful instant color print products were being priced at a dollar per shot. They probably did that to recoup some of the losses incurred in the Polavision debacle, but dollar-a-shot probably got people to go back to conventional still cameras, starving Polaroid of cash.
What about Lucky Color film from China? Whose film was that?
Konica was founded in 1872, while Ferrania is a latecomer at 1883.
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The Ferrania company was formed in 1917 when they decided to switch the S.I.P.E. factory (founded in 1882) from making nitrocellulose for bombs to making it for film.
If you mean companies that created their own colour film from basic principles, then it's difficult to argue with this. But if you really mean, as you wrote, "manufacture from scratch", surely there were some more. Sakura (later Konica, later Konica-Minolta) made their own colour film in Japan independently of Fuji. The Hindustan Photo Films manufacturing company was set up to make film in India so it would not have to be imported. Orwo used Agfa film as a basis but manufactured film independently in East Germany after WWII. Gevaert made their own film before merging with Agfa. In the US, Ansco created and made their own films. Even Ilford made their own Ilfochrome film for a time. If you have the time, please do say if you know that some or all of these actually used someone else's materials or manufacturing plant.
You have nailed Edwin Land rather accurately. He was a very unusual person, having met him in person and hearing him speak several times.
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I found him detached, superior or maybe supercilious and rather distant. But then it was a brief encounter and so hard to describe beyond several encounters. His talk was "so here it is and I did it" or something like that. I have discovered something new. It was, in this case, 3D without glasses.
IDK, hard to answer Flavio.
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I think Polaroid's instant slides were popular with the AV presentation market, which was still a serious business back then. Medical and academic institutions in particular welcomed the ability to project diagrams and graphs as teaching aids. I don't think it made any serious headway into the slide market, where you could still access 24 hour E6 for a slight premium.Didn't Polaroid market a somewhat better "instant" 35mm slide film a few years later?
My sister in law was given a new Polaroid camera and film after the shop had to recall her Kodak instant camera. Only Kodak were big enough to weather that kind of financial faux pas.Kodak and Polaroid President Bill McCune had worked out a settlement to the Kodak/Polaroid patent litigation but Ed Land shot it down feeling 'disrespected' by Kodak
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