Small Instant Prints - What are these?

bvy · Mar 10, 2019

Going through my dad's old photos and keep coming across several small black and white instant (?) prints -- 2.5 x 3.25 inches with a black backing. Anyone know what these are?

Truzi · Mar 10, 2019

We probably need more information, but just guessing, could it be a Polaroid Swinger that took 20-series film?

jvo · Mar 10, 2019

Truzi said:
We probably need more information, but just guessing, could it be a Polaroid Swinger that took 20-series film?

+1

bvy · Mar 10, 2019

Truzi · Mar 11, 2019

That helps, but unfortunately my only experience with a swinger is finding one in our crawl space.

The jagged asymmetrical edge seems similar to this:
http://www.collection-appareils.fr/publicites/images/1253914771.jpg

Hard to tell in these old commercials, but it does look similar:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJABIyn5fHU

jvo · Mar 11, 2019

yup, polaroid... in the peel-apart days. you pulled a tab, that produce a larger tab that you pulled which spread the developer gloop across the exposed print. you waited a minute or so, (longer in the cold), peeled off the print - what you see. voila' - magic!

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Truzi said:
Hard to tell in these old commercials, but it does look similar:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJABIyn5fHU

YES !!!

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