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@popularscience
October 24, 2024 at 12:49 pm
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@Eurobeat_fan
October 24, 2024 at 5:58 pm
Great job! This is great!
@russianbear0027
October 24, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Are you popular science the magazine?
@ThatGuyThatCommentedOn_A_Video
October 25, 2024 at 1:36 am
Does the dislike button help?
@tylerphuoc2653
October 25, 2024 at 11:41 am
@@russianbear0027He primarily does Vsauce2, but has been so fascinated with the magazine that he collaborated with them to revive their youtube channel
@BPantherPink
October 25, 2024 at 4:38 pm
Too emotional…had tears in my eyes 😢 Liked n Subbd. BTW, I have a square roll of Poloroid instant slide film and the associated developing processor. They are from the early 1980s but the film has mostly been refrigerated, if you are interested 🙏🏼
@alexanderjohnson2309
October 24, 2024 at 5:35 pm
This was a beautiful journey. What a fantastic video. Thank you.
@Conrad500
October 24, 2024 at 5:36 pm
So where’s the weiner ranking?
@MakeSomething
October 24, 2024 at 5:40 pm
As a Polaroid collector and junkie I’m so happy you made this an hour long full of history and amazing visuals. What a great story. ❤
@kronesP
October 24, 2024 at 5:52 pm
Thank you Popular Science folks for letting Kevin work his magic. This is the best video yet
@FuS3D86
October 24, 2024 at 6:03 pm
We kinda do download burgers though, we download when the delivery guy is going to arrive
@shaider1982
October 24, 2024 at 6:13 pm
I think Gille Messi had a video on it a few days ago.
@TommyCrosby
October 24, 2024 at 6:49 pm
I think this channel just peaked out.
I mean, can you do something better than this guy interview? He his the GOAT of analog technology.
@remarstered
October 24, 2024 at 6:51 pm
This was very inspiring. Thank you!
@Waxxumus
October 24, 2024 at 7:00 pm
I have an extra one of these Cameras if you need one.
@89simba57
October 24, 2024 at 7:14 pm
This video will explode
@TommyCrosby
October 24, 2024 at 7:16 pm
Hey, lets not be sad by the broken camera and blank tape, just like Doc said, failure and unpredictable event are important. You just made a big video really showing thay we definitely loss this technology.
@PETEYBOY954
October 24, 2024 at 7:16 pm
The product will market its self. That’s pure 🙂↕️.
@DavidHyman031
October 24, 2024 at 7:17 pm
Wonderful video! More like this please!
@NoosaHeads
October 24, 2024 at 7:17 pm
I have a new, sealed box of polavision film that’s been in my ‘fridge since 1992.
@TheMelonCompanyIntern
October 24, 2024 at 7:34 pm
The passion is palpable Kevin. This is art
@Namjiook
October 24, 2024 at 7:39 pm
This is awesome! Thank you for making this. I myself am a fan of analog, I take pictures on an old 1947 Goldy Objectif Mystique camera, it makes beautiful pictures on 120 film. I have some 620 cameras I want to use as well, as well as get into videography with an old analog camera, but that’s farther out.
@ZimaCyberia
October 24, 2024 at 7:41 pm
Aren’t a lot of super 8 films actual snuff films? I’d be careful if you ever find super 8 film in like an old home or whatever.
@huntergeerts7040
October 24, 2024 at 8:27 pm
No offense, but your title and thumbnail sucks for this one. I almost didn’t click, and only did because of who you are.
@arandomguywitharandomname4187
October 24, 2024 at 8:38 pm
Discourse on what the world misses by everything being digital is a thing I dont spend time to think about
Definitely an experience
@alexblank91
October 24, 2024 at 8:38 pm
0:17 Proof that Danny DeVito is a time traveller
@pootcargo
October 24, 2024 at 8:41 pm
It’s called Twitter, not X
@danielvest9602
October 24, 2024 at 8:58 pm
This is the 3rd video I’ve seen on this device in the last month
@erok268
October 24, 2024 at 9:09 pm
I’m glad he has a linotype when he said he asked what is analog. The linotype came to mind. Like one of the most crazy inventions man has ever made
@lastnamefirstname8655
October 24, 2024 at 9:27 pm
amazing video, thanks kevin!
@qirex3093
October 25, 2024 at 7:13 am
1:02:14 Dude. I was so sad for you😢
@CompComp
October 25, 2024 at 8:15 am
Could you refill the cassette with reagent? Or rebuild it with 8mm film?
It was mentioned that these tapes can be played in a 8mm projector. So likely it’ll work in reverse.
@tylerphuoc2653
October 25, 2024 at 11:43 am
They would not fit in an 8mm by themselves, but you could cannibalize their tape, destroying the antique packaging and put it into another generic cassette
@johannes914
October 25, 2024 at 8:41 am
Nope! Super 8 hadn’t to be scanned. Just processed.
@smartereveryday
October 25, 2024 at 8:53 am
“Teach me how to dance this” is an epic way to sign an email.
@TripHaze
October 25, 2024 at 9:18 am
This video is a blast ! What a journey! Congrats to everyone involved in the making of it !
@tayenbezaire
October 25, 2024 at 9:30 am
This made me tear up, I’m so passionate about polaroid and analog mediums. Seeing doc share that passion so strongly and hearing the way he speaks about mistakes being what makes the medium special… it was a lot. Thanks for this amazing video
@lalababayaga
October 25, 2024 at 9:55 am
I have Polavision when I go to my family reunion but I’m just looking at Poles. 🤦♀️
@MatroxMillennium
October 25, 2024 at 10:29 am
This is weird, I watched separate videos earlier this week on both the Polavision and spider eyes
@Joeyzoom
October 25, 2024 at 10:40 am
Ngl those hotdogs looked 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Incredible production, incredible story. I appreciate all you do, Kevin & PopSci team 👏
@ChristopherBonis
October 25, 2024 at 11:17 am
23:22 That’s one of the coolest ideas I’ve ever heard.
@thumbtak123
October 25, 2024 at 11:30 am
Hopefully archive still has a copy of this, for those that need it. Also, nice video, thanks.
@jarrettnelson2936
October 25, 2024 at 12:11 pm
This is one of the best documentary style films I’ve seen in a long time. Thanks Kevin. I genuinely feel like I appreciate analog technology more now.
I’m so glad to see people use the things they collect as they were intended to be used and not just kept for the sake of preserving. You both strike a perfect balance
@Stickers2Go
October 25, 2024 at 12:38 pm
Is this vsauce 2 now?
@fartzinwind
October 25, 2024 at 12:54 pm
I have one of the rca disk players and many disks. Though they’ve been in an attic for decades, and not tested in a long time. I grew up watching them. Time Bandits was my favorite.
@iga2litremilk
October 25, 2024 at 1:01 pm
I’ve never been anything but impressed with every video you’ve put out, so incredibly good
@daddybigas1265
October 25, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Beautiful and amazing documentary. Awesome job!!!
@chaoticsystem2211
October 25, 2024 at 1:41 pm
The question is: did you taste it?
@Fernando-ek8jp
October 25, 2024 at 2:36 pm
You can totally get a high level of “craftsmanship” with digital methods.
The issue is that since it’s very easy to get any results, few people ever feel the need to dive in.
With analog methods, you need to dive in for even the most basic stuff, so you both filter out those who were never going to dive deep to begin with, and the ones that start already need to develop skill to use it.
@gavinguy148
October 25, 2024 at 3:08 pm
Amazing video absolutely loved it
@amysourbutts8421
October 25, 2024 at 3:53 pm
I wish I’d known about Doc when I visited Vienna in August. He’s so cool!
@SteveNathn
October 25, 2024 at 4:13 pm
Extremely well done. Sad that it didn’t work. But I honestly think that enhances the story
@CC4real
October 25, 2024 at 4:38 pm
I totally forgot what I initially wanted to comment, but this guy is fascinating and amazing!! Thank you so much for highlighting him and all of his positive, hard-work!!
@GreenAppelPie
October 25, 2024 at 5:55 pm
I gotta say, Polaroid pictures hold up after decades that still look brand new, where Kodak pictures fade
@dragonheadthing
October 25, 2024 at 7:12 pm
What an amazing documentary!
@xboxsteven
October 26, 2024 at 3:15 am
This is a fucking awesome awesome project Kevin. Top 10 videos on yt.
@theouterz5898
October 26, 2024 at 3:27 am
The prophecy has been fulfilled
@nebcat808
October 26, 2024 at 4:08 am
Bravo on your journey! The experience alone is priceless!
@exploderingwithkrishnashuk937
October 26, 2024 at 4:21 am
Bro complaining about a defective product he received from his latest online shopping. Nothin more😂
@NeeChee100
October 26, 2024 at 7:58 am
I loved Doc’s take on the printing press, and how digital is just sometimes too perfect. Don’t get me started on AI images!😠
@60gregma
October 26, 2024 at 9:52 am
It kind of bugs me that the words “tape” and “video” are used in terms of Polavision. It’s not tape and it’s not video, it’s film. I know that Polaroid sold these as “Phototape” cartridges, but I am thinking they did this deliberately to make this analog tech sound more high tech. In 1977 consumer videotape recorders were beginning to take hold. If Polavision were released 10 years prior, it might have had a chance of success.
@davidroddini1512
October 26, 2024 at 9:55 am
I had to watch the first 57:00 to get to the important part – the hotdog 🤣
@Zvyru.
October 26, 2024 at 10:12 am
This was so beautiful, Great job Kevin.
@plotterman
October 26, 2024 at 10:35 am
the negatives needed to be developed, but for sure not scanned in 1977!!!!
@lotterwinner6474
October 26, 2024 at 11:34 am
This video hit me emotionally. Very unexpected. I was always fascinated with my Uncles polaroid as a kid and wondered why he was the only one I knew that had one. Great tech.
@doogie812
October 26, 2024 at 11:56 am
Now that is a rabbit hole. Well done.
@JunnoStromboli
October 26, 2024 at 12:13 pm
Video starts at 9:47
@Ice_Karma
October 26, 2024 at 1:44 pm
0:07 Uh oh, this is awfully early into a hour-long video to be stopping to leave a coment with a correction. Back in the day, 16 mm, Super8, etc. film only had to be developed, not scanned, because people who had such a camera would also have had a projector, or know someone who did. Nowadays, projectors are as rare as hen’s teeth, so if you want to see what’s on your film, you have to get it scanned as well. (That said, I actually do know someone who recently bought a projector and is trying to repair it, but he’s in Norway, and I’m not…)
@SuicV
October 26, 2024 at 2:43 pm
Fenomenal work there! What a beautiful way to see the way we interact with the world
@axelthefoxytechworld8024
October 26, 2024 at 2:54 pm
This video would be great it if wasn’t filmed vertical
@arricammarques1955
October 26, 2024 at 3:27 pm
Kodak developed digital camera in 1975. Ignored the market and went bankrupt. Nobel effort in playing back the last Polavision tape, mate.
@putridabomination
October 26, 2024 at 4:11 pm
“TikTok in 1977”
I hate everything about the title and the premise of that enough to just select the “don’t recommend channel” option.
@ActuallyHoudini
October 26, 2024 at 4:34 pm
oh, i got one of those for a fiver about six months ago.
@bikeforever2016
October 26, 2024 at 5:21 pm
What a journey.
@fricki1997
October 26, 2024 at 5:47 pm
52:02 “Incredible lenses”? Maybe for 1860. Most of them have triplets, either glass or plastic, even the highest end ones “only” have Tessar types, a design which dates back to the turn of the 20th century.
They work fine when stopped way down like most non-single-plastic-meniscus optical systems can, but there’s nothing special about them except for coverage, and even then you can find cheap medium format cameras with triplets or Tessars that perform similarly. Also plenty of 9×12 large format ones available with Tessars or the slow but alright Rapid Aplanat lenses.
@grigoriymaltsev
October 26, 2024 at 6:32 pm
I’m not crying It’s just tears of how AWESOME THAT IS.
@TheRoosterLIVE
October 26, 2024 at 6:47 pm
Great Video! A very human touch! Great work guys!
@Capturing-Memories
October 26, 2024 at 7:54 pm
What you have proven is, if you want to preserve our memories, digital is your savior not analog, Sure you can use the analog media to document something but if you don’t save it into a digital form, the time will take it away as it was never existed, If it wasn’t for digital I or you would never have heard of this technology and you would never been able to share it with the world.
@herzogsbuick
October 26, 2024 at 8:43 pm
that made me feel things. analog things. fantastic work, thank you <3
@RetroJack
October 26, 2024 at 9:44 pm
I love how this guy keeps saying “tape” and “video” when he’s reviewing a literal film product! 🤣
@WINTERMUTE_AI
October 26, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Aww
@toseltreps1101
October 27, 2024 at 2:14 am
i love how this was colour graded to resemble Polaroid photos 🙂
@74wrighty
October 27, 2024 at 3:32 am
So lucky to have people like you and doc around. Thank you. Love it.
@MBUncle
October 27, 2024 at 5:46 am
Doc is awesome and so inspirational. I highly respect people who have such passions and knowledge. And he sounds like Arnold as a bonus! Kevin this s a unique and incredible video, Thank you.
@davep5698
October 27, 2024 at 7:12 am
Thank you for just letting Florian “Doc” Kaps talk. I mean this is the best way, but you barely said a sentence while he was talking and he was the focus of the camera almost entirely.
It is great to see people recognise a wealth of information and just let them go and get that out into the world. Thank you.
@orionandersen9333
October 27, 2024 at 9:47 am
Doc’s company is called supersense, in case anyone else was looking
@aL3891_
October 27, 2024 at 10:23 am
It’s funny, it feels like this was targeting casual filming, like when you’re out with your friends. Kind of like how social media is today. This was like Instagram of the seventies
@roystonlodge
October 27, 2024 at 10:24 am
It drives me nuts that he keeps calling it video.
@K.Simmons-f3m
October 27, 2024 at 11:29 am
Thank you Kevin for introducing me to Doc, what a guy, what a story,. Nxt time I in Vienna I must go to Supersense and pay homage.
@johnkean6852
October 27, 2024 at 11:45 am
This is like opening a box of Cadbury’s chocolates and getting Belgian chocolates inside.
Thx.
I have to put this or my comments get cut by the YT AI Robocop:
For educational/entertainment purposes only!
@johnkean6852
October 27, 2024 at 11:46 am
His whole building of treasures is a Museum waiting to happen.
I have to put this or my comments get cut by the YT AI Robocop:
For educational/entertainment purposes only!
@davids8449
October 27, 2024 at 1:58 pm
Extremely interesting item as our family were still using 8 mm standard eight many years ago.when we made a film we had to get it right first time possibly drawing a diagram of how we were to shoot the film . Todays life is very dull with people constantly looking down at their mobile phones or asking their wife ( partner ) if they should buy some sprouts when in the supermarket …..The chap presenting the video is american and sounds as if he is bout to lay an egg , apart from this it is interesting
@davids8449
October 27, 2024 at 2:19 pm
Yes very true…..when you Google a subject , I always think to myself…who is giving your answer on the other end and what information is being collected , and to who
@DaveEtchells
October 27, 2024 at 6:34 pm
Fascinating and extremely well-done video!
I was involved in the photo business at the time, and digital is what ultimately killed Polaroid. Scientific and engineering users burned through huge volumes of black and white Polaroid pack film for recording microscope and oscilloscope images. Even more massive though, was the fact that commercial photographers routinely shot _several_ Polaroids for each conventional film frame they captured, to check framing, focus and exposure.
Back in the day (~1992), I ran a digital imaging VAR and consultancy and did a study for a commercial client that shot thousands (and thousands) of product photos every year. Even with the $50,000 digital studio cameras in that era, we determined that each one would pay for itself in about 9 months, just from the savings in Polaroid film :-0
Polaroid made good use of their advanced color science in the early days of digital, but their corporate and R&D overhead was based on the enormous profits from their film business, and there was no way to transform the company quickly enough to overcome that. It was sad, the amount of deep knowledge lost was tragic.
(Huge props for the beyond-amazing honor of being the next to last person to ever have their photo taken on a 20×24 Polaroid!)
@josedearimateiayjesus2178
October 27, 2024 at 9:29 pm
All this work is remarkable, I was fascinated by the amount of information and the technical and poetic refinement of all the information brought to light here in this documentary.
@EthanDoezYT
October 27, 2024 at 10:01 pm
I was a 2000’s kid. I didn’t experience this stuff the same way everyone else did. I was given “leftovers” if you will. I grew up watching VHS and playing Super nintendo or Sega genesis. We couldn’t afford new things so I got to play with all of that. I loved it. It never occured to me how different all the new stuff was. I just knew that What I was viewing, and experiencing was awesome.
We would go to garage sales and find VHS tapes, Old board games, Clothes, Furniture, Books from way before my time like goosebumps, etc. I never cared about having the new stuff, It was always about the experience. I got my first polaroid when I was 10. I loved that thing. We got used film for it at first, then new film when it was back in re-production. I collected polaroids of every sort. I eventually was gifted on my 14th birthday, some 70 sonic the hedgehog books that where compounded from an inmate at the jail my uncle worked at, and a 8mm Polaroid handheld film camera. That shit was amazing to me. I sold it all when I was 17 thinking I was to old for it and needed to move on in my life. i regret that. I dont regret giving my Polaroid Camera’s to a friend tho. I tried starting up my collection again but it became to expensive. This was a great video. It was anostalgia trip.
Oh btw Yes I listened to cassette tapes in my moms car as a kid and I do listen to Vynil.
@JohnDlugosz
October 27, 2024 at 10:25 pm
Developed and *scanned* at the lab?
Back in the day, there was no scanning. It was _printed_ , but I think the consumer stuff was positive film so just developing was enough. People used the film itself to view it, using a projector.
Computers at the time would be severely overloaded by a single frame! I remember seeing a demo at SIGGRAPH 1989 where a computer had like 4 meg of video memory and the display was high-resolution and could be zoomed in on a photograph.
In 1977, home computers also hit the market: Apple II, Commodore PET, and the original TRS-80. The display capability of these were way, way, lower than photo quality.
There were no scanners, as we know them today. Drum scanners existed, but they were high-end professional for the publishing industry. RAM cost $10/kilobyte (in 1977 dollars! Figure $50 to $55 in today’s dollars). That means a crude 3 megapixel scan, taking 9 megabytes or 9000 kilobytes would cost $90,000 ($450,000 today).
@JohnDlugosz
October 27, 2024 at 10:29 pm
Why are you calling it a “tape”? I think that word is reserved for magnetic (and more exotic) recording techniques that don’t leave a visible image on the media. What you have is a reel of *film* .
@ehosack.rocketlad
October 28, 2024 at 12:02 am
11:10 bro was simultaneously fearing and hoping for that very question
@MyPersonalPlayground
October 28, 2024 at 12:39 am
How many times will I watch this? MANY MANY MANY more times. What a beautiful, exciting, heart breaking, inspiring and magical experience had and shared. Truly thankful to all involved!
@mrdrprof8402
October 28, 2024 at 2:54 am
I absolutely adored this video. I’m not super about analog tech but seeing the love behind this video is really touching. The kindred spirits meeting across the world over this tech is truly something great. I love videos like this, thank you dearly for making it
@timstamps5281
October 28, 2024 at 7:49 am
Here is some additional trivia about self-developing motion picture film:
In the early 1960s, the writer Walter Tevis was interested in this idea and wrote it into his science fiction novel “The Man Who Fell to Earth”. As a man from outer space, Thomas Newton brought self-developing motion picture film to earth, and became a millionaire from this invention through his “World Enterprises Corporation.” This would have been a more advanced version of Polavision (though only fiction). This part of the story did not make it into the film with David Bowie.
@memeslich
October 28, 2024 at 9:33 am
This video is magical!
@casualSeth
October 28, 2024 at 9:55 am
Amazing episode.
@tutacat
October 28, 2024 at 10:08 am
Did it say fragile on the box? Handle with care? Let’s hope the TSA doesn’t follow the UPS protocol for following box instructions.
@andrewdunbar828
October 28, 2024 at 10:19 am
Did you guys drink a Dos Equis?
@tutacat
October 28, 2024 at 10:19 am
The photography is rousing. Word choice as a second language can be hard
@tutacat
October 28, 2024 at 10:25 am
Great timing for Web Archive to be hacked
@tutacat
October 28, 2024 at 10:32 am
Why not just do all the takes on the same hot dogs, rather than getting more, just repeating the shots. You can even use “hollywood tricks” to pretend to eat it if you want, but you can just spread the bites out more evenly.
@tutacat
October 28, 2024 at 10:35 am
You can upload youtube videos in 24fps.
@tutacat
October 28, 2024 at 10:35 am
Did your tape get X-rayed by TSA???
@tutacat
October 28, 2024 at 10:38 am
Thank you, Tim Berners-Lee, SGML, HTTP, and E-mail for making this video possible.
@Rocketryman
October 28, 2024 at 11:05 am
Interesting VIDEO, sadly your research is limited. I had a Polavision camera. A couple of things… With all due respect. 🙂 It is such a misinformed stretch to say it was the “TikTok” of 1977. Polavision was FILM, not tape. It captures 2 minutes and 35 seconds of FILM, not VIDEO. 🙂 You keep referring to it as TAPE, it’s film. Going back and forth between calling it film and tape is misinformed and hurts the educational value of this video. Again, with all due respect. There is no Film and tape, it is just film. Again, it’s a FILM, not a tape. It’s a Polavision reel, calling it tape is confusing it with Videotape which in 1977 was a cumbersome and expensive technology. Finally, you made a futile attempt to shoot VIDEO because it is a FILM Camera, NOT a VIDEO Camera. But all in all, fun to watch. Respect to you. 🙂
@lookitskazzy
October 28, 2024 at 11:45 am
I audibly groaned when this man said he ran the tapes through x-ray machines.
Unbelievable.
@DyenamicFilms
October 28, 2024 at 4:12 pm
I remember dreaming about this camera when I was a kid.
@wattehel
October 28, 2024 at 11:14 pm
It is super 8 film not tape, not video. You film with it not record that is more a video term.
@williamevans9426
October 29, 2024 at 1:21 am
A wonderful and exciting adventure! I received a Polavision system for Christmas in 1977 or ’78. Sadly, as you note, the developed film was unstable so, when trying to re-view my mini-masterpieces some ten years later, all that remained was a set of films with a broad opaque stripe obliterating most of every image. A shame the film technology wasn’t better as, if I remember rightly, the engineering of the camera and player was very robust.
@molochi
October 29, 2024 at 7:31 am
I always thought that what killed Polaroid was Kodak stealing the patented instant film/ camera technology. I don’t think they got paid for the lawsuit until they were dead. I can’t say I even ever heard of an instant movie camera, so that’s weird.
@eriksnel6461
October 29, 2024 at 2:18 pm
Incredible documentary! this is a fantastic story. i am a collector of analog myself and the polavision story is part of my collection because my main specialization is Eumig. Therefore I must correct that they were a small company. Eumig was the biggest producer of cameras and projectors in Europe of that time. they went bust for several reasons and one of those reasons was the flop that was polavision. I also have both polavision cameras (black and silver lens house) and the player. all non working units unfortunately.
@Chrispy_tV
October 29, 2024 at 2:25 pm
Surveillance Satellite and missile guidance in WWII? Might be combining a few eras there accidentally lololol.
@lads.7715
October 29, 2024 at 3:17 pm
It’s funny how most people still refer to making a video as “filming” whereas here he refers to a Polaroid Film Movie as a “video.” 😊
@tlhIngan
October 29, 2024 at 3:26 pm
Right when @CanadianMacGyver (Our Own Devices) did something about it as well…
@jayrtfm
October 29, 2024 at 9:36 pm
ARGHHHHH!!!!!! calling it “tape” and “shooting video” is so infuriating especially to those of use who used them as teenagers. IT IS FILM, FILM, how hard is it to remember it is an analog chemical process, it’s FILM!!!!! omg you lose all credibility confusing things by using electronic terms. I’m only 2.5 minutes in, not sure how much longer I can listen… (edit, ok, it says phototape on the box so I’ll give him that)
@AmiVider
October 29, 2024 at 10:28 pm
The quote “marketing is what you do when your product is no good” is what we learned he understood when this product was finally produced. The original Polaroid cameras were amazing!
@Lieca_Lover2
October 29, 2024 at 10:44 pm
Funny story, that exact Polavision set was on my watch list on EBay and I was going to buy it
@takeohtyme
October 30, 2024 at 1:38 am
Try casting bar shot, thats how it was made. Trying to use a bolt and whatever those weights are is causing them to fail.
Bar shot was cast iron, normally. Sometimes cast lead, but only when you couldnt afford iron.
@KarldorisLambley
October 30, 2024 at 4:09 am
“camera that killed polaroid” eh? you clearly said in the vid that polavision didn’t end polaroid, and they went bust 20 years after the polarvision. so where is the polaroid killing camera?
@KarldorisLambley
October 30, 2024 at 4:18 am
TBH this vid was much longer than it needed to be. did we need so long of that Wiener’s personal philosophy? waffling on about tangential things?
@jamesprivet
October 30, 2024 at 4:19 am
Very good documentary. I will gave to visit the museum in Vienna.
@Nooticus
October 30, 2024 at 7:28 am
This is an exceptional video. It has it all and hasnt got nearly enough views. Both Doc, and the creator of Polaroid are genius who are both way ahead of their time.
Though I MUST tell you Kevin, THERE IS AN ISSUE WITH YOUR VSAUCE2 COMMUNITY POSTS!! Me and several other people HAVE NOT been getting any of the recent community posts on our youtube feeds from the past year/6 months or so. I had no idea you were promoting all your popularscience videos there because the posts were NOT showing up. I care about your livelihood man so please look into this!!
@battlestarnomore
October 30, 2024 at 9:41 am
Kevin is a treasure!
@z11111
October 30, 2024 at 10:07 am
Love this channel. Give this guy a raise!
@sissyzk
October 30, 2024 at 11:22 am
The fact he let doc spoke like 20min in the videos without interrupting was so interesting and fascinating. I was really into it
@photooooooo
October 30, 2024 at 1:32 pm
do a story on the billionaires son who fired doc
@Lichtviech
October 30, 2024 at 1:35 pm
why where the polavison tapes called “video” thats the wrong term for a chemical analouge process on film. And Eumig was not a “small company” it has a similar size to Bell and Howell and the polavision deal was the beginning to its end: instead of get into electronic image storage (or called “video”) they do it in polavision – great mistake
But amongst all the negative…. i love the way this documentary was made, the passion, the details – that was great, thank you for it!
@AnonymousFreakYT
October 30, 2024 at 1:37 pm
So what you’re telling me is that tech companies designing new technologies in the late ’70s and naming themvision was the death knell for the company?
@AnonymousFreakYT
October 30, 2024 at 1:52 pm
44:29 – I enjoy that when the voiceover is talking about “digital photography”, you’re showing an analog film camera. 😀
@AnonymousFreakYT
October 30, 2024 at 2:09 pm
55:33 – I enjoy the symmetry of preserving digitally for everyone to access a thing given to you by someone who is working to preserve analog media for in-person use.
I believe both methods are absolutely vital and equally important.
Keeping physical relics, and keeping them fully functional, with new innovations necessary (the hand creation of new peel-apart instant film, for example,) is necessary so people can actually *experience* these bits of history.
But preserving things digitally so they can be accessible to *EVERYONE*, even if not in their original form, is also vital, so people can *LEARN* about these bits of history.
And Kevin, you are doing vital work in this. This feature-documentary-length video, accessible to all for free, is preserving this knowledge and history for generations to come.
@WafflesOWNz
October 30, 2024 at 2:21 pm
I’ll never forgive the TSA! 😡
@AnonymousFreakYT
October 30, 2024 at 2:23 pm
I clicked the video expecting a fun short exploration of an obsolete format.
I came away over an hour later, touched at this love letter to Edwin Land and Florian “Doc” Kaps.
@sidecarcn
October 30, 2024 at 2:41 pm
It was not TikTok. What are yiu taking about?
That isn’t a tape. There is no tape inside. It’s Super 8 film. When. Removed from the cartridge can run through and super 8 projector.
Also when you check in your bags. Did you pack the film in an X-ray bag for film. X-Ray scanners damage exposed film.
@CybegeekTV
October 30, 2024 at 3:14 pm
I absolutely loved this… my dad was used to develop black and white and I learned developing and enlarging from him when I was 8 years old, and this video was so fascinating and nostalgic for me personally… thank you.
@BobDiaz123
October 30, 2024 at 10:22 pm
One of the coolest products that Polaroid created was a 4×5 film back for 4×5 cameras. I could take a photo with a 4×5 camera, have a black and white photo, AND have a 4×5 negative to use for other prints. I worked at a small camera store at the time and could check out equipment to use. However all supplies came out of my own pocket. The result was so much fun, I ended up purchasing several film packages to do more shooting.
@jeeptrail08
October 30, 2024 at 11:59 pm
Great video and I’m so glad everything came full circle for DOC and very thankful to have Polaroid instant film back and to be able to hold a real photograph
@thej3799
October 31, 2024 at 2:32 am
Being rich and autistic sounds like heaven. I am poor and autistic, so I can only watch this in awe and jealousy.
@kc0lif
October 31, 2024 at 8:59 am
i thank mr Polaroid for my still photo camara.
@DapSchaf
October 31, 2024 at 11:03 am
So fucked up that TSA can just break your stuff.
@DapSchaf
October 31, 2024 at 2:52 pm
I was scared that Doc would be just another startup entrepreneur. But he seems so genuinely in love with all his work
@dbk78
October 31, 2024 at 5:55 pm
This was a fascinating story thanks
@pro-storm4951
October 31, 2024 at 6:29 pm
life is un faiiirr
@pro-storm4951
October 31, 2024 at 7:02 pm
awesome video, i love polaroid