The Impossible Project: Saving Polaroid
If you’ve been one of the thousands of people begging for someone to come along and purchase the remaining Polaroid factories and equipment, then I have good news for you… its happened. Named ‘Impossible b.v.’, the new company has some very lofty goals and no shortage of hurdles to tackle in order to accomplish everything. Visit their website and do what you can to help.
Polaroid is transforming itself from an analog Instant Film Production Company to a global Consumer Electronics and Digital Imaging company.
Production of analog Instant Film stopped in June 2008, closing the factories in Mexico (Instant Packfilm production) and the Netherlands (Instant Integral production).
Impossible b.v. has been founded with the concrete aim to re-invent and re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras. Therefore Impossible b.v. has acquired the complete film production equipment in Enschede (NL) from Polaroid, has signed a 10-year lease agreement on the factory building; and has engaged the most experienced team of Integral Film experts worldwide.
The Impossible mission is NOT to re-build Polaroid Integral film but (with the help of strategic partners) to develop a new product with new characteristics, consisting of new optimised components, produced with a streamlined modern setup. An innovative and fresh analog material, sold under a new brand name that perfectly will match the global re-positioning of Integral Films.
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1.18.2009
I was totally going to post about this!
This shit is SO pink.