Re: Polavision.
There are a few videos on Youtube of films shot on Polavision.....and in recent years people have tried long expired cartridges and got pictures from them - albeit poor quality.
As has been said, it hit the market at precisely the wrong time. The quality wasn't great, it was expensive and you couldn't use regular super 8 cartridges with the Polaroid camera nor show the film on a regular super 8 projector. So if you invested in the Polavision system you were limited to the Polaroid films only....whereas in Super 8 you had several manufacturers of very high quality film to choose from at various speeds, both colour and B&W. And video was just around the corner....which removed the one advantage Polavision had over super 8 or std 8mm.
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