Polaroid Corporation it had asked for. In 1977, Land introduced the Polaroid Instant Home Movie camera named Polavision, based on the Dufaycolor process. However, the product arrived on the market when videotape-based systems were rapidly gaining popularity. Thus it failed to sell well in retail stores and has been described as the swan song for Polaroid. After four decades as chairman, Edwin Land was coerced into resigning and leaving the corporation he had founded. He died in 1991. The "Polavision" debacle eventually caused the company to write off $89 million, including most of the manufactured products. The underlying technology of Polavision was
Camera stabilizer operator Garrett Brown invented the Steadicam, a body-mounted stabilization apparatus for motion picture cameras, which uses springs as shock absorbers. In 1991, Martin Philip Stevens (born in England in 1963) invented a hand-held camera stabilizer for motion-picture and video cameras, called the "Glidecam". Some camera stabilization machines use gyroscopes to sense disruptive motion. The Artemis Trinity system from Arri combines a mechanical and electronic stabilization. Although a tripod can hold a camera stably, stationary platforms are not regarded as camera stabilizers. A camera shoulder brace stabilizes by shifting the weight of the camera to the operator's shoulder. This allows for