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
Polaroid SX-70 the company even produced small "600" AM/FM radios that would run on film packs in which the film cards had been exhausted, but the battery still had enough power to be reused. After Polaroid ceased manufacturing instant film in 2008, the Impossible Project (now Polaroid Originals) began formulating replacements using equipment acquired when the original manufacturing facilities closed. Polaroid's SX-70 "Time-Zero" film was phased out of production in late 2005 to early 2006 (differing according to regional markets). Small quantities of the film may still be acquired, however at often very highly inflated prices. Polaroid Originals produces lines of black