Polavision

In essence, it consists of a black-and-white emulsion on a film base covered with microscopically narrow red, green and blue filter stripes.

[1] The system features a standalone tabletop viewer designed to minimize the problems inherent in projecting such dense film.

[1] Somewhat resembling a small television, it projects the inserted film cartridge onto its translucent screen from behind, but critics from publications like Consumer Reports called the images "murky and dark".

One market niche Polaroid promoted was the field of industrial testing, where the camera would record, for example, the destruction of a pipe under pressure.

This type of use was moderately price-insensitive, with the ability to get the images quickly (thus reducing wasted crew time) a very positive selling feature.

In the wake of those losses, Polaroid chairman and founder Edwin H. Land resigned the chief executive position in 1980 and left the company two years later.