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Polaroid didn't fall because a competitor beat them at their own game. They won a $909 million lawsuit, forced Kodak out of the market entirely, and still went bankrupt eleven years later. This video breaks down the real reason Polaroid collapsed, tracing the story from Edwin Land's founding vision in 1937 all the way through the quiet death of instant film in 2008, and why the very occasion Polaroid was built to serve ended up being the thing that made them obsolete.
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