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I’m a fan of the design work of Charles & Ray Eames, so I was tickled to find a film on YouTube they did for the introduction of the SX-70. It’s part advertisement, and part user guide; but also gives a cool inside look at how the mechanism works. The Polaroid images shown are nicely inspiring, though there’s a bit of a pang of loss viewing them today (especially seeing all that original SX-70 film with its turquoise “opacifying layer” being shot).

The film ends with some rather cosmic commentary by Philip Morrison, who also collaborated on the classic Eames film Powers of Ten.

Vox sez, “check it out.”