DESK 2 — FILE OPEN
FOLDER P-1012CASE #2001-1012SHELF 4 / ROW C
BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL DEATHS
DIVISION OF COLD CASES / FORM 41-D / DEATH OF A GOING CONCERN
CASE NUMBER
CASE #2001-1012
SUBJECT
POLAROID CORPORATION
DATE OPENED
1937 — Cambridge, Massachusetts
DATE CLOSED
October 12, 2001
KNOWN ALIASES
The Land Camera
INVESTIGATOR
Det. Redact
CAUSE OF DEATH
Subject sold the minute between exposure and photograph. The minute ceased to be necessary.
PEAK VALUATION
$2,312,500,000 in annual sales (1994)
ASSETS RECOVERED
Brand and assets sold, 2002. The name was later revived by the people who took over its last film factory.
EVIDENCE SUMMARY
Subject’s product delivered a photograph in sixty seconds. Its replacement delivered one instantly, at no cost per exposure.
In 1991 subject collected $925,000,000 from Eastman Kodak for infringing its instant-photography patents, then the largest patent judgment on record.
Subject was acquired in 2005 by an owner later convicted of operating a $3,650,000,000 Ponzi scheme. Subject died a second time in 2008.
Remainder of statement sealed:
DESK NOTE — INVESTIGATING OFFICER
Shake it. It doesn’t help. It never did.
FILED BY Det. Redact · BADGE 0001NO FURTHER ACTION AUTHORIZED
PROPERTY OF THE BUREAUDO NOT REMOVE FROM ROOM 0114
MARGIN NOTE — INVESTIGATING OFFICER
Every exhibit in this building is photographed on the subject’s film. I have been documenting the dead with the deceased’s own product. I did not notice until tonight.
EXHIBIT A — recovered at the scene.
EVIDENCE TAG
ITEM P-1012
SUBJECT POLAROID CORPORATION
RECEIVED 2001
CONDITION AS FOUND
SUBJECT POLAROID CORPORATION
RECEIVED 2001
CONDITION AS FOUND