On Location at the Las Vegas Strip
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Shooting on location on the Las Vegas Strip, with the kind permission of the Paris, Las Vegas Hotel, the new Wisner/Polaroid system is put through its paces on a location shoot. The entire outfit, including film, camera, lights, processor and cassette fit in a mini-van along with the crew. Above left, Vern McClish of Polaroid Corp. carries the cassette to the camera. Tracy Storer (above left and kneeling, above right), from the Polaroid studio at Calumet in San Francisco, processes a shot as John Reuter, director of the Polaroid 20x24 studio in New York. looks on.
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John Reuter pulls the darkside on the cassette for the next exposure to make the first horizontal 20x24 Polaroids. The camera sits on a Ries A100-2 tripod custom designed for the Wisner 20x24 cameras. Keith Soderstrom (extreme left) of Ries Industries looks on. Melissa Adams, the owner of the very first Wisner 20x24 field camera, is standing in the background, center. Gary Adams, her late husband, and she, used their camera to photograph the southwestern desert.
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Holding the Polaroid Instant Picture of the Paris, Las Vegas fountain are Ron Wisner, President of the Wisner Mfg. Company, Tracy Storer, Howard Worzel of Polaroid Corporation and John Rueter.
Eiffel Tower, Paris Las Vegas Hotel, 20x24 original by Ron Wisner
Paris Las Vegas Fountain, original 20x24 photo by John Reuter