This is the long version written for the September 1980 Polaroid sales meeting, not the separate 1972 promotional-film version on page two. The sheet credits the Major General tune from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance and describes a Falmouth recording conducted by Bill Tyler with the College Light Opera Company. Only Lehrer's words are reproduced. The complete twenty-nine-line text includes all chorus returns and the acceleration cue; this historical promotional lyric is not a current product guide.
Of uses for our photographs you'll find a multiplicity,
From quality control to advertising and publicity,
Computer graphics, diagnostics, also radiometry,
Endoscopy and dentistry and microdensitometry,
And micrometalography and paper chromatography,
Spectrography, thermography, and color scintillography,
For studies biomedical and studies anatomical,
[soft] For bodies microscopic and
[loud] For bodies astronomical!
For bodies microscopic and for bodies astronomical,
For bodies microscopic and for bodies astronomical,
For bodies microscopic and for bodies astronomic-omical!
Geology, oncology, pathology, myology,
Astrology --- astrology? --- forget it, my apology ---
With spectroscopes, oscilloscopes, and cam'ras ultrasonical,
There's hardly any science that is missing from this chronicle.
With spectroscopes, oscilloscopes, and cam'ras ultrasonical,
There's hardly any science that is missing from this chronicle.
Acoustical holography, computerized tomography,
Diffraction crystallography and autoradiography.
In short, in ev'ry field from cosmic rays to choreography
There's bound to be a way of using Polaroid photography.
In short, in every field from cosmic rays to choreography
There's bound to be a way of using Polaroid photography.
[Getting faster and faster:]
In short, in ev'ry field from cosmic rays to choreography
There's bound to be a way of using Polaroid photography.
In short, in every field from cosmic rays to choreography
There's bound to be a way of using Polaroid photography.