mystery polaroid film?

[HLing]

I use fujifilm's FP3000b and FP100C regularly in my Auto 250. The other day I was given a couple packs of what looked like packfilm. I inserted the cartridge into my Auto 250, shot one picture, pulled, and the slip came right off without the follow up tab. I cleared the first one, tried again, same story. I noticed the two I cleared out of the pack had no trace of chemical pod (or ANY chemical residue).
The aluminum foil packaging only says Polaroid Color, and has the year 2004 on it (not expiration, just the general fine print of company info and year). Can anyone tell me whether this is supposed to be for a different type of polaroid camera? Why am I not seeing any chemical? Thanks in advance for your input!

 

[colyn]

That looks like film for maybe a Polaroid 600 or other vintage non-pack film camera. Polaroid made a number of different models with several different types of non-interchangable film packs

My past experience with film that age is the chemical pod has usually dried out and is no longer usable. I'd stick with the Fujifilm packs.

 

[zzpza]

It's a Polaroid type 100 film where the development gel has dried up. It's the gel that sticks the negative and print sandwich together. Without it, they come out misaligned or separately. There's not much you can do about it. 2004 will have been the expiry date. Just keep trying and you may get a few exposures that work.

I've been pretty lucky so far with my use of expired Polaroid. Out of the last ten or so packs, I have only had one bad pack of 664 where the developer dried up. It also made pulling the print out very difficult, as it was designed to pull out in one piece, not bits at a time.

 

[giulio stucchi]

zzpza got it right, this is just a dried out type 100 pack film, bad luck :-(

 

[HLing]

Thanks all! Yes, after clearing the 5th shot carefully, I decided to open the film pack from the underside. I found all the chemical packs tucked(folded) and stuck in the container. After clearing those out, I managed to get the last 3 shots. They were of the characteristic blue tint.