Storing Polaroid Film
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as a side-note, you shouldn't keep all 35mil film in the fridge, only professional film or stuff coming up to its use by date.
the reason you keep it in the fridge is to stop it from degrading. when film is first made, it's no good for shooting decent photos, it has to be aged a certain amount. each film has a peak performance point, and professional film is aged to this point (hence you need to keep it refridgerated). standard film is not aged to this point, and will only reach it at some time between the date it's sent to the stores and its sell by date, so by keeping it refridgerated you're actually preventing it from reaching its best quality.
as for forcing film to look like it's outdated, the same stuff applies. buy pro film (as it's already been aged to around its peak, and any further aging will deteriorate it). kodak stays pretty good unrefridgerated for a few months, but fuji tends to shift a bit so go for that and play around with incubating it. you could probably get similar results digitally. i'd guess the colour shift you get is just due to the different emulsions aging at different rates, so fading the colours and then playing around with relative values in photoshop could probably produce the same results quite well.