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From the 1940s until the early 2000s, View-Master was the way in which most Americans — and many people around the world — were introduced to 3D images. Collector Rebecca Kilbreath will provide a brief overview of View-Master, share 2D images pulled from her extensive collection of reels, and dive into key areas of View-Master content and collecting. It’ll be a mix of nostalgia, semiotics and weird stuff.
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Hi, have you heard of the triple flare? It is a new stereoscopic technique involving people with no devices.
Regarding erasure, a happy side-note: I noticed the one View-Master viewer chosen by New York’s MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) was designed by Charles “Chuck” Harrison, who was African-American and the winner of many prestigious design awards. He is also credited with inventing the very first plastic trash can, when he was the Head of Design at Sears. This invention changed the way Americans started their day: for the first time, quietly instead of with a loud clang of metal trash cans as their contents were dumped into garbage trucks.
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are also fascinated by the 3D-VIEW-MASTER and the Stereography. We read
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In the early 60's we only had 4 reels and i would look at the Taj Mahal over and over …. the world of stereo is incredible…This is a good time to buy as i have not seem things cheaper relative to the value of the dollar . Best View-master are the 10X with achromatic lenses and focus for both eyepieces.. the typical cheap3X VM is to the model D 7.5X as the model D is to the 10X indeed the gap may be larger the 3X may show a nest of birds, the 7.5X shows inside ithe nest but the 10X shows the individual chicks feathers and spots around their eyes. Sadly i would give away the cheap viewers to poor kids with 20 reels and they had no attention span they would rip through each reel in 10 second and that was that. so i stopped. I also got two movie reels in lots that I bought. red heads from Seattle and an RKO picture the French Line
Well, I'm late to the party but glad you uploaded this. It was fun to watch. My collection is small compared to many but I have my faves. I am a late baby boomer so some of the reels you say are Gen X are familiar to me. I inherited my uncle's Model C when I was about 12 years old. My favorite scene which ignited my View Master passion is from a demo reel. It's a diorama shot of a rocket on the launch pad at night. The mini spotlights, the smoke and the rocket are just mesmerizing to this day. I love the dioramas, fairy tale reels and many travel reels. My favorite viewers are Model D and E.