The Magazine of 3-Dimensional Imaging, Past & Present

THE MAGAZINE OF 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING, PAST & PRESENT

November/December 7 995 Volume 22, Number 5

A PuMiition of NATIONAL STEREOSCOPIC ASSOCIATION, INC. Final "Unusual" Selections

ile we wait by the mailbox for submissions to arrive for W"the "Weather" assignment, we present the final selections in the "Unusual" assignment. Newkt~~nt:

This category is really wide open. It could involve obvious views like snow scenes or wind damage, or things like close-ups of rain or dew covered leaves, ice encrusted flower buds, mud pud- "Maggie" by Martin Simon of Los Angeles,CA, is an attempt to make an actual stereo dles, flooded fields, dry cracked photograph in which all the infonnation is given by stereopsis rather than intensity, at earth, etc. Any image of "weather" least at first glance. It is similac in this sense, to julesz random dot stereograms and other itself in action (hypers of lightning hidden image stereograms. or a tornado would be ideal!) or ...... images in which the effects of least slightly beyond a calm sunny The Rules: weather have had a visible, short or overcast day. Anything from a As space allows (and depending on the term effect (this means other than rain shower to a hurricane or a reswnse) iudges will select for publication formations created by centuries of light frost to a blizzard would quai- in iach issue at least two of the best views normal erosion) are what we have ify. Deadline for entries in the submitted by press time. Rather than tag images as first, second or third place win- in mind. On other words, "weath- "Weather" assignment is July 7, ners, the idea will be to present as many er" here refers to conditions at 1996. good stereographs as possible from among those submitted. Prizes are limited to the worldwide fame "Self Portrait" by Derek Leath of St. Louis, MO, was shot in 1993 using the half lens cap and glory resulting from the publication of technique on a Realist, with ambient light plus fill flash bounced off the ceiling. While not your work. Anyone and any image in any every trick stereo would necessarily qualify as "unusual", the props employed in this one print or slide format is eligible. (Keep in made it irresistible. mind that images will be re~todu~edin black and whii.) Include ail relevant cap tion material and technical data as well as your name and address. Each entrant may submit up to 6 images per assignment. Any stereographer, amateur or professional, is eligible. Stereos which have won Stereoscopic Society or PSA competitions are equally eligible, but please try to send views made within the past eight years. All views will be returned within 6 to 14 weeks, but Stew World and the NSA assume no respon- sibility for the safety of photographs. Please include return postage with entries. Submis- sion of an image constitutes permission for its one-use reproduction in Stereo World. All other rights are retained by the photographer. Send all entries directly to: ASSIGNMENT 3-D, 5610 SE 71st, Portland, OR 97206. 00 Volume 22, Number 5 NovemberIDecember 1995

THE MAGAZINE Of 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING, PAST 61 PRESENT Nineteenth Century Tourist Views or the Near East ..... 4 by Bert M. Zlickeman The 3-D Film Career of Ernie McNabb ...... 10 by Don Marren f Directors 4ndy Criscon1, Chairman Historical 3-D Re rint Revives 1894 Text ...... 15 Paula R. F lerning Review by George A. Therne is David Hut:chison !'

*-em- Dieter LI JlrllL Kinnard's "3-D"Tri~od ...... 16 T.K. Trea dwell I Bill C. h'alton by David Starkman NSA Ofi -. --, reter t. ralrnql~ist, President The Hart of Railroad Stereography ...... 18 Larry Moor, vice President Review by john Dennis lohn Waldsrnith, Via! President, Acti Larry Hess, Secretory Under ound London ...... 20 3avid Wheel6 by LlavicF Starkman 6 Susan Pinsky jtereo Wo John Denni 3-D Hope for the Hopeless: The Ultimate ~ree-viewingGuide .. 24 Dean Jacobowitz, nJJuwurc Lutrur Review by lohn Dennis Kal.en White, As sociate Editor Tirn White, Ass ociate Editor Sin le-Image Stereogram Update ...... 26 rdark Willke, I Irt Director by7 ohn Dennis Lois Wa~ldsrnith, Sub scription Manager North America's Historic Buildings ...... 27 by Neal Btillington NSA Membership (New mernbersh~ps,renewols & address changes) Rnl: 14801, Columbus, OH 47714 Call for Stereo Theater Programs ...... 31 Concerniing Subsc riptions rry Hess, (215 9) 272-5431

~cereoiwor~a BacK Issue be (Write for ovoilobilily & prices.) P.O. BI3x 398, Sycamore, OH 44882 Editor's View comments and Observations, by John Dennis ...... 2 StereoI World Editorial OF Fice I thr editor articlrs & colrndar 11s figs) Letters Reader's Comments and Questions ...... 3 7206 Newviews Current Information onStereo Today, by David Storkman & lohn Dennis ...... 28

dLb, 9eo World Advertisin (Classified &display ads) Classified Buy, Sell, or Trade It Here ...... 32 P.O. Bo, ( 14801, Columbus, OH 4 & .... (Insen flyers auction ads) Calendar A Listing of Coming Events 34 lettrey Kraus, 1 Lauren Dr., Cardiner, NY 12525 ...... Stereo World Re! jular Feat ures

, YU.",. I "Survey Work In Progress" documents lunnel~ng The 50,ciety work during expansion of the London subway sys- Norman 6. P'atterron tem about 7907. The anonymous stereoviews were ~odlawnAve., \nlesleyv~lle, PA 16 discovered in the archives of the London Transport ...... The Unkr 'IIJWn.5 Museum in preparation for a 7990 "Tube Cente- Neal Bull~tigton nary" historical exhibit. With the help of David Bur- ~ndonDr., Travc ,r$e C~ty,MI 49684 der, nine of the views were published as large ...... View-M aster anaglyphs to commemorate the occasion. Our feo- wolrgang 8 Mary Ann Sell ture "Underground London" by David Starkman oadvrw Dr, C~nc~nnati,OH 45 and Susan Pinsky is the first publication of these ter Wendell Holme images in stereo pair format. scopic Research Lib (Affibated w ith thr Norionol Stereoscopic Assc Eastern College, St. IIavids, PA 19 Stereo World(ISSN 0191-4030) is published b~monthlyby the National Stereoscopic Association, Inc., PO. Box 14801, Columbus. OH 43214. Ent~recontents 01996, all r~ghtsresewed. Mater~alIn this publication may not be reproduced w~thoutwrltten perm~ssionof the NSA, Inc. Print- Stereosc:opic Soci ety of Am ierica ed In USA. A subscr~ptionto Slereo World Ir part of NSA mernbershlp. Annual membership dues: $26 th~rdclass US, $38 first class US, 138 /Affilial~dW, lth the Notional >ler~oscoptcArsc ~c~alionl, Canada and forelgn surface, $56 ~nternat~onala~rmail. All membersh~psare based on the publish~ngyear of Stpreo World, wh~chbe Ins in March E. jack SMtarthout, Mernbersh~pSecretary and ends wlth the JanuaryiFebruaryIssue of the next year. All new memberships rece~vedw~ll commence w~ththe MarchiADri issue of the current calendar year. When applying for membersh~p,please adv~seus ~f you do not des~rethe back ~ssuesof tlhe current volum 12 Wc~odrnere Dr., Par~s,IL 61944 Member, International Stereoscopic Union - --- - Inside the NSA turn up anyway. (I can recall no later, during one of the late uestions are sometimes asked instance in which more than one nighttearly morning sessions in regarding the day to day func- person volunteered for any posi- which the Calendar material gets tioning of the NSA-how does tion at a time, and often the lone entered into the computer, I com- it w rk, who makes the decisions, volunteer suffered from a slightly pletely missed seeing (or feeling) Q twisted arm for the first few days.) the folded L.A. Image Show etc. In fact, it's fairly simple, direct and informal. The volunteer board The NSA exists to serve the inter- announcement when I grabbed the of directors locates/drafts/selects ests of its members, and the more material for the Vol. 22 No. 4 Cal- volunteers willing to do the jobs feedback and/or new volunteers endar. Apologies are due everyone that keep the whole thing going. coming from the membership, the involved (as organizers, dealers or These people-the president, the more completely that aim will be customers) with that major show VP, the secretary, the treasurer, the achieved. and its significant stereographica activities VP and of course the element. A specially flagged An Apology to L.A. reminder sheet to watch for the Stereo World staff function largely Unlike many photographica on their own without the complex next L.A. Show now resides in the show promoters, organizers of the calendar file. rules and frequent meetings or annual L.A. Image Show have votes required by many organiza- alwavs made sure an announce- Speaking of the Calendar- 1 tions far smaller than the NSA. It men; of that show was mailed to unlike the above glitch, the doesn't always run perfectly, but Stereo World for inclusion in the most common reason that items like any small corporation, the Calendar section. Due to Stereo sent in for the Calendar don't more energetic and imaginative World's less than clockwork publi- appear there is one of simple tim- the people filling the key positions cation schedule, on at least one ing. Almost every week, one or two the better things will go. In an age occasion in the past two years show, exhibit or meeting of information, work and expecta- information about the show announcements arrive in the mail tions that move faster and faster arrived just barely too late for the for events scheduled only a couple with every software update and most appropriate issue, with the of weeks (sometimes days!) from every corporate downsizing, the following issue ending up being the mailing date. As a bimonthly, NSA functions organizationally at delayed to just beyond the date of Stereo World requires a lead time of something closer to the pace of a the show. at least four months if Calendar small,l9th century stereoview pub- However, the announcement for items are to have any practical lisher. the 1996 L.A. Image Show (on Jan. value once the magazine reaches One drawback to this style of 13) arrived in plenty of time for the reader. Of course in the case of operation is that it can seem closed inclusion in Vol. 22 No. 4 and was those events for which we receive or even elitist to members uncer- quickly placed in the Calendar file no announcement at all, there is tain about who they should con- folder with other show and sale no guarantee that we'll pick up the tact with questions or opinions announcements. Unfortunately, I information from other sources or and unsure if anyone wants to left it folded the way it had been that it will be as accurate as that hear them at all. The simple truth in the business envelope when I taken from an original press release is that it MAY take some time for slipped it into the file. Several days or promotional flyer. 88 any of the people listed on the Stereo World masthead to answer letters or return calls. They are, for the most part, extremely busy and involved people with jobs and Rich Slonaker families as well as their other interests and obligations. (They some- t is with sadness and regret that I office and tell me about some new times have trouble getting in Ireport the passing of fellow NSA find he had made at an estate sale touch with each other.) member Rich Slonaker from an or antique shop. Rich was interest- Once a year or so, we issue a sort unexpected heart attack. He was a ed in views of National Park Ser- of blanket invitation to any and all friend and coworker at Sleeping vice areas, and specialized in those members to become involved as Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in of Yosemite National Park, where active volunteers in whatever areas Michigan, where he had been the he had once worked. We both they think their particular skills Platte District Ranger for many haunted the big flea market at would be the most helpful to the years. Rich had a great interest in Midland, Michigan twice a year NSA. The response is always under- collecting stereoviews and almost trying to be the first to find the whelming, but talented and dedi- every time he came to park head- "good stuff". I'll miss him. cated people eventually seem to quarters he would stop by my -Neal Bullington 89 Atlanta Not First Hollywood resulting in an approximately 2% x A less obvious error in the rac- 3-D Movies in Hotel 3Y4 inch print. These can be coon picture is the failure to keep viewed as stereo prints with the the images level. If one draws a tereo World is great-well put various viewers available ....I am line between homologous points together! Keep up the good sure there are more ways to adapt in the two images, that line should S work! I like the fact that you the slide printer for stereo use. I be parallel to the top and bottom include previous articles (where & have just gotten into this process edges of the mask. In the raccoon when they were in Stereo World). I and will probably find ways to picture, when one lines up a still have a couple of early issues I refine this method. straightedge with the tips of the haven't read-because I received a E. Steinberg candles in the two images, one years worth when I first joined. Richmond, VA gets a line tilted markedly to the Good luck getting caught up. Search for Murray Views right. The reason for my letter is SW There are several other examples I am a lecturer in Visual Art at Vol. 22 No. 2, page 19-"3-D of mismasking in the same issue of Movies". Twenty-two years ago at the University of Wollongong in Stereo World: the advertisement on Australia, currently researching a the D-Con '73 (1973 Dallas Con- page 39; the beach at Dover (page series of 60 stereographs made by vention for Nostalgia/Movies/Sci- 10; good on the left side, bad on George Burnell and E.W. Cole in FiIComics) Paul Adair ran 35mm the right side); also, the Tricuspid 1862, entitled "Stereoscopic Views films in the Dallas Sheraton North Valve (top of page 15; left objects of Murray River Scenery." Ballroom-including from his col- too close). Also on the latter page There is an incomplete set (51) lection dual 35mm prints of Cat is a close-up part of a "Purple Jelly- Women of the Moon, Dangerous Mis- held by the Art Gallery of South fish" which is more or less correct- Australia, through which the Mur- sion, Devil's Canyon, The French Line ly mounted, but has the fault that ray River flows. My research has and Outlaw Territory. it includes a tentacle which comes Lawrence Kaufman turned up 4 missing cards from closer than the stereo window, and Corona, CA this series thus far, and I am dedi- yet intersects the side of that win- cated to completing the series for Instant Stereo Prints dow. cataloging purposes and fulfilling The UFO picture (top of page 25) From Slides scholarship towards an exhibition. has the left margin incorrectly Making colored stereo prints is I would be most grateful if any cropped, but the right side is not not always an easy task. One way reader of SW has any information. to make prints without a lot of Ken Orchard so bad. The whole picture has too effort is with the use of a Vivitar Faculty of Creative Arts much in front of the frame which Instant Slide Printer. The Vivitar University of Wollongong should really be behind it. This is a slide printer prints colored positive Northfields Ave., Wollongong common beginner's problem in images from slides using Polaroid New South Wales, Australia, 2515 stereo: we become so impressed 669 Polacolor ER instant film. Fax0011 61 42213301 with the stereo effect that we Slides taken with a stereo camera Drunk With Stereopsis become drunk with stereopsis, and are usually smaller than a regular pretty soon we are throwing every- In the Sept./Oct. 1995 issue, on thing forward of the frame, right 35mm slide. In order to use stereo the inside of the front cover, in the slides, a little manipulation will into the viewer's lap. It's analogous "3D Assignment" feature, there is a to thinking that mediocre music have to be used. I place stereo winning entry which could be slides in a cardboard stereo mount. will sound better if played louder. called "The Badly Masked Rac- The fact that this example comes The mount is then cut and placed coon." An appealing shot of a rac- on top of an empty 35mm slide from the world of high-tech digital coon at a neatly set table, about to (Continued on page 30) mount and tacked in place with partake of a meal tape. A separate print is made of of bread and each [halfl view. Since the stereo peanut butter, slide is smaller than a regular slide, this stereogram 1 New 3-D Web Addresj the resulting print will have a is unfortunately he interrlet's 3-D Web site (see S W Jo. 3, 1 black border. This should be cut, an example of page 12) now has a new (s horter!) i how not to mask. I - -.,. -- f you have comments or questions for the ThereareannoY- b's NSA i. on direct Ieditor concerning any stereo-related matter ing phantom appearing (or missing) in the pages of Stereo bands at either Id-web.c~ nsa.htm World, pleose write to lohn Dennis, Stereo I ,^..I 2 -- -I side, which To access the ~rereuvvur~u r~larer~al, ubt. World Editorial Office, 561 0 SE 71 st Ave., 7 97206. somehow the ://www.: judges missed.

STEREO WORLD Novcmher/l)ecemher 1995 Nineteenth Centurv

of the Near East by Bert M. Zuckerrnan

n 1867 William James accompa- burns are not to be counted scarce. An extensive literature nied Mark Twain on an extended among the American stereogra- search reveled only two brief refer- Itour of Europe and the Near East phers on the scene. Then in 1874 a ences to the series in Foczis East by and became the first American to group of Methodists visited, and Nissan Perez [reviewed in SW Vol. produce stereographs of the among them, Professor James 15 No. 61. Mideast. Six years later Charles Strong and Reverend Abner Dotter- After the passage of more than Bierstadt embarked on a similar er recorded their travels in a stereo- 100 years it is possible only to trip and produced a magnificent graphic series entitled Tourist Views speculate on why these views are series of stereographs of Palestine, in Egypt, the Sinai and Palestine. so rare. The photographers were Tripoli, and Egypt. About the same Today these "Tourist Views" are obviously amateurs. The overall time the Kilburn brothers issued an original set of stereographs of Fig. 2. No. 38, "Gorge in W. El-Ain." Seven members of the party are shown in the Mideast, but recent evidence Wady-El-Ain, gateway from the Sinai Desert to the Gulf of Aquaba. The number of shows that they did not visit the the view was scratched on the negative and appears on most (but not all) of the area or take these pictures. The Kil- curved mount, large format views. Some of the Dotterer issues also give the title of the scene.

0 Novcmh~r/l>crcrnh~r1995 STEREO UWRLD era1 factors could account for the present day scarcity. There is no question that the "Tourist Views" suffer by compari- son with the excellent, carefully composed photographs of the Near East by Bierstadt which appeared about the same time. However, the value of the Strong and Dotterer series lies in their recording of the way of life of the native popula- tion and depiction of scenes not photographed by others who traveled the same area. It is these stereographs which assure the "Tourist Views" a place of significance in the history of photography in the Near East. The Photographers Both the literature and the information appearing on the reverse of ill. the views (figure 1) indicates that the photographs were taken by 1 :. 111 two people, James Strong and --71. 31 I.). I:, -, Abner Dotterer. --61, .\I 8,. .I< As common with many educat- ed men of the 19th century, Strong had wide-ranging interests and was able to do many things well. His early career included the teaching of classical languages and the founding and building of the Flushing Railroad which later became part of the Long Island Railroad system. Strong was born in New York in 1882 and was appointed Professor of Theology at a newly formed Methodist school, Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, in 1868. Despite never having been ordained as a minister, Strong held this position on the Drew faculty until shortly before his death in 1894. His most important work was The Cyclopedia of Biblical, The~lo~qicaland Ecclesiasti- Fig. 1. Reverse of a "Tourist Views" card identifies Strong and Dotterer, lists the cal Literature, a huge ten volume 100 views, and reveals where they could be purchased. The prices were 304 per compendium which he initiated single copy, 83.00 per dozen and 823.00 per hundred. Many views list Prafes- with the Rev. John M'Clintock in F. sor j. Strong, Madison, New jersey, as vendor. Others specify the Rev. A. Dot- 1867. Strong continued this work terer, 1 0 7 8 Arch, Philadelphia, Pa. The Dotterer views were also issued in a format with a label pasted on the reverse giving the number of the view and a alone after M'Clintockls death and short description of the scene. in Volume 9 gave a clue to dating the "Tourist Views." Direct refer- quality of the photos is poor- Jersey, while others note the ven- ence to the expedition or to its some are out of focus and in oth- dor as the Rev. A.F. Dotterer, 1018 participants has not been found in ers the lighting is so bad that the Arch St., Pa. An indication that at the Drew University archives or people in the scene are barely visi- least some of the "Tourist Series" any of the other cited references, ble. For the most part, distribution did enter the normal channels of though Strong's biography notes was by personal sales rather than trade is the stamp "Lofland Books that he traveled extensively in the professional services. Thus, some and Stationary, Los Angeles, Ca." orient. He joined the American views note on the reverse that the which appears on the reverse of Palestine Exploration Society in set could be purchased from Pro- several views that I have exam- 1872. fessor James Strong, Madison, New ined. A combination of these sev- The Reverend Abner Dotterer remains a shadowy figure. Dottr-

STEREO WORID NovernherlDeccrnher 1995 @ Fig. 3. No. 59, "The Rock of Masada." The Roman siege wall is in the foreground.

...... Fig. 4. No. 80, "Arab Women Churning." The black dress and black tent mark these women as Bedouins.

0 Novrmhcr/l>cre~~~I~cr1905 .STEREO WORLD Fig. 5. No. 13, "Arab School at Luxor." The teachers and some of the students can contemporary travelers, an esti- barely be seen in the interior of their shelter from the sun. mate of about six months for the journey is plausible. erer sold the "Tourist Views" stereographed by the Wilson expe- directly, listing his address for dition several years later. [See The Expedition inquiries as 1018 Arch St., Philadel- "William H. Rau's Photographic An article written by Strong phia, Pa. The Philadelphia street Experiences in the East", SW Vol. describing the unique ruins at directory does not give a listing for 11 No. 2 for more on the 1881-82 Petra Uordan) appeared in Harper's him at Arch Street, but does list Wilson expedition.] From Sinai magazine in the late 1870s. This addresses for him in 1879, 1883, onward transport was by camel article contained several woodcuts and 1885. Further search may yield and most probably horse. St. described as being from photo- additional information. Catherines Monastery, located in graphs by the writer and an undat- In the absence of a written the center of the Sinai peninsula, ed hand drawn map cited as origi- account, it is assumed that the was visited, but since no pictures nating from an original survey. path taken by the expedition coin- of the interior of the monastery This same map later appeared in cides chronologically with the list- are shown, it is possible that the Edward Wilson's In Scripture Lands, ing of the 100 views, beginning in pilgrims were not allowed to enter. with an added legend "from an Egypt, then the Sinai desert, Petra, This was not unusual, for entry original survey made in 1874 by through Palestine and ending in required a letter of permission James Strong and Charles Ward." Lebanon, at that time part of Syria. from church authority located in Further proof of the expedition's The route is the logical one, for Cairo. The route to Petra unavoid- date was provided by Professor other photographers of the period ably led through Aquaba, but no Jacob Wahrman of Hebrew Univer- where records exist, such as Bier- views show this place, suggesting sity in Jerusalem, who supplied stadt, Wilson and the Englishmen that the Bedouins who ruled the copies of woodcuts taken from vol- Frith and Good followed this area were not the friendliest of ume 9 (1880) of M'Clintock and route. It is probable that the con- hosts to the pilgrims. At Petra they Strong's Cyclopedia. These eight tingencies attendant to sea travel, may have had better luck, for sev- woodcuts were said to be from obtaining guides and supplies and eral views are shown and a map of original photographs by the editor. the like, dictated the route taken the area prepared, which will be One showed the 1'001 of Siloam in on the pilgrimage. discussed later. The Palestine pho- Jerusalem and was dated 1874. In Egypt the group made the tos indicate that the "Tourists" vis- Other than Strong, Dotterer and obligatory visit to the pyramids, ited every major place in the Holy Charles Ward, nothing was found and ascended the Nile as far as Phi- Land, continuing on to Lebanon as to the identity of the expedition lae. Travel most certainly was by and Beirut and departing for participants. There were more- paddle wheel steamer, of the type home. Based on the records of since a photo (figure 2) taken at

STEREO WRLn Novernherlnrcernher 1995 @ Fig. 6. No. 62, "Gate of St. Stephen. " The )erusalem landmark is currently called the Lion's Gate in reference to the carved lions which appear to the side and above the gate.

Fig. 7. No. 700, "Bishop Kingsley's Grave", located near Beirut, Lebanon.

0 Novcrnber/l)erernber 1995 STEREO WORm Fiq. 8. An unnumbered view from the series, possibly showing the group of A most unusual view is No. 100, Methodists who undertook the pilgrimage...... entitled "Bishop Kingsley's Grave" (figure 7). A veritable treasure trove Wady-el-Ain in the Sinai shows six have seen of Masada. This picture on matters concerning the history men and one woman in western assumes a place of distinction of the Near East, Professor garb of the period. Thus at least when considering the symbolic sig- Wahrman provided information eight people (counting the photog- nificance of Masada to the modern that the Methodist Bishop Calvin rapher) made the trip. A man state of Israel, embodied in the Kingsley, born in 1812, died in wearing a pith helmet of the type phrase "Masada shall not fall Beirut while enroute home from favored by English explorers of the again." India. period appears in a number of the Two views depict Bedouin life. There is also an unnumbered photographs. Native figures, priests In one entitled "Arab Women view, bringing the series total to at and Jews praying at the Wailing Churning" (figure 4), goat cheese is least 101 scenes. This photo (figure Wall in Jerusalem are also shown. apparently being made by shaking 8) shows 12 people posed in a field Transport, at least in the desert, the contents of goat skins. A sec- with three tents in the back- was apparently by camel as three ond titled "Arab Tents" shows the ground. Professor Wahrman specu- of these animals are shown in the black tents of the Bedouin in the lates that the people could be Wady-el-Ain photo. desert. These represent another Methodists from the Reirut area, first for near ~aststereographs, a gathered to pay respects to Bishop The Views study (albeit small) of life in the The view of the greatest impor- Kingsley's last resting place. Alter- desert. Another scene (figure 5) natively, the photo could be of the tance to Near East archivists in shows an Arab school at Luxor, the Number 59, "The Rock of Masada" expeditionary group. It is possible students and teachers dimly seen that at least some of those who (figure 3). Masada was the last Jew- seated in a makeshift hut. A view ish stronghold against the Romans participated in the tour are shown of another hut at Luxor depicts here. Hopefully, further research during the war of 66 to 73 AD. The two women and a girl in their photo clearly shows the siege wall will uncover answers to the mys- home , without roof, but sur- tery which obscures the events built by the Romans, which sur- rounded by archeological objects rounded the mountain to prevent associated with this little known which would elevate a modern col- 19th century odyssey. the defenders from escape. A num- lector to euphoria. Other views ber of experts have examined the show a ferry which no longer ReferencesICredits view, including Nissan Perez, Cura- exists over the Jordan River and St. John M'Clintock and James Strong. tor of Photography, Israel Museum, Stephan's Gate (figure 6) in 1867-81. The Cyclopedia of Riblical, Jerusalem, and concurred that this Jerusalem. Tl~eolo~~icaland Ecclesiastical is the earliest photograph they - (Continued on page 30)

STEREO WORLD NovrrnherlDrcernher 1995 @ he titles are familiar enough: in association with the Royal Transitions, Spacehunter-Adven- Canadian Geographic Society. (Pin- Ttures in the Forbidden Zone, Sea ning McNabb down for this article Dream, Magic Journeys-all diversi- wasn't easy. He was at one time or fied, ground-breaking 3-D films to another on an ice breaker bound be sure. The common thread weav- from Halifax across the Northwest ing these films together is Ernie Passage to Tuktoyaktuk in Canada's McNabb, who acted as either stere- Northwest Territories, or in one of ographer or stereo consultant. In the many native communities addition, he was stereo consultant along the way.) on the two 70mm 3-D films made McNabb, who has an engineer- for Science North in Sudbury, ing and electronics background, Ontario, Wilderness and Shooting joined the NFB in 1960 as a techni- Star. cian in their Engineering Depart- McNabb, whose latest stereogra- ment. (For those not familiar with phy work can be seen in the IMAX the NFB, it's a Canadian govern- 3-D film Wings of Courage (SW Vol. ment agency-a unique cultural 22, No. 2), was also a key player in organization created in 1939 by an developing IMAX 3-D and the pro- act of Parliament to initiate, pro- totype of the first IMAX 3-D rig. mote and distribute films in the Add to this a body of work as cine- national interest. Since its incep- matographer of countless films (he tion, the NFR has been the recipi- never kept score) for the National ent of more than 3,000 awards at Film Board of Canada (NFR) and prestigious festivals worldwide and several IMAX and OMNIMAX films, has won nine Oscars.) Here, he and you've got an extraordinary designed film equipment and visionary and technician who has learned every facet of the filmmak- pushed the development of 35mm ing process while working in the and 70mm 3-D and 2-D filmmak- optical animation, printing, edit- ing to the limits. McNabb is cur- ing and other departments. He rently working on a new NFB pro- moved into production very quick- ject tentatively titled Helicopter II ly and eventually got the chance areer Ernie McNabb by Don Marren

Novrrnbcr/llecemher 1995 STEREO WORLD to use his skills in front of and behind the cameras on the NFB's acclaimed Harvard Physics Project, which was designed as an interac- tive learning tool for secondary school physics programs. The entire package was sold to Encyclo- pedia Rritannica, which still dis- tributes it today although not in the original 8mm loop cassette format. When the NFR science unit faced a financial crunch, McNabb moved on to the camera department, ris- ing up through the ranks to cam- eraman and director of photography on several projects. His electronics background, knowledge of movie cameras and interest in technology led to Colin Low, a vet- eran NFR directorlproducer, seeking out McNabb's assistance on a 3-D experiment in 1973. Low, who directed the first IMAX 2-D film shown at Osaka's World's Fair in 1970, and John Spotton, another NFR pioneer, wanted McNabb to help them develop a large-format 3-D film for the American Ricen- tennial in 1976. At the time, the NFB was no stranger to 3-D. Their interest in 3-D technology had been ongoing ever since the early 1950s when world-renowned ani- mator Norman McLaren produced two dual-strip 35mm films, Around is Around and Now is the Time for the 1951 World's Fair in London. Twenty-two years later, McNabb, Low and Spotton developed an updated version of McLaren's two- Stereographer McNabb is seen here (at the rear) during the filming of 1978's 3-0 hit camera system with improved Sea Dreams for Marineland in Florida. The camera, with its Spacevision over/under optics in a 70mm format. lens system, is suspended from wires. While shooting the demo reel at an alligator After some experimental shoot- farm, McNabb was surprised when the largest alligator suddenly lurched forward and ing with their new wide-screen sys- snapped at the lens shade on the front of the camera, leaving its teeth marks as a tem, the three filmmakers went to memory of the event. Russia to investigate and compare 3-D cameras and technology. "The Russians were more advanced in 70mm filmmaking and they had a long history of making 3-D films." says McNabb.

STEREO WRID Novcrnhrr/~ecrrnher1995 @ &a,: 1 65mm and print on 70mm. "It was

aged," says McNabb. And what became of the Ameri- can Bicentennial 3-D proiect? a I Experimental footage ihdt by McNabb, Low and Spotton " impressed Canadian officials who were set to back the project, but in the end the film was abandoned. Apparently, no single U.S. city had been chosen as the central focus of Ernie McNabb helps provide some added depth to the first /MAX 3-0 test footage. For this the celebration where the film initial experiment, two /MAX cameras were clamped to a flat board, one aimed into a half- could be shown, and the cost of a silvered mirror standing at a 45" angle while the other shot straight through the mirror. traveling 3-D show throughout the (In the later working rig, one camera was pointed down at the repositioned mirror and the nation was considered prohibitive. other shot through it.) This pair appeared on the cover of the May/lune 1982 Perforations, Pity, because in 1976 the planned the journal of the Technical and Production Sewices of the NFB. Photos of the rig and an article about current 3-0 films and McNabb's work were featured inside. large-format 3-D film would proba- ...... bly have been the first American or The Russian 3-D equipment that In assessing Russian 3-D, McN- Canadian dual-stri~70mm the Canadians looked at was brand abb says their stereo images tended ever made. not new and had never been used on to be so natural that you almost forgotten, this system went into limbo for years and the ere- any film production UP to that forgot you were watching 3-D after point. After meetings, long discus- a while. "Sometimes you have to ator' moved On to other projects. sions and watching many of their surprise your audience and exag- At a 3-D seminar sponsored by 3-D films made with other sys- gerate a little to remind the audi- Montreal's Concordia University in tems, the Russians turned over ence that they're watching 3-Dl" 1974, McNabb made contact with their equipment along with a crew adds McNabb. "Also, their film director Murray Lerner who want- to McNabb, Low and Spotton. stock tends to favor pastel colors ed do a "The experimental 70mm 3-D with low contrasts." Together, they produced a 3-D film we had shot in Canada was One point of interest that McN- demo film which led them to mak- with American Panavision cam- abb brought to our attention was ing Sea Dream for in eras," says McNabb. "If the Russian the fact that Russians shoot in Florida. The film is probably the cameras were better, we would ...... have used them to shoot the Ernie McNabb (left) and Colin Low check out the /MAX 3-0camera rig during the American Bicentennial Project. As filming of a railroad sequence for Transitions. The elaborate NFB rig and twin /MAX it turned out, the Russian optics cameras weighs about 500 pounds-1300 pounds with the crane. The entire struc- were not up to North American ture is balanced gyroscopically to eliminate vibration during shooting. Pan and tilt standards, and the quality of the movements as well as focus and iris adjustments can be operated by remote control. images wasn't particularly good." According to McNabb, the Rus- sians recognized the difference immediately when they compared the film shot with the Panavision cameras and the film shot with their equipment. "They envied our large, bright quality images and, above all, they envied the optical system we were using," claims McNabb. "We all agreed that they had an interesting camera but it would not do for our purposes." McNabb is quick to point out that the 3-D experts they spoke to in Russia were all brilliant, talented and very knowledgeable, but their ability to develop better filming technology was restricted by both financial and political restraints at the time (the early '70s).

@ Nov~rnhcr/Orcernher1995 STEREO WORLD most successful 3-D theme park film ever made, as it has been shown all over the world and is still going strong today. I was surprised to learn from McNabb that most of the "underwater" scenes in the film were actually shot from outside the tanks, except for about two minutes of ocean footage. It's a credit to director and cinematographer Lerner and to stereographer McN- abb that Sea Dream doesn't have the look or feel of not being shot underwater. Coral pieces were carefully positioned in the back of the tanks and were faded off naturally, so that audiences thought they were in the ocean. Top lighting made the set-up look even more realistic. McNabb designed the "underwater" equipment, mount and hang glider used in shooting the film. "Spacevision, the overtunder 3-D system used in the filming, was an extremely high-quality process for that [late '70~1period," points out McNabb. "The lens system was very crude with only a choice of one focal length and three apertures. The optical path was very straight forward. The sharp imagery produced allowed us to project the film on a 57 foot wide screen, quite large for 35mm." (The film was blown up to 70mm in the mid '80s for some showings around the world.) Asked to compare dual-strip Filming the /MAX HD film Momentum, cinematographer McNabb (left) prepares to filming and single-strip technolo- follow the action of a hockey game by skating behind this /MAX 2-D camera on its gy, McNabb claims that there are wooden platform. Shot and projected at 48 frames per second, Momentum was the first and only /MAX HD (High Definition) film ever made. some disadvantages to both. "With ...... the exception of IMAX 3-D, there's a differential unsteadiness on two- the fade off of the normal light designed the aerial mount used for projector systems. Your eyes and cone is at the foot of one image the helicopter shoots and he super- brain can integrate that very quick- and at the head of the other vised construction of the underwa- ly, but somewhere in the back of image. The result is a differential ter system. your sun-consciousness there must in the uniformity of the light." When Hollywood gave 3-D be some fatigue factor that affects A few years later, McNabb, on another chance (or is it the other the viewer. Nobody has been able yet another loan from the NFB, way around?) in the early '80s, it to document or explain that finite worked with Lerner again. This was inevitable that McNabb's problem. At least in a single-strip time it was on the Walt Disney expertise would be in demand. system, where both images are laid film Magic Journeys, the famous Columbia Pictures called and he down on the same piece of film, if dual-strip 70mm film that original- became involved in the $12 mil- there is a movement in the camera ly was shown at EPCOT Center in lion science fantasy adventure or projector it will be felt by both Florida. He and a stellar list of Spacehunter-Adventures in the For- eyes. stereo technicians (Steve Hines, bidden Zone, starring Peter Strauss "Each 3-D system isn't perfect. Dave English, Don Iwerks, Bob and Molly Ringwald. It was filmed There are some problems with the Otto and Lerner) are credited with using a 3-D system and NFR rig overtunder systems. If you take the the 3-D technology used in the specially engineered by McNabb. projected cone of light and draw a ground-breaking film. One of the The two-camera system utilized circle around the over and under rigs used in the filming was two Panavision cameras and their image, you come to recognize that designed by McNabb. He also quality lenses, and a beam splitter ,.. "....--.,,, -...-... sy.- '- I"" ...... 4, --Y-T Transitions, the first /MAX 3-0 ,j;--.-;-- +,-c- ,-- film (1 986) featured Ernie pi- McNabb as dlrector of photog- li i raphy and stereographer. The 2 1 minute film (SW Vol. 7 3 No. 3) IS a journey into the J r . past, present and future modes b of Canad~antransport and I* communication and their rela- - , fl ! 1- d tionships. There were a number ' of 3-D tricks-logs, fencers, and less threatening subjects like these teddy bears that startled and delighted audiences at EXPO '86 in Vancouver and around the world. Hasselblad stereo by Heather McNabb ...... mirror. The two images from the and Tony Ianzelo.) Critics are still film. Other recent career highlights two cameras were then "shrunk" unanimous in their praise: no include the IMAX dramatic film and optically printed on a single other 3-D system in the world EmergencyAJrgence (1991) and strip of film in horizontal split even comes close to the quality Momentum (1992), the first-and frames for theatrical showings. For and the power of IMAX 3-D. only-IMAX HD (High-Definition) the single-strip film, McNabb even Since Transitions, McNabb has film ever made. This EXPO '92 hit, dictated the frame size he wanted been involved in several important which premiered in Seville, Spain, on the final prints. "Some people [2-Dl IMAX productions as cine- was filmed and projected at 48 insisted on a big thick margin or matographer. The First Emperor of frames per second, twice the rate 'identifier' between the frames (the China (1989) was a costly cinemat- of conventional film. Only a few left and right eye images), but I ic spectacle about Qin Shihuang, IMAX theaters ever got to show the wanted to minimize these bound- who unified China 22 centuries high-definition version of the film aries so I could use as much area of ago and completed the Great Wall after the World's Fair. the frames as we could for the pic- of China. One of the film's high- McNabb hints that the next ture." Spacehzlnter was a huge box lights is seeing the 7,000 life-size great technological advance for office success, one of the few 3-D terra-cotta soldiers, horses and ]MAX is high-definition IMAX 3-D- hits during the mildly received chariots which were built to sur- dual strip, 15 perforation frames stereo revival in the early '80s. round the emperor's tomb. The fig- projected at 48 frames per second. During the '70s and early '80s, ures were unearthed in 1974 and Will it be ready for the next big Low and McNabb had worked on were captured on film by western- World's Fair in the year 2000? We IMAX and OMNIMAX productions ers for the first time in the NFB can hardly wait. F~Q with other collaborators. Both were convinced that the propor- /MAX camera equipment may be state of the art, but transportation to the highest tions offered by IMAX were the point of the Great Wall of China was definitely not. Donkeys were quickly employed best for 3-D of the future. They when the gondola lift was closed during the Chinese New Year, and filming of The had the NFR rig that had been First Emperor of China resumed. The /MAX 2-0 production, with Ernie Mcnabb as developed in the '70s. (It had been director of photography, premiered at the opening of the Canadian Museum of Civi- used in one form or another for lization in Hull, Quebec, in 1989. McNabb's 3-D projects over the years.) All they needed now were two IMAX cameras (only nine existed in the world in the early '80s) to shoot some test film. Later, there would be even more problems trying to get two IMAX projectors together to project the footage. Some of the original test footage was shot behind the NFB building in Montreal, and some was shot on a sound stage inside. The results of the collaboration between IMAX and the NFB were, to say the least, overwhelming. A few years later at EXPO '86 in Van- couver, Transitions, the world's first IMAX 3-D film, premiered to world acclaim. (It was co-directed by Low

@ Novcn~hcr/l)eccmher1995 STEREO WORLD Historical 3-D Reprint Revives 1894 Text Review by George A. Themelis

objects. Then we have the tures ...have for their duration only telestereoscope, which increases %o part of a second. In spite of the the relief of distant objects by precautions necessary in the increasing the interocular. (Some- manipulation of these mixtures, one who recently rediscovered the we must always give them the eel 3-D has done it again with device called it a "Godzillascope". preference when it is necessary to a new book, the second in the According to Drouin, the telestere- reduce to a minimum the time of R"Historical 3-D Reprint Series." oscope was invented by Helmholz exposure." (Franklin Flocks, please This one is titled The Stereoscope in 1857.) take note!) and Stereoscopic Photography and In-between these extremes we (Contintred on page 27) was written by F. Drouin in France find an impressive variety of stere- in 1894. The reprint is from an oscopes with mirrors, lenses andlor 1894 English translation. prisms, from a simple mirror stere- The Telestereoscope, as illustrated on I read the book from cover to oscope to a "View-Magic" style page 25 of The Stereoscope and cover and found it so fascinating viewer for overlunder panoramic Stereoscopic Photography. Since at that I could not put it down until I print pairs. There is a discussion of least 7 857, people have been rein- was done. David and Susan say in single lens 3-D and a mention of venting devices like this in various projection with polarized light sizes for live-action hyperstereo view- their announcement of the book's ing. One by artist Alfons Schiling publication, "Many ideas and using nicols prisms. Early (permanently installed at the Helen innovations in the field of three anaglyphic projection is also cov- Hayes Hospital in Haverstraw, Ny dimensional imaging seem new ered, but the eclipse technique as overlooking the Hudson River) has a and revolutionary today. However, described by D'Almeida in 1858 is base of 16 feet between its 8 x 8 upon further investigation, you particularly well illustrated. Drouin foot outer mirrors. (SW Vol. 10 No. will find here a nineteenth century singles out this mechanical separa- 6, page 17.) world of forgotten resources..." tion method as giving "admirable That's definitely the case. effects," and he would learn how Drouin's book, as the title sug- prophetic his opinion was if he gests, focuses on Stereoscopes. The could see today's liquid crystal variety of devices described in the eclipsing 3-D glasses for computer, book exceeded my wildest imagi- video and IMAX 3-D applications. nation. First, we have the icono- Drouin on France vs. England scope, a device eliminates stereoscopic relief by reducing the inte- "It is curious to note that rocular when viewing close-up although the stereoscope was an English invention, the French makers were the first to recognize its possibilities ....These makers had, moreover, the satisfaction of seeing their ideas shortly put into practice in England itself." On "High Speed" 3-D Photography With Flash "Magnesium light ...has at least a duration of a third or a quarter of a second; whilst special mix-

STEREO WORLD Novemher/l)ecrmher 1995 @ Kinn ards9

by David Starkman

es, I know that Stereo World is a 3-D magazine, so why write Yabout a tripod? Well, the first time I ever heard of a Kinnard Tri- pod was more than 10 years ago when I saw it listed in an early 1950s Stereo Realist accessory list. It even had a Stereo Realist company stock number, ST-59. This intrigued me. What was so special about this tripod that the Stereo Realist folks would find it appropriate to make it a listed stereo accessory? All I had was a name without a description, so I forgot about the Kinnard Tripod until, quite by chance, I ran across one at a camera show. Actually, it's been so long that I don't remem- ber the details. My partner Susan may actually have found it (she has a radar eye for interesting things). We only knew that it was a Kinnard Tripod because it is Standing next to its instruction book, this Kinnard Tripod with legs completely col- lapsed isn't much larger than a Realist and would fit in nearly any camera bag. clearly engraved or molded into ...... the flat metal top plate. The kinnard is not like any tri- This is what makes the Kinnard Around 1985, in the search for pod made before or since. It is an really interesting. It solves the instructions, I decided to take a elegant answer to the question problem by using a uniquely chance that the Kinnard Company "How can you make a tripod that designed 36 foot long spiral of thin of Milwaukee might still be in will provide a sturdy, five foot high stainless coiled steel. By starting business. I called information and support, yet yet collapse to only 5 wider at the top, and tapering to they said they did have a listing inches in length with each leg the foot end, the spiral can be for Kinnard Photography. I called being a maximum of one inch in uncoiled and then locked tightly the number and asked if they had diameter?" in position. Done properly, the anything to do with the Kinnard It's an interesting question. If legs can be extended to five feet in Tripod. The answer was "hold on, you were to use the conventional height and can support cameras you want to talk to my father." So, design of a series of segments, each much heaver than the Stereo Real- on the telephone I met Wolcott one getting a bit smaller in diame- ist. Kinnard, the inventor and manu- ter and nesting inside the next The biggest problem is that the facturer of the Kinnard tripod! larger one, you would need about technique for using this tripod is They were made just after the war, 12 segments, and the diameter of not at all intuitive. Without the from about 1948 to the mid 1950s, each would have to be fairly large instruction manual it is quite diffi- and were not a great commercial so that the smallest one would still cult, and even with the instruc- success. I would guess that this was be large enough not to bend. Also, tions it takes a bit of practice to do due to the difficulty is setting up you would have to provide some it in a reasonable amount of time. the tripod. People in general prefer way to securely lock each segment. (Although the instructions say you to use items that are so intuitive So to make a really compact tripod can do it in 50 seconds with prac- that instructions are not needed. this small would seem impossible tice, at best I would say 50 seconds Although I got a verbal set of in the conventional way. per leg!) instructions, Mr. Kinnard did not \ Rubber Tip

Don't fight with it take it easy 1 1 Fully extended, the Kinnard provides a stable, five foot high platform for nearly any camera but lacks a pan and tilt head. Here the author demonstrates the difference between one in use and one ready for stow- ing in a camera bag or even a large coat pocket. even have a copy of the manual that he could copy for me. He did turn out to be an interesting inventor, and he was working on the design of a new stereo camera and viewer system. He sent us t\vist tl~nt tlovs it. copies of some of his pending "l'l:~!." \\.it11 thr Ein11:lrtl for ;\ fv\v patent designs, and we correspond- ~~iinutes~~cc:~sio~lslly~ In two or three ed over the years. Finally he d;~ys, presto - you'll h:~vethe secret ov~~yric~t~1:~sI,? \v#tic#tttI

STEREO WORLD Novernher/l)ecrrnher 1995 @ The Hart of Railroad Stereography Review by john Dennis

he title is deceptively simple. turing images (when trees and ter- hole in perfect cross section on the Tlie Railroad Photographs of rain allowed) matching the cover- wall of a tunnel and another pre- TAlfred A. Hart, Artist sounds like age and angle of Hart's views. sents a pile of massive timbers that another of those elegant coffee Some of this, in order to better once formed part of the miles of table railroad books, full of roman- understand just what was involved snowsheds protecting the tracks in tic steam locomotives captured in in getting the original views, was the High Sierra. sparkling black & white photos fill- done using a 5 x 8 inch wet-plate The CPRR and the ing hundreds of pages of expensive stereo camera and an 1860s tripod. coated stock. The extent of Kibbey's devotion to Stereographer Only in its physical dimensions his subject (beyond just reaching A brief history of the Central does this book resemble anything remote locations in the Sierra Pacific's construction provides a like the above. Researched and Nevada Mountains and the Nevada dramatic background to our appre- written by NSA member Mead B. desert) is nicely illustrated in a ciation of the task Hart faced as he Kibbey and edited by NSA Presi- paragraph from his introduction accompanied the crews through dent Peter Palmquist, The Railroad describing the challenges of fol- mountains, tunnels and deserts Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist lowing Hart's tripod-prints: with his dark tent, wet plate stereo camera and heavy tripod. Close is a detailed, illustrated account of Some of his finest photographs were Hart's stereo documentation of the taken from the tops of boxcars or loco- attention is given to the blasting construction of the Central Pacific motives and because of this, I carried a and excavation techniques used in Railroad. But both Hart's work and six-foot folding ladder on my truck, and the many tunnels required to cross Kibbey's book are far grander in by setting it up between the rails and the mountains, as well as to the scope, quality and detail than any standing on the top rung, I could get my miles of snowsheds constructed single sentence could convey. camera at almost the same elevation Hart between the tunnels. The photo- To begin with, Hart didn't just used. Unfortunately when I was on top graphic coverage of the comple- of that trembling ladder (the ties were tion ceremonies at Promontory, shoot a bunch of railroad views. spaced so that only two of the ladder's He documented the entire project, Utah gets detailed attention and four legs were resting on a tie), the illustration, comparing the work of from its start in Sacramento in sound of an approaching train greatly 1864 to the driving of the golden reduced my interest in perfectly duplicat- photographer A.J. Russell with that spike in Utah in 1869, publishing ing Hart's composition. By using modern of Hart. As the last rail was laid, 364 stereographs covering every topographic maps, many isolated loca- the two photographers captured major phase of the construction. tions were quite apparent, but often the scene from the tops of the fat- And Mr. Kibbey didn't just proved to be more than a mile from ing locomotives. Both photos are "research" Hart's work. He also even a four-wheel-drive road. In those reproduced in the book, with an traveled to more than 50 of the instances several hours were needed to enlarged portion of the Russell hike in and back out with my camera, a shot showing Hart's stereo camera locations stereographed by Hart light tripod, the rolled map, 8-by-10 inch over a hundred years earlier, cap- standing on the cab roof of the enlarged copies of the appropriate Hart Union Pacific locomotive ready to prints, and a compass to measure the direction of the shadows in his photo- take Hart's view No. 357. Later, graphs (to help establish the time of day while Russell was taking his when he had taken the original views). famous photo of the trains meeting directly over the famous gold- Several of these recent photos en spike, Hart was on the other (taken during the early 1990s) are side of the tracks capturing the included next to Hart's 1860s dignitaries, the army band and the images, while others reveal in close locomotives in two separate stereo- detail what remains today of that graphs-ne for each locomotive. massive construction project. One Author Kibbey includes the first example shows a hand-drilled blast composite reproduction of the two

@ Novrmhrrll)etemher 1995 STEREO WORLD Hart views (Nos. 359 & 358) to collectors is the first, in which I No. 1 of History of Photo'yraphy, reveal the famous meeting (show- every one of Hart's 364 views of the London 1988. Appendix F presents ing both trains as in the Russell CPRR is reproduced. In order to an explanation of transposing shot) as seen from the other side of include all the views they are images in stereo printing along the track. arranged 12 to a page, requiring with more details of 19th century The story of Hart's life and reduction to about 47% of the stereo cameras, dark tents and career in photography follows, original size. While this permits chemistry. Appendix G reprints including several spectacular easy free-viewing, the section is sections of Hart's The Traveler's enlargements of his work with valuable mainly as a reference Own Book, published in 1870 as an some full views as well. Details of since the high quality and detail of aid to those traveling between his business relations with the the original views is lost. The book Chicago and San Francisco. While CPRR and Lawrence & Houseworth is a first in that it documents a the lithographed illustrations of are traced, as is the his- stereographer's entire some of the scenery were based on tory and eventual fate body of work on a Hart's views, the views themselves of his CPRR negatives. N major subject, and yet are not mentioned in his descrip- On page 58, the ...a major while it illustrates the tions of places to be seen or on the enlarged right images work of stereos, it isn't actual- maps tracing every mile of the from a Hart view and ly illustrated IN stereo. journey. of a similar view taken historical (This makes a Stereo By any standard, The Railroad from just a couple of and World article using Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist feet away are repro- some of this material is a major work of historical duced as an example of reference. an intriguing possibili- research and reference. Images are his work done for ty for the future.) identified and dated whenever pos- Thomas Houseworth. A numerical list of the sible and cross-referenced to each The images, taken from the unfin- Hart CPRR views follows, including other to a degree seldom seen, ished dome of the California State the mileage of each subject east while sources are provided for Capitol, can be fused (a possibility along the track from Sacramento nearly any railroad or photo- not mentioned in the captions) to and notes relating to several of the graphic historical questions that provide an unintentional hyper- views and their later publication could arise. The only concern is stereo of a section of Sacramento by Houseworth and/or Watkins. that the encyclopedic thorough- in 1867168. Another list presents the view titles ness of the book not intimidate in geographical order of their dis- writers interested in the lives and The Extras tance from Sacramento, starting work of other stereographers also For most writers, the above two with No. 234 taken at the Sacra- in need of wider and deeper appre- sections would probably seem to mento Railroad Wharves. A third ciation. A book with less informa- cover the subject quite adequately. list presents the public sources of tion, fewer images, more limited For Mead Kibbey, they serve Hart CPRR views, including the areas of coverage and only ordi- almost as an extended introduc- Bancroft Library, the Crocker Art nary levels of energy applied to tion to the wide selection of infor- Museum, the California State research could still be an outstand- mation and images filling the Library, the Huntington Library, ing contribution to the history of remaining two-thirds of the book. the University of Nevada Library, stereography (and could perhaps A chapter on "Photographic and the Library of Congress and the have more room for full size Production Methods" provides New York Public Library. stereoviews). In any case, it will extensive material on the wet col- Appendix E is a reprint of the probably be a long time before lodion process used by Hart, article "Alfred Hart: Photographer anything nearly as impressive as including formulas and illustra- of the Central Pacific Railroad" by Mr. Kibbey's book is published. em tions from texts of the day. In his Glenn Willumson from Vol. 12 efforts to understand 19th century photographic technology, the author even experimented with his own salted paper prints. Hart's cameras and other equipment are ARCHIVAL SLEEVES: clear 2.5-mil Polvpro~vlene CDV (3 318' X 4 318') per 100: $7 case of 1000: $60 discussed and illustrated in equal CDV POLYESTER (2-mil ) per 100: $10 case of 1000: $90 detail, and the steps involved-in CDV PAGE 6-pocket top load perpage: $0.50 case of 100: $20 POSTCARD (3 314' X 5 3/47 per 100: $8 case of 1000: $70 making stereo prints are outlined POSTCARD PAGE 4-pocket top load per 100: $16 case of 500: $70 from sensitizing the albumin paper 4' x 5' per 100: $8 case of 1000: $70 STEREO 1 #6 3/4 COVER (3 3J4' x 7') per 100: $9 case of 1000: $80 with silver nitrate to applying the STEREOPOLYESTER per 100: 2-mil $12 or 3-m~l $16 printed title strips to the mounted CABINET1CONTINENTAL (4 318' X 7') per 100: $10 case of 1000: $90 #10 COVER (4 318' x 9 518') per 100: $10 case of 500: $45 views. 5' x 7' per 50: $7 case of 200: $25 The balance of the book is BOUDOIR (5 112' X 8 112') per 25: $6 case of 500: $80 6.~10' per 25: $8 case of 200: $40 devoted to seven appendices that 11' x 14' per 10: $8 case of 100: $45 make it an even more indispens- 16' x 20' (unsealed flap) per 10: $20 case of 100: $99 able reference work for those fasci- Russell Norton, PO Bx 1070, New Haven, CT 06504-1070 nated by Hart's work and/or the US SHIPPING: $4 per order. Institutional billing. (1996) CPRR. Most notable for stereoview he London Underground (also These were not commercial views, affectionately known as "The but were apparently taken around TTube") is world famous. 1907 simply to document the work Today's Londoners and tourists use in progress. The images illustrate it daily, with little regard for the the workmen, the conditions and by David Starkman history that made it possible. In the complex construction neces- 8 Susan Pinsky fact, underground railways in the sary to create the tunnels nearly 60 London area go back to 1863, but feet under London that are part of it was not until 1890 that the first this famous transportation system. fully electric "deep tube" railway Many views show the process of went into service as The City & enlarging existing tunnels and South London Railway. Eventually illustrate the use of tunneling tech- other lines were constructed and niques like the use of compressed connected until they formed the air and airlocks. Except for the system as it is known today. simple captions with the pictures, Traveling from Big Ben to Pic- no documentation or photograph- cadilly Circus, one enters the deep er information was discovered. tunnels by steep escalators. One The museum felt that these penetrates the arteries of the city, a views would provide an interesting weaving, snaking maze of tunnels souvenir of the occasion, and that take you everywhere you want called upon London's renowned to go. All the history and magic of 3-D expert David Burder to find a London surround the traveler- way to make this possible. The Buckingham Palace, Leicester result was a set of nine 7 x 7Y4 Square, the British Museum, St. inch anaglyphic stereo images, Paul's Cathedral, Harrod's, the each on a full-page size card with Tower of London and many caption and the Tube Centenary important sites where historical logo. The sets include two pairs of characters from Henry VIII to Win- redlgreen Tube Centenary glasses ston Churchill once trod. One can and are still available from Reel get around by bus or taxi, but the 3-D Enterprises, Box 2368 Culver way the locals travel easily and City, CA 90231 as stock number quickly is by the Underground. 5007SW for $12.95 plus $3.00 For its observance of the "1890- shipping (outside the U.S. $5.00 1990 Tube Centenary-One Hun- shipping). oo dred Years of Electric Underground Railways" the London Transport Museum mounted a historical exhibit. In doing research a number of stereoscopic views were discovered in the museum archives.

@ Novemher/D~cernher1995 STEREO W0RZ.D "Laying tracks in the 'step plate' junction at Camden Town." Even with the moderately fast film available in 1907, exposures in the tunnels were long enough for some of the workers to move their arms or heads or "ghost out" entirely. AN stereographs from the London Transport Museum.

...... "The new tunnel from Camden Town breaking through to the old terminus at Euston. Timbers temporarily support the roof following removal of the shield. " Crude wiring for the construction lights (and perhaps the photographer's flood lights) is visible at the upper left.

...... "New shield-driven tunnel under construction, connecting Euston and Camden Town. The pipe carries liquid concrete grout to fill the void behind the tunnel lining. "

STEREO WORLD Novernhcr/Dccrmhrr 1995 @ A ...... "Building the junction of the new line from Charing Cross onto the enlarged City & South London line at Kensington. "

"In some areas, miners worked under compressed air in order to reduce water seepage into the enlargement workings. This airlock was just north of ...... King's Cross. "

"Tunnel miners with a contractor's battery locomotive." "Survey work in progress. " While the high contrast, uneven lighting of the original photos is a challenge, more detail is visible in the set's anaglyphic enlargements.

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"Looking through a shield into the old nar- row tunnel. The circu- lar shield has 'rolled' a little as excavation proceeded. "

...... "The original tunnel was enlarged with the aid of a modified Creathead Shield. In this view from the newly enlarged tunnel, the old tunnel can be seen through the opening in the shield. "

STEREO WORLD Novrmhrrll)rrrrnhrr 1995 @ Hope for'the

The Ultimate Free-viewing Guide ' Review by John Dennis or re0th stereo and pairsof any of the a iln jqI tran;,q is is book has one Of the most arresting stereogram...... stereograms, ...... Magic Eye books......

ver a year after 1994's planet- Magic Eye 3-D books is a step-by- parallax to create an illusion, while wide marketing explosion of step training manual aimed at other illustrations serve as "warm 0 single image stereograms via enabling anyone with a trace of up" exercises for eye muscle con- 1 posters, books, cards, and nearly binocular vision to free-view Magic trol and as a check of your visual every other flat surface not moving Eye stereograms. Along the way, it field. I or under water, it may be hard to explains the basics of stereo vision believe that more than a dozen or with the help of cartoon charac- 1 Starting With Pain! so breathing humans still can't ters, colorfui illustrations and a The free-viewing exercises fol- free-view. In fact, there are plenty precisely crafted text largely free of low, and the first pages are of people with perfectly functional technical jargon. While filled with actual stereo stereo vision who never quite got many tricks to learning pair drawings and pho- the knack. (Some of them are even and improving free- - tos, making the book a NSA members!) And of course there vision are left out and "... the most useful and practical are those who remain convinced coverage of stereo vision visually stereo that the entire phenomenon was a theory is condensed to a library-even those oth- massive hoax perpetrated against few ~aragra~hs,the book erwise "above" the . "L r direct and them personally through an inter- nevertheless is the most inclusion of single national conspiracy of planted visually direct and effec- effective image stereogram mate- agents pretending to see non-exis- tive manual on the sub- manual rial. The Magic Eye stereograms appear later tent images. ject yet published. . On Concepts like depth the in the book as a sort of Magic Eye Training perception, parallel view- subject yet final challenge and treat Hope remains alive for all of ing, divergence, conver- for those who learn to these long-suffering souls with the gence, etc. are illustrated published*" master the basics of release of Magic Eye: How to See 30 and explained clearly free-viewing with tradi- by Dr. Marc Grossman and Rachel and directly. An "Eye tional image pairs. Cen- Cooper, published by N.E. Thing H~~Mgame and a UF~~~~~~Mgame tral to the training program is the Enterprises and Andrews and demonstrate (by positioning a "X-Ray Vision Game" in which the McMeel. This most recent of the thumb in front of your nose) how reader literally looks throz~gha clear the eyes work together but from plastic page bound into the book. different points of view. The Printed on this page are three famous ~~~~~kfu~~~~E~~~~~~~~~vstereo pair drawings plus a pair of with two fingers meeting in front fusion dots at the top, all at about of your eyes proves the ability of 35mm separation for ease in practice and ready fusion of the image Dr. Marc Grossman, O.D., is an optometrist and acupuncturist who treats patients with therapeu- tic exercises and nutrition, as well as traditional means, for a variety of vision problems. While the use of vision therapy techniques for many eye problems isn't universal- ly accepted, Dr. Grossman has been on the Board of Examiners for licensure of New York State and has consulted to the United States Military Academy at West Point in their Performance Enhancement Center as well as consulting to school systems and rehabilitation centers in the treatment of visual disabilities. jason Mulkey tests his "X-Ray Vision" with stereo pairs on the transparent page in How to The NSA Connection See 3D. As the pairs have a separation of only about 35mm, gazing through the page at Stereo photography used in the a light colored wall just a few feet away will fuse them. Refocusing on the center 3-0 book is by NSA members Ron image is relatively easy at these separations and distances...... Labbe, Paul Wing and Fred Hatt, with 3-D consulthg by Gerald strips in a single image stereogram. Create Stereograms on Your PC, Marks. Ron Labbe also served as an By looking through the page at Waite Group Press 1994. (See SW associate editor (for N.E. Thing something on a well illuminated Vo1.21 No. 3, page 29.) Enterprises) and (with Rachel wall just a few feet away, almost The Authors Cooper) as production manager. As everyone (with some distance promised at the 1995 NSAIISU adjustments) will see the pairs fuse Rachel Cooper is a freelance writer and computer graphics artist Atlanta International 3-D Festival, into a central 3-D image on which the NSA address is among those they can learn to refocus. who long suffered from a total lack of depth perception. After a course listed at the back of the book. The following page repeats the While there is no little irony in same images on paper for practice of visual therapy and exercises similar to those found in How to See the fact that How to See 30 has without "X-Ray Vision". Following appeared well after the 1994 boom this are photographic stereo pairs 30, she achieved stable depth perception in 1993. Finding life "real- year for stereogram publishing, the with progressively wider separa- book is nonetheless a valuable and tions, finishing with some at ly better in 3-D", her electronic publishing now focuses on digital unique tool for spreading the skill 51mm (close enough to standard of free-viewing. It would make an free-viewing pairs for most people technology to create 3-D images. Cooper and co-author Dr. Gross- ideal gift for anyone interested in to make the leap). Two other tech- learning to free-view stereo pairs, niques for learning to free-view are man have formed IN FOCUS Vision Products, devoted to the direction single image stereograms or both. presented as well, and one stere- For locations of retail stores han- ogram has fusion dots printed in and production of 3-D art and workshops for vision education dling the book or possible mail the middle of the image for those orders, contact Andrews and who at first have trouble maintain- and entertainment. (Contact Rachel Cooper, 93 Bedford St. Suite McMeel, 4900 Main St., Kansas ing fusion of dots printed at the City, MO 64112, (800) 826-4216.ee top of the page. (Unlike other 5D, New York, NY 10014.) Magic Eye books, this one includes fusion dots above most of the stereograms.) Along with several full-page PRECISION FOLDING STEREO VIEWER stereograms of relatively simple For all standard objects are basic explanations of Reallst 3D stereo slid how these images are made. Glass or cardboard covering both wallpaper effect mounted. Folds flat, we~ghsonly 1 oz. ("floater") stereograms and hidden Prepaid minimum order image ("randomdot") stereograms. $10.00. Add $1 .OO for While the section covers computer sh~pp~ngand handling. conversion of wire frame 3-D mod- FREE CATALOG AVAILABLE. els and grayscale images into ran- TO ORDER CALL TOLL FREE dom pattern single image stere- 800-223-6694 ograms, anyone seriously interested in technical aspects of the subject should read Dan Richardson's TAYLOR MERCHANT CORP. 212 West 35th StreeteNew York, NY 10001

STEREO WORLD Novemher/l~eremher1995 @ Cartoons, Comics and Fantasy Worlds Get Stereogram Treatment

hile many bookstores the Lana Tunes characters. While single hamburger. Easily the best haven't handled any single the stereograms by the N.E. Thing in the book is a very impressive wimage stereogram books crew generally maintain their high Viking ship stereogram floating since the holiday season of 1994 quality of work, much of the above Hagar's strip. (when it was hard not to find image on each page is dominated Boris Vallejo's 3D Magic, Stewart, them), others have maintained at by the flat drawing of the charac- Tabori & Chang 1995, combines least a minimal selection of the big ter-which becomes even more the fantasylsci-filsword & sorcery selling Magic Eye books along with distracting when the stereogram is art of Boris Vallejo with stere- one or two other titles. While the fused. The book should appeal to ograms by A1 E. Barber. This is books are seldom found on front kids not quite yet into mortal com- another publication in which flat shelves any longer, many of these bat computer games, although the drawings appear on the same page same stores have also stocked the fact that the stereograms reveal with stereograms, but most of SIS titles published during 1995- mostly simple props associated these hulked-out heroes holding a providing new material next to the with the characters rather than the sword in one hand and a barely "classics" for consumers now total- characters themselves may be a lit- clad woman in the other are kept ly hooked on stereogram images. tle disappointing. small enough to interfere little Some, like the collection of Magic Eye-Best of the Sunday with fusion of the 3-D image. stereograms loosely relating to the Comics, William Morrow & Co. Unfortunately, most of the stere- predictions of Nostradamus or the Inc. 1995, teams N.E. Thing's 3-D ograms themselves are extremely book filed with minimal-depth skills with classic and current simple arrangements of flying images of pastel angels, attempted comic strip art from King Features dragons, skulls or threatening to combine the popular stereogram Syndicate. Each page presents sev- monsters set in craggy alien land- format with very specific subjects eral panels from a popular comic scapes. Some include bothersome more appropriate to one or two strip with a stereogram relating to anomalies when fused and some page coverage. Others, like Magic the subject of the strip or the per- are simply computer distorted Eye: How to See 30 (see review in sonality of the character. Among (folded and/or stretched) reproduc- this issue) could contribute sub- others, these include Flash Gor- tions of Vallejo's art-known stantially to the public's knowl- don, Krazy Kat, Prince Valiant, worldwide on fantasy book covers, edge and appreciation of the Popeye, Hagar, Hi & Lois, Luann, posters and calendars. One wallpa- whole realm of stereo imaging. Blondie and Beetle Baily. Some of per-effect field of naked women Three additional SIS books current- the strips with several panels leave floats in a single, flat plane above a ly found in many stores illustrate little room for much of a stere- likewise flat array of skulls. Anoth- popular cartoon characters, Sunday ogram, even with the strips er stepped series of horizontal comic strips and fantasylscience reduced in scale. But since the planes displays rows of naked fiction cover art through stere- stereograms, like those in the Lana women as if being auditioned for ograms. Tunes book, include only simple the next adolescent fantasy requir- Lana Tunes-Ma'qic Eye, Andrew props from the stories or themes of ing heroic proportions, a domi- and McMeel 1995, features Bugs the strips, the reproduced comics neering countenance and provoca- Runny, Yosemite Sam, The Road themselves often remain the most tive posing skills with a really big Runner, Daffy Duck, etc. in a col- interesting material on the page. sword. oo lection of stereograms combined The stereogram for Popeye's friend with cartoon drawings of most of Wimpy, for instance, consists of a

@ Novrmbrr/Dccrmber 1995 STEREO WRLD North America's Historic Buildinas 4 by Neal Rullington

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II ew Wing, Patent Office, was followed in 1849-1851 by ence library. It remains in federal Nwashington, D.C. u.s.A.. is Robert Mills and in 1851-1867 by ownership and now houses the the title of Kilburn view No. 3088, Edward Clark. In this Greek Doric offices and galleries of the National showing the old Patent Office in building the U.S. Patent Office Collection of Fine Arts and the Washington, D.C. Located at F and encouraged inventors through the National Portrait Gallery of the G Streets between 7th and 9th legal protection offered by patent Smithsonian Institution. It is listed Streets NW, it was begun in 1840 laws, and stimulated them through as a National Historic Landmark. era by architect William P. Elliot. He its patent model displays and refer- Historical 3-D Reprint Revives 1894 Text

On the Value of Stereoscopy how far apart the lenses of the two ping charges and ordering infor- "In our opinion Stereoscopic cameras should be, to secure exact mation, call them at (310) 837- relief forms one of the most beau- relief. On this point authorities on 2368, fax (310) 558-1653. tiful phenomena of natural philos- stereoscopic matters have expressed (Adapted fTom n review circlrlaterl on tlie ophy. It is impossible not to be radically different opinions ..." internet photo-3d mail list.) ar'r filled with admiration on first The Stereoscope and Stereoscopic using the stereoscope ....We have Photography helped me understand seen a catalog of machinery, illus- and appreciate the stereoscopic trated stereoscopically... by no knowledge of the late 19th centu- other process can the exterior ry. My thanks to Reel 3-D Enter- aspect of an object be so clearly prises for making this rare work shown." available to us today. The 188 page On the Subject of book is similar in appearance and Orthostereoscopy quality to Stereoscopic Phenomena of Light and Si'qht, the first in the his- "We shall now examine in detail torical 3-D reprint series. (SW Val. the conditions necessary to pro- 21 No. 1 page 48.) Priced at duce by photography the same $14.95, the book is available from effect as that given by a direct view Reel 3-D Enterprises, Box 2368, of the object itself; in other words, Culver City, CA 90231. For ship-

STEREO WORLD Novrrnhrr/l)rrrrnhcr 1995 @ by Don Marren phenomenon. The filter allows full t's an idea whose time has finally color photos while separating two come: the commercial use of color fields for reproduction on a IPolaroid 3-0 photographs. single color photo for viewing with Although not available for sale to anaglyphic glasses. Amazingly, the public, the custom-made cam- there are barely any noticeable eras can be found in some new "fringes" of the two-color fields and innovative 3-D Photo Booths registered on the instant prints, so that are popping up around the the HinesLab system is suitable for U.S. this winter. Distributor Photo either 3-D or 2-D viewing. (A simi- Vend International hails them as lar system was developed over 20 an "Amazing New Dimension in years ago by Video WEST, Inc., and Photo Booths." In this case the another in 1990 by David Burder hyperbole is right on. under the name Q-DOS. The latter The 3-D technology is licensed system was installed in some Vivi- from HinesLab, Inc. of Glendale, tar SLR lenses marketed in CA, which is headed by 3-D guru Europe-see SW Vol. 17 No. 4 page Steve Hines. The big news is the 31 and Vol. 18 No. 1 page 30.) unique feature of Hines' revolu- The special cameras with the tionary photographic system: the HinesLab optics use large-size anaglyphic 3-D instant photo- industrial film which produces a 3 graphs produced look "normal," x 4 inch image. the camera has a The new 3-0 Photo Booths should and are compatible for 2-D view- capacity of 300 photos in the auto- be hard to miss in even the busiest ing without glasses. matic film loader. The photo frame mall or arcade. The horizontal for- A special filter arrangement and anaglyphic glasses are dis- mat easily allows two people in the (patent pending) behind the single pensed in an envelope a the same image and the 3-0 effect in the lens of the Polaroid camera is the time that the picture is delivered. ornate frame works amazingly well. key to the 3-D/2-D instant photo The frames are preprinted with . special 3-D graphics that are also compatible with 2-D viewing. These graphics could be cus- More IMAX 3-D Theaters-and tomized to reflect the location of the booth-a theme park, tourist maybe some Sea of Time Sequels location, shopping mall, etc. The photo booths are decorated MAX 3-D continues to spread while, the IMAX 3-D film Across the with bold, attention-getting graph- I around the world with new the- Sea of Time will soon be more ics and an electronic 3-D style aters planned or under discussion accessible to California residents. It sign. The graphics on the booth, in the U.S., Germany, Asia and will open in May of 1996 at the like the photo frames, can be cus- South America. The Imax Corpora- new Edwards IMAX complex in tomized to suit the location. Fun tion has reportedly entered into an Irvine. "voice instructions" tell the cus- agreement with Bofiscope GmBH According to an article in the tomer when to smile. A bill accep- to open 10 IMAX 3-D theaters in UCR California Museum of Photog- tor with multiple vend settings is Germany, with the first scheduled raphy newsletter, Sony is already standard equipment. (Each photo- for Leipzig in 1997. The theaters working with the museum (home graph costs about $5, depending would be part of multiplex venues of the fabled KeystoneIMast stereo on the location of the booth.) like the Sony Theaters Lincoln collection) on possible new films Among other new 3-D develop- Square complex in New York. that would feature the past and ments from HinesLab is the com- In the U.S., Imax has formed a present of other cities the way Sea pany's three-dimensional video joint venture with Caesars World of Time explores New York. These monitor that doesn't require any in Las Vegas where a 3-D IMAX could include San Francisco, special glasses for viewing. The Dome theater is planned at Cae- Tokyo, and London. autostereoscopic Tvlcomputer dis- sar's Palace casino for 1997. Mean-

@ Novernber/l>ecernher 1995 STEREO WOLD play can be seen from any viewing position. Science and engineering journals are already hailing this system as a major breakthrough in the use of 3-D for video arcade games, engineering and scientific visualization, television, video phones, etc. Look for a detailed report on this new system in an upcoming issue. HinesLab is a name familiar to Stereo World readers. The HinesLab StereoCam'",which is continually being updated, is still the preferred 35mm/70mm/video dual-camera assembly mount for 3-D filmmaking. Recently, it was used to shoot Disney's Honey, I Shnink the Audi- ence and the upcoming T2-3D film attraction for Universal Studios in Florida. For details contact HinesLab, Inc., 4525-R, San Fernando Rd., Glendale, CA 91204 or Photo Vend International, 535 Canyon Woods A 3-0 Photo Booth photo in its frame folder as seen through anaglyphic glasses. The cam- Circle, Suite 235, San Ramon, CA era's split anaglyphic filters are centered in the single lens, with the 3- D effect depending 94583. on near and far parts of the image falling outside the zone of sharp focus to acquire their anaglyphic color fringes. A photo booth, where close portraits are taken with a large format Polaroid camera is ideal for getting the maximum effect from a system dependent on shallow depth of field. A 3-D Lumber Treatment he current prize for the least beauty, it's nevertheless encourag- is advertising manager for Wol- Tlikely publication in which to ing to see such careful 3-D work manized and other wood treat- find an article illustrated with high used in a project of this sort. The ment firms owned by the Hickson quality stereo pairs is the Novem- article was inspired, in part, by Timber Protection Corporation. ber, 1995 issue of The Lumber Co- industrial stereos reproduced as For reprints of the article, contact operator, published by the North- part of the Berkshire Mills article Huck De Venzio, Hickson Corp., eastern Retail Lumber Association. in the JulyIAug. '94 issue of Stereo 1955 Lake Park Dr., Suite 250, But in this case, the ten black & World, according to author and Smyrna GA 30080. white stereographs for the article NSA member Huck De Venzio who "The World's First 3-D Tour of A Wood Treating Plant" were done by NSA membir Ron Labbe. They illustrate the basic steps involved in pressure treating lumber with chromated copper arsenate for use he ISU quarterly journal Stere- ing with the View-Magic mirror in playgrounds, landscaping, utili- Toscopy has generally used pho- viewer. ty poles, backyard decks, etc. An tos (whether flat or stereo) rather The quality, especially in the additional view is included in an sparingly and in reduced formats "Salon" section, is impressive for a adjoining ad for Wolmanized" due to space limitations. Reproduc- publication of this type. Three of pressure treated wood along with a tion wasn't always the best, espe- the winning stereos in the 1995 3-D version of the company's logo. cially in the small sizes printed on PSA Stereo Image of the Year com- The same logo appears on a fold- non-coated stock. That changed petition are well reproduced in ing Added Dimension viewer (spe- dramatically with the first issue another article. Membership in the cially designed for easy assembly (Series 2 - No. 24) by new editor International Stereoscopic Union is and on-the-page viewing) bound Michael Gordon. Not only are sev- U.S. $20 per year. Contact Horst into the magazine in the middle of eral articles illustrated with side- Hoyer, 165 Watchung Ave., Mont- the article. by-side pairs for easy free-viewing, clair, NJ 07043. or Judy Fentress, While the piece will gather no but three pairs occupy entire pages PO Box 19-119, Hamilton, New awards for high drama or scenic in an overlunder format for view- Zealand.

STEREO WORID Novemhcrl~ccemher1995 @ Glasses to Flip Over - - new design of flip-up, clip-on during intermission or for making sort of plastic and look identical to Apolarized 3-D glasses is now projection adjustments. Smudges clip-on sunglasses - which could available. Using standard polariza- and fingerprints from constantly make it advisable to mark the soft tion angles, the glasses will work taking glasses on and off and stuff- plastic case with a large "3-D" to for virtually any polarized slide or ing them in a pocket (or losing discourage family members from movie projection. The squeeze them) could be a thing of the past. accidentally grabbing them when spring-clip design is similar to that The glasses are made of the same packing for a beach trip. used in flip-up sunglasses, and The new flip-up 3-D clip-ons are allows fitting over eyeglasses with- his column depend:r on readers available for $12.95 (plus shipping) out scratching. Tinformation. (We dc ~n'tknow ev erything!) from Reel 3-D Enterprises, Box The lenses, which are large Please send information. or.- auesoons- to David 2368, Culver City, CA 90231. For enough to cover most available Starkman, NewViews L ox 2368, complete ordering information call Culver City, CA 9023 1. eyeglass lenses, can be flipped up (310) 837-2368. err - 1 Nineteenth Century Tourist Views of the -Letters ------Near East (Continued from page 3) - - -- animation only makes me fearful, Molrnted vintage stereo'vaphs are repro- (Continued from page 9) that if we don't respect fundamen- duced as-is for tlleir l~istoricalvallre as tal visual principles, more sophisti- both images and artifacts. For consistency, Lihrrahrre. 10 volumes, Harper Bros., cated technology will lead us into tl~ispolicy is extended to modem morrnted New York. Vol. 9, 1880, contains still more impressive errors. print pairs+specially those on molints woodcuts made from Strong's origi- Paul S. Boyer that include lo'yos, titles or other informa- nal photographs. Morristown, NJ tion or decoration. M'Clintock and Strong. 1970s. Articles Exceptions to tlris policy are commer- in harper!^ Magazine contain wood- In the case of the raccoon view, the cially p~rblisl~edtransparencies like View- cuts from photos taken on the expe- jud'pes were obviously impressed mainly Master reels or Tnr-Vrre filmstrips or frame dition and a map of Petra from an with the subject matter. However, Stereo pairs from movies, videos or cornprrter original survey. World policy on window masking and imagin

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he 1996 program committee is change-cueing, soundtrack, and PLEASE SURMIT YOUR PROPOSALS soliciting proposals for submis- synchronization. AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. YOU WILL RE Tsion of stereo programs for the Equipment and Projection CONTACTED WITH A REQUEST FOR Stereo Theater, one of the most FURTHER SPECIFIC INFORMATION BY popular events at the annual con- We will have available a large THE COMMIlTEE. vention. The committee will be variety of projection and sound Please complete at least side 1 of looking for original, well-paced equipment, including Brackett Dis- the Stereo Theater form on the slide and motion picture material solvers (at least 2)) 8 or 12 Ekta- insert in this issue. Send the com- in a variety of formats. Particularly graphic 111 carousel projectors, a 4- pleted form (or a request for addi- desirable will be programs utilizing channel cassette deck, and an Elec- tional forms) to: Richard M. multi-image effects which will troSonic dissolve unit. Projection Twichell, Program Chairman, employ our extra-wide screen and will be upon a 21 x 7 foot high- 1224 Genesse St., Rochester, NY highly flexible projection capabili- gain silver screen. We will expect 14611.99 ties to best advantage. Length will to fill the screen, top to bottom, by normally be limited to 20 minutes projecting 35mm slides of various to accommodate as many presen- formats through 180mm lenses ters as possible. The committee with a throw of 52 feet. Other for- may require advance screening of mats may be accommodated by any presentation to ensure pro- using the presenter's own equip- jectability, length, and suitability. ment or by working with our expe- Applicant presenters will be rienced projection staff under the asked for a detailed description of leadership of master stereo projec- their material as to technical data tionist William Duggan. Presenters including format, number of needing unusual equipment must slides, equipment required, type of provide for their own requirements.

STEREO WORD Novrmhrrlnrrrmhrr 1995 3-D ANAGLYPH T-SHIRTS made up of text that BOXED SETSIVIEWS Ma~lIPhoneAuct~on Fr~day, REALIST ST-64 stereo vlewer, brown body w~th relates to different aspects of stereo interests, March 8, 1996. Large number of boxed sets and ivory light button and focus knob, Exc.+, $125 limited edition. $15. each plus $3. shipping. Lin- ~ndividualviews. Send SASE for listing. Harry plus shipping. Mark Willke, 200 SW 89th Ave., coln Kamm, 2733 East Harbor Blvd., Ventura, CA Newman, 48 Summit Road, Murray Hill, NJ Portland, OR 97225. (503) 297-7653. 93001, or call: (805) 639-01 09. 07974, (908) 464-6079. SEND SASE for short list of stereo equipment for 3-REEL PACKET BUYOUT from Canadian store. BRANSON, MO. VIEW-MASTER 3 reel cards $6. sale. Bruce Hanson, Box 89437, Honolulu, HI Scarce Mint, Never opened EnglishtFrench lan- Non-USA shipping please add $5. Send SASE 96830-9437. 1 would like to buy the Exakta guage VM 3-reel packets produced by GAF for list of VM, Tru-Vue, 3-0 items and stereo stereo attachments and will pay any reasonable (Canada) Ltd., c. 1977. A041-C Metro Toronto cards for sale and trade. Van Beydler, Box 827, amount for the complete set or individual pieces. Zoo $25.; B383-C The Christmas Story, edition A St. Robert, MO 65583-0827. I would also like to buv: Kindar or Hv~onarlens- $8.; 6400-C Oisney's Bambi, edit. A $8.; 8525-C es, Wollensak and ~ealist2.8 and &stom Cam- Disney's Donald Duck, edit. A $8.; 8538-C Beep CENTERFOLD STARS now available in all their eras, stereo daguerreotypes, and the Toshiba Beep, The Road Runner, edit. A $8.; H5-C Hors- natural beauty in Realist format 3-D slide sets. Stereo Camcorder. Fax: (808) 732-9761. es $12.; H9-C (new) Mickey Mouse Club $8.; This is adult rated material, publication quality, H11-C Amazing Spider-man $8.; Postage: 1-3 shot at the same time as photo sets for famous STEREO VIEW CARDS - Private collection U.S. & packets $1; 4-6 pkts $2, 7 or more $3. John men's magazines. We stock color photos and Foreign. Dolores Hendrickson, 2650 West 223rd Waldsmith, 302 Granger Rd., Medina, OH 3-D slides of over 60 different amateur and pro- St., Bucyrus, KS 66013, (913) 964-3360. 44256, (216) 239-1944. fessional models. Sample Centerfold 3-D set of 8 slides only $19.95,16 slides only $34.95, (add THE SEARY M-8 Realist format heat sealer and AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF VIEW-MASTER $4 for viewer). Free illustrated newsletter with mounter is back. Beautifully cast and machined VIEWERS is available from 3D Book Produc- order ($5 without order), we pay shipping. in the US to assure highest quality seals and tions, PO Box 19, 9530 AA Borger, The Nether- These sets are hot, you must be over 21 to order long life. Will take Pic-Mount heat seal mounts lands. Send personal check of $55.90 for beau- or request information. Foreign orders add $3 which are readily available. 110V, AC, satisfac- tiful book by Mary-Ann and Wolfganf Sell. Con- per set, U.S. funds only. International Press tion guaranteed. US prices: $225 plus $10 ship- tains six unique V-M Reels. Prompt air ship- Assoc., 100-E Highway 34 - Suite 115, Matawan, ping, 100 mounts only $10, 300 mounts $27 ment! NJ 07747. (add $11100 mounts shipping). Write for foreign prices or further info and picture. Send orders ANTIQUE PHOTOGRAPHY MAIL AUCTION. Hun- "CHICAGO AND ITS MAKERS - 1833-1929" to: International Press Assoc., 100-E Highway dreds of early vintage images. Daguerreotypes, (1,085 pages), Lavishly illustrated with stereo 34 - Suite 115, Matawan, NJ 07747. ambrotypes, tintypes, stereoviews, ephemera, halves of old Chicago by John Carbutt (24), and paper photographs of many formats. $3 for Copelin & Melander (43), P.B. Greene, etc. TOSHIBA 3-0 CAMCORDER (SK-3D7). Perfect next illustrated catalog, or next 4 catalogs for Includes over 600 biographical sketches of condition, takes great 3-D videos with sound $10. Subscription includes Prices Realized famous Chicagoans, $50 pp. William Brey, 1916 that play in normal VCRs. Includes 2 batteries mailed out after sale. Don Ulrich, PO Box 183, Cardinal Lake Or., Cherry Hill, NJ 08003. and charger, AC adapter, VHS-C cassette Weeping Water, NE 68463. adapter, Multi-function remote control, 3 pairs of CONTEMPORARY STEREO PHOTOGRAPHS with LCD glasses and driver box, 3 sets of close-up ARTHUR GIRLING'S "Stereo Drawing - A Theory archival prints, adhesives, mounts and sleeves. lenses, wireless microphone, portable light, of 3-D Vision and Its Application to Stereo Draw- Views include Asia, Oceania and the Middle East. owner's manual and instructions, shop manual ing". 100 pages hardbound 8Yz x 12. Stereo Send $2 for list. Photographic commissions (it's never needed repair). All accessory cables photographers are finding that the book applies accepted. Solid Illusion Photography, 675 Crevi- and connectors, it needs nothing and it's a com- equally to stereo photography and is a mine of er, St. Laurent, Quebec H4L 2V6 Canada. plete system ready to go. Best offer over $5000 information on methods of making 3-D pictures US. Peter Sinclair, 200 Silver Birch Ave., Toron- and viewing them. Written in non-technical lan- JOHN WALDSMITH'S "Stereo Views, An Illustrat- to M4E 3L5 Canada. (416) 690-0377. guage and profusely illustrated with B&W draw- ed History and Price Guide" available signed ings as well as 11 pages of superb anaglyphs, from the author, $22.95 softbound, add $2.95 this book is a must for the serious stereoscopist. postage and handling. Please note: the hardbound edition is sold out. Mastercard, VISA and Now available from NSA Book Service, 4201 1904 ST. LOUIS WORLD'S FAIR, stereo vlews. Discover accepted. John Waldsmith, 302 Nagle Rd., Bryan, TX 77801. Price (including Wes Gr~ff~th,4 Schoolhouse Ct., O'Fallon, MO Granger Rd., Medina, OH 44256. postage) $19.00 USA, Canada. Overseas add -. 63366, (314) 272-1791. -- -- - $2.00 surface, $4.00 air. "NEXT REEL, PLEASE" : The Book of View-Master ALL STEREO VIEWS of Upton, and West Uptonm Views. In two sections; the first has 1,000 reels Massachusetts. Interiors highly desirable. Upton indexed, with their views, by reel and variety photographers included Z.B. Grandy and S.T. number, it identifies which reels and varieties Davenport and Son. Joe Lurie, PO Box 1158, part of thei,r membersh~p, NSA members have the same or different views. The second Upton, MA 01568, (508) 529-3719 tel. +fax. At rre offered frt ee use of clossified advertis- has the views indexed, with their reel numbers, ing. Members rr lay use 100 words per year, by subject. It helps find the views about a sub- ARIZONA TERRITORY. All pre-1920 stereo views, I-,, I-,, :-*- *l.-- -A- ..,:*I. dividru ,r,tu trrrt-r- UUJ wrtr, u- maximum of ject no matter on what reel it is located. Prices post cards, images, documents of Arizona stage 35 words per ad. Additional words and addi- include postage and handling: U.S. $42.50, stations, stage coaches, Cochise County towns tional ads may be inserted at the rate of 20~ Canada $45. U.S. From other countries please including Cochise Dragoon, Tombstone, Will- per word. Please include payments with ads. write first. Texas orders must include Texas coxy, Pearce, Bisbee. Send price and copy to: We cannot provide billings. Deadline is the sales tax. Order from Bob's Double Vision, 4917 Brad Smith, Box 1093, Cochise, AZ 85606. first day of the month preceding publication Cockrell Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76133-1701. - -- date. Send ads to the National Stereoscopic BICYCLING-CYCLING. All stereo views, photos, Association, PO. Box 14801, Columbus, OH PROJECTOR - TDC VIVID 116 with 5" lens. Has ephemera and memorabilia. Anything! (Also 432 14, or call (2 16) 239- 1944. A rate sheet separate switch for fan. Very good condition. Phrenology & W.C. Fields & Toronto). Loren for display ads is available u~>on request. $380. R. Carter, 30 Cape Cod Ave., Reading, MA Shields, 131 Beecroft Rd. 4'2408, Willowdale, 01 867, (61 7) 944-9640. (Please send SAS E. ) Ont. M2N 6G9, Canada, (416) 733-3777. Fax (416) 733-9595. BUFFALOIBISON stereo vlews wanted, espec~ally MACRO REALIST OUTFIT. Complete V~ew-Master VALLEY FORGE, PA, Woodlands Cemetery. Plilla., ones by N.A. Forsyth. R.M. Rowell, 4510 Gregg test reels: S-2, S-3, S-7, S-9, T-12, T-22, T-36. Stereo views for research. Ray Holstein, 112 Road, Madison, WI 53705. Call with condition & price. Rick, (708) 557- Shawnee Rd., Ardmore, PA 19003, (610) 649- 2496. 4214. COLLECT, TRADE, BUY & SELL: 19th Century images (cased, stereo, Cdv, cabinet & large MICHIGAN, especially B.F. Childs and Schuyler WEST VIRGINIA STEREO VlEWS by Anderson, paper) Bill Lee, 8658 Galdiator Way, Sandy, UT Baldwin, also H.H. Bennett raftin views. We will Bishop Bros., W. Chase, Kirk, and other West 84094. Specialties: Western, Locomotives, Pho- buy or trade. Ken & Bonnie Williams, Box 458, Virginia photographers. Also better WV post tographers, Indians, Mining, J. Carbutt, Expedi- Mattawan. MI 49071. (616) cards, cabinet cards, CDVs and other photos. tions, Ships, Utah and occupational Tom Prall, PO Box 155, Weston, WV 26452, MUYBRIDGE VlEWS - Top prices paid. Also COLORADO MINING TOWNS AND RAILROADS - Michigan and Mining - the 3Ms. Many views WEST VIRGINIA VlEWS WANTED! I will pay $15 all photographers - stereos, cabinets, CDVs, available for trade. Leonard Walle, 47530 Edin- - $50 for stereo views of Parkersburg, WV or large photos, glass negatives, albums, books borouah Lane. Novi, MI 48374. Marietta, OH. Send a Xerox copy to jeff Little, with real photographs. David S. Digerness, 4953 1212 Washington Ave., Parkersburg, WV 26101. Perry St., Denver, CO 80212-2630, (303) 455- OLD U.S. MINT, U.S. Treasury stereo views! High- 3946. Specialties: Locomotives, mining, towns, est prices paid for stereo views I need of U.S. WILD WEST WANTED! Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, stages, freight wagons. Mint, coining operations, paper money engrav- Indians, Cowboys, outlaws, lawmen. Wild West -- ing & printing operations, U.S. Mint interiors, Show performers. Western town views. Stereos, DARIUS KINSEY - flat mount stereo views and exteriors from Philadelphia, San Francisco, New cabinets, CDVs, large photos. Please send xerox large format only. Also material by Clarke and Orleans, Denver, Carson City, NV, Oahlonega, copy and price, serious buyer. Art Sowin, 8436 Clarence Kinsey. Alan Young, 404 Westlea Dr., GA, Charlotte, NC, mints, plus U.S. Treasury & Samra Dr., West Hills, CA 91304, (818) 346- Westfield IN 46074. Bureau of Engraving & Printing operations, 21 71. Washington, OC. Please mail or FAX photocopy, FLORIDA STEREOS and photos, especially Palat- with price and condition noted. I'll reply within YOU COULD HAVE told the world of your stereo ka, St. Augustine and Dayton areas. New collec- 48 hours. Attn Dave Sundman, c/o Littleton Coin needs in this ad space! Your membership enti- tor. Send approvals/)(eroxes to: Meri MacGib- Co., 253 Union St., Littleton, NH FAX 603-444- tles you to 100 words per year, divided into three bon, 211 Varden Rd., Florahome, FL 32140. 2101, (est. 1945). ads with a maximum of 35 words per ad. Addi- tional words and additional ads may be inserted FLORIDA STEREOS of historical value, especially PARK CITY, UTAH WANTED. Enthusiastic collec- at the rate of 204 per word. Send ads to the Tallahassee, Tampa and Gainsville: Price and tor wants stereo views, photos, post cards, trade National Stereoscopic Association, P.O. Box describe or send on approval; highest prices tokens, stock certificates from Park City, thanks! 14801, Columbus, OH 43214. A rate sheet for paid for pre-1890 views. No St. Augustine. Hen- Linda Roberts, 1088 East Rubio St., Altadena, display ads is available upon request. (Please drickson, PO Box 21153, Kennedy Space Center, CA 91 001. send SASE for rate sheet.) 00 FL 32815. SEEKING STEREO VlEWS of any subject by Math- GERMANY STEREO VIEWS, single views or ew Brady, especially interested in views labelled boxed sets (towns, villages, scenery, markets, a at hew Brady, ~ewYork" or "M. Brady, New people). Also interested in correspondence and York". Those collectors with information or exchange with "Germany-collectors". Please obiects please contact: Jeana Folev. Department I r I1 send xerox, list or descriptions. Klaus Kemper, of Prints & Photographs, ~atibnal' Portrait Kommerscheidterstr. 146, 0-52385, Nideggen, Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, F Street at 8th, Germany. NW. MRC 213, Washinaton D.C. 20560. ernail: 1 I HASSLE-FREE 3-D I 1 NPGEMOIIQSIVM.SI.EDU I BUY ARIZONA PHOTOGRAPHS! Stereoviews, - cabinet cards, mounted photographs, RP post WITH THE TECO-NIMSLO SINGLE VIEWS, or complete sets of "Longfellow's CAMERA AND 3-VIEWER cards, albums and photographs taken before Wayside Inn" done by D. C. Osborn, Art~st,Ass- 1920. Also interested in Xeroxes of Arizona abet, Mass., Lawrence M. Rochette, 169 Wood- Use the lightweight auto-exposure stereographs and photos for research. Will pay land Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752. postage and copy costs. Jeremy Rowe. 2120 S. camera to make: Las Palmas Cir.. Mesa. AZ 85202. STEREO DAGUERREOTYPES; all kinds, all 36 Slide pairs nations & subjects. Any condition. Ken Appollo, I COLLECT VlEWS OF SAN DIEGO, California in close-up's at 3 distances PO Box 241, Rhinecliff, NY 12574, (914) 876- Lenticular Prints Realist or View-Master format! Contact Dave 5232. Weiner, PO Box 12193, La Jolla, CA 92039. I I I I Use the Universal viewer to display: STEREO REALIST 1525 Accessory Lens Kit for ILOCA VIEWER AND ARROW VIEWER with tray - Macro Stereo Camera; Realist 2066 Gold Button Realist and View-Master rollfilm magazines.Best c/w DCIAC. Brent Barcley c/o Viewer; Realist 6-drawer stereo slide cabinet in Nimslo/Nishika rolls Muscle Stress Center, 43 West Main St. - Rt. 44, Exc.+ or better condition (must contain Realist Mounted slide pairs Avon. CT 06001. logo); Baia &drawer stereo slide cabinet with I ,,,,,,. I I plastic drawers marked "Versafile". Mark Willke, rn'bC3. I'M LOOKING FOR the following 1950s Realist New camera ...... $145 Permamount slides from "The Realist Library of 200 SW 89th Ave., Portland, OR 97225. (503) *Your Nimslo modified (UK) ... $63 Scenic Stereo Originals": 206, 402, 410, 411, 297-7653. I I I 1 Close-up attachments 412, 413, 504, 805, 900, 901, 902, 907, 910, SUGAR! I am a sugarcane farmer and sugar pro- 6", 12", 30" dist's (ea) $29 918, 919, 921, 922, 929, 3000, 3100, 3105, ducer, and collect stereoscope cards with any- ..... 3111, 3112, 3113, 4000, 4001, 4002, 4100; thing related to sugar, sugarcane, sugar mills, Opti-Lite flash ...... $29 4101, 4901, 4903. Mark Willke, 200 SW 89th etc. Please write Wayne A. Boynton, PO Box Eveready case ...... $1 2 Ave., Portland, OR 97225. (503) 297-7653. 1428, Loxahatchee, FL 33470-1428. P.S.: In Teco 3-Viewer ...... $87 spite of what you may have read or heard, sugar JOHN H. FOUCH. Top prices paid for any photo by Add $3 shipping per order. Fouch. Trade if desired. Xerox copies needed for farmers do not receive government subsidies. Calif. residents add 73/4% sales tax. research. Jim Brust, 1907 Rapallo Place, San TRU-VUE Advertising materials, films and view- Pedro, CA 90732. ers. Also looking for a Pan-Pet Stereo Viewer. MFD. BY: L. HENSEL - Hawley, PA and Port Jervis, NY; H.S. Contact: Tom Martin, 2510 Douglas Dr. N., Gold- TECHNICAL ENTERPRISES Fifield - New Hampton, NH. Send xerox & price en Valley, MN 55422-3632, (612) 591-9453. 1401 Bonnie Doone to D. Wood, Box 838, Milford, PA 18337. Corona Del Mar, CA 92625 I Tel. 71 4-644-9500

STEREO WORLD Novernher/l>eremher 1995 @ February 24 (CA) March 23 (CA) March 31 (MA) San Diego Camera Show & Sale, Al Bahr Culver City Camera Show & Sale, Veterans Boston Antique Photographic Image Show! Shrine Temple, 5440 Kearny Mesa Rd., San Memorial Building, 4117 Overland Ave., Culver Westford Regency, Westford, MA. Contact Diego, CA. Contact Anton at Bargain Camera City, CA. Contact Derek Borthwick Show Russell Norton, Box 1070, New Haven, CT Shows, Box 5352, Santa Monica, CA 90409, Prods., Box 1018, West Covina, CA 91793, 06504, (203) 562-7800. (310) 578-7446. (81 8) 91 3-4046. April 27 (Tx) February 24 (FL) March 23 (CA) NSA SOUTH CENTRAL REGION SPRING MEETING, Pensacola Camera Show & Sale, Pensacola San Dieoo Camera Show & Sale (see Feb. 24). Lockheed Recreation Association. 3400 Brvant Civic Center. Contact Al Audleman, (904) 433- lrvin Rd., Fort Worth, TX. April 27, 9am to* March 24 (VA) 4pm. Show & Tell, all formats. Easy access 3540. DC Antique Photographic Image Show! Ross- from any of the freeways in Fort Worth, Con- lyn Westpark Hotel, 1900 N. Ft. Meyer Dr., February 24 (IL) tact Bob Shotsberger, 4917 Cockrell Ave., Fort Chicago Super Camera Shows & Sale, Holiday Arlington, VA. Contact Russell Norton, Box Worth, TX 76133, (817) 921-1439. @@ Inn-Skokie, 5300 W. Touhy Ave., Skokie, IL. 1070, New Haven, CT 06504, (203) 562-7800. Contact Photorama USA, 2021 9 Mack Ave., March 24 (NY) Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 43236, (313) 884- New York City Camera Show, The Park Inn, 2242. 440 W. 57th St., Manhattan, NY. Call (201) Upcoming National February 25 (CAI 478-1 980. Burbank Camera Show & Sale, Aeronautical March 31 (CA) NSA Conventions District Lodge, 2600 W. Victory Blvd., Bur- Burbank Camera Show & Sale (see Feb. 25). bank, CA. Contact Anton at Bargain Camera Shows, Box 5352, Santa Monica, CA 90409, March 31 (co) (31 0) 578-7446. Denver, Colorado Camerarama Photo Fair, Hol- Ro August 1-5 iday Inn Airport. Contact Richard Feirman, March 2 (Ms) F&S Cameras, Box 17307, Colorado Springs, Ocean Springs Photographic Equipment Swap 1997 CD 80935, (719) 481 -4626. -- -- Meet, Latimer Community Center, Ocean Springs, MS. Contact David Stires, 11708 Jor- Bellevue, WA July 4-6

dan Rd., Ocean Springs, MS 39565, (601) - -- -- 392-6974 after 5pm or wknds. March 3 (CA) Santa Monica Camera Show & Sale, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Contact Anton at Bargain Camera Shows, Box 5352, Santa Monica, CA 90409, (310) 578-7446. March 9-10 (CAI San Francisco Bay Area Camera Show, Scot- tish Rite Center, 1547 Lakeside Dr., Oakland, CA. Contact Carney & Co., 231 Market Place 8379, San Ramon, CA 94583, (510) 828- 3-D Catalog 1797. March 9-10 (Tx) North Texas Photo & Equipment Fair, Tarrant 0 Supplies for Stereographers County Convention Center, 111 Houston St., Ft. Worth, TX. Call (214) 221-1993. 0 3-D slide viewers March 10 (CA) Pasadena Camera Show & Sale, Pasadena 0 Print stereoscopes Elks Lodge, 400 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA. Contact Anton at Bargain Camera Shows, O 3-D slide mounts Box 5352, Santa Monica, CA 90409, (310) O 3-D slide mounting supplies 578-7446. March 10 (n) 0 Books about 3-D & in 3-D Camera Exchange Show & Sale, Holiday Inn, Deland, FL. Contact Florida Camera Shows, (904) 738-0549. Visit our World Wide Web Catalog at March 10 (NJ) http://www.tisco.com/3d-web/reel/reel3d.html Second Sunday Camera Show, Firemans Hall, I Parish Dr., Wayne, NJ. Contact Second Sun- day Camera Shows, 25 Leary Ave., Blooming- Reel 3-D Enterprises, Inc. dale, NJ 07403, (201) 838-4301. P.O. Box 2368 March 17 (GA) Culver City, CA 9023 1 USA Atlanta Camera Show & Fair, Holiday Inn Northwest, 1-75 & Delk Rd., Atlanta, GA. Con- Telephone: + l (3 10) 837-2368 tact Atlanta Camera Shows, Box 360033, Fax: +I (3 lo) 558-1653 Decatur, GA 30036, (770) 987-2773. I e-mail: [email protected]

(b Novernber/Decernber 1995 STEREO WORLD ' The Next Best Thing D.C. Antique - Photo Show to Being There! 24 March,1996 The three-reel View-Master packet for the Atlanta International 3-D 90 tables of stereoviews, etc. Festival was designed and produced by 3-D Book Productions in Rosslyn Westpark Hotel Ballroom the Netherlands and includes Arlington, VA 1900 N. Ft. Myer Dr. detailed text describing the scenes. Reel A: Contemporary views by Atlanta Stereographic Association members Bill Walton, Larry Moor, Cynthia Morton and Clark Brown. Boston Antique Reel B: The Battle of Atlanta com- Photo Show memorated through rare stereoviews. 31 March,1996 50 tables of stereoviews, etc. Reel C: The Atlanta Cotton States Westford Regency Hotel Ballroom Exposition of 1895, using some of 1-495 exit 32 to route 110 W. the historic views seen in the Stereo Westford, MA Theater show, and the Invited Exhibit of the same name by Mike Public Admission 1OAM $5 Griffith. Preview Admission 8:30AM $20 Managed by Russell Norton While they last, the packets are available for $10 (postage included) PO Box 1070, horn the NSA. W Box 398. Sycamore. OH 44882. New Haven, CT 06504 ( (203) 562-7800 i

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A PSA recognized exhibition for makers of full size stereo print views Open to all-newcomers to stereography and/or international exhibitions especially invited. CIVIL WAR 3D Closing date - July 25, 1996 Nine classic views of the Civil War in their original First public exhibit-NSA convention, 3D format. Viewer included. Aug. 3-4, Rochester, NY Sherman at Atlanta For rules and Grant's Council of War entry forms, Gettysburg Views s I I:RI OSC.OI~IC send SASE to: Confederate Dead 50CIt I \. 01 AM1 KICA Bill Walton For sample send $7.95 to: 3739 Meadowlark Dr. Civil War in Depth Columbus, GA 31906 307 Peachtree Club Peachtree City. GA 30269

STEREO WORLD Novemberl~ecemher1995 (b Good News from Europe for devotees of Stereo Photography.

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VIEW-MASTERIllustrated Books and 3-Reel Albums 3-0 Book Productions From 3-0 Book Productions in Holland P.O. Box 19, 9530 AA Borger. The Netherlands QM NEW: We've been here throughout the ages ... NEW: 18th World Jamboree 1995 56 Extra-Terrestrials on 8 Unique VIEW-MASTERReels! August 1-10, 1995 Holland In exciting box with European viewer + 120-page book that This 3-D Album contains three VIEW-MASTERReels with tells the story of Ans Hoornweg who frequently meets Aliens! 21 unique three-dimensional pictures of this gathering of Text in Dutch. Full-color brochure included. almost 28,000 scouts from more than 150 countries. A must for VIEW-MASTER~UFOcollectors!!! Available December, 1995. Order now! USA: $ 69.00 PP Sea Mail + $ 10.00 Air Mail Others: Dfl. 99,50 PP Sea Mail + Dfl. 10.00 Air Mail We offer more exclusive 3-Reel Albums: Windows on the Sea: Amazing Underwater World NEW: A Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy The Bassett and Gruber Legacy by Robert A. Chase, M.D. The Amazing Insect World: Honeybee and Wasp This new book displays 83 beautiful stereo pictures from each Around 1900 body region photographed in the years 1950-1960 by William Life in China in 1978 B. Gruber, inventor of the VIEW-MASTERsystem, and taken from the original Atlas by David L. Bassett. Price of each of these five VIEW-MASTER3-Reel Albums is: Hardcover, 192 pages, 173 ill. and 12 VIEW-MASTERReels! USA: $ 17.95 PP Air Mail (+ $ 3.00 if you order only one album) Others: Dfl. 30.95 PP Air (+ Dfl 5,00 if you order only one album) USA: $ 95.00 PP Sea Mail + $ 9.00 Air Mail Others: Dfl. 159,OO PP Air Mail How to order? NEW: VIEW-MASTERViewers-An Illustrated History Send your order to the address above, and include payment: by Mary Ann and Wolfgang Sell 1939-1994 - Personal check in US dollars drawn on an American bank Eurocheck (up to Dfl. 300,OO and card number on back) A historical overview of VIEW-MASTERequipment. - Hardcover, 36 pages, 20 ill. and 6 VIEW-MASTERReels! - Cash or international postal money order - When sending a bank check, add $ 9.00 or Dfl. 15,OO USA: $ 49.90 PP Sea Mail + $ 6.00 Air Mail Others: Dfl. 89.00 PP Air Mail Don't be afraid to order from us: we ship at our risk!

STEREO WORLD NovemberlDccember 1995 (b ANNOUNCING FROM THE CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION THERAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALFREDA. HART,ARTIST

By Mead B. Kibbey

The California State Library Foundation is pleased to announce our publication of an important new photographic history book written by historian and National Stereoscopic Association member Mead B. Kibbey. Photo-historian and NSA President Peter Palmquist edited and introduced the book Between 1864 and the driving of the Golden Spike in 1869, Alfred A. Hart took 364 stereos of the extraordinary accomplishment of the CPRR in building the railroad over the Sierra and across the desert from Sacramento to Promontory. There are 556 illustrations including every one of Hart's 364 CPRR views and the text covers details of building tunnels, snowsheds and bridges with information on laying 10 miles of track in 12 hours and 19th century stereo production. This hard-cover publication is 12 x 9 inches and 240 pages. ORDER FROM: California State Library Foundation Price $55.00 less 10% with this ad. plus $4.00 1225 8th Street, Suite 345 shipping. California residents add $4.26 sales Sacramento CA 95814 (Phone 916-447-6331) tax

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Slide Mounts

Available in half-frame (16~21mm),Realist

Joel Alpers Rocky Mountain Memories Cardboard tape-shut mounts in a wide 2200 Creststone Ct. TERMS range of sizes - write or email for free sample Fort Collins,C-, USA 80525 packs! Please specify Realist, Euro, or (970)223-2097 Please include the following shipping charges: Medium format samples. US orders - 10% of order, up to a max. of $4.00 email: [email protected] CanadalMexico - 15% of order, up to $6.00 GePe glass 2x2 mounts - 18x24,20/$4.00, International - please write or email for a quote. 18x24~2,201$4.00, 24x24AN, 201$4.00, our electronic catalog on the All payments in U.S. funds. 24x28, 201$4.00, 24x28AN, 201$5.00, World Wide Web! Visa IMastercard accepted1 24x36AN, 501$10.00, 4Ox40AN, 20/$4.00 http:llwww.frii.coml-rkymtmem

@ Novcmber/December 1995 STEREO WRLD ABSENTEE MAILIPHONE BID SALE

CLOSING 6:00pm, EST, SATURDAY, MARCH 16th, 1996.

Including Cameras, Stereoscopes, Magic Lanterns, Lantern Slides, Optical Toys, Daguerreotypes & other images.

The 200 lot sale of antique and collectable photographica includes a rare early Sliding Box Wet Plate Camera, a Zeiss "Ergo", a Stirn "Concealed Vest Camera", as well as a "Magic Photoret" and a "Ticka" Watch Camera, both in original boxes. There is a good selection of subminiatures, collectable and useable stereo cameras, as well as a group of Kodaks including a scarce rose pink Beau Brownie. Stereo viewers are well represented, including a rare "Loyd's American Stereoscope" as well as a Smith, Beck & Beck Cabinet model, two Alex Beckers table top viewers, a "Taxiphote", a selection of Brewster viewers in various styles and a ca. 1950's coin-op viewer. The magic lantern section features a rare mahogany and brass Bi-Unial and other magic lanterns, together with a wide variety of mechanical and other lantern slides. Optical items include an unusual Kaleidoscope, an Ernst Plank Praxinoscope, a rare French "Cinematographe Enfantin" Zoetrope, a "Filoscope" and other persistence of vision items. A good selection of Daguerreotypes including images by Vance, Cooley, Teny, DeShong, Helsby, Bogardus and a beautifully tinted Stereo Daguerreotype by Claudet. Subjects include fine portraits, a % plate of three musicians and a post mortem. A selection of Ambrotypes and an Autochrome complete the image section.

Illustrated catalog $12.00(US & Canada) $15.00 (Overseas), includes list of prices realized.

BRYAN & PAGE GINNS " STEREOGRAPHICA" 2109 - ROUTE 21 VALATIE, NY 12184 Tel: 5183925805 U.S .A. Fax: 5 18 392 7925

STEREO WORLD Novemher/Decemher 1995 @ THE ADDED DIMENSION, INC

HAND- HELD- TEMF LORGE4ETTE

Now there are 3-0 cardboard viewers that can be painted, decorated, assembled and mailed to show reproduction of your stereo views. There are two versions. Both versions view the European format of 6 x 13 cm and the American 2.5" x 5". For inexpensive reproductions simply make 71 % whole card reductions of 3.5" x 7" Holmes-Bates cards.

EH 71-A QUANTITY PRICE Cut from 14-point Bristol board, this viewer is shipped as an unprinted flat in order to receive your appliques, printing, stampings, or other custom art work. 1 to 10 $2.50 Each It's then easily assembled with double face tape, staples or your favorite glue. 11 to 50 $2.00 Each The EH 71 -A features a self-erecting lateral septum piece (like that in a standard Over 50 Call for Quote stereoscope). Fold-up sides lock the erect viewer into a rigid trapezoidal cross section. Its stage can be cut away for use as a 6 x 13 transparency viewer or a page-poised "book viewer.

EH 71-B This viewer differs from the "EH 71-A" version in being pre-printed, assembled, 1 to 10 $3.00 Each without sides, and having a fold-up longitudinal (separator style) septum that 11 to 50 $2.25 Each locks the viewer erect. Over 50 Call for Quote

HAND-HELD LORGNETTE The Added Dimension lorgnette (the one with the popular flip-up brow rest fea- 1 to 10 $3.95 ture) now has even better optical quality. Its 10" focal length and prism power 11 to 50 $3.00 can accommodate stereo pairs up to 4 inches wide (8"total, any height). Over 50 Call for Quote

TEMPLES These flexible, snap-on temples have a 4-position adjustment for comfort. They 1 to 10 $.50 convert our lorgnette into a pair of 3-D viewing glasses, which frees your hands 11 to 50 $.35 to hold a book or magazine and turn the pages. With its temples and flip-up brow Over 50 Call for Quote rest, our lorgnette can be worn with or without your normal reading glasses.

Minimum Order $5.00. Add $3.00 for Shipping and Handling. Orders $5.00 and above, add $2.00 for Shipping and Handling. Check or Money Order only. No Credit Cards

THE ADDED DIMENSION, INC. PO Box 15325 Clearwater, Florida 34629 (813)781-6220 AUCTIONS

(since 1981) John Saddy 50 Foxborough Grove London, Ontario N6K 4A8 CANADA Main Phone Line (519) 641-4431 Personal Fax Line (519) 641-2899

CONSl[GNMItTNTSWELCOME 117ROM ANYWIH[I[TIRIE ON EAIWTII-I[

TERMS FOR CONSIGNMENT

EACH LOT IS CHARGED ITS INDIVIDUAL COMMISSION DEPENDING ON ITS REALIZED PRICE.

If lot realizes up to $40 ...... 30% If lot realizes $41 .OO to $200.00 ...... 25% "I SPECIALIZE IN If lot realizes $201 .OO to $500.00 ...... 20% CONSIGNMENTS" If lot realizes $501 .OO or more ...... 15%

I (Etc.1 These auctions include STEREO CARDS Ranging in price from bulk fine View-Master, strong in both lots at 25 cents per card, to single-card lots at hundreds U.S.A. and Belgium-made reels, packets, etc. 1'11 of dollars per card. 1 also handle viewers, Richard handle any 3-D format including Tru-Vue films and glass views, full-size glass views, tissues, cased cards, Meopta reels & Realist format slides. I also images, boxed sets, and more (from 1850s to 193 0s). handle cameras and other equipment.

Sir David Brewster and his invention

Mark Twain

Packet #A 57 1 Packet #B 486

Contact me to get on my mailing list (No Charge). Please specify if your interest is Stereo Cards, View- Master, or both.

STEREO WRLD Novernher/Deccrnher 1995 THE MAGAZINE OF 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING, PAST & PRESENT

A Publication of NATIONAL STEREOSCOP1C ...... ASSOCIATION, INC. e teddy bear sequence from Transitions, the first /MAX 3-0 film. Director 7"of photography and stereogmpher was Ernie McNabb, the subject of Don Manen3 article "The 3-0Film Career of Ernie McNabbUon page 10 of this issue. orrvt~taro~~u~~~.