A taste of the late '40s through the early '60s found in amateur stereo slides I hvMarkWillLc 1 relatives who are no longer living, Kodak cardboard mounts stamped Death Remembered are especially precious to me. IdFER 62'1,are otherwise unlabeled, ne of the things that I enjoy With that being said, however, giving us no information about I've personally never had the who the girl is or what may have so much about stereo is its 0ability to transport me to desire to revisit the type of scenes happened to her. Some of the other places and times, allowing preserved in the stereo images ribbons near her read "Beloved me to see and revisit locations and below! I prefer to remember people Niece", "Cousin" and "Daughter". events from the past. Almost as if I who have passed away by viewing The inside lining of the casket is stereo slides of them when they really quite amazing, and is had a time travel machine, I feel like I am once again there in were still living, but some people captured beautifully in stereo. person, viewing things first hand. obviously feel differently. Our second view, submitted by Stereo images of children long Our first slide this issue is one of Ron Labbe of Massachusetts, was since grown older, or of friends or three different shots taken of the apparently made by a studio in same young girl. The slides, in Michigan. I suspect this might have been a service offered by the funeral home. The glass-mounted slide's printed label lists the name of the deceased woman, along with "Born June 14, 1877': "Died May 18, 1954" and the name of the studio. The image seems a bit posed, with the artist's hand positioned just right so it does not to block the deceased woman's face. But why would an artist be working on a painting with her back to a deceased person in a casket? These are memories I'd rather not revisit! r'rrr

is column combines a love of stereo rphotography with a fondness for 1950s-era styling, design and decor by sharing amateur

stereo slides shot in the "aolden2 aae" of the Stereo Realist-the late 1940s through the early 1960s. From clothing and hairstyles to home decor to modes of transportation, these frozen moments of time show what things were really like in the middl~of the twentieth century If you've found o classic '50s-era slide that you would like to share through this column, please send it to: Fifties Flavored Finds, 5610 SE 71st, Portland, OR 97206. As space allows, we will select a couple of images to reproduce in each issue. This is not a contest-just a place to share and enjoy. Please limit your submission to a single slide. If the subject, date, location, photographer or other details are known, please send that along too, but we71 understand if it's not available. Please include return postage with your slide. Slides will be returned within 6 to 14 weeks, and while we71 treat your slide as carefully as our own, Stereo World and the NSA assume no responsibility for its safety. . . A P~,bl#~nl#onol lational Stereoscopic Association, Inc.

Volume 313, Numbe lulv1A1 gust 2007

NSA Board of Directo Larry Moor, Chorrmon Andy Griscom Dieter Lorenz William Moll Russell Norton Page 4 Page 24 Page 37 Richard Twichell Leonard A. Walle Bill IC. Walton NSA Officers Lawrence Kaufman, Presidt Rene Magritte's 1928 Masterpiece .H .. --.I PP Pra. .At, V~cePresrder; Dean Kamin, Vice President, Ac tivities of Stereoscopic Painting William Moll, Treasurer by Andrew Griscom 2 Editor's View Stereo World Staf f Comments and John Denn~s,Editor Observations Queensland's Far North in 3-D Lawrence Kaufman, Conlributin q Editor by lohn Dennis review by john Dennis Ray Zone, Contributing Edijlor Mark Willke, Art Drrector Sylvia Dennis, Subscripbon Monoger 3 Letters The Cuban Missile Crisis Don R. Cibbs, Bock Issues Mo,r1uyl.r Reader's Comments Toshi Denni,i, Member Serv~ces and Questions and Continuous Strip Stereo the second in a series by Robert B. Balcomb nuw iu neucn u 13 The Society NSA Membership News from the Ice was Nice Yew i & memberrhipr, .?newah nddii,rr Stereoscopic , by john Dennis !O. Box 86708, Portland, OR Society o Amer~ca by Roy Zone Questions Concerning ISU's Stereoscopy Stereo World Subscr~ptions PO Box 86708, Portland, OR 97286 Published in Full Color 31 NewViews e-mall strwldeteleport com by Alexander Klein -- A Current Information Stereo World IBack Issue Service on Stereo Today (WntP lor 01 uo,lohil#ty& pnrPr ) by David Storkmon Ultrasound Upgrade NSA, 23575 C.R. 77, Calhan, C( & lohn Dennis Produces 3-D Images Stereo Worlo culiurlal u (L?rfrrr to the editor or1iii.s (i ~oi~ndor 34 Classified 5610 SE 71st Avc I., Portland, OF Buy, Sell, or The 2007 Stereoscopic (503)I 771-4440 Trade It Here e-mall [email protected] Display Conference by Lawrence Kaufman Stereo Wor rid Advertisi (Clnrriilpd ii dirploy odil ilO SE 71st Avc ,., Portland, OF ,(5?3)I 771-q440. Seeing the Unseen e-mall: srrwlaweIepon.co8 ,r.. review by john Dennis (lnrpn liy~rrb nlrrrino odrj jeffrey Kraus PO Box 99, Modena, NY 12541 (845) 255-791 3 [email protected] con

Sterm Wodd(lSSN 0191-4030) is pub- Regions l~rhedb~monthlv by the National F,,.,, F,,.,, L,s8L,LL four re ~onalD~rector Sterrorcop~cAssoc~at~on, Inc., PO Box for informat~onaboutqocal events or 86708. Portland, OR 97286. Ent~re Front Cover: NSA actlvltles See current list at contents "2007, all rights reserved Keystone No. 10708, "Guide Cutting Steps, Upper Glacier, Crindelwald, Switzer- -httplistereov~rtw orgiaboutfisabtM Material In tli~rpublicat~on may not - be reproduced without written per- land. " Stereo dramatically captures the ice of glaciers, and modern 3-0coverage of mlsrion ol (he NSA. Inc Pr~ntedin USA. glaciers like this could provide the best possible visual record of these steadily Stereoscopic Society of America A subscrpt~onto Sler~oll'orid IS part (AIi~hnt~dwith 111e Nor!o!loi Jf~rcorropaArrocmfron) of NSA niernbrrrhip vanishing wonders around the world. Our feature "Ice Was Nice" by john Dennis .es Cehman, Membersh~pSec Annual membership dues: invites stereographers to get busy shooting them for future generations. 36 Rochdale Dr., Fort ~oll~nr,Ci $32 th~rdclasr US, $44 f~rrtclarr US, (970) 282-9899 $44 all lnternatlonal memberships Back Cover: e-mall les@ge_hmanorq Annual memberih~psinclude six Irruer 6. -- of S~PRO World, a plastlc lorgnette This image from Robert Balcomb's article "The Cuban Missile Crisis and vlewer, and a rnembersh~pdlrectorv Continuous Strip Stereo. " is from a late 1940s test of the KA- 18A Stereo Strip Stereo World on the Web Member, camera. Like other samples from the camera, it's unidentified and could be w.stereoview.org InternationalStereoscopic Union considered a fine candidate for our "Unknowns" feature. Comments and Observations EDITOR'SWEW john Dennis History Detectives Show Deepens Screen Mystery suppose I should have known final edit by Lion Television in were involved with the production from the PBS promos that ran New York (the show's co-producer and shooting sessions at the 3D Idays ahead of the June 25th sea- with Oregon Public Broadcasting), Center, but we remained "sworn to son opener of History Detectives, left out all references, visual or ver- secrecy" in the interest of promot- that we were in for a wild ride. As bal, to the NSA and Stereo World, ing some serious research into a a small image of the screen passes and may have been the reason a historic use of stereo imaging. His- across the frame, followed by file picture of the stereo strip projector tory Detectives researchers looked footage from the 1962 Cuban Mis- (SW Vol 9 No. 6, page 6) appeared carefully into a number of sources sile Crisis, a voice-over poses the during a description of the stereo and arranged interviews with the dramatic question, "Is this the strip camera and its installation in most knowledgeable of the avail- secret weapon used to save Ameri- an FlOl Voodoo jet. The actual able experts, including NSA mem- ca from World War Three?" (See camera does show up later in the ber Robert Balcomb. (See his well- SW Vol. 32 No. 5, page 8.) segment, but since it is no longer timed article "The Cuban Missile Weapon or not, the now famous on display at the Air Force Muse- Crisis and Continuous Strip screen did get the full investigative um in Dayton the images found in Stereo" in this issue.) The verdict treatment from the popular PBS the above issue of Stereo World they reached seems perfectly logi- show, and host Wes Cowan's flash by. cal, given the questions they asked knowledge of stereography consid- The show's concluding negative and the answers they got. erably enriched the footage shot in verdict on the possible use of the Unfortunately, the letter from Portland's 3D Center of Art and screen in JFK's Oval Office was of the late Bob O'Brien that accompa- Photography. But the fast-paced course known to all of us who nied the screen was written nearly 10 years after his 1983 SW article in which he first revealed its possi- ble historic use in a single short paragraph. In the letter he indi- cates that the screen was used far earlier in the crisis than the timing he specified in the article, written I'lease start my one-year subscri tion to closer to the actual events. Profes- Stereo World magazine and enrolI' me as a sional researchers studying an arti- member of the National Stereoscopic Association. fact that comes with a letter from ------the original owner will under- standably look first into claims U.S. membership mailed third class ($32). made in such a letter. That may U.S. membership mailed first class for faster delivery ($44). have led to a sort of "red herring" effect on the research, resulting in All international memberships ($44). time and effort being spent reveal- Send a sample copy (U.S. $6.00, all other $7.50). ing that the stereo strip camera (if not the screen) became involved Please make checks payable to the National Stereoscopic Association. only after the height of the crisis- Foreign members please remit in U.S. dollars with a Canadian Postal Money a point already made clear in the order, an International Money Order, or a foreign bank draft on a U.S. bank. original 1983 Stereo World article. As to the central question about the claimed White House use of Name the screen, we find it hard to imag- I ine that Bob O'Brien would have Address made up the whole story. (It was, I after all, only a tiny part of his City State Zip I article about the stereo strip cam- era, and he gave the screen away rather than attempting to profit on National Stereoscopic Association any claim to fame.) Here the mys- 1 PO Box 86708, Portland, OR 97286 I tery truly deepens. I The Only National Organization Devoted Exclusively To Stereo Photography, Stereoviews, and 3-D Imaging Techniques, (Continued on next page) Reader's Comments and Questions

May/June Cover(s) read a book, which requires close I just received the latest Stereo ongratulations on your first focus as well as converged eyes, World-The wrap around stereo transposed (crossview) color should be able to crossview. cover is a great idea. I'm so glad stereo cover. It works superbly! Stereo cards and slides are nor- that it's cross-eyed (considering all C mally available only in parallel the other stereo pairs in the maga- In the past, on several occasions, I had seriously considered can- form. Since they are being re-print- zine are usually wall-eyed. ;-) -Andrew wood.^, ed anyway,. . what better opportuni- celling my subscription due to the Centre for Marine Science difficulties in freeviewing the par- ty to offer them in an eaiily free- viewable form? You should really and Technology allel images. The necessity for Perth, A~rstralia using a viewer to view them was a consider printing all of the stereo nuisance, to put it mildly. Walleye images in crossview form, rather That's two votes for cross-viewed 3-0 freeviewing is very unnatural. than parallel. Looking forward to covers. We await more feedack, and another cover ima

In an interview with Wes real thing, on the show) to study ing when they later told Mr. Cowan, former photo interpreter the overtunder stereo strip films. O'Brien and the Dayton Stereo Dino Brugioni, a White House Big 3-D images projected on a Club about its use "in the Oval insider in 1962, was asked if it was screen would have been the icing Office." Whatever additional infor- possible the screen had been used on the cake to show off the stereo mation eventually becomes avail- by President Kennedy to view the strip system to someone in author- able will certainly appear in these missiles at the height of the crisis. ity somewhere, after the crisis had pages. mm His simple answer was, "No, not at passed. Assuming that personnel the height of the crisis." Might the from Wright Patterson Air Base question have been different had it really borrowed the screen, we may been based on the Stereo World arti- never know if they were exaggerat- cle rather than a later note from the same writer? Part of Mr. by AARON WARNER O'Brien's lead-in to his paragraph GONE MADDD 3-0bv Rav Zone in SW about the ~hite~ouseuse of the screen is perhaps crucial here, perhaps just an accident of wording. After mentioning that the worst of the crisis had relaxed by October 29, he wrote: "The need existed to continue photogra- phy of Cuba to assure the agreed disarmament was proceeding." That would have clearly placed any use of the screen long after the "height of the crisis" but of course proves nothing beyond that. Was the screen at some point used for a dramatic presentation of intelligence images anywhere in the White House? Anywhere in Wash- ington D.C.? Actual photo inter- preters would of course have used sophisticated viewers (not the one WHEN 30 ENTHUSIASTS OF EBAY WHEN 30 ENTHUSIASTS OF EBAY shown, for lack of access to the ACTUALLY MEET. ACTUALLY MEET. n January of 2005 I visited the Tate Modern (Museum) in Lon- Idon and was startled by an extra- ordinary painting, "Man with a Newspaper", done in 1927-1928 by Rene Magritte's Rene Magritte, one of the great European painters of the 20th Century. This work depicting four nearly identical rooms aroused my 1928 Masterpiece of routine habit of stereoscopically fusing any matched pair of images that I come across. Recause the painting is large (115.6 x 81.3 cm) and because my ability to look wall-eyed is limited, I had to use Stereoscopic cross-eyed stereo to fuse the top pair of rooms together. Ringo! It was a "eureka" moment for me when Magritte's rooms suddenly jumped into three dimensions Painting with the seated man as a disturb- ing ghostly image, both present by Andrew Griscom and not present in the room. This pair of images with a man, who is both present and absent, is like some of the many stereoscopic views taken with single-image cameras in the mid 19th century, surreal views with which Magritte Reigniting A Tantalizing Controversy was surely familiar. A similar 3-D id Rene Magritte intentionally create a work of stereoscopic art in "Man result for the room then appeared DWith A Newspaper" or is the effect seen by 3-D enthusiasts the result of when I also fused the lower pair of multiple accidents when the same room was painted four times? Not wanti- images. Upon further thought, I with some difficulty tipped my n b the stirrir !o controversy solely to internet discussion 9 I found th astic, fresh look at the famous painting by NSA head sideways 90 degrees (a right B iber Andr m an inviting opportunity for readers to view angle), causing other people and the painting either again or tor the first time. my wife to stare uneasily at me, As the author makes clear, the "art community" seems intent on den and verified that each vertical pair even the possibility that a stereoscopic work was intended. When Sterec of rooms also formed 3-D images when using cross-eyed stereo. World Contributing Editor Ray Zone asked the curator of the Magritte h .. - um in Belgium about Magritte's stereo painting (at a recent Magritte exhibit Although the stereo effects are in at Los Angeles County Museum), he was told flatly there was no such work. general excellent, the stereo posi- Likewise, two Magritte experts from France told him "they were unaware of tioning of the stools and table, as any stereo paintings by the artist." (As the painting in question reside. in a shown in the second figure, seems London museum, there may be some element of nationalism combin less accurate because they float with the intrinsic conservatism of the academic art world.) slightly above the stereo window. So, is there a vast surrealist-wing conspiracy operating here, or are However we should keep in mind people literally seeing things? We invite readers to fuse the images an d see both that Magritte clearly knew what they think--or think about what they see. Personally, I find the Istereo very well what he was doing here effect a little crude but intriguingly consistent in all four possible pair combi- and also that many of his non- nations. Most accidental stereo effects in repeated images suffer from ncol n- stereo works show objects and peo- doscopic elements or extreme exaggeration somewhere within the fused ple floating oddly in spaces. The image. But while not everything fuses into the perfect plane here, at least seated man is the center of our nothing flies off in a completely wrong direction. The floor and the window attention so why not float him a sill work es pecially well, althou gh the scc me outsidle the window is lefl t com- bit towards us out of the room and pletely flat. create further mystery? The read- Were thc ? different points of view inco rporated i nto the painting in1 er's skill at cross-eyed stereo can be . . to combine ultra realism with the artist's surrealistic vision? If so, were ., ,, tested using the paired images in panels ever intended to be fused as stereo pairs? Did Magritte slyly intend to the full painting. The four images create just such a debate about his painting? We may never know, but we are thus somewhat reminiscent of can certainly have fun viewing it and talking about it. the mid 19th century cameras with four lenses that produced four images simultaneously on one plate. Again I am sure that Magritte was aware of these cam- eras and their multiple images, especially because he was an enthusiastic photographer. Rene Magritte (1898-1967) was a member of the Belgian surrealist group but was not very interested in the distorted imaginary forms (representing the Freudian uncon- scious) used in France and else- where by other surrealists such as Dali, Ernst, Arp, Ray, Miro, and Tanguy. Magritte joined with the surrealists during his stay in Paris from 1927 to 1930, where he developed his personal surrealist style which instead used what can be called magical realism, accom- plished by placing common realis- tic scenes and ordinary objects or subjects together in confusing mysterious juxtapositions. Disap- pointed with the Paris surrealists, he returned to Belgium in 1930 and lived there the rest of his life. While in Paris he had an amazing burst of activity, painting several hundred canvases each year, including "Man with a Newspa- per". These paintings also included a number of important double por- traits and multiple image canvases that may have been influenced by stereoscopic views (Roegiers, pp. 35, 39, 41). However, so far as I have found out (examination of eight double portraits and three multiple images), none of these works illus- trated by Roegiers and others have sufficiently similar images or back- grounds such that fusing them ( ~~nt~ng,-Man wrtn a , spaper- (rnomme au loumav oy nene Magntte, produces a 3-D effect. Clearly 1 :collection of the Tatc dem, London. Magritte was not, at least in these ...... other examples, attempting to pro- shadows on the floor that are in upper two. I then wrote to the duce stereographic art. stereo but do not seem logically Museum explaining my stereo- A man in a black overcoat is pre- oriented or consistent with each scopic observations but received sent in many of Magritte's works other, presumably for the purpose no reply. However, the latest dis- and usually wears a black bowler of adding mystery to the work. play caption (as of January, 2007)) hat. This man is the artist, who It is surprising to me that the dated December, 2005, says, in himself regularly wore a dark fundamental stereoscopic nature of part, " There are slight changes in three-piece suit, often even while this painting appears to have been perspective between the four pan- painting. Perhaps his ordinary little noticed during the past 80 els, which add to the disquieting bourgeois uniform became for him years. Part of the reason for this effect, and may relate to the dis- juxtaposed with his surrealistic omission is that Magritte had a placement of images in early 3-D visions and thus he was living in firm policy of never really explain- viewing devices." This tentative his own magical realism like the ing his paintings to anyone. In final statement is not really mean- man in his paintings. In our pic- January of 2005, the Tate Modern ingful, but may have been trig- ture the seated man is indeed label for the painting only pointed gered by my letter. Published wearing a black overcoat. Note also out (correctly) that the perspective explanations of the painting taken that the artist, an expert in shad- of the lower two images was from from two important books on ing, deliberately painted some a higher point than that of the Magritte also shed little light. Gab- and Stereo World Vol. 19 No. 5, page 3. Even though this painted room is relatively simple, there are nev- ertheless a table, two stools, a room heater, plus the window wall which all had to be correctly posi- tioned very accurately in four sig- nificantly different preliminary drawings (do these still exist?) so that the final careful painting would display four 3-D stereoscop- ic pairs of the room. In addition, Magritte's use of cross-eyed stereo shows that he expected a knowl- edgeable viewer to free-view the stereo effects. At a time in the 1920s when little information was available on stereoscopic matters, Magritte conducted a thoughtful and impressive analysis in order to construct this remarkable painting. So far as I am aware, it is the earli- The tqrW ponds fm"Man with a Newspaper,* tmnsposed here for normal Mng. est stereoscopic painting by a While strno line drawings predate photogmphy it& thanks to Wheotstone, stem pint- major artist before the beginnings ing uskrg dl or watemhu and including fuI& mnded and detailed surfaces wsa more of the computer age. (Earlier, for ...... dauntkrg chulknge accepted by fcw artists. ., instance, than the stereo paintings of Dali, Fischiiger, Best or Lic- lik @. 56) writes that Magritte's use text published in 1899. These cited cione-see SW Vol. 3 No. 5 page of multiple images in this painting explanations on the museum 12 and Vol. 15 No. 1 page 42.) We "distinctly suggests labels and in two should credit and honor Rene the frames of a well-researched Magritte for this creative technical motion picture film" books lead me to achievement as well as for his art. and adds that it We should conclude that the "seems to foreshad- redi if and honor logical stereoscopic Sources ow Warhol's serial explanation demon- Gablik, Suzi, Magritte, Thames & imagery". Roegiers Rme Magritte strated hm not Hudson, 1970, reprinted 2003. @. 99) writes, for this creative "Oficed and "Magritte repaints -has been aptly Roegiers, Patrick, Magrifte and Pho- his scene three times technical m~ttenb~ the art tography, translated by Mark without varying a co~uni~for80 Polizzotti, Ludion and D.A.P., jot, like a photogra- achievement -. ,ha , 2005. am pher who, to ensure US we// US been as completely one good exposure, overlooked by the snaps the shutter for his art. medical and stereo- three times in a scopic communities. row." Roegiers also See The Journal of more usefully @. 155) locates the the American Medical Association, original drawing for the painting June 24, 1992, the British Stereo- as taken from a plate in a medical scopic Society Bulktin, June, 1976, ...... IFney3y*,* and tmnsposed, demonstmte that, for whatever reason, the artist mther precisely shifted wrious ele- ments of the painting which can result in a stereo effect when fused in either the vertical or horizontal ...... orientation. Queenslan d's Far North

review by John Dennis

-- -- As part of that effort,they have nous Australians representing, as ans Van Veluwen and Diana published C3D# ~0s-h of the text puts it, a "rich culture that Orvan run a business called Not13 Queensland, a collection of goes back in an unbroken chain HC3D in Far North Queensland, 46 stereo pain with text for possibly many thousands of Australia, specializing in stereo below each view explaining the years.... The interest shown in their I photography as well as digital subject's place in the history, -1- culture by visitors from all over images for books, cards and ogy or economy of the area. Australia and the world has posters. They also conduct tours The book is wirebound, with allowed us to rediscover the rich- and charters concentrating on the One view per page for fusion ness of the Artworks, Music, unique natural and historic attrac- with the ~ncludedL~reo fdd- Dances and Wisdom of our Aborig- tions in the area. "Our Mission is ing viewer. To take full mtage inal Peoples." to foster understanding and appre- the ca~dtyof the the The rusted remains of a boiler ciation of our natural environ- pairs are 6.5 inches wide wd, from a piece of mining machinery ments so they may be preserved centered on white with no in the Palmer river area illustrate for generaGn-- o ccmS." printed border. This size may make what's left of the 1870s gold rush freeviewing a challenge for some, that stripped bare the area's aborig- but the effect through the Lmea inal homelands. A shot of a C3D, Postcards of viewer is impressive. Far North Queensland dinosaur-size sugar cane harvester The images range from creatures illustrates the agricultural economy by Hans Van Veluwen and Diana Orvan, C3D 2007. Wirebound, 8 x 6, of the Great Barrier Reef to the that followed, eventually clearing 49 pages, 46 color stereos plus text. amazing trees and ferns of the three quarters of the area's rain for- Loreo Lite folding viewer included. tropical rain forests, the savanna est. The majority of the views in ivailable from C3D for $30 AUD plus $5 lands of Cape York, and the dries the book explore the remaining AUD shipping, wwwc3d.net.a~emaii of Port Douglas and Caims. The tropical rain forests, now protected Mossman 4873, Queensland, Australia. first two images of the book offer a by their World Heritage listing and - 1I close-up welcome from two indige- (Continued on page 22) fan Palms, page 30, Postcards of Far North Queensland. The fronds can be two meters acmin the lowland Dointree min forests, where this palm tree (kwh mm- sayi) can dominate and shade the under- growth of whole pock- ets of forest. This one k at gmnd level because they must reach maximum base diameter Wegrow- ing up to just below the top of the krest canopy. Taller speci- mens can be hundreds ...... of years old...... I

/uly/August 2007 SlElUjOTHIRU) The Cuban Missile and Continuous Strip

second in a series by Robert B. Balcomb

). became fasanarea with the rich- page 14, and in the March/April ness of my Dad's 3-D history as I issue you saw some "behind the Idelved into his material. I soon scenes" action at the 3-D Center of realized that I had enough about Art and Photography, in the pro- Carl B. Balcomb's 3-D career for duction of the "History Detectives" several articles1. I had originally segment about a 6'x 6' Stereo Real- planned to take subjects chrono- ist screen purportedly used at the logically, and the 1962 Cuban Mis- White House to show President sile Crisis would have been the Kennedy stereo views of the mis- topic for the seventh article in the sile sites during the Cuban Missile series. Crisis. The possibility of a tie-in with "History,Detectives" Researcher the airing of the PBS "History Carol Sherman set out, with oth- Detectives" episode (June 25, ers, to verify or disprove the claim. 2007), almost concurrent with this Because of the 3-D aspects, one of Stereo World article, became a the first persons she contacted was strong possibility [see SW vol. 32 Stereo World editor John Dennis, No. 6, page 21. Therefore, I intensi- who suggested that she contact fied my re& on the Cuban me. He knew that I was doing Missile Crisis to move things up. research about 3-Dand the Cuban Fortunately, the event is very well Missile Crisis. documented. The screen had belonged to The You were introduced to my Dad, Dayton Stereo Club, in the custody Carl B. Balcomb in the previous of Robert T. O'BrienZ, a good Mend issue of Stereo World, Vol. 32 No. 6, of our family. Dad told me the commonly accepted Wright Photo ...... ".'...... " ...... ,. Thc KA-18A on dspkV at the Wright-PattefsonAir hwce MUM in Ohio in the Lab's "Cuban Missile Crisis" legend 1980s. Lkb the comem is a rdl of its 9.5 inch wide film hr mtinuousI over/under about the "White House incident." Several times I helped Dad -- assemble his much larger screen, for his lectures, at such places as The Dayton Art Institute. When I described our assembly of the screen, Carol Sherman knew it was of the same design as the screen in question. I also let her know that I had been intimately involved with Photo Interpretation in WWI13. Although my Dad retired in 1959, Col. George W. Goddard asked him to become part of the Photo Lab's response to General Curtis LeMay's4 urgent request. Goddard had the Stereo Strip pro- jector, but he needed a stereo tereo

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Recon Sqdn. was at a manhahg Our day of shoothg a%arted wry no reconnaissance film is there. Camp near Marseilles, France, early, so they couid finish all the I was asked to simulate a Photo awaiting shipment to The Paci6c shooting before the Museuxn Interpreter viewing one of the KA- Theater. One source claims that opened for the day. Ben Jwxhws- 18A test strips on a light table7.It the KA-18A was used during the Idhadbeeninclwugeaftheteam was a very improbable set-up with Korean War, notably before the that accompUshed the overnight the wrong hardware in the wrong invasion at Inchon6, where with it adaptation of the RF-lOlA, to use place. However, they felt that I was they were able to determine water the KA-1W Ben was interviewed in the right person to cover the intel- depths at the beaches. Others the Museum, where an RF-lO1A ligence gathering aspect of the point out that American Intelli- was on display. story. So we had to "live with" gence already had detailed plot- Because of all the Highly Classi- some cinematic license. tings of the Inchon shoreline, fied research work done at "The Why were such extraordinary made by the Japanese dwing their Field," we could not have access to measures required, utilizing an old occupation of Korea, so there any of the current Reconmisance technology? It was known by would seem to have been no need Lab. The only non-dasified venue many, and undoubtedly by Gener- to resuscitate the KA-18A system at at Wright Field is theh Film Stor- al LeMay, that President Kennedy that point. Sorties may have been age Archive Vaults. It was quite a and his brother Bobby had flown "for effect," however, much stretch to somehow link that site remarked that they could not see as was done later over Cuba. with the steEeo strip film shot over what the Photo Interpreters sag. To help fill out the story about Cuba during the Missile CrSsb From earlier demonstrations God- the screen, other "History Detec- Howwer, we had no otha choice. dard had shown him, he knew tives" scenes were shot with my The "archive" is long hailway, that continuous stereo strip friend and fellow veteran of "The with safe-like vaults on both sides. images, viewed on a big screen, Lab," Ben Jacobowski. Ben's scenes Each vault holds old 35mm had a certain "WOW" factor. It were taken in The Air Force Muse- movies. All are on highly flamma- could make details of the missile um. Later it would be my turn to ble cellulose nitrate, not "Safety sites almost jump out of the be "on the other side of the cam- Film." The whole place is kept at a screen. era," on the Base at Wright Field. very cool iifty degrees. However, When The Air Force had been One of the few sample strips of KA- 18A film to retain much of its original color, this one 1 "The U.S. Army Air Corp," low- I ...... shows suburban housing deveIopments, probably in coustal Florida in the late 1940s. - level aerial reconnaissance9,closely coordinated with ground forces, I was employed at the Wright focal plane, provide the Left and had been high priority. As a sepa- Field (USAAF) Photo Reconnais- Right eye image. The film moves at rate branch of the services, The Air sance Lab, for a few months in a speed synchronized with the Forces' minds, as well as their 1942-1943, prior to entering the movement of the image. Thus one planes, were over 30,000 feet. The se~vicein WWII. At the Wright Lab, image is exposed, somewhat before Air Force had no interest in ground I was hired as a lowly "Messenger," the other. This simulates an inte- level reconnaissance, except for which really meant that I was an rocular distance, with each image "Bomb Damage Assessment." The all-purpose "gopher." The best part recorded from a different point of is that it gave me the opportunity view. BDA need was filled, at very high altitude with large, long focal to work in various parts of the Lab, It works something like a length cameras. meeting some very special people. panoramic camera, which has a The Navy however, retained the Most of the time was "hands on" small slit that passes, from one side tactical need for low-level "on the photographic laboratory work. to the other, over a stationary deck" reconnaissance. Therefore, It gave me the chance to work sheet of film. If the "class clown" the Navy was called upon to get with prototypes of Xerox13 and is quick enough, his image will be the initial close-up photos of the Polaroid" products. I also got to at both ends. A similar method is missile sites and their defenses. know quite a few very remarkable used for capturing a "Photo Fin- Arthur C. Lundahl, Head of the people. Since I found out the ish" image. In this case the film Wright-Patterson Reconn Lab Vet- passes the slit as the horses cross CIA Photo Intelligence Center, had a Navy Backgr~und'~.The Kennedy erans were still getting together, I the finish line. Administration was forced to rely have met with them at their Maj. Cecil Bush flew a mission on low-level reconnaissance by Spring and Fall Luncheons. over Cuba on November 10, 1962, other aircraft". Even the recently Most of them worked with or in an RF-10, with a KAl8A continu- established National Reconnais- knew my Dad. One of these Vets, ous stereo strip camera. However, sance Office gave ultra High Alti- Hugh Morgan, had a treasure trove that was well after the recognized tude and Satellites their greatest of "Lab" materials. This included "13 days" of Crisisls. It is improba- attention. several continuous test strips taken ble that the film was shown in the As 3-D enthusiasts, we know our with the KA-18A camera, shown Oval Office. The President may brain uses the horizontal displace- here. Since these test Strips were have viewed it in the "Situation ment of images to give us depth made from comparatively slow Room," during a morning or perception. However, it cannot tol- planes, you may notice an aberra- evening meeting of the National erate vertical displacement. Varia- tion that gives the appearance of Security Council Executive Com- tion in the Reconn plane's pitch, the ground being unnaturally mittee, Monday, November 12 or yaw and ro1112 make it a bit tricky rolling. The high speed of the RF- later16. keeping the two images in vertical 101 minimized this fault. Let's take a look at the camera. Notes alignment on the screen. With the 1. "Introduction to Carl B. Balcomb - Stereo- Special projector, it was somewhat The KA-18A has two lenses, in an over and under configuration. Two grapher Extraordinaire" Stereo World, Vol. difficult to keep the images aligned 32 No. 6, page 14. vertically and horizontally. narrow slits, slightly offset at the 2. "The Forgotten Stereo Strip Camera" Stc,rc,o Worl[l, Vol. 9 No. 6, Robert T. O'Rrien. 3. See www.30thPRS.org 4. "Secret Empire," Philip Taubman 5. Even the mention of the National Recon- naissance Office was "Top Secret" for decades. 6. Interview with Richard Sully Leghorn, April 14-15, 2007 7. Test Strips were provided by Wright Photo Rcconn Lab veteran, Hugh Morgan 8. "Eyeball to Eyeball," Dino A. Brugioni, p.230 9. RBB Interview R.S. Leghorn (#6). 10. "Secret Empire" Philip Taubman, see Index p.435 1 1. Ibid, p327-328 12. The images shown in this article were probably made in the late 1940s, using aircraft much slower than the RP-101, much more prone to such distortions. The color film, after fifty years, was hadly faded. 13. One of my tasks was to make Xerox test prints, using a selenium panel. After exposure, I rocked toner back and forth across the panel, before transferring the image to paper then fusing it. . p, .-- .. I:" 's,,l <~ ? C. 14. 1 helped process Vectographs on which 1 '* j' L'1; .I .., = - - , ., .. J ...... left and right eye images were exposed on the front and back of a clear film with emulsions polarized at right angles. As I recall, we developed them in an Iodine solution. 15, Dv November 1, 1962, "Photo-reconnais- sance shows that all MRBM sites in Cuba have been bulldozed and that the missiles and associated launch equip- ment have been removed." The National Security Archive, The Cuban Missile Cri- sis, 1962: The 40th Anniversary, p.384 Bu~!dtt~gsfl/ollg at7 ~llltif~rl~l/l('~i!lcYlt/l Ill //J? /oil' 1'1405 3111/)\ !lkO //ll\ ~/JOWIJIll black and wh~tehave lost most of the~ronginal color, appearing as only shades of 16. White House Diary r'rr'r magenta.

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SSA Member Survey website (http:llwww.ssa3d.orn/) and 2007 at the NSAIISU Convention in SA Membership Secretary Les possibilities for improving it. The Boise, Idaho. Shortly after the con- Gehman recently sent around a SSA Yahoo Group (Stereoscopic vention, results will also be sub- 2007 member survey along with Societ~ofAmerica(@yahoo~roups.com) mitted to the SSA Yahoo Group S is also considered along with new mailing list. the annual SSA renewal notice. The technology of photography and uses for it as well as the potential for greater use of the internet by Beta Transparency Report - communication itself has under- Joel Glenn R.I.P. gone radical evolution over the the SSA. The SSA Membership list is being expanded to include email Beta Transparency Folio Circuit past decade and the member sur- Secretary Joel Glenn passed away vey addresses potential changes for addresses of members. The possi- bility of the SSA offering a life on April 6, 2007. "He had cancer the SSA to incorporate entering the that progressed quickly throughout 21st Century. "With the rise of the membership for purchase is also being considered as well as poten- his body," wrote his wife Judy. "He internet, some people are content gave it a good fight but this was to exchange their views electroni- tial charges for this. The SSA Member Survey is com- his third bout and he lost. Please cally," writes Les. "Also, as our continue the rotation of the Beta membership ages, we need to pletely anonymous and Les Gehman is the only person who Folio as usual. I will forward the become more effective in bringing material to whoever steps for- younger people into the hobby will see the individual responses. Compiled and summarized survey ward." and into SSA participation." "It was always a highlight of the Some of the survey questions responses will be presented at the SSA meeting on Saturday, July 14, NSA convention for me to have a address the importance of the SSA chance to see Joel," writes Larry Moor, Beta Folio member. "I am so glad that Joel was able to give his 'Sky Soldier' show at the Miami convention. Joel was a fine gentle- man and was well known and respected in the Beta circuit and the 3-D community at large. Needless to say that we will all miss him greatly." Avian Folio Member Jonne These New Zealand stamps were positioned on the back of the postcard of Franz joseph Glacier and Waiho Chapel for viewing with a Holmes stereoscope. Here they are shown Goeller's Website slightly enlarged. "Steve and I are proud to announce that we finally have our photo websites really complete," writes Avian Folio member Jonne Goeller. "Please enjoy the eye candy when you visit www. smithbates.com. Click on the link for 'Photographer's Galleries.' For those of you who have traveled a lot in the Northwest, and Great Basin, you will see some places hardly anyone can get to." Jonne has also added her panoramic work in addition to her 3-D work to the website. Raison D'Etre - Stereo Stamps Recently sent round on the Speedy Keystone Folio Circuit was a vintage submission from the SSA ?,.2,,~ Jc+:i >I.IL~:,.FWY. L?~~LLZ,X.>:* ~rchivgstitled "Raison DIEtre" Front of the photo postcard showing the subject depicted in the accidental stereo pair (Continued on page 2.3) of New Zealand stamps. e've all seen those side-by- climate change to a more basic by John Dennis side then & now photos effort to document its effect on wshowing a massive glacier in glaciers, snow fields, ice sheets, etc. one shot and a depressing pile of Photos of glaciers taken anywhere rocks in the other. Their cumula- from 20 to 100+ years ago from tive effect makes it graphically which accurate measurements can clear that ice more or less every- be made are not as common as where is melting faster and faster, glaciologists would like. Among Keystone No. 10708, "Guide Cut- as if some snickering James Bond the most useful, of course, are aeri- ting Steps, Upper Glacier, Grindel- villain with a secret heat ray satel- al photogrammetric photos wald, Switzerland. " 75% of moni- lite had lost all control of his das- (including stereo overlap coverage) tored glaciers in the Alps showed a tardly device. that provide precise elevation data brief advance around the end of the The reason for assembling and as well as surface area and length 1970s, but since the early 1990s publishing these historically paired data. Images of this sort were almost all have retreated. South fac- introduced in the first half of the ing glaciers tend to retreat faster, images (see the June, 2007 National both due to more sun exposure and Geo'yraphic), is moving from the 20th century for both mapping to the fact that larger glaciers, wher- need to "prove" anything about and military purposes, but few ever located, shrink more slowly. '!

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...... , * ...... d -- r.. ..L"°'( . ,, , .n . ' 1' 1"*/ , .. -. . .~ - ~,-,%4s'- , , , * .;. . . ., glaciers were photographed on a Some of the most studied glaciers Back label, "SWITZERLAND. No. 863. - Sea of Ice, Chamounrx. " It may be regular basis to provide visual data are those in popular parks with possible to locate this position over- on their status of growth or retreat easy access by both the public and looking the famous glacier on that could be compared every few glaciologists. Others receiving clos- France's Mt. Blanc, above the town years. er attention from both researchers of Chamounix. In fact, of the roughly 160,000 and the press are the vast ice cov- ...... glaciers in world, less than 1% are erings of places like Greenland and monitored in a scientifically pre- Antarctica, since their sheer vol- cise way. This includes not just umes of potentially melting ice photography (satellite imaging has could add, in the case of Green- obviously made a big difference), land alone, from one to ten feet to but measurements of movement global sea levels during this rates using markers, radar depth century. measurements, temperature read- In the U.S., Glacier National ...... ings, snow or rock cover levels, Park has been studied and pho- Underwood & Underwood No. 63, "Summit of Monte Rosa (1 5,2 15 ft.) weather records, laser measure- tographed for decades, and the from the Gornergrat - birthplace of ments, cloud cover records, etc. complete loss of 123 of 150 glaci- the mighty Corner Glacier, Switzer- land. " -. -- -. Ffi i Crindelwald, Switzerland. The Ober- ers totaling 90% of the ice volume glaciers and ice conditions in Mt. er Glacier was 7.4km long in 7 850, has been documented and widely Rainier National Park, Alaska, and 5.3km long in 2002. reported. Coastal glaciers in Alaska Antarctica and Sweden is available have received similar close atten- along with an interactive, illustrat- tion, but some of the most intense ed timeline of glaciers on Mt study of glaciers, dating back the Rainier at www.~laciers.pdx.edu/ longest, has centered on Washing- MRNPIChg00.htrnl. ton's Mount Rainier, thanks to the The internet has more informa- easy and popular access from Seat- tion on glaciers and climate tle. Photographic, weather and change than can be digested in other data have been gathered one sitting. The National Snow there for over a century, including and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) web- stereoviews of the mountain and site http:llnsidc.orgldatalglacier ...... some of its glaciers. One of the -photo/s~ecial~collection.html covers William England No. 274, "LA most informative of the many sea ice, freshwater ice, snow, glaci- IUNCFRAU, PRlSE DU WENCERN-ALP glacier websites is www.~laciers.pdx ers, frozen ground and permafrost SUISSE. " One of England's Alprne & where detailed research on as well as a Google Earth file in Club views showing the moountain's ice from hrgh above Crindlewald.

- -r r I ---^T----w- . --- C ------.------7 1:SB9 T Ice Pyr::ntids ,rnrI Treacherous Italy, and Austria. Ry the glacier (seen here in the 1920s) has 1860s, stereos of glaciers and other retreated about 1.5 miles despite ing became measurable. Of course small advances in 1905-08, 195 1- for purposes of photographic docu- alpine scenery were being sold 69 and 1975-84. Once located near mentation, the cause of the ice loss around the world. William Eng- the present day road, the terminus makes little difference. Stereo land eventually published over 550 (or "Snout") can no longer be seen images of what's left of this unique such views with the "Alpine Club" from the bridge. ice cap would be just as valuable, which remain among the most col- ...... as would a stereo record of the lectible. According to Darrah, "A. ecosystems supported by it on the Braun issued nearly four thousand Owen Barrett, "On Paradise Glaci- slopes of the mountain. views of the French and Swiss Alps. er. " Shown here being climbed with His views of glaciers and moun- typical 1920s gear, this popular Mt. The Role of Stereography tain-climbing are exceptional." Rainier glacier has shrunk over 50% Ground based stereography of Other noted stereographers of glac- since 19 13. More on the work of this glaciers started nearly as soon as iers include the Risson Brothers, skilled amateur stereographer photographers could take their Tairraz and Savioz. Some of the appears in SW Vol. 27 No. 7, page cameras to the already popular 13. later glacier images in travel sets by need to be done, but the real Owen Barrett, unidentified glacier on Mt. Rainier. One of the most popular Underwood and Keystone are of importance of ground based glacier glacier shots for professionals and excellent quality as well. Adding to stereos, whether taken in 1867, amateurs alike was to pose climbers the quantity of 19th century glaci- 1907 or 2007, may exist more in peering down into a crevasse. This er stereos is the fact that dramatic the intrinsic historical and emo- one is unusual in that it shows a dis- glacier views were popular with tional impact of the images than tant glacier feeding into the larger publishers who pirated the views in their usefulness for precisely one. of others. measuring the shrinkage of their Few of these vintage stereoviews famous subjects. are of great value in providing It's already well documented K accurate measurements of glaciers, that glaciers in the Alps have lost American Stereoscopic (R. Young) "On yonder mighty rocks where the and only slightly more include about a third of their area since snow flake reposes' - The Alpine enough landmarks to even attempt the 1850s. Even if effective actions Range, Switzerland. " Many fewer shooting a "Then & Now" stereo against climate change are taken snowflakes may repose here today set to reveal changes over the last quickly around the world, that loss than in 190 1. Ski areas from the 100 or so years. In cases where will continue for decades to come. Alps to the Andes will be forced to these are possible they of course In some cases, it may only be in use artificial snow or close in coming years.

"On yo~i,lc~.inizlirv rnrlis ~v11o.ri ilc stlorn 11;1i,(. IY~~)o~(~s"-T~IC %.- .,\ll,rllc' ){;~up~.Smitzcl'i:r~j~I. l'~j)~yri~~llt. l!~llll,y I<. Y. YOIIII~. -2. . - Eastern Series # 372, "Switzerland. - photos that future generations will Stereo Today Larger Glacier." This pirated view see the ice that once flowed demonstrates the relatively easy The views included here are just accessibility and fascinating, ever- through mountain valleys. And of a small sampling of the dramatic changing nature of the snout, toe or course the greatest impact is found record provided by stereographers terminus of many glaciers. in stereo images-the views by of the 19th and early 20th century. people like William England or A. Some include features that may Braun that we treasure today, or make it possible to locate the posi- color stereos of what ice exists now tions from which the views were for people of the late 21st century. made. If stereos could be taken near from these positions to include roughly the same field of view and reveal the current state of the glacier, Stereo World would be A 1956 aerial hyperstereo of Valley Glacier, Baffin Island, Canada demonstrates the value delighted to publish the results. of this mapping technique for precise glacier study. Canada Topographic Series But the fact that many are close shots of ice formations without identifiable landmarks showing doesn't detract from the historic or pictorial value of the images, and the same must be said of current stereography of glaciers, snow- fields, etc. In documenting these natural wonders that may be large- ly or completely gone by the end of the century, the best contribu- tion of stereography may be in powerful, dramatic images that convey the amazing feeling of standing near or on a massive river of ice. Most of us will probably be happy to leave the documentation of Himalayan or Greenland glaci- ers to the professionals or satellites, but in many cases you don't need to be much of a climber to reach the more popular glaciers i (although you need to be able to hike a bit). An excursion during the October, 1987 ISU Congress in Switzerland brought bus loads of mate result could be a major stereo Underwood No. 82, "Ascent of Mt. Blanc - Cutting steps in the crystal eager stereographers onto a large projection show made up of con- ice of the Bossons Glacier, Alps. " lust glacier that in a few minutes was tributions from around the world. what this exact spot looks like today probably documented in 3-D more If the ice is literally melting under would be hard know, but we can be lavishly than any other in the our feet, the least we can do is get sure it has changed. The 1991 dis- Alps. Existing stereos from the some good stereos to show our covery of the 5,000 year-old "ice 1950s to the present are just as great-grandchildren! r'ra man" preserved in the Niederjoch important historically here as Glacier near the Italy/Austria border those not yet shot. The potential demonstrated how that glacier had exists for more images than any already reached a 5,000 year mini- article could include-and the ulti- mum 16 years ago.

ISU's Stereoscopy Published in Full Color by Alexander Klein

he quarterly Journal of the Inter- The ISU's members currently num- gress is seen as a genuine "family Tnational Stereoscopic Union, ber almost 950 and come from 38 reunion"! The 2009 congress will Stereoscopy-the publication of 3-D countries world-wide. 3-D Photog- be in Gmunden on Lake Traun in image-makers, is now printed in raphy, 3-D Video Imaging, Com- Austria, September 9th through full color for even more realistic puter Stereo, Digital Stereo Projec- 14th) followed two years later by a enjoyment! It is circulated to all tion, Holography, Virtual Reality congress in the Netherlands. ISU members and is considered to and all other stereoscopic photog- Membership to the ISU is only be an important item in cement- raphy techniques are used by $20 per year and even less with a ing the "3-D family" into a coher- members of the ISU. multi-year membership. For infor- ent whole. Although the ISU caters mainly mation about ISU membership, Apart from tuition in 3-D photo- to the 3-D amateur photographer, and to join immediately, visit the graphic techniques, the Journal it also has much to offer to mem- ISU Website, www.ISU3D.org or con- carries information and articles bers who are professional stereo tact your ISU Country Representa- from around the world on new photographers as well as to those tive. For the U.S. that's Rill Moll, equipment, literature and all man- who are more involved in the sci- 608 Rains Circle, Summerville, GA ner of related subjects. Most arti- entific aspects of stereoscopic 30747-7243, Phone (706) 859- cles are well illustrated with 3-D imaging. A major activity of the 7726, e-mail: [email protected]. dm drawings and stereo photos. The ISU is the organization of a Con- International Stereoscopic Union gress every second year in one of (ISU) was founded in 1975 and is a the major member countries. The club of individual 3-D enthusiasts ISU is considered a "family" by its as well as a club of stereo clubs. members and the biennial Con- Ultrasound Upgrade Produces 3-D Images arents-to-be might soon see their "To our knowledge, this is the and robot-assisted surgeries done Pdeveloping fetuses in the womb first time it's been made possible to through tiny "keyhole" in live, movie-like 3-D according to display real-time stereo image pairs incisions.The Duke team reported researchers at Duke University's on a clinical scanner," said the findings in an issue of the jour- Pratt School of Engineering. Stephen Smith, a professor of bio- nal Ultrasonic Imaging dated July The same Duke team that first medical engineering at Duke. "We 2006, but published in April 2007. developed real-time, three-dimen- believe all 3-D scanners could be The research was supported by the sional ultrasound imaging says it modified in this way with only National Institutes of Health. has now modified the commercial minor software changes." Glasses are used to fuse the two version of the scanner to produce The new imaging capability can images into one for 3-D, and some an even more realistic perception improve the early diagnosis of cer- people can freeview the pairs. To of depth.via the image-viewing tain kinds of birth defects of the demonstrate the new capability, software found on clinical ultra- face and skull and improve sur- the researchers first generated sound scanners, making it possible geons' depth perception during stereo ultrasound images of a small to achieve a stereo display with no ultrasound-guided medical proce- metal cage. The researchers have additional hardware. dures, including tumor biopsies since recorded ultrasound images of a model human fetus that is tra- ditionally used in the testing of 1 fetal ultrasound imaging devices. ria Berezin Stereo 1 Queensland's Photography Products Far North in 3-D I

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Most who buy the book will easily look past these scraps of visual paradox Shoot 3L). dc\clop -- at the edges, thanks to the fasci- nating subjects that seem even closer thanks to the cropping used. 3D Books... Many titles (Given a bit of fine tuning among what is probably a collection of amazing stereos several times larg- n~ STFRFOPHOTOGRAPHY PRODUCTS, er than seen in the book, the 21 686 ABEDUL,MISSION VIEJO, CA 92691 USA authors could probably produce an PHONE(949) 215-1 554, EAX(949) 581-3982 outstanding projection show for presentation both locally and at a WEB: WWW.BEREZIN.COM/~D EMAIL:[email protected] future ISU congress.) ria WE TAKEALL MAJOR CREDITCARDS. VISIT OURONLINE WEB STORE, WRITE OR CALLFOR CATAL OG The-Society- - - - (Continued ,.. ,, ,,, dating back to 1949 when it was examples of this type. Take any How to Contact the originally submitted on the "E" two new dollar bills in consecutive SSA General Secretary Folio (stereocard) Circuit by Walter order and you can find similar dis- S. Cotton, SSA member number 45. placements." After Speedy Key- Ray Zone is the General Secre- Cotton had received some stereo stone member, SSA historian and tary of the Stereoscopic Society pairs of stamps sent from New past General Secretary Bill Patter- and in that position is responsible Zealand by Mr. R. de R. Adamson son looked at the recent resubmis- for production of this column in who explained his method of sion he wrote "A real treat to see Stereo World magazine and, accord- selection in a separate letter. this Cotton item. I have a selection ing to the Membership Rules of "What happened was that one of Cotton views. He & Rose left the Society, is also "responsible for day it occurred to me that since USA in mid 1920s for the South trying to keep the Society func- stamps printed in two colours nec- Pacific-inspired stereo groups tioning effectively and harmo- essarily have the two colours print- there-Walter returned in mid niously." Folio secretaries and any ed in separate operations, it would 1940s ST rejoined the Society (no member of the NSA interested seem likely that in different sheets further record of Rose)." in the SSA is encouraged to of stamps one colour might not contact Ray via email at: always be in exactly the same posi- r3dzone(?earthlink.net tion relative to the other," wrote Adamson. "And of course that would sometimes produce stereo pairs.'' One pair of stamps, positioned Upcoming NSA Conventions at the appropriate interocular dis- tance for viewing in a stereoscope, 34th NSA Convention 35th NSA Convention were titled "Peace" and affixed to the back of a black-and-white and Trade Fair and Trade Fair photo postcard depicting the same July 10-14 2008 July 2009 view of the Franz Josef Glacier Grand Rapids, MI Mesa, AZ from the Waiho Chapel that was printed on the stamps. "While there are only two planes in these stamps that are stereoscopic," CDV ISNAPSHOT (3 318' X 4 318') per 100: $9 caseof 1000. $85 wrote Cotton with a separate letter CDV POLYESTER (3-mil) per 100: $15 case of 1000: $140 accompanying the submission, POSTCARD (3 34' X 5 3/47 per 100: $10 case of 1000: $90 "the raison d'etre of circulating 4" x 5" per 100: $11 case of 1000: $90 STEREO I X6 314 COVER (3 314" x f) per 100: $1 1 case of 1000: $100 these slides [sic] is to illustrate the STEREO POLYESTER (3-mil) per 100: $24 case of 1000: S?3l importance of a correct frame CABINET ICOMINENTAL (4 3/8" X T) per 100: $12 case of 1000: $110 #I0 COVER1 BROCHURE (43/8"x9 W3 per 50: $12 case of 500: $110 (window to you, Mamie) in 5" x ir per 50: $10 caseof 200: $35 stereo." BOUDOIR (5 1 l!T X 8 1 nn) per 25: $9 case of 500: $110 On the original SSA sleeve from 8"xlo' per 25: $10 case of 200: $55 10" x 14" MUSEUM BOX SIZE per 10: $11 case of 100: $85 1949, SSA member Paul Wing had 11"x 14' per 10: $10 case of 100: $60 written "There are many other 16'x 20" per 10: $24 caseof 100: $160 RusMll Norton, PO Ex 1070, New Havm, CT 065061070 e Stereoscopic Society of America is a US SHIPPING (48 States): $4 per order. InstiMial btlling. (2006) add 6% on rgroup of currently active stereo photogra- Conned~cutordsrs lax entire tolal includtng sh~ppng. phers who circulate their work by means of postal folios. Both print and transparency for- mats are used, and sever01 groups are oper- ating folio circuits to met the needs in eoch Explore the World format. When a folio arrives, o member views of 3-13 Imaging, Past & Present, in and makes comments on each of the entries of the other participants. His or her own view, which has traveled the circuit and has been examined ond commented upon by the other members, is removed and replaced with a new entry. The folio then continues its end- less travels around the circuit. Many long dis- tance friendships have formed among the participants in this manner over the yeors. Stereo photographers who may be interest- ed in Society membership should contact the Only NATIONAL P.O. Box 86708 Membership Secretary, les Gehman, 3736 STEREOSCOPIC Portland Rochdale Dr., Fort Collins, CO 80525, (970) 282-9899, [email protected] a year from: OR 97286 The 2007 Conference by Lawrence Kaufman

he place to have been this past was held in conjunction with the "Test Piece 01" by Takashi Kawai and anuary 29th through 31st was Photonic West show, but the Kei Shichiri (Japan) TJSan Jose for the 2007 Stereo- crowd grew too large and now the "Visionsense Stereoscopic Endoscopy" scopic Displays and Applications display conference is being held by Visionsense (Israel and USA) conference. Held at the San Jose the week following Photonics "Pompei 79AD" by Virtualand (Italy) McEnery Convention Center, San West, which features an interesting "Death Valley 3D Daze" by Tree-D Jose, California as part of the 19th trade floor of its own. Films (USA) Electronic Imaging: Science & The day prior to the conference, "Alertness Matters" by Hall Media there was an educational short Technology Symposium--orga- (USA) nized jointly by the Society for course held that requires and addi- "Fluffies" by ACE a.s. (Czech Republic) '; Imaging Science and Technology tional fee. This year the course was (IS&T) and the International Soci- Stereoscopic Display Application "Pool Shark" by Neil Alexand and ety of Optical Engineering (SPIE). Issues. The conference itself is nice- GALI3D (Czech Republic) Check the website: www.stereoscovic ly divided into a dozen sessions "Pig Story" by Secondary School of .org/2007 to see what you missed. with several presentations under Applied Cybernetics and GALI-3D (Czech Republic) The Stereoscopic Displays & Appli- each session and the time moves cations conference is the largest by quickly. Monday morning saw "St Valentines Shoe" by Secondary and longest running technical session 1 "Stereoscopic Display School of Applied Cybernetics and stereoscopic imaging conference Applications" and session 2 "Med- GALI3D (Czech Republic) worldwide and an excellent oppor- ical Applications of Stereoscopy." "Real Time OPENGL stereo capture to tunity to meet with others working After lunch session 3 was "Stereo- file" by GALI3D (Czech Republic) in this unique field. scopic Image Processing and Inter- "Space Station in 3D" by European While some form of the Stereo- mediate View Reconstruction," ses- Space Agency (Netherlands) scopic Display conference has been sion 4 examined "Stereoscopic "Born of a Car" by Skoda Auto Multi- around for over two dozen years, I Human Factors." Another break media team and GALI3D (Czech have only been attending bits and and it was time for the 3-D The- Republic) pieces for the past ten. In the past ater. Unfortunately there was a "The time of illusion" by NHK Techni- I have always tried to get there for slight problem with the sound dur- cal Service uapan) at least the display demonstration ing most of the presentations. But "FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour" by Hap- session (which is usually free,) the this misfortune turned out to have tics (South Africa) and Crew 972 stereoscopic video3D theater ses- a silver lining, since many of the (Israel) sion presentation and the keynote 3-D videos were replayed during "Lenny Lipton and Ray Zone at World address if possible. This was the the breaks of the remainder of the 3D Expo 11" by 21st Century 3D first year that I could take advan- conference. (USA) tage of the invitation to cover the Two Hour "Humira 3D" by 21st Century 3D entire event for Stereo World. Past 3-D Theater Session (USA) conferences have been covered by "Avandia 2006" by 21st Century 3D Steve Berezin (SW V29 #4) and Ray Shown during the 2007 SD&A (USA) Zone (S W V31 #5.) conference 3D Theater session "3DVX3.5 Live Action Demo 2007" by Press credentials certainly beat were: 21st Century 3D (USA) the several hundred dollar "June" by National Film Board, Canada "Mitsubishi Outlander" by BUG Nor- entrance fee, but who can put a "Loop.. 3D adventures of a solution way price on a glimpse into the future? provider" by Fast Forward with Carlo- "World of 3D" by Lightspeed Design This is where there is the greatest magno (Italy) Group (USA) concentration of information "I am Calling You - Backstage" by Fast "Intelligent Vehicle Safety" by Light- about stereoscopic displays and Forward with Carlomagno (Italy) speed Design Group (USA) their future. The conference once "Mayavi" by GV Films Ltd (India) "Dsv clips" by Lightspeed Design informal affair which gives you a ration, Imaging Technology, and Group (USA) chance to make new friends and the Development of a Virtual Pres- "06 The Big One" by Bernard discuss the day's events. ence in Space" by Eric M. De Jong, Mendiburu (USA) Plenary Sessions Principle Investigator, Solar System "Home of the Blizzard: The 1911-14 Visualization (SSV) Project. This Australasian Antarctic Expedition Day two and day three began was a very interesting up to the Stereoscopic Photographic Record" by with plenary presentations which minute presentation on the history Peter Morse, University of Western were open to the entire Electronic of Space Exploration and included Australia (Australia) the current stereo visualization. I "New York City in 3-D" by Jeff Joseph / l-glnsrw*."tecM program" forIn the sym-the had heard De Jong on at least two SabucCat Productions (USA) posiurn k a thick 216 pages-larger previous occasions once at a Soci- The winners: as judged by Dr than many small town phone ety of Motion Picture and Televi- books. The plenarpr pmmtc&ions sion Engineers (SPMTE) meeting Samuel Zhou, Director of Image were naWyheld in a very Technology, IMAX Corporation. and at NASA's Jet Ptopulsion Labo- crowded large ballroom. On day ratory (IPL). At the two previous Best Live Action 3-D film: "The fnnn Stan- Time of Illusion" by NHK Technical two Brian A. Wandell talks, the presentation had includ- ford University discussed "Devel- ed stereo imaging, so as interesting Service (lapan) opment and Plasticity in Visual Best CG 3-D film: "FIFA World as this was, it seemed a little flat. Cortex." De Jong was a co-author of "NASA's Cup Trophy Tour" by Haptics Even more interesting were the (South Africa) and Crew 972 STEREO Mission" (SW Vol. 32 (Israel) two presentations on day three, No.1.) It was nice also to later see Following the theater session, first Francois Blais, National De Jong sitting in the day 3 ses- Research Council of Canada pre- sions. the majority of attendees walked sented "More than a Poplar Plank: to the nearby BoTown Chinese The Shape and Subtle Colors of the More Stereo Display Sessions Restaurant for an annual tradi- Masterpiece 'Mona Lisa' by Leonar- Day two included session 5 tion-the SD&A dinner, a no-host do." This was an in-depth look at a "Stereoscopy on Mobile Devices," ...... scientilic examination of the Mona session 6 "Multiview Content," The 30 Consortium showcased Lisa, including a 3-D digitization Session 7 "Autostereoscopic Dis- stereoscopic products from member (3D imaging) of the painting. The plays," and session 8 "Stereoscopic companies. David Mark from Mark Second session was "Space Explo- Developments," before moving Resources demonstrated a 22 inch

rie;creating seven I vi~for 3-0 viewi~, and a 60 inch dm& MI full-cdor 3-0 back- lit transparency print with 30k x 40k resdu- tion showing a cdkc- tion of fluorescent min- emls. For30 showed three stereoscopic monitors from Pavo- nine of South Korea. Stereo by Lo~ence b Kaufman r

It was back to Wheat- stone for Imprint Inter- active Techdugy of Seattle, with thcir digi- tal stereoxope system basedonhMLU) panels and mimm with a VR dernonstm- tmn application. Stem by Lawrence Kaufmon Mike Weissmon (seot- cd) liwn Tnrevision Systems demonstmtes TNCMsion, o 01-time HD 3-0 vMco amem system bf st- 'supa to an un&nown cwrFcreKe ottendce.

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into tne SD&A wmomtranon Ses- ten can be found later in this (which included "Thrmen- sion. The Demo session, as I stated article and at www.stereosco~k&ggl sional cameras on the Internation- earlier, is one of my favorite parts m. al Space Station") and session 14 of the conference. Over the years I Day three included session 9 "Vial Environments: The Experi- have seen many amazing items. "Crosstalk in Stereoscopic and ence." Some are now currently available, Autosteroscopic Displays," a panel The discussion forum "3D in the some are still being developed, discussion on "3D in the Home: Home: How Close are We?" others have come and gone and How Close are We?," session 10 moderated by Lenny Lipton, CTO, others have never been heard of "Stereoscopic Video," Session 11 Real D was a fun and lively discus- again. The Demos have become so was the Keynote Presentation. The sion. The panel included Brett popular that they now include the day and the conference ended Bryars, United States Display Con- entire EI conference symposium with session 12 "Integral 3D Dis- sortium; Art Berman, Analyst, and the papers are also posted in plays." Session 13 "Virtual Envi- Insight Media; Mark Fihn, Publish- the room. A partial list of presen- ronments: Implementation" er, Veritas et VisusI3rd Dimension

26 Years Without a Break A Pioneer of Field-Sequential 3-D On PowerPoint Naps, Vibrating Mirron, and the Worth of Conferences by Lenny Lipton can help them, when deep down I know I'm the one

a dozen times since I received my triceratops gift, but it survives-while photographs and memorabilia that I prize papers at about half of those. The conference has been under the name Stereoscopic Displays and Applications I Newsletter and Scott StWmL. - ,, h~fie'~~bfi dcilbt 3uuld m- Smith, CEO, VRex Inc. The pan tal display industry. shared their thoughts and then opened it up to questions from audience, finishing with dictions for when we would have 3-D in the home. Mark Fihn had opened by saying that wen though he has television devices in his home, he and his wife do not watch regular TV. His prediction was 2010 for "his" home. Lipton's optimistic prediction "this year" was based on the fact that he is an avid reader of Popular Sdence a anything they &scuss dm Chris Ward of Lightspeed Design But since thev have not discussed Croup (holding a sample Stereo 3-D TV, he f&ls very confident 4%'- World at left) chats with cochair ,3 i Jason Goodman, CEO 21st Cen- Andrew Woods during a break that it will roll out soon. between sessions. Photo by The Keynote hesentation was --3D announced their new Lawrence Kaufman "A Look at the Past and Future of stereoscopic camera and solid state Stereoscopic Displays Through a recording systems. The 3DVX3.5 adds new features, refines scopic 3-D effect. With ordinary (Liquid) Crystal Ball" by James Fer- camera separation, discernible guson of Ferguson Patent Proper- ergonomics and redefines the state of the art as the world's smallest stereoscopy diminishes as the carn- ties was more of a look back at the era's distance from the subject beginning of liquid crystal displays and lightest high definition 3-D camera-tecorder. The 3DVX-H is a increases. The 3DVX-H compen- than the future. But James Fergu- sates for this by allowing users to #onwas the single most important modular hmscopiccamera system that allows for stunning increase the intraocular distance to individual to lead this discussion. as much as three feet or more as He holds 130 U.S. patents and his photography of distant subjects while maintaining a strong stereo- highlighted in Stereo World Vol. 32 inventions form the foundation of No. 5, page 28. Jason demonstrat- NSA member Teny Wil- son returned for a third ywr with her impres- sive phantograms dis- played and for sale. Stereo by Lawrence Kau fman ...... "......

ed the 3DVX3.5 High-Definlnon Stereoscopic Displays and Appnca- stereoscopic video camera and tions Conference and was used as a Alan Sulliva~~;+om Lightspace Tech- showed some sample footage from key component of one of the con- nologies (Norwalk, Connecticut) the camera using a Sharp AL3D ference's stereoscopic projection demonstrated the Depthcube 3-D autostereoscopic laptop. systems using ALPS to showcase volumetric display showing volumet- For more information, see the conference's 3-D content. Col- ric medical images. www.2lstcenturv3d.com. orLink1s CTO, Gary Sharp, present- John Rauseo from Polaris Sensor Tech- ColorLink, a leading supplier of ed a technical paper on ALPS. Col- nologies (Huntsville, Alabama) polarization and color manage- orLink has been doing some amaz- demonstrated their 10 inch and ment optics for the consumer elec- ing and new things in 3-Dl so it 17inch stereoscopic flat panel dis- tronics industry, announced the was no surprise that they were pur- plays based on the variable polariza- ALPS" chased by Real D shortly after the tion angle technique and viewed release of (Achromatic Linear using polarized 3-D glasses. Polarization Switch), a solid state conference. switchable polarizer for stereoscop- John Dammann from the Army -. Research Laboratory (Adelphi, Mary- ic 3-D projection systems. The land) demonstrated a new 3-D terrain 1 product was launched& $& 2007 visualization technique using a LIDAR Ianir Ideses from Tel Aviv University Chaio Wang from the University of dataset of Washington DC on a Sharp (Tel Aviv, Israel) demonstrated real- Southern California (Los Angeles, RD3D autostereoscopic laptop. time automatic 2-D to 3-D conver- California) demonstrated stereoscopic Avi Yaron and staff from Visionsense sion algorithm on two PC laptops panorama creation software on a (Orangeburg, New York) demonstrat- viewed using anaglyph glasses. Sharp AL3D autostereoscopic laptop. ed a single miniature stereoscopic John Miller from dep3D (Los Gatos, Shin-Ching Yeh from the University of sensor suitable for use in endoscopes California) demonstrated a range of Southern California (Los Angeles, and other applications. (SW vol. 32 stereoscopic PC games and stereo- California) demonstrated a virtual No. 6, page 28.) Sample 3-D video scopic video on their polarized reality clinical experiment on post- from the camera was shown on a Pla- stereoscopic rear-projection display stroke rehabilitation using different nar StereoMirror stereoscopic display. powered by a PC with an NVIDIA stereoscopic displays: a Sharp U-151- Nick Holliman and Barbara Froner graphics card. 3-D autostereoscopic monitor, a CRT from Durham University (Durham, Kevin Gilson from Parsons Brinkerhoff monitor with LCS 3D glasses, and an United Kingdom) used a Sharp RD3D (Denver, Colorado) showed sample eMagin stereoscopic HMD. autostereoscopic laptop to demon- 3-D renderings and animations for Graham Woodgate from Ocuity strate task stimulus that was used in design visualbation viewed using a (Oxford, United Kingdom) demon- their paper to compare the perfor- DepthQ stereoscopic projector. strated a cell phone handset fitted mance of seven different 3-D dis- Mike Weisman and Forrest Fleming with an autostereoscopic display plays. They also demonstrated a high from 'hevision Systems (Santa Bar- using its polarization activated contrast 36 view lenticular image bara, California) demonstrated 'Ifue- microlens technology. A range of still using a new lenticular element from Vision, a real-time HD 3-1)video cam- and moving image 3-D content was Ocuity. era system for stereo mi- shown on the phone. Professor Hidekl Kakeya and Hiromitsu Live microstereoscopic video was dis- Nobauki 'IBkanashi from NEC Corpora- Ebisu from University of Tsukuba played on a Planar StereoMimr tion (Sagadham, Japan) demonstrat- (Tsukuba, Japan) demonstrated stereoscopic display. ed two cell phone autostereoscopic MOEVision: a multiview 3-D display Pat Green and Scott Robinson fmm displays (2.5 inch diagonal and 320 x with floating real image. Planar Systems (Beaverton, Oregon) 2 RL]x 480 x3 [ICG,B] resolution). Takafumi Koike from Hitachi Ltd demonstrated the Planar StereoMirror Content shown included a 3-D movie (Kawasaki, Japan) demonstrated an SD2320W 23 inch widescreen and %D/3-D still pictures. integral videography display with an 1920x1200 staeoscopic monitor (SW Boyd MacNaughton from Mac- optimized color filter layout. The dis- Vol. 30 No. 4, page 31). 3-D content Naughton, Inc. (Beaverton, Oregon) play was interactively controllable shown included medical steewcopic demonstrated the Perceiva 19 inch with a game conpo1,pad: images.

harsh review. Ithanked him for his apology and Itohj I ham tme SaE soFtfemnces get to be goofy again, him: "Well, I'm on in a minute, Stwen. You can IisCen to where p&p@strow all d weird Inventions. Those my paper." I began to present my paper, and after the inventjqhi $midme and my company millions of dollars first few minutes Stwe got up and walked out of the and eomtims )IoWf, beweby presenting their "nutty" idem pmpk were showing me things to avoid. I don't Stwen had a term for those of us who were into mean to be condescending, although when I use terms imaging in a life-threatening way. He called like "nutty" it certainly is condescending. But the truth of paths," and certainly Steven and Iwere mem- the matter is that one of the great things about the b. Unfortunately he died a few years ago. human race is that we can pass on information to ea a gracious gentleman who helped a lot of people other in writing, or in speeches, or even with those g s one of the inventors, maybe the primary damn Powerpoint slides. And it isn't always what is rig the white light hologram. that's important. It's the misguided efforts of others th my wife after the first day at this year's SPIE can help us steer a clear course. e, which once again occurred in San Jose and I'll be going to next year's SPIE conference. Yes, it's th n the last few days of January. I told her: same old thing-but it somehow has become part of m rst 25 years was interesting. But this year it's life, and it's the single place where there is a great co gh." That was my first day's impression of the con- centration of information about stereoscopic displays ce. But the next day my mood chanqed and I found you can aet to see them. because there's one afterno ~.,'?l@~itto be interesting. what was intereqing has that many I br evenins devoted to tibleto~sof the latest aada ng the een

ome of the entrancing stereos from the award winning NSA SStereo Theater show and Stereo World feature "Unseen Ellis Island - Island of Hope, Island of Tears* (Vol. 30 No. 2), can now be found on the three reels of a new View- Master packet, Unseen Ellis Island - A National Landmark Abandoned. The South Side in 3-0. Reel A, "Ellis Island Vintage Images," features seven of the care- fully copied 19th century stereo- views that offer such fascinating studies of immigrants arriving at the island. With other such images, they comprise the open- trig, narrated historical sequence of - the Stereo Theater presentation by Sheldon Aronowitz and Gary Schxker (first shown at the 2004 t NSA convention in Portland, where I it won the Paul Wing award for Best presentation). Reels B and C include 14 of the most memorable stereos by Gary Schacker and Sheldon Aronowitz, taken during their unique 2003 documentation project with the Ellis Island Museum. They repre- sent a sampling of the astounding stemstwringthelong

Unseen Ellis Island - A Nationa 'Landmark Abandoned: The South Side in 3-D Three-reel View-Master packet, stereos by Gary khacker and Sheldon Aronowitz, 2007. One reel of vintage stenovkws, two reels of images from the Stereo Theater show "Unseen Ellis Island." Available at the Ellis Island Museum gift shop or from Sheldon Aronowitz, Unseen Elk kbnBRcclCkcm2, "Fmzeniri l7meLk5OYiearz."Inonedthematfmcm- or $1295 from orable chne-ups among the Schoder/Anmowitz images, a box dckanser waits potkntly 6erezin Stereo Photography Products, to x~bthe msion from this faucet in an abandoned bathmom on Ellis Iskmd's south 21686 Abedul, Mission Viejo, CA 92691 side. (949) 215-1554 www.krrdnxam/3d...... ,------...... ------...... - Current Information on Stereo Today David Starkman & john Dennis

IMAX 3-D to Document Wanning Seas e growing effects of global warming on life in the sea will T"be the subject of an IMAX 3-D film with the marvelous working title Deep Seaquel, scheduled for release in 2009. The film will be made by the same team behind the highly successful Deep Sea 3D, which has already grossed $40 mil- lion in IMAX theaters around the world since it premiered in March 2006. (SW Vol. 32 No. 1, page 22.) Director HomKd Ha// pushes the Director Howard Ha// and camra- While Deep Sea 30 identified /MAX 3-0 camera in its underwater man Bob Cranston guide the /MAX only "over-fishing" as a cause of housing through the surf at La /olla 3-0 underwater rig while a Shores, California for the filming of Caribbean Reef Shark passes over- ocean ecosystem collapse, Deep the 2006 /MAX 30 film DEEP SEA head near the Bahamas while film- Sea-quel, in the words of an IMAX 30. 0 2005 Warner Bros. Entertain- ing Deep Sea 30. 0 2005 Warner press release, "will offer a uniquely ment Inc. Photo by Richard Bros Entertainment Inc. Photo by inspirational and entertaining way Hemnann Peter Kragh to explore the impact that global ...... climate change has had on ocean most visually dramatic way possi- duced for Howard Hall Productions wilderness." That may not exactly ble, environments and creatures by Michele Hall. In addition to last sound like an underwater 3-D ver- that may not exist by the end of year's Deep Sea 30, Hall, Ferguson sion of An Inconvenient Tmth, but this century. and Myers were all part of the shooting will take place in some of The "seaquel" will be shot by team behind IMAX's first underwa- the most exotic and isolated under award-winning DirectorJCine- ter 3-D adventure, Into The Deep, sea locations on earth, including matographer Howard Hall (SW which has grossed more than $70 Southern Australia, New Guinea Vol. 32 No. 1, page 23), produced million since its 1991 release. and others in the Indo-Pacific by Toni Myers, executive produced region. This will document, in the by Graeme Ferguson, and pro- 3-D at the Cannes Film Festival igital 3-D was presented this the week that would have been drawing board and cherry picked Dyear in Cannes. Included was "the Duke's'' 100th birthday (May the best of all elements, restored the 1953 John Wayne film Hondo, 26, 1907). and original, to serve as source ele- making its digital 3-D premiere. Hondo has been meticulously ments. This work was all consum- Wayne's daughter-in-law Grethcen restored and remastered three ing in that both the left and right Wayne, who has kept the film times by Batjac Productions, Inc. eye needed to be restored. The dig- from the past two World 3-D from the original film elements: ital technology process had Expos, was at the premiere. Hope- first for a VHS release, second in a advanced exponentially since the fully, now that it's had this debut, digital format for DVD release and, DVD master, so even better master the rest of us will have a chance to most recently, in digital 3-D for elements could be created. Process- see it presented in polarized stereo Cannes. es used were DRS, DVNR, AGR4 and and not just the anaglyph version For the digital 3-D version Da Vinci's ACSIII program. The that played on television in the screening at Cannes, Batjac went final product was shown on a tra- 1980s. The screening took place in back to the ...... Classes distributed for an anaglyphic video version of Hondo. A h ditional white screen with the audience wearing wireless LCS New and Current 3-D Related glasses. Restoring the film for 3-D intro- duced still more challenges. The Books, Reports and Newsletters separate Warner Color negatives tereoscopic Cinema and the Origins RAY Z9Nr had shrunk and faded differently, Sof 3-D Film, 1838-1952. Ray --IIA 1, making it even more difficult to Zone's upcoming book on 3-D get the color identical and the movies so completely covers the images perfectly aligned. complex history of stereoscopic Based on the Louis LIAmour moving images that it actually story, The Gifl of the Cochise, Hondo ends where many other histories of is a Western in the best tradition of the subject start-in 1952. Pub- the frontier genre. In it, Wayne, lished by University press of Ken- who also produced the film, stars tucky, it includes 50 photos. The as the title character, a hard-bitten 224 page work will be released in half-Indian cavalry scout whose December, 2007. www.kentuckv only companion is an ill-tempered press.com/viewbook.cfm?Cate~ory~ID= dog. With a script by James l&G10~~=198&ID=l417. Edward Grant, and outstanding Holographic Imaging by Stephen performances from a great cast, the A. Benton and Michael Bove. film also features Ward Bond, Stephen Benton co-chaired the Michael Pate, James Arness and SD&A conference for five years up l~-195P breathtaking locales in Mexico. ED[IM until his death in 2003. This book Hondo earned two 1954 Oscar was in production at the time of nomination- Best Supporting his death and has been completed Actress nod for Page in her theatri- at SD&A 2007. www.insinhtmedia by Michael Bove. It will be released .info/emailblasts/3Dre~0rt.htm. cal debut and one for Best Writing, later this year: www.amazon Motion Picture Story. .com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047006806X/ Third Dimension Newsletter by Warner Bros. took out a two- 3dmovies-20 . Veritas et Visus All things three page spread in Variety in Novem- dimensional are covered in this ber, 1953 to tell exhibitors: "It is Enhanced Visualization: Making paid newsletter which comes out our conviction that the presenta- Space for 3-0 Images by Barry G. with 10 huge issues a year. tion of Hondo gives your patrons Blundell. The book provides a www.veritasetvisus.com/3rd- the opportunity for the first time summary of nearly 100 years of dimension.htm . to fully evaluate 3-Dimension Volumetric Displays R&D. entertainment." Yet the 3-D craze www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ 30 Review Online Magazine is a had passed its peak. Hondo in 3-D 0471 786292l3dmovies-20 . free monthly newsletter providing screened at only a few theaters and information about new stereoscop- "3D Technology and Markets; A ic products from around the world. has almost never been seen in 3-D Study of All Aspects of Electronic since. www.rollanet.orn/-vbeydler/van/ 3D Systems, Applications and Mar- 3dreview/index.htm. A 55 minute preview of an kets" by Insight Media and USDC. upcoming 3-D concert film, U2 30, A commerial report which docu- Stereoscopy.com 3D-News by was also screened at Cannes. The ments the current state of the 3-D Alexander Klein is a free, regularly full 80 minute version of the film industry. This report was men- updated collection of 3D related will include 15 songs by U2, and tioned during the discussion forum press releases. www.stereoscopv.com/ will be released in the fall of news/index.html . 09 2007.The film was directed by Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington and produced by 3ality Digital, Los Angeles.

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1280x1040 dual LCD stereoscopic running DDD's mobile software solu- autostereoscopic display monitor monitor based on the variable polar- tion for stereoscopic video, a 32 inch with 3840x2400 pixel resolution fit- ization angle technique and viewed Olevia 3D HD TV made by Syntax- ted with a diagonal parallax barrier with passive polarized 3-D glasses. Brillian with Arisawa's Xpol technolo- creating 7 views for 3-D viewing, and Also shown were the new NuVision gy viewed with polarized 3-D glasses, a 60 inch diagonal full-color 3-D washable active 3-D glasses for 3-D and Google Earth running in stereo- backlit transparency print with cinema applications. scopic 3-D using TriDef Visualizer for 30kx40k resolution showing a collec- Masayuki Iizuka from Tokyo Polytech- OpenGL Driver on a Sharp AL3D tion of fluorescent minerals. For3D nic University (Atsugi, Japan) demon- autostereoscopic laptop. (Santa Rosa, California) showed three strated the merits and demerits of Eun-Soo Kim and colleagues from the stereoscopic monitors from Pavonine united, synthesized, and mixed type 3D Display Research Center (3DRC) at (Incheon, South Korea). And Terry autostereograms. Kwangwoon University (Seoul, South Wilson was there for the third year with a phantogram display and items Benjamin Rose from North Carolina Korea) showed information and for sale. State University (Raleigh, North Car- videos about a range of 3-D display olina) demonstrated stereoscopic ren- prototypes developed at 3DRC. I'm looking forward to next Jan- derings of fire on a PC laptop. Joel Kollin from University of Wash- uary, when once again San Jose Kazuhisa Yanaka from Kanagawa Insti- ington (Seattle, Washington) and Ari will be the place to be to see the tute of Technology (Atsugi, Japan) Hollander from Imprint Interactive future of 3-D. showed an autostereoscopic display Technology (Seattle, Washington) Again this year the chairs were Andrew based on two mutually perpendicular showed a digital stereoscope system J. Woods from the Centre for Marine Sci- lenticular sheets. based on two LCD panels and mirrors ence and Technology, Curtin Univ. of with a VR demonstration application. Morgan Hurley from Richardson Elec- Technology (Perth, Australia), Neil A. tronics (El Cajon, California) demon- Steve Mason from Yavapai College Dodgson from the University of Cambridge strated the Philips 20 inch 20 (Prescott, Arizona) exhibited a large (Cambridge, UK) and John 0. Merritt from 3D2C03/00 2-D/3-D switchable 9-view selection of artwork intended to be The Mem'tt Group (the closest of the three autostereoscopic display. viewed using Chromadepth 3-D in Williamsburg, Massachusetts.) The pro- glasses. Robert-Paul Berretty and Dick De Boer gram committee consisted of Greg Faval- from Philips (Eindhoven, Nether- In addition, in the exhibit area the 3D ora, Actuality Systems Inc.; Nicolas S. lands) demonstrated a prototype 42 Consortium showcased stereoscopic Holliman, Univ. of Durham (United King- inch 2-D/3-D switchable 9-view products from 3D Consortium mem- dom); Janusz Konrad, Boston Univ.; autostereoscopic display in which the ber companies. David Mark from Steven L. Smith, VREX; Vivian K. Wal- display could be part 2-D and part Mark Resources (San Francisco, Cali- worth, Jasper Associates and Michael A. 3-D at the same time. fornia) demonstrated a 22 inch LCD Weissman, Truevision Systems Inc. QQ Peter Wimmer from 3DTV.AT (Linz, Austria) demonstrated a stereoscopic player (3-D video player), stereoscop- ic multiplexer (3-D video recording), and two Sony HDV cameras mounted Seeing the Unseen (co.tinwd as a stereo-pair controlled by a LANC camera controller from Digi-dat abandoned buildings of the like these are included in the pack- (Roth, Germany). , island's south side, shortly before a et, helping provide an enticing Raffaello Galli from ANDXOR Corpora- rehabilitation project was to begin. preview of the projection show for tion (New York) demonstrated a The eerie hallways, broken win- those who have not seen it. It megapixel digital stereo camera on a dows, and rooms overtaken by must have difficult to pick just 21 variable stereo base support con- weeds and/or bird guano are espe- of the show's 100 images for the trolled by Solid-Look software and cially compelling in 3-D, but even packet, but several of the best were displayed on two autostereoscopic more tantalizing to most audiences included. displays-a Sharp LL-151-3D and a DTI 19 inch. An integrated, noninvasive are the close-ups of "seemingly The color and density of the eye tracking system allowed hands- insignificant details" like a sink original slides are well matched, free camera movement. filled with moss, a rusty doorknob, and except for some cases of less Ed Lazarus from Bristlecone Corpora- a faucet corroded to a deep green, than perfect alignment by View- tion (New York) demonstrated a a debris field of toilet paper rolls Master, the packet is a promising stereo microscope fitted with two compressed into abstract shapes by example of how a winning 3-D analog cameras attached through rainwater, etc. show can be adapted for a far Solid-Look software and displayed on These and similar images of wider market. Ellis Island is of a DTI 19inch autostereoscopic dis- ordinary objects with which immi- course a unique location, but there play. A stereoscopic analog zoom grants would have been in far clos- are probably a dozen or so shows controlled camera was also shown. er contact than the long walls and from NSA and ISU programs over Julien Flack from Dynamic Digital high windows seem to draw the the past 20 years than could, with Depth (Perth, Australia) showed a most audible responses from view- enough effort, be successfully sold prototype 3-D mobile phone based ers. (The show has run many times in View-Master format at science on Ocuity's polarization activated at the 3D Center of Art and Pho- museum shops or locations specific microlens display technology and tography in Portland.) Three shots to the subject. ~8 3DISCOVER viewers and cassettes are st111avail- STEREOVIEW AUCTION PRICES. Only $10.00 In FLORIDA ANTHONY stereov~ews $100 each for able from former manufacturer Jacques CBte CD format!! Great for people buy~ngfrom auc- vlews I st111need Other Flor~dastereovlews also and 3D VISION INT'L. Vis~twww.3dvision.ca or tions and for collectors who want to know the wanted (e g., F~elds,Wood & Blckell, Mangold, wrtte to [email protected]. Complete your collec- latest realized auction values. Only numbered small towns) H~ghprlces pa~dHendr~ksen, Box tion before we run out of stock! views over $50 are listed. Doc Boehme, PO Box 21 153, KSC, FL 32815, (321) 452-0633 326, Osakis, MN 56360. BOOK, The Siege at Port Arthur, hardback with I BUY ARIZONA PHOTOGRAPHS! Stereoviews, 3-D viewer. $20 Airmail. (Cash preferred). Ron TIM MCINTYRE'S new antique photo web site is cabinet cards, mounted photographs, RP post Blum, 2 Hussey Ave., Oaklands Park SA 5046, up and running at www.timoni.net . cards, albums and photographs taken before 1920. Also interested in Xeroxes of Arizona stereographs and photos for research. Will pay postage and copy costs. Jeremy Rowe, 2120 S. tory Museum. Stereographs of the first FOR VISTA-REALIST stereo vlewer I wtll trade Las Palmas Cir., Mesa, AZ 85202. transcontinental railroad are now on display at: Rolleidoscope for 120 roll film with orig. leather htt~://CPRR.orq MUYBRIDGE VIEWS - Top prices paid. Also case. Camera in perfect order. Other items for Michigan and Mining - the 3Ms. Many views FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT on View-Master reels, trade: Mint Wolensak with mint viewre in orig. available for trade. Leonard Walle, 47530 Edin- along with other architecture and design clas- cartons, never used. Verascope 40 for 35mm borough Lane, Novi, MI 48374. sics. Visit View Productions' website at film with leather case. View-Master II with film www.view~roductions.com . cutter for 35mm film. D. Smekal, email: PARK CITY, UTAH wanted - mining scenes, skiing, 0PALlQSHAW.CA. snow scenes attributed to Park City, NEW REVISED EDITION of John Waldsmith's Utah.Thanks so much! Linda Roberts, 1088 "Stereo Views, An illustrated History and Price Rubio St.. Altadena. CA 91001. Guide" is available signed by the author, $24.95 softbound, add $2.95 postage and handling. ALASKA & KLONDIKE stereos needed, espec~ally PENNSYLVANIA STEREOVIEWS by Purniance, (Foreign customers add an additional $1.25.) Muybridge; Maynard; Brodeck; Hunt; Winter & Gutekunst, Bonine, Henderson, E.F. White, Please note there is no hardbound of this edi- Brown; Continent Stereoscopic. Also buying old Moran, Langenheim and others. Fred Lerch, tion. Mastercard or Visa accepted. John Wald- Alaska photographs, books, postcards, (717) 248-4454, pennstereoviews8vahoo.com . smith, PO Box 83, Sharon Center, OH 44274. ephemera, etc. Wood, PO Box 22165, Juneau, SINGLE VIEWS, or complete sets of "Longfellow's Website: www.YourAuctionPa~e.com/ AK 99802 (907) 789-8450 email: dickQAlaska Wayside Inn" done by D. C. Osborn, Artist, Ass- Waldsmith. - Wanted.com . abet, Mass., Lawrence M. Rochette, 169 Wood- Q-VU FOLDOVER MOUNTS simplify mounting ANY IMAGES of Nevada City or Grass Valley, Cal- land Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752. your print stereo views. Sample kit $8. Med. for- ifornia. Mautz, 329 Bridge Way, Nevada City, CA THE DETROIT Stereographic Society invites you mat mounts, white or (new!) black. Beginner's 95959, cmautzQnccn.net . to attend our monthly meetings at the Livonia stereo kits: camera, viewer, views, etc.,$89.99 Senior Center, on the second Wednesdays, Sep- up. Q-VU, Box 55, Holtville, CA 92250-0055. COLLECT, TRADE, BUY & SELL: 19th Century images (cased, stereo, Cdv, cabinet & large tember through June. Visit our website STEREO VIEWCARD book boxes. Now accepting paper) Bill Lee, 8658 Galdiator Way, Sandy, UT htt~:/lhome.comcast.netl-dsswebl or call Den- orders for handmade, fully personalized boxes. 84094. [email protected] Specialties: West- nis Green at (313) 755-1389. Fit sleeved viewcards. Send SASE for full details ern, Locomotives, Photographers, Indians, Min- WEST VIRGINIA stereoviews, photo postcards, to Boxcrafters, PO Box 55, Holtville, CA 92250 or ing, J. Carbutt, Expeditions, Ships, Utah and other photography, books and old paper. I buy call (760) 356-4102. occupational from Xerox or e-mail scan. Tom Prall, PO Box STEREO VIEWS FOR SALE on our website at: CORTE-SCOPE VIEWS or sets, any subject or 155, Weston, WV 26452, [email protected] www.daves-stereos.com email: cdwoodQ~td condition. No viewers unless with views. John (304) 924-6553. .net or contact us by writing to Dave or Cyndi - Waldsmith, 302 Granger Rd., Medina, OH WHITE MOUNTAINS: Early photographic views Wood, PO Box 838, Milford, PA 18337, Phone: 44256. and stereoviews of new Hampshire White Moun- (570) 296-6176. Also wanted: views by L. tain and northern NH regions, 1850s-1890s Hensel of NY and PA. DAKOTA TERRITORY (also states) stereoviews or any format photo, or information on area pho- wanted for my collection. Town views, main tographers to add to only book listing Dakota streets, bridges, homes, occupational, coaches, -- -- - photographers, "They Captured the Moment" railroads, etc. E-mail images to dsundmanQ LittletonCoin.com, or send photocopies to Dav~d s one of the benefits of membership, NSA listing 1750t photographers to 1920. Hard Sundman, President, Littleton Coin Company, A members are offered free use of classified cover only left. $42.50 plus post. Dakota Photo, advertising. Members may use 100 words per 636 West 21st, Sioux Falls, SD 57105. Brad 1309 Mt. Eustis Rd., Littleton, NH 03561-3735. year, divided into three ads with a maximum Bishop, 7728 Boeing Ave., Los Angeles CA of 35 words per ad. Additional words or addi- 90045. tional ads may be inserted at the rate of 200 per word. Please include payments with ads. DENNIS PELLERIN: Researching 19th-century French photography and need to contact Dennis We cannot provide billings. Ads will be placed in the issue being assembled at the time of Pellerin in France. If anyone has a current mail- ing and/or email address, I would appreciate it. their arrival unless a specific later issue is Paula Fleming britishstereosQhotmail.com . requested. Send all ads, utith paymen It, to: STEREO WORLI) Classified~

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