I the MAGAZINE of 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING, PAST & PRESENT I Volume 27 Number 4

I THE MAGAZINE OF 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING, PAST & PRESENT I Volume 27 Number 4

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Off ... % he 27th annual NSA convention hese names weren't included in last issue's list of NSA members who Twill be held July 19-23, 2001, at Tprovided extra financial support to the organization-some due to late the Adams Mark Hotel in Buffalo, renewals and some due to a computer file that ended up in the wrong New York. Identify yourself as folder. Like those on the earlier list, these individuals deserve the gratitude attending the National Stereoscop- and appreciation of the organization for their generous support. ic Association 2001 Convention in Van Beydler Thomas J. Dooley Jim McManus Mitchell Walker order to receive the group rate of Kenneth M. Blades Louis E. Goldszer Yoshihiko Saji Rick Willbur a@ $90.00 (plus taxes) flat room rate, Charles U. Buck Les Heyward Patrick &I Ann Taylor per night, single, double, quadru- Mike Chew J.J. Larrea Arthur S. Vaughan ple occupancy. This is guaranteed r A to be the lowest available room rate. Adam's Mark Buffalo,l20 Church Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, (716) 845-5100, reservations: (800) 444-2326. For more information or forms, contact Marty Abramson, martz3d @aol.com or visit the new convention web site: http://nsa2001.home. att.net. r38

...... Keystone No. 7 029, "Niagara Falls (winter), Niagara Falls, N. Y, U.S.A. " Buffalo experienced record snowfalls during the winter of 2000-2001, but we can confidently predict that the falls won't look like this for the tour scheduled during the NSA convention ]UIY 19-23. 1- THE MAGAZINE OF L. L. Cu p, Sr. 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING, PAST & PRESENT Keystone Saf' esrnan and Photographer ...... 4 A Publlnfm d NATIONAL by Robert E. King Learning About Stereo Exhibitions ...... 9 by Diane Rulieri NSA Board c)f Directors Bill C. Waltor1, Chairman NSA Y2K: A Memorable Mesa Meeting ...... 10 Paula R. I:lerning by john Dennis , ., .- I -' D~eterL Russell P William England Picture Book Falls Flat ...... 19 T.K. Tre; review by Robert G. Wilson Richard 1 NSA Officers My Visits with Andre ...... 20 Mary Ann Sell, President by Laurence Kaufinan Shab Levy, Vice President Dean Kamin, Vice President, Activities Larry Hess, Secretary North to Alaska ...... 29 David Wheel1?r, Treasurer by Mary Ann Sell Stereo Wc ~rldStaff lohn Dpnrliq Fditnr Civil War Discoveries Go Deeper into History ...... 32 trice Kaufman, Contributing Ec review by Iohn Dennis Mark Willke, Art Director ria Dennis, Sub!icription Manog n R. Cibbs, Bac k Issues Monag 1- I

how ro each Us: Editor's View Comments and Observations ...... 2 NSA Merr ~bership by Iohn Dennis (Nmrnernbrrrhrps. rrnpv vnh b oddrrss chon P.O. Elox 14801, Columbus, OH 43 Letters Reader's Comments and Questions ...... 3

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tereo World Advertising (Clorr!bd & Ii~rplny odr) SE 71 st Ave., P ortland, OR 97 (503) 77 1-4440 lust one highlight of the 2000 NSA convention in Mesa, Arizona, was the Saturday night "3-0 Swim- in Theater" where a paper glasses wearing throng leffrey Kraus filled the hotel pool and surrounding area, noisily 3ubois Rd., New Paltz, NY 12561 appreciating the onaglyphic projection of several (914) 255.791 7 e-mail: jkrau 16mm 3-0films. For more on the convention, see - our long overdue feature "NSA YZK: A Memorable (Oliver Wendell Holrnes Mesa Meeting. " Ster ,eoscopic Research Libri ,d(i,,,",/ 'd wifh lht Nnl!annl 5f?i?orcop!cArsoo Er~eAve , C~nc~nnat~,OH 45, e-mall vmrnasell@c~nt~net

iety of Arne rica Volume 27, Number 4 September/October 2000 3b Levy, Mernbersh~p Secretar jW 34th Ave., IPortland, OR 9 Stereo World(lSSN 0191-4030) is published bimonthly by the National Stereoscopic Association, Inc.. P.O. Box 14801. Columbus, OH 43214. !-mail: [email protected] Ent~recontents Q2001, all r~ghtsreserved. Mater~alIn this publicat~onmay not be reproduced without written perm~ssionof the NSA, Inc. Print- ed In USA. A subscription to Stereo World is part of NSA membership. Annual membership dues: 126 th~rdclass US. 138 f~rstclass US. $38 Canada and forelgn surface. $56 Internationalairmail. All membersh~psare based on the publish~ngyear of Stereo World, wh~chbe Ins in March tereo World on the Web and ends w~ththe IanuaryiFebruary lssue of the next year. All new memberships rece~vedw~ll commence w~ththe MarchiAprj Issue of the w.stereoview.org current calendar year. When apply~ngfor membersh~p,please advlse us ~fyou do not der~rethe back Issues of the current volume. Member, lnternationol Stereoscopic Union - Comments and Observations john Dennis

NSA Y2K At Last where Vidmaxxx.com had a table their renewal notices will arrive at promoting (and showing selections about the same time anyway. But feel I should apologize again to from) its line of 22 X-rated 3-D those who don't respond to renew- those who had hoped to see cov- videos. While the intent was as al letters (or follow-up reminder Ierage of the 2000 NSA conven- much to entice retailers as cus- cards) may now miss issues if they tion far sooner than this. In the tomers, Trade Fair managers could renew late! future, we'll avoid starting long, potentially face more of a dilemma The most crucial thing about two-part articles in the summer in dealing with adult material than this change to a more practical that could soak up the space need- will the Stereo Theater. membership system is that those ed for convention features. In a who distribute NSA membership sense, conventions become a part A New NSA System brochures need to request a supply of NSA history almost the minute With the distribution of new of the new version (printed in they are over-worthy of generous NSA membership brochures, the brown ink on white paper) as soon coverage but lacking the same sort former system of beginning all as possible and recycle any old ver- of time value inherent in things memberships with the MarchIApril sions. The new brochure is less like reports of new products or issue of Stereo World will change. cluttered and generally classier reviews of films or books. They Using the new brochures, new looking than the last one, with should, however, be covered before memberships will start at the time image quality closer to that of they become ancient history! the form is sent in and expire at Stereo World. Just think-you can The late-night presentation of the same time the following year. bring a deeper meaning to lives all the first hard-core adult 3-D mater- People joining in September, for over the planet by helping distrib- ial to be presented at an NSA con- example, will receive renewal ute it to potential new members. vention ("Baxxxstage" by Mark notices ahead of next September's Write to NSA brochure, PO Box Kernes) resulted in a minor flurry issue. Unlike the old 86708, Portland, OR 97286. ee of some member complaints and system, they will ,- many e-mail messages among NSA not be sent a pack- officers and board members follow- age of all the issues ing the convention. It was ironic in the current vol- that the first Stereo Theater show ume they have of this sort happened in Mesa- missed. one of the more conservative com- This will avoid munities in Arizona. (Even people situations in not necessarily in search of wild, which people late hours socializing were sur- joining late in the prised at how early the bars closed year receive there.) renewal notices The overwhelming consensus among Board members was that the matter had been handled well, with adequate warnings about the show's content made in the program book and from the podium prior to the event. in general, the conclusion seems to have been that while tasteless sleaze doesn't deserve promotion just because it's in 3-Dl decisions concerning the content of Stereo Theater shows should be left to convention planners rather than subject to censor- ship from above. Most suggestions involved the need for clear, up- front notices about nudity or adult content to avoid subjecting any members to material they don't wish to see. That avoidance was less easy on - the floor of the NSA Y2K Trade Fair, difference as

@ Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO WORLD Reader's Comments and Questions

Stereo Patterns maintained close communication read the article: "Don Peck's through 1977 and were collaborat- Stereo Patterns" with great inter- ing on a book on this subject. est and commend him for being It is worth mentioning that I credit should be accorded to astute enough to secure his 1976 patent. 1 take issue, however, that Alphons Schilling who was also Don was the inventor of "stereo- independently working with this scopic patterns". That singular concept during 1973-74 in New honor belongs to Sir David Brew- York. (See Binocularis-Galerie Ari- ster who described a detailed adne) account of this phenomenon in Anyone may find more informa- his book On the Stereoscope, pub- tion on this history plus illustra- lished in 1856. His Chapter "On tions covering the above by going the Union of Similar Pictures in to my web site at www.ferranallo.org. Roger Ferragallo Binocular Vision" was extraordi- El Sobrante, CA nary for its time. Rochwite's Pantograph I describe a detailed account of Holmes' Personal Collection On page 4 of the Volume 27 #2 this and several of my stereoscopic For years there has been specula- issue of SW, the caption "making canvases relating to this phenome- tion about the fate of the stere- part of the polarizer attachment" is non done in 1972 which appeared oview collection of Oliver Wendell not correct. The machine that Mr. in the International Journal of the Holmes. The late Larry Wolfe in Rochwite is using is a Gorton Pan- Contemporary Artist, Leonardo, 1981 while working on the fate of tograph being used to engrave the Vol. 7 No. 2 Spring 1974 "On the prototype Holmes stereoviewer Realist logo into the bakelite lens Stereoscopic Painting" (Pergamon (which had been donated to cover of a Realist camera. The Press). This article was based upon Phillips Academy) told me of a upper device that Mr. Rochwite my earlier writing of "A Manifesto rumor that the view collection had controls with his right hand is a Directed to the Aesthetics of Stereo gone to the Museum of Fine Arts stylus that traces the enlarged logo Space in the Visual Arts and the in Boston. Further, in a 1976 inter- (which is larger and used as a tem- Art of Painting" published on view Bill Darrah asserted that he plate) and produces a smaller ver- November 12, 1972. In another had satisfied himself that it was sion-by way of adjustable arms- account of this, one can refer to there. at the cutting tool seen directly Stereo World, MarchIApril 1995, In connection with a new publi- above the lens cover that has been Volume 22, Number 1; "Stereo- cation (facsimile reprints of 3 of nested in its holding fixture. scopic Architectural Surfaces". Holmes' seminal articles on stereo) Prior to the advent of numerical The patterned illustrations I decided to check this out, since (computer) controls for machines, which appear in the Peck article there had been no further reports. the engraving of characters and/or were prefigured by me in 1970-72 I'm sorry to report that the Muse- logos was done by hand using a and in an amazing piece of syn- um informs me that "...the stereo- Gorton or similar machine which chronicity by Edward H. Trent cards that the Holmes family gave used brass interlocking master from Warwickshire, England in to the Museum were mixed in characters and/or logos, guided by 1972! Trent was introduced to me with the Museum's other stereo- hand from one letter or number to by way of Mr. Dalgoute of The cards, none of which were ever another, onto the object being Stereoscopic Society and Free specifically catalogued." marked. It was then back-filled Vision pioneer Earle H. Krause. This seems to verify that the col- with a paintstick and the excess Trent wrote to me in October 1972 lection was indeed donated, but removed with a cloth leaving a enclosing a wonderfully illustrated raises serious doubt as to its being clean, permanent mark. article that had been published in identifiable as a unit. How did ear- Steve Ruffy, the Stereoscopic Society Bulletin No. lier workers identify the cards? Did Windsor Locks, CT 37, March 1972, titled, "Stereo Holmes annotate them, or put on Actually, both your letter and the cap- Designs As An Art form". He and I a collector's imprint as was com- tion are correct. Mr. Rochwite is shown mon in those days? I'm trying to using a Gorton Pantograph to en'vave a f you have comments or questions for the get someone in the Boston area to logo on a lens cover, but it's the metal Ieditor concerning any stereo-related matter investigate the situation, and come cover of the Realist polarizer attachment appearing (or missing) in the pages of Stereo up with a final assessment. that he designed, and the 10~gobeing World, please write to john Dennis, Stereo T.K. Treadwell engraved on it is his own. World Editorial Office, 5610 SE 71 st Ave., Bryan, TX - Ed. Portland, OR 97206. -- (Continued on paxe 27)

STEREO WORLD Volume 27, Number 4 0 L. L. Cupp, Sr. Kevstone Salesman and

by Robert E. King

aylon Lavern Cupp, or "L. L. Keystone, established in 1892 at Cupp," as he preferred, was Meadville, Pennsylvania, by the Lborn January 20, 1898 at mid 1920s was the last surviving lomaqua, near Allentown, Penn- major producer of stereographs. sylvania. He was the son of Joseph Branch offices had been estab- Frampton Cupp and his wife Clara lished in various locations world- (Rice) Cupp, Pennsylvania natives wide, including New York City and for several generations. the Boston area. The offices there When Cupp was young, his fam- composed the Keystone View ily moved to Williamsport, Penn- Company of New England. sylvania, where his father worked In the later summer of 1925, just as a conductor on the Reading after accepting his new teaching Railroad. Cupp attended the local position in Brooklyn but before high school, developing an interest starting the job, Cupp spent the in science and engineering. Subse- intervening 5 weeks doing trial quently, he was in college at the sales work for the Keystone Com- time of World War I, taking pany. This involved door-to-door R.O.T.C. training besides his regular sales of boxed sets of stereographs, studies. In 1924, Cupp graduated being marketed as part of the with honors from Lehigh Universi- "Keystone Travel System." These ty in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in were sets containing views selected L.L. Cupp at age 29 from the key- Mechanical Engineering. His hope for their educational value about stone Hall of Fame Annual of 7 927. was to become a teacher, and he worldwide locations with accom- By selling over $7 000 worth of views soon accepted a position as panying informative descriptions. in each of ten or more weeks (he instructor at his alma mater. While In five weeks he had earned a had 74 in 7 927) Cupp became a the experience was satisfying, after remarkable $512.40, much more "Cabinet Member" in the company than what his new teaching job Hall of Fame. Salesmen with eight teaching for one year he realized $7 000 weeks became "U.S. Sena- that there was little money to be was to pay. Consequently, while tors", on down through "Cover- made in that line of work. Conse- Cupp did honor his contract to nors ", "Congressmen", "State Sena- quently, with the national econo- teach in Brooklyn, he resigned at tors", and "Assemblymen" with two my of the mid 1920s booming, the end of the first semester and $7 000 weeks. Cupp began looking for better pay- began his career with Keystone ing opportunities. Just as he was which would continue into the and a convincing salesman, he accepting another teaching posi- 1930s. His first work included recruited other sales representa- tion as instructor of Electrical Engi- more door-to-door sales as well as tives for the company. For this, he neering at Pratt University in contacting schools to sell stereo earned special prizes. Within weeks Brooklyn for $250 per month, views and viewers for their educa- of starting work in 1925, Cupp something better did arise. It was tional benefit. won $100 in Keystone stock as the the opportunity to become a sales- Soon Cupp was a leading sales- firm's leading recruiter during the man for the Keystone View Com- man for Keystone. Additionally, contest period. In 1926, he repeat- pany. using his talents as a fine speaker ed this accomplishment during a

0 Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO WWRLD similar contest, this time earning a During 1928-29, Cupp worked at the Keystone Boston area office, located at 107 Brighton Avenue in Allston, Massachusetts. A series of views like this were taken of fine suit of clothes and a top-coat. him there. Dick Wood collection. By February of 1926, only months ...... after starting work for ~eystone, ments, being pictured in the publi- 107 Brighton Avenue in Allston, Cupp's sales netted him a profit of cation with a detailed account of Massachusetts. Later, Cupp moved over $1,000 per month, four times his successes for the company. his family to Mt. Vernon, New what he would have earned teach- The following year of 1927, York, a few miles north of New ing. By the end of 1926, his profits Cupp did even better. He was fea- York City. While there, two more were nearly $8,000. This was tured again in Keystone's Hall of children, both daughters, were enough to bring him special recog- Fame Annual, this time with a full- born: Patricia in 1929, and Camilla nition in the Keystone Company's page photograph to accompany an in 1933. publication, the Hall of Fame Annu- account of his impressive accom- While living at Mt. Vernon until al. Cupp was featured for his plishments. His sales figures for late 1933, Cupp worked for the remarkable first-year accomplish- 1927 were revorted as $24,272, Keystone Comvanv out of their including $10,387 profit, equal to N~WYork citY'0ffice, located at L.L. Cupp with son L. L. Cupp, lr. around $100,000 in today's dollars. 219 East 44th Street. During this ("Lee") at the family's Mt. Vernon, At this time, Cupp was emerging time, he remained a very successful New York, home. Courtesy of Mrs. as one of Keystone's most success- salesman, with junior salesmen Camilla (Cupp) Gray, Linden, PA. ful salesman in the nation, with working under him. One of his mm' : his career to rise even further. best years was 1930, when Key- Meanwhile, Cupp's remarkable stone awarded him a silver cup for talents in selling proved valuable high salesmanship. Reportedly, in another way. One of the cus- this was the sixth, and last such tomers of a 600-card stereograph cup ever awarded by Keystone, set in early 1926 was a Miss Cora with it remaining in his family for Louise Van Horn, a Columbia Uni- many years as a prized trophy. versity-educated grammar school During this time, Cupp also may teacher from Peekskill, New York. have purchased an interest in the In September of that same year she Keystone Company of New Eng- became his bride. Their first of four land. Yet, as the 1930s progressed, children, a son L. L. Cupp, Jr., the weight of the Great Depression called "Lee," was born July 2, increasingly changed all this. 1927, at the home of Cora's par- Initially, after 1929, Cupp found ents in Peekskill. Shortly after this, a new market by enlarging his Cupp's excellent salesmanship for sales contacts from schools and his Keystone won atrip for him and usual customers, to include wealth- his wife to Havana, Cuba. ier families. His older son recalled During 1928-29, Cupp's work for that among his father's most noted the Keystone company was from customers was automaker Henry its Boston area office, located at Ford. To Ford and others of wealth,

STEREO WORLD Volume 27, Number 4 @ A typical limited edition view made around the time Cupp worked for the keystone Cupp was able to sell some of Key- View CO. of New England in the late 1920s out of their Allston, MA office. stone's largest stereo view sets, ...... including v600 and even 1,200 card summer. Their housing at this time that they would buy more. Often boxed sets. The latter were amus- was quite primitive, lacking elec- this worked. Additionally, Cupp ingly called in the company's tricity, running water, and indoor began using, and sometimes sell- internal publications "Big Berthas." plumbing. But the family survived. ing, custom-made cameras. Reportedly, Cupp, sensing such a Cupp was also able to find occa- In later 1938 or 1939, Cupp market for larger, more expensive sional employment with a govern- moved his family again, this time sets, helped persuade Keystone to mental organization involved with to Hartford, Connecticut. There, in produce its 1,200-card set in 1931. the study of corn borers and other 1939, the last Cupp child was Yet, before long, the demand for insects destructive of local crops. born, a son, Joseph. At Hartford, these declined as did the sales for By 1936, the national economy Cupp continued working in sales, the more common deluxe boxed had improved enough for Cupp to including approaching large manu- sets and even smaller amounts of consider reentering the stereo view facturing companies such as the stereo views. In the later 1920s, sales business. Starting in 1936, he International Silver Company to salesmen under Cupp were com- began leaving the farm on short buy his homemade stereo photo- monly selling individual stereo trips to reestablish contacts and to graphs. Reportedly, one of his suc- views for 15 cents each, and view- find a good location. By 1937, he cesses along this line was with the ers for up to $8 to $10 each. Yet, was encouraged enough to move "E-Z-Do" Company, which made most Americans by 1931-32 the family to Springfield in west- cardboard furniture such as increasingly could not afford such ern Massachusetts. There Cupp wardrobes and drawers. Cupp was "luxuries," and thus the market for resumed work selling stereo views able to sell them on the benefit of stereo views and viewers dried up. for Keystone. They included views taking 3-D pictures of their prod- In 1933, Cupp was forced into of early World War I1 bombing in ucts which their salesmen could other work for a few years. England, which otherwise was take to potential customers instead Due to his initial success in the becoming increasingly known to of hauling along the real thing. greater New York City area, Cupp Americans through magazines, Overall, while the American was buying a house at 42 Hillcrest newspapers, and newsreel "shorts" economy improved in the late Road in Mount Vernon. In 1933, preceding feature length movies in 1930s just preceding World War 11, however, he was unable to pay the theaters. the market for stereo photographic mortgage, with the bank repossess- At Springfield, Cupp also worked work and sales remained soft. Con- ing the property. With what on his own to create a new market sequently, in 1939, the Keystone money they had, the Cupps for stereophotography. He Company ended its regular pro- moved in late 1933 to a 20-acre employed a crew of photographers duction of stereo views, thus ter- farm, located about half-way to take custom stereo photographs minating Cupp's supply of their between Mardela Springs and of families, weddings, and other product. By this time, probably as Sharptown in Maryland. There special events. Sometimes the tac- the company's last active salesman, they operated a subsistence chick- tic would be to make a free stereo Cupp was selling very few stereo en farm and peach orchard, plus photo for a person or family, and views and was understanding of had a truck garden during the then present it to them, hoping the company's action.

@ Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO WRLD A sample stereo view given out by L. L. Cupp to advertise his sale of stereo box cam- roll of film, with the film costing eras, ca. 1939. From the typed description on the back of the view, the camera could well have been the German Eho. 27-30 cents per roll. Cupp further ...... estimated that film developing and About 1939-40, Cupp moved his black tape. Thus, they were fore- then printing each stereo pair family again, from Hartford to runners of the cardboard and would cost six cents "at any drug Coscob, in southwestern Connecti- metal mounted 35 mm color store." Altogether, Cupp charged cut. Subsequently, he established a stereoviews which became popular 531'75 in cash for the and "100 photographic cardboard photo studio in nearby Port after World War I1 into the 1950s. Chester, New York, which is less Still another market Cupp mounts with a #I00 leather bound cabinet." Cupp's profits from this than 20 miles northeast of New tapped in the pre World War I1 York City. During this time, Cupp period was selling imported stereo venture are undocumented, but are hired a Mr. Allen to do his photo- box cameras to amateur photogra- thought to be fair-to-good. graphic work, again producing and phers. According to ads he pre- In later 1940 or early 1941, selling stereo photos of weddings pared and placed on the backs of Cupp moved once more. This time and other special events. Addition- stereo views given out as samples, it was to Old Greenwich, Con- ally, Cupp used his custom cam- the cameras measured 6" x 374" x 2 necticut, less than 30 miles from eras to make 8" by 10" size non- Y4" and used standard Eastman New York City. His new studio in stereo photographs. Reportedly, his Kodak #I20 film. Reportedly, the nearby Greenwich was named the work was well-received, particular- camera would take five stereo "Keystone Studio," thus continu- ly for wedding pictures, where his views on a standard eight-exposure ing a name association with his talents at skillfully arranging wed- ...... ding gowns of new brides brought L.L. Cupp and the 1939 De Soto he used in his photography business taking stereos in many customers. of weddings and people in their homes - including some color stereo transparencies During the time of the New York on Kodachrome. Courtesy of Mrs. Camilla (Cupp) Gray, Linden, PA. World's Fair in 1939 and 1940, Cupp took and marketed some photographs of the fair. And it was also at this time, that he purchased 1:; a 1939 De Soto automobile, used ---- f I:; for his business. Another aspect of his stereo work during this period involved using Kodak's new Kodachrome color transparency ("slide") film, which first became available in 1936. Cupp's studio took color transparencies of people in stereo in their homes. These color slide stereoviews were then mounted between glass sheets sealed by

STEREO WORIJ) Volume 27, Number 4 @ former company. This studio was cut. Yet, by this time, new eco- While the World War I1 period located on Route 1, at the corner nomic problems were developing. was rocky for his photographic of Greenwich Avenue. While here, With revenues declining once career, his personal life was also Mrs. Cupp worked at the studio as again in 1942 after World War I1 unsettled. In 1943, he and his wife a secretary and their older son Lee, began, Cupp sold his business and divorced, though they would then in high school, helped devel- briefly went to photographic remarry 10 years later. During this op photographs plus did odd jobs school. The buyer of his studio, time, his relationship with his chil- including carrying supplies. Cupp's however, was later unable to make dren also became strained, with his older daughter Pat, around age 12, payments and Cupp was forced to wife working in a 5 and 10 cent also worked some at the studio. repossess it. He resumed photo- store to support the family while In the early 1940s, Cupp's graphic work once more, including he maintained a good income at Greenwich business was successful, being hired by the local school in his studio. From his family's view, due not only to the high quality of 1944 to take 8th grade graduation Cupp remained "wealthy" while his photographic work and the photos of students. His daughter they were poor. help of his family, but also to his Pat was among those he pho- About 1947, Cupp again sold the own talents at marketing. Addi- tographed that year. These photos business. After that, his involve- tionally, the strategic location of were marked "Keystone Green- ment in photographic work and his studio brought him work as wich, Conn." sales ended. For the next few years well. Across the street from it in Among his last successes in into the 1960s, Cupp went into Greenwich was the Pickwick Hotel, photographic work, for a few years other types of sales, including sell- where noted people often stayed or prior to around 1947, was taking ing juicers. Also during this time, entertained. Marilyn Monroe was specialty baby pictures which were he resumed teaching, serving for a married there once, and it may captioned with humorous com- time as an instructor of calculus at have been at the Pickwick that ments. These were called "Bannis- Penn State. Cupp took stereographs of Dinah ter Baby" photos, so named for In the 1950s, he moved to Tuc- Shore, Kate Smith, and other Constance Bannister, the publisher son, with his buyers there for celebrities of the era at special din- of booklets and calendars with juicers including many retired peo- ner parties. these types of pictures in the 1940s ple. In the 1960s, he retired from As to wise marketing, Cupp's and 1950s. Cupp's family recalled active sales work, though contin- younger daughter Camilla recalled that babies would be brought into ued some marketing into the early riding the train from Greenwich to the studio, then startled so as to 1970s, including briefly selling Old Greenwich and other nearby produce unusual poses. Sometimes water purifiers. For a time he lived places. Along the route her father hats, glasses, or special clothing with his daughter, Camilla, and placed prominent ads behind glass were added, with the market for her family, and also with his son, in all the train stations. These these amusing and cute pictures Lee, and his family. included attractive sample pictures continuing into the early 21st cen- (Continued on page 18) made by Cupp, with one being of tury as collectibles. himself, his wife, and four children in a relaxed outdoor pose. This photo was made about 1942 in the L. L. Cupp and family in the park near their home in Old Greenwich, C7; ca. 1942. park in Old Greenwich, Connecti- Back, left-to-right: L.L. Cupp, Cora Cupp, 1.1. jr. (Lee). Front, left-to-right: Patrica, loseph, Camilla.

~lume27, Number 4 STEREO WRLD Learnina About Stereo Exhibitions by Diane Rulien

hab Levy and I are the incom- Exhibitions are equally wonder- lower, many exhibitions are no ing Exhibition Standards Direc- ful for participants. Photographers longer mailing out entry forms Stors for the Stereo Division of are able to get exposure for their unless they are specifically request- the Photographic Society of Ameri- work and accumulate stars for ed. For those of us who have inter- ca. We are looking forward to their acceptances. Exhibitions net access, this is no problem. working with exhibition commit- allow for a healthy sense of com- Most of the forms are available on tees and clubs to provide PSA petition and a sense of accomplish- the PSA website. The exhibitions approval and publicity for stereo ment. They serve as a motivating are also listed on the egroup calen- exhibitions. In this capacity, we force for many who find it difficult dars for ISU, SSA, photo-3D, and will be overseeing the application to focus on goals without clear 3Dsalon. But those who do not process, entry forms, and catalogs objectives. Many participants like have internet access may feel left which exhibitions generate. The to collect the catalogs generated by out. 2001 CES standards and the Uni- the exhibitions as souvenirs. In order to assist non-internet form Practice-Judging Practices If you have never sponsored an photographers in getting entry are available on the PSA website exhibition before, we would love forms, we are compiling a mailing http://members.aol.com/psastereo and to give you some pointers on get- list for only those who want to photo-3d http://www.egroups.com/ ting your first one organized. Per- enter Stereo Division exhibitions grouv/vhoto-3d If you do not have haps you have had exhibitions in but do not have internet access. an internet connection, write to us the past, but have never tried an We are hopeful that a small list of and we will mail these documents electronic section. We can help such people will encourage the to you. you to host your first electronic exhibitions to mail out entry forms Exhibitions are wonderful for section. Please contact us and just to this group without the cost sponsors. It provides an opportuni- share your interests and questions. being too prohibitive. Other ty to view hundreds of images We are also interested in any ideas entrants can download the forms from all over the world and to for making exhibitions more fun from the internet at their conve- judge and compare those images. and more accessible to everyone. nience. The sponsor then has an opportu- One of the greatest costs that If you do not have access to the nity to use the accepted images as exhibitions are facing is postage. In internet and you would like to be publicity for 3-D and for the spon- order to keep their entry fees (Continued on pa

STEREO WORLD Volume 27, Number 4 @ A Memorable Mesa Meeting

by John Dennis

ith temperatures ranging into Mesa, visiting local museums daily from 103" to 110°, the and some nearby food and drink w450 stereo enthusiasts establishments. Even those not attending the 26th annual Nation- prepared to encase themselves in al Stereoscopic Association conven- sun screen and set out with more tion in Mesa, Arizona, July 6-10 water bottles than cameras were enjoyed a more than warm recep- soon able to traverse the small tion and an event offering more plazas between the bright pink variety and excitement than most hotel and its identically painted probably anticipated. Visitors from restaurant, the Stereo Theater facil- outside the sun belt soon realized ity, or the Trade Fair hall with the (after some trial expeditions out- brazen casualness of desert side between the Sheraton Mesa nomads. Hotel and a sports bar across the The Stereo theater street), that survival was indeed possible in what at first seemed Thanks to the planning and like a climate imported from expertise of Coordinator Robert Venus. Bloomberg (as well as his After a couple of days, some of projection crew), this year's Stereo the more adventurous had Theater was one of the smoothest actually ventured ever experienced. Most shows were presented very near (or even at) their scheduled times, which were clearly posted at the doors to the ballroom.

@ Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO WORLD \ Seen from the balcony are about two thirds of the 120 tables in the Trade Fair, held in Centennial Hall adjacent to the Sheraton Mesa Hotel. The registration desk and NSA tables were just outside the main entrance at upper left. A snack bar (upper right) alowed busy shoppers and dealers to avoid going out into the heat for food and drink.

With numerous workshops, room- high quality of images and produc- Black Rock desert. His show captured hopping and the Trade Fair all tion, but for a variety of subjects the mood of rarefied anarchy at the competing for people's time and wide enough impress, satisfy or unique event that lets nobody be even shock nearly every interest or simply a spectator. Sharing the harsh attention, the carefully scheduled conditions and experiencing every three days of stereo projection taste. untamed or unlikely combination of made it possible to see most of the BURNING MAN & BURNING IMAGES by art forms is part of the idea here, and shows you really wanted to see. Harold Baize documented the annual stereography comes close to convey- The selection of presentations was "Burning Man" art & performance ing accurately at least its visual astounding not only for the overall festival held in northern Nevada's aspects.

...... From THE ROCKY PICTURE SHOW by Roger Mulkey, 7 st place w~nnerof the Paul Wing Award for best Stereo Theater ...... show.

SI'EREO WORLD Volume 27, Number 4 @ 30MUSEUM by Bob & Lorraine Brack- ett presented the 3-D conversions of classic paintings from the now legendary-book of the same name by Makoto Sugiyama. While 3-D conversions of complex images like photographs and paintings are becoming more common and hard to detect today, the amazing digital conversions found in 30 Mirsetrrn created a sensation when first seen in 1995. NOCTURNAL MOMENTS: DREAM 3 & 4 by Lynn Butler used variations of multiple flash and "light painting" techniques on images of horses and a woman in a forest clearing at night. The stereos flowed into one another in surrealistic sequences that provided one of the most effective evoca- How many stereographers does it take to set up a screen? About six people were involved tions of a dream ever seen on a 3-D with different parts of the project for the Y2K Stereo Theater in the hotel's Ballroom. screen. Clockwise from the left, ]ohn Roll, David Starkman, Bob Brackett and Wolfgang Sell TRIBUTE TO JOHN BAIRD by Tom carefully attach the wide NSA screen to its frame while volunteers at the back of the Deering reminded everyone of the room organize the projection platform. imaginative work created by this prolific experimenter in linht and depth, and of-just what the stereo communi- ty lost when John Baird died in 1999. (See SW Vol. 26 No. 4, page 33.) A STYLISH DAY AT THE RACES by Greg Dinkins presented a collection of French dass views by an accom- plished amateur or professional photographer showing people in fashionable styles of clothing in fashionable settings like the race tracks or side- walk cafes of the 1920s. While paper stereoviews can be impressive when well copied and projected, glass views can reveal an even greater density I and tonal range on the screen. With From LIGHT PAINTING AND OTHFR ODDITIES by Pad McLaughhn, 2nd place winner among any luck, this show will inspire oth- Stereo Theater shows. ers to copy and present similarly unique images to be found on the amateur glass view formats once so popular in Europe. NATURE AS I SAW IT by Nick Dobish got the audience up close and personal with birds rarely seen in close- up stereos, largely through the use of a bird blind, a kin-Dar stereo close-up lens on an Exakta VX, a Duplex Super 120, a 2.8 Realist, and "an incredible amount of patience." WELCOME TO MESA, AZ by Tom Dory included views of the mesa area past and present. The show promoted NSA Y2K at the 1999 convention in Green Bay, and was back by popular demand. From BEYOND THE FRAME by John Rock, 3rd place winner among Stereo Theater shows FULL COLOUR MOVEMENT by Wim ABOUT FACE: A SHOW OF MASKS by various cultures with skillful atten- van Egmond employed dancers, Robert Bloomberg concentrated on a tion to lighting and photography, the music and "a story-line but not a tell- much more limited range of subject amazing variety of coverings, distor- tale one" in the process of "deform- matter than is usually expected from tions and exaggerations made for the ing and dissecting reality" through this master stereographer who has human face were allowed to present the use of special effects achieved shared his roamings through Tus- themselves and their own depth of with only a stereo camera and light. cany, wild table top creations and detail without added props or manip- If they didn't read the program notes, whale petting expeditions via 3-D. By ulation. many in the audience probably stereographing a series of masks from thought a good deal of computer

@ Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO WORLD time went into this complex and fas- cinating presentation. CHI-COW-GO by Russ Gager documented the parade of wildly painted cow sculptures on Chicago sidewalks in 1999. Now scattered around the country, some of the cows are being stereographed in new surroundings. THE UNDERWATER WORLD OF SAMPSON THE FROG FISH by Ed Jameson gave NSA members another $ chance to see the work of this prolific 1 '-v underwater stereographer whose I show Seeing Eye to Eye was awarded the Paul Wing award for best Stereo 4- - Theater show at the 1996 convention From A STYLISH DAY AT THE RACES by Greg Dink~ns,mnner of the F~rstTlme Presenter Award in Rochester, NY. for the Stereo Theater. M7: DIARLO by Stephen Joseph covered this area of natural beauty in Califor- nia's Contra Costa County with obvi- ous care and insight brought to the effort by 16 years of professional landscape photography in the area. In nearly every view, the trees, grass, wildflowers and even the rocks of the hillsides glowed as if illuminated from within. Joseph's expertise in both stereo and panoramic photography has helped document several threatened sections in the Bay Area for local land trust organizations. GREATEST HITS by Gene Kirksey gave NSA members a chance to see some of the stereos that have earned Mr. Kirk- From BURNING MAN & BURNING IMAGES by Harold Baize. sey top honors in Photographic Soci- e6of-~merica competit~ons. His hummingbird action shots were especially appreciated. FROZEN IN TIME-THE SPLENDOR OF WINTER by David Kesner gave the facility's air conditioning system a big assist with its 3-Deep freeze scenes of ice and snow providing a welcome contrast to the 105" weather outside. Excellent stereo technique combined with imaginative use of close-ups and back lighting evoked nearly every aspect of real winter but the crunch underfoot and the runny nose. THE MAKING OF THE SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 3D SWIMSUIT ISSUE From FROZEN IN TIME-THE SPLENDOR OF WINTER by David Kesner. bv David Klutho was an exclusive behind the scenes look at the equip- the unaided human eye." Images WWII) turned up 452 rolls of Ger- ment, techniques and planning included 20 minute time exposure man Air Force movie film stored in involved in producingthis mass light paintings combining that tech- the long collapsed vaults between media return of 3-D to supermarket nique with natural settings, hyper- coffins. Of the salvageable footage, magazine racks. As a professional stereos, exotic tabletops, and digital two rolls were stereoscopic films sports photographer, Klutho has collage. As a contributing stereogra- showing instrument training, from blended that experience with an pher for George Coates Performance which paired frames were copied for impressive sense of 3-D impact to Works in San Francisco, McLaughlin's the Stereo Theater show. More details produce dramatic stereos of several stereos combine a tantalizing sense of of the story as well as more images sports. More examples, including his the theatrical with surrealistic will appear in an upcoming issue. coverage of the Sydney Olympics, surprises. will be seen in next year's Stereo The- TRICKS AND TREATS by Susan Pinsky ater and in an upcoming issue of 3-0 DISCOVERIES FROM A DRESDEN and David Starkman presented a wild Stereo World. CHURCH by Dieter Lorenz told the selection of stereos from a variety of story of how 1994 efforts to restore sources, including some of the best LIGHT PAINTING AND OTHER the Church of Our lady (destroyed in special effects and close-up 3-D to be ODDITIES by Pad McLaughlin the Allied bombing of Dresden in found anywhere. explored "what one can't see with

STEREO WORLD Volume 27, Number 4 b) Roy reminded everyone of what was missing from the convention-the larger than life presence of Bill Dug- From FULL COLOUR MOVEMENT by Wim van Egmond. gan, to who's memory the 2000 Stereo Theater was dedicated. (See SW Vol. 26 no. 5, page 31.) TECHNOBOT by Boris Starosta revealed some of the best stereoscopic computer imaging being done in the creation of completely digital worlds, a sample of which was seen in SW Vol. 26 No. 6, page 18. WILD WILD BEAST OF THE EAST by Melody Steele was a dark and mysti- cal tour through trees and swamps, filled with with a sense of foreboding. THE OLD WEST by Phyllis Uitti-Maslin took the audience close to and inside abandoned farm buildings and an assortment of equipment and unidentified ruins. These are the intriguing sights that most of us see whizzing past at the side of the road From ABOUT FACE: A SHOW OF MASKS by Robert Bloomberg. as we wish we had time to stop and shoot, but stereographed here with experienced attention to composition The world's EIRST FFATURE LENGTH The world's FIRST FEAB?iiQE fENGTW -- and lighting. THE 5TH VIEW-MASTER INTERNATIONAL STEREO SEQUENCE EXHIBITION 2000 presented by Mitch Walker included the Accepted, Medal, Honorable Mention and Special Award winning reels from the annual your arms competition sponsored by the Stereo Club of Southern California. WINTER by Dale Walsh roamed through a variety of winter scenes, all stereographed to bring every ice crys-

staniq RORI 6 tal and snow covered branch into a frigid 3-D reality in welcome contrast From BWANA DEVIL MADE ME DO IT by Ray Zone. to the 105" weather outside the room. THE ROCKY PICTURE SHOW by Roger respect, from climate to architecture BWANA DEVIL MADE ME DO IT by Ray Mulkey took the audience for an to economy and lifestyles. Zone provided a rare behind-the- unusual and tour of natural settings A TRIBUTE TO DAVID HUTCHISON by scenes look at the making of Arch with surprises around every corner. Susan Pinsky and David Starkman Obler's 1952 3-D classic Rwana Devil. Rocks intheir many forms have remembered the late NSA Board Ray contributes regular articles to always been a favorite subject of member and Science Editor of star lo^ Stereo World covering the history of stereographers (they don't usually magazine through images of and by 3-D film and projection techniques, move!) and have been shown in this much beloved, skilled and prolif- and was the convention keynote stereos of equally high technical ic stereographer. (See SW Vol. 27 No. speaker. quality, but seldom with such imagi- 1, page 3.) A MAN AND A WOMAN by Phyllis nation-and never have rocks been Uitti-Maslin was a stark, intimate this much fun! BEYOND THE FRAME by John Rock took the 3-D conversion of flat art look into the everyday private exis- SHUFFLE OFF TO BUFFALO by Paul works to new levels of complexity tence of a couple from morning in Pasqurello was a preview of sights and imagination through both his the bathroom on into the rest of the waiting at next year's NSA convention computer work and the choices of day and world. locale-the downtown area of a city original images. contrasting with Mesa in nearly every

@ Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO WORLD Following the Awards Banquet, 16mm anaglyphic movies were shown at the hotel's outdoor pool. Nearly every foot of the pool and the surrounding area was filled with people wearing glasses for the "3-0 Swim-in Theater".

REFLECTIONS ON A GOLDEN AGE by David Burder looked into some of the best of the classic stereoviews from the perspective of the late 20th century in a show that is now a classic in itself. DYNAMIC SYMMETRY and NUDES by Boris Starosta revealed his subtle mas- tery of stereographing both static objects and the human body--either combined with digital techniques or through strictly photographic control of lighting, color, etc. (See SW vol. 25 No. 6, page 22.) BAXXXSTAGE by Mark Kernes was easily the most controversial show ever presented at an NSA convention. Mark works in, writes about, and documents (in 3-D) the adult video Located on the balcony above the trade Fair hall, the Competitive Exhibits drew a healthy industry. After the late evening close number of viewers who could also use the vantage point to spot lost friends or family of Friday night's Spotlight Auction, members on the crowded main floor. some of his five worth of slides covering the making of hard-core nator Bob Bloomberg, the unique the challenge this presents to future porno films were shown to a small event featured four 16mm anaglyphic convention planners-underwater audience who had been pointedly movies shown at the hotel's outdoor projection? Anaglyphs on walls? advised of their explicit sexual con- pool following the Saturday night tent. Aside from a few shots that Awards Banquet. The noise of the Workshops included video cameras on tripods films and the appreciative crowd fill- An even dozen workshops were and some crew members, most of the ing the pool and the entire surround- held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, images concentrated on the fairly ing area would probably have caused with some repeated to allow more robotic sexual activity being taped. complaints from guests in rooms over the pool except for the fact that the interested people to fit them in Aside from a little initial shock at the between Stereo Theater shows and first few images on the screen, most hotel was almost completely filled by the Trade Fair. George Themelis of the group's interest concentrated NSA members-and most of them on Mr. Kernes' answers to questions were at the pool! Anaglyphic projec- and David Kesner presented Stereo about why people get into the porn tion at its best can be a ghostly expe- Slide mounting. George Freeman business, the nature of the market, rience, and a couple of the faded gave advice on The Aesthetics of the dangers of disease transmission, prints available had hardly enough Stereo Card Making. Taking the and reasons why so few (for better or image left for a flat film, much less a same topic further was David Lee worse) 3-D porno films or stills are stereoscopic one. But the magic of with Advanced Techniques in Stereo- produced. While most at the conven- the evening was really in just being card Making. George Themelis there-screaming at the mayhem in tion clearly weren't at all interested explained The Ins and Outs of Stereo Third Dimensional Murder, cheering in seeing it, the show's presence on Slide Viewers, while Dr. Bert Zucker- the program resulted in very few the monsters in the 18-minute ver- discussed the 19th century complaints being registered. In the sions of It Came From Outer Space and man end, the NSA's general policy of open- The Creature From the Black lagoon, Photographers of Palestine. Tom ness to all applications of stereogra- and laughing at the Three Stooges in Deering covered the Digital Restora- phy had been tested and upheld. Spooks. Among the things learned tion of Stereo Views inone work- (besides the fact that it doesn't cool THE 3-D SWIM-IN THEATER (or "Dive- shop and Creating Worlds in 3-0 in off much at night in July in Mesa) In 3-D Movies") was one of most another. Dan Shelly presented was that 3-D glasses work OK wet but memorable highlights of NSA Y2K. Anaglyph Creation, while David Lee don't bother saving them after that. Organized by Stereo Theater Coordi- covered Camera Separation in Stereo A few people speculated concerning

STEREO WORLD Volume 27, Number 4 @ able Mention went to Paul C. Juhl for "C.L. Wasson: International Views From the Center of Illinois" in SW Vol. 26 No. 1. THE LOU SMAUS AWARD for the Rest Article on Contemporary Stereoscopy went to Boris Starosta for "3-D Goes Into Overdrive" in SW Vol. 26 No. 6. Honorable Mention went to Lawrence Kaufman for "3-D Galapagos" in SW Vol. 26 No. 5. THE NSA SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD went to Leonard Walle, who for the past ten years has headed of the Awards Committee, gathering input and opinions from members to help reward those whose efforts have meant the most to the organization over the years. The cool lobby of the Stereo Theater facility provided an ideal place for meeting old and new friends. Here View-Master photographer and consultant Charlie Van Pelt (center) For the Stereo Theater, special shows his latest publishing project to Wolfgang Sell, left, and Mitchell Walker, right. thanks first went to David klutho ...... for his astounding show The Mak- photography. Shmuel Peleg described THE WILLIAM C. DARRAH FELLOW ing of the Sports Ilhtstrated 30 Swim- the video system Omni-Stereo: The AWARD for Distinguished Scholarship suit Issue. An all-too-rare presenta- creation of Panoramic Stereo images, and Extraordinary Knowledge of tion of professionally done stereo and Rill Moll hosted a general dis- Stereoscopy went to Ray Zone. photography like his pointed out cussion of Digital stereo-cameras. THE ROBERT M. WALDSMITH AWARD the need of a separate category for for Meritorious Service went to Larry this level of production, and Mr. 1 \wards Moor. Klutho was officially invited back Moving up to the position vacat- THE EDWARD B. BERKOWITZ AWARD as often as he is able to come. ed by Larry Moor, incoming NSA for the Best Article on Historical First Place winner of the PAUL President Mary Ann Sell handed Stereoscopy went to Richard C. Ryder WING AWARD for Best Stereo The- out the awards at the annual Ran- for "the General: A Locomotive's ater Show was The Rocky Picture quet: Legacy" in SW Vol. 26 No. 4. Honor- Show by Roger Mulkey.

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+ere havet I been? Physically I drove tlo Mesa, old m; ~sterpieces. I saw heads without bodies and bodies ~ rona for a stereo pllotographers conv ention. I :should witho~~t substance. tion that I have be en a collector of st .ereographic I rev misited Yell owstone National Park. I saw boulder . ... , .. . memorabllla tor nearly thirty years. I have a collect Ion or and rocKs presented with magnificence and humor. I rev- views that would be th e en* of any sterc ?ophile. I have eled in the graceful fashions of the 1920's. I heard an d also done a little bit of stereo pk lotograptly, which would saw tone poems interpreted in visual projections. I he the envy of no one. danced with liahts. I oartici~atedin ~aintinawith a ca111- D photography, long thought to be i3n antique col- era. )rs field, is alive and well and flourishing. The rlew I joir led the nlasters of stereogra !o photographers presented slide sho ws of the ir work the tri; 31s and tri bulations of photo1 the worlc ., .., , r , . 8, < ,,, . . tssions extending from nine in the morning unti1 five most DeautITuI Tasnlon moaels Tor rne jporrs llrusrrare~ e evening for three days. D Swimsuit issue. I laugh'ed with tlie Chi-coW-goans i:t3- I you were to ask again, "Wh ere have you been?'I I their humorous renditions of cows paradingI through the ~ .-L .-I--!- - . Id have to answer that I have veer1 explurlrly rlaves:.- -- I streets of Chicaao. have! been ba llooning tiigh over mountailIS and gr een One evening I returnecj to old time "melodramer" field s I have I3een scuk )a diving among lij~ing coral I and througlh the pre'sentation of It Came From Outer Spacc visiti ng close-Iup and intimate wiith fish, CIrabs and Ilob- The Cneature fro,m the Blac ck Lagoon, a Pete Smith 3-D 0 7, -F, P. sters short, ana I ne I nree btooges. There were theatrical Ar nazing nt?w stereo pnotograpny vies with the historic screams, shouts, hisses and boos from a truly interact Imacjes of the 1860s. I traveled back to tt,e beginning of audience as swords, fireballs and pies flew through ti- _ ._.I.. L -- J nhot.ograpny, then ventured into the old wex driu into window into the swimmina ~oolfilled with a 3-D be: xesent d,ay desert. l wandet -ed into the world of audience puter ma nipulatiori that brc~ught livir lg dimen!sions to

7, Number 4 STEREO WORLD McLaughlin. Third Place went to Beyond the Frame by John Rock. The Award for First Time Stereo Theater Presenter went to A Stylish Day at the Races by Greg Dinkins. Competitive Stereo Card Exhibits TEX TREADWELL AWARD for Best of Exhibit: Diane Rulien Vintage Views Views of or from a place or region: FIRST PLACE: Ken and Bonnie Williams, "The Wawona Tree" SECOND PLACE: Steve Heselton, "Life in the City; San Francisco: 1860s & 1870s" Along with wall-to-wall boxes of classic steneoviews, nt>w 3-0 products are one of the prime attractions at NSA Trade Fairs. Here Dr. Monte Ramstad helps Cassandra Kaufman THIRD PLACE: Marvin Housworth, try his tiny new Pokescope foldinq prism viewer. "Early San Francisco" Scenic or Landscape: FIRST PLACE: Marvin Housworth, "Scenic Views by G. W. Wilson" People: FIRST PLACE: Marvin Housworth, "The Chinese in Early California" Historic Events: FIRST PLACE: Marvin Housworth, "The Cotton States Exposition, 1895" Views by an individual photographer: FIRST PLACE: Marvin Housworth, "Western Mining Views" SECOND PLACE: Lynn Marie Mitchell, "Mexican Views by William Henry Jackson" New NSA President Mary Ann Sell presents Keynote speaker Ray Zone with the William C. Open category: Darrah Fellow Award. FIRST PLACE: Ken and Bonnie Williams, "Early Farming in the Keynote Speech edged the contributions of a good Dakotas, by F. J. Haynes" Ray Zone, the "King of 3-D number of the people in the room SECOND PLACE: Les Gehman, "Gators" Comics" took a stroll through (always a good way to get a posi- THIRD PLACE: Sheldon Aronowitz and "The 3-D History Zone" with con- tive reaction) as well as those of Jim Harp, "View-Master Treasures" siderations of 3-D in photography, many others scattered around the world. It was a sort of combined Modem Division: movies, art and comics, along with the cultural and social impact of history lesson, autobiography, pep Fine Art stereo imaging. He covered differ- talk, and who's who of stere- FIRST PLACE: Jim Harp, "The Magic ent forms of 3-D from autostereos oscopy-just the ticket for a con- Hour" to anaglyphs, noting their com- vention on the edge of the new SECOND PLACE: David Saxon, no title mon artistic and perceptual ele- century. Ray has converted flat art to 3-D THIRD PLACE: Ken and Debbie Deller, ments. Woven into this historical "Minnetonka Cave" look at 3-Dl as well as into the for over 130 3-D comics and many many personal anecdotes from his 3-D advertisements and other pro- Open category: years of producing work for 3-D jects including the logo for the FIRST PLACE: Diane Rulien, no title underwear, 3-D T-shirts, toys and 2001 NSA convention in buffalo. SECOND PLACE: Carole Honigsfeld, comics, Ray paid homage to stereo- He presents 3-D slide shows on the "Flowers" graphers past and present for their history of 3-D to public libraries THIRD PLACE: Peter Jacobsohn, "The influence on him and on the over- and schools and writes on the his- Circus is Coming" all progress of stereo imaging. In tory of 3-D for Stereo World, SCSC's the course his address, he acknowl- 30News and American Cinematog- rapher magazine. Among the

STEREO WORLD Volume 27, Number 4 @ -L. - L. Cupp- - - 1- Sr.- - - - (Continued from page 8) In early 1974, Cupp's health failed, with Lee aiding him to dis- pose of the last of his sales business to a colleague for $5,000. At the same time, many of Cupp's remaining stereo negatives and other memorabilia from his days as one of Keystone's major salesmen were donated to the University of Arizona Museum in Tucson. In his final years, Cupp was in a series of nursing homes in declining health, dying in July of 1985 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, at age 87. Diane Rulien and her RBT reach the top of the Tuzigoot ruins, one of the most interesting Subsequently, his wife died in late stops on the northern tour Monday following the convention. The highest of the ninety 1991 at age 90. As of the year rooms of the building complex has been restored with walls and roof, offering welcome 2000, the Cupps were survived by respite from the heat and an exciting view of the Verde River Valley. By the 1300s, about three of their four children (all 200 people lived in the fortified hill town on a 120 foot high ridge. except Patricia), along with numer- ...... ous grandchildren and great-grand- awards he has won for his 3-D amazing places that most members children. 1 work are the OZZIE Gold Award of 1 had never seen. Ironically, in today's world of so Excellence, TheUInkpot"Award for many new types of entertainment "Outstanding Achievement in Thanks To for young people, some of Cupp's Comic Arts" and The American Special thanks go to all who own descendants may not even Comic Book Awards for "Special made NSA Y2K a well organized know what a stereo view is, or real- Achievement in the Field of 3-D and memorable success. ize the significance of their grand- Comics." Tom Dory father's career in disseminating an General Convention Chair important form of educational NSA Changes Jeremy Rowe entertainment to Americans in the With the Y2K convention, Mary , Trade Show days before commercial television Ann Sell officially moved up from Duncan Woods and home computers. The story of NSA Vice President to President-as Registrar Cupp's life thus connects to this she reminded those gathered at the Bill Moll Workshops earlier time, and gives new insights Awards Banquet, "The first woman into how some of the nation's last Ernie Rairdin to be NSA President". The Board of commercially produced stereo Directors welcomed Richard Exhibits Bob Bloomberg views by the Keystone Company Twitchell to fill the vacancy left by were sold in this country. the late David Hutchison and Stereo Theater enthusiastically approved Shab Boris Starosta Most of this article comes from the Logo remembrances of L. L. Cupp, Sr.3 oldest Levy as the new NSA Vice Presi- John Jerit, American Paper Optics son, Lee Cupp, as told to the author in dent. 3-0 Glasses October 1995, supplemented by later cor- The Monday Excursions Roger Shelby respondence. Additional information was Karen Plante also provided by his sister, Mrs. Camilla With so much to see in Arizona, (Cupp) Gray, in January 2000. Other two separate tours headed in dif- Pete Plante sources include: special sales publications ferent directions Monday morning. Ralph Gregg of the Keystone View Company of One took members and their cam- Betty Gregg Meadville, PA, firmished by collector/deal- eras south to the Old Tucson er Tim McIntyre; plus William C. Dar- Movie Studios, Saguaro National Next Year rah's The World of Stereographs, 1977, Park and the San Xavier del Bac The 27th annual NSA conven- pp. 48-51. Mission. The other went north to tion will be held July 19-23, 2001, Sedona and the Red Rocks country, at the Adams Mark Hotel in Buffa- Verde Valley, the Tuzigoot National lo, New York. Contact Marty Monument and the old mining Abramson, [email protected] or visit town of Jerome. While tour bus http://nsa2001.home.att.net. FPO operators tend to program the length of their stops based on the density of retail outlets, there was no shortage of stereographic opportunities among these

@ Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO WORLD William England Picture Book Falls Flat review by Robert G. Wilson

I I late si lmmer or early fall, since one I nity for the reader to view the n 1859, William England, the of the views is titled "Storing wood "solidity". chief photographer for The Lon- for the winter." But there are views So, what is An American Journey, Idon Stereoscopic Company, trav- in the series that were taken at The Photography of William eled to North America. This trip other times of the year-images of England? It is primarily a descrip- resulted in the first extensive set of Blondin crossing the Niagara River tion of north eastern United States stereo views of North America to on the high wire that would have and Canada in 1859 through an be marketed in Europe and includ- been taken in the summer, or essay by Ian Jeffrey and the photo- ed views along the route that Eng- images of Niagara Falls taken in graphs of William England. The land traveled, from Virginia to Nia- the dead of winter. He thus con- essay describes America as still gara Falls in the United States, as cludes that England likely bought being "Utopia", a land of tranquil well as Canada West and Canada some negatives from other photog- scenery-"a mountainous land of East. raphers. This, however, is at odds largely rural contentment orna- When I was given the opportu- with an earlier statement in the mented by well-managed towns nity to review this An American book, where Jeffrey says, "One of and cities." And he describes the Journey, The Photography of William the remarkable things about this country using quotes from several England by Ian Jeffrey, I jumped at collection ...is that it can be attrib- works published between 1840 and the chance. As a photographic his- uted to a single hand, that of 1872-primarily by N.P. Willis, torian with a particular interest in William England." who wrote the descriptions accom- the history of stereo in Canada, This book is also not about panying Bartlett's American Scenery what more could I ask for but to stereo, even though all the images of 1840 and Charles Dickens' read about this early expedition taken by William England were American Notes published in 1842 from England to North America. I stereo views. While the author following his visit to North Ameri- was sure disappointed when I read does give a brief overview of the ca. And, Jeffrey says, it is a view of the book. history of stereoscopic photogra- America that would soon be This is not a book about the trip phy, only one of the illustrations changed by the American Civil taken by William England. While in this book has been reproduced War which began only a few years the author does briefly mention with both left and right images later. England on occasion throughout present. And this one stereo was England's photographs, which the text, we really learn nothing copied from a contact print made are very nicely reproduced in the about his journey. from the original negative. Since book, show this tranquil land Jeffrey does speculate that Eng- the resulting images were not through his many images of rivers land may have made his trip in the transposed, this single stereo view and waterfalls. But England's is pr6sented pseudoscopically, with photographs also forecast the reversed depth. So in spite of say- changes to come, through his ing "It must be remembered that images of railways, depots, bridges they were meant to be seen in the and busy city street scenes. stereo format, with all its emphasis Jeffrey ends this book with a on solidity", Jeffrey has chosen to chronology, showing events in reproduce most of the images as England's life along with signifi- half stereos, showing only one of cant events in the development of the two prints, leaving no opportu- (Continued on page 31)

STEREO WORLD Volume 27, Number 4 @ Mv'Visits Y with andre by Lawrence Kaufinan

first became intrigued with 3-D and he directed one of the first movies when I watched House of adult Westerns, Ramrod (1947). In I Wax (1953) on TV as a young- 1951, his story for The Gunfighter ster. I have never since passed up a (1950) was nominated for an Acad- chance to see it or any other 3-D emy Award. His uncredited work movie. I still find House of Wax to includes major contributions to be one of the best made 3-D films the Super Panavision 70 Lawrence of all time. It plays very well flat of Arabia (1962) and the Panavi- tereo World Associate Editor and is much better in 3-D. A few sion Superman (1978). S Lawrence Kaufman was able to years ago, on a trip to Barnes and I had trouble putting his book piece together bits of a conversation Noble, I was thrilled to came down. It covered his life story and with House of Wax Director Andre across 'Fragments: Portraits from there is a lot to cover. Andre has a de Toth by attending several special the Inside', Andre de Toth's autobi- unique writing style. With each scre enings of his films, question c~nd ography. The Hungarian born new chapter he delivers you to ans~wer sessio ns, and 613ok signings (Sasvrai Farkasfawi Tothfalusi Toth another place and time. It is up to in 7 997 and 7998. Tht? efforts , ,. ,. . .. Endre Antai Mihaly), one-eyed, the reader to figure out where you invorvea m arranging these "v~srts" iconoclastic Hollywood director, is have been placed. His memoir is a in search of answers to several most famous for directing House of journey through his remarkable questions about de Toth's work in Wax, but he also directed two eighty-some years and through 3-0 films eventually led to the fol- other motion pictures which were almost every emotion. His bold lowi ng accour ~t of just t low interert- filmed in 3-D, The Stranger Wore a humor is interlaced with life's ing (and frus t rating) th,at search Gun (1953) and Bounty Hunter tragedies. The story of his first son, can be. (1954). He made a number of con- Stephen and his 'this big' ball, still -FA LL,. tributions to the film noir genre haunts me. After I finished the 466 page book, I found myself with Andre de Toth with his book De Toth on De Toth: Putting the Drama in Front of the many unanswered questions. Camera. (Stereo by Lawrence Koufman.) Andre never discussed his age or his birthdate, never discussed how he lost the sight in his one eye, talked all too briefly about House of Wax, and did not discuss his two other 3-D films to name just a few of the many things I had hoped to discover. I really enjoyed the book, but I was ready for the second volume. The book's jacket did disclose that Andre is finishing his third novel. I figured that there might be hope, someday he might answer many of my questions. The September 1995 Filmfax magazine featured an interview

@ Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO WORLD with Andre by Anthony Slide enti- to mention it is just across the tled "Stereoscopic Nightmares: street from the former meeting Andre de Toth revisits the House of location of the American Cine- Wax". It was in this article that matheque. Tony Slide announced that he and It was very enjoyable to see Andre had completed an interview House of Wax projected this way, in book, Put the Drama in Front of the a standing room only theater filled Camera, due to be published in the with movie buffs. Just a few weeks spring of 1996. Faber and Faber in prior, I had taken the Warner Bros. the United Kingdom had pub- Studio Tour with a friend and fel- lished Andre's memoir and they low film fan from Chicago. The were going to be the publishers for back lot, to this day, still looks this second book. I kept an eye much like the sets from the film. open for the book, with no luck. I In fact, the tour guide did point Andre de Toth and Lawrence found an article mentioning that out the Museum entrance set from Kaufman visit in 1997. Andre had been at the grand open- House of Wax, located between the ing of the Warner Bros. Studio Daily Planet building from the being screened exactly ninety days Museum, which includes props now canceled TV series Lois and after Jack L. Warner gave the go- from House of Wax and Hondo Clark and the hospital from the ahead. De Toth is very proud of (1953) in the summer of 1996. extremely popular TV series E.R. the fact that House of Wax is the Great news came via email on Part of the tour is a visit to the most profitable film in relation to April llth, 1997. It announced: new Warner Bros. Studio Museum. its production cost of just "The American Cinematheque pre- In fact the only way to get into the $628,000. The film also ended the sents the films of Legendary Direc- studio museum is to pay the price year as the 7th top money-maker tor Andre de Toth, in person, @ the of the Tour. The guides lock up of 1953. Even though Warner opening night presentation of your cameras and purses until after ordered the black patch off of his House of Wox to be shown in Dou- the studio museum visit. eye until he finished the film, the ble-System 3D! April 17th at Para- In addition to the props from legendary joke around the lot was mount Studios." Due to previous numerous Warner Bros. classic that de Toth and one-eyed Raoul commitments, I did not think I films, including the 3-Ders Hondo Walsh were co-directing the film. would be able to attend. When I and House of Wax, we were treated While they did beat Bwana Devil discovered that I could make the to several stereo realist type 3-D by twenty-four hours, they had second showing, it was too late to slides from House of Wax and let- not counted on Columbia's very buy tickets in advance and the first ters from John Wayne to Studio low-budget Man in the Dark which showing was already sold out. I chief, Jack L. Warner, telling of the opened on April 8th. Columbia made the trip only to discover the problems with the 3-D camera and had obviously taken every short 98 seat screening room had been his hopes that the studio would cut possible, including numerous over sold. I ran into friends and I not release Charge at Feather River flat backscreen shots, just to win explained that I didn't have a tick- (1953) until after the Hondo the race. But today no one remem- et, but luck must have been with release, among other things. bers Man in the Dark, which was me. Someone nearby overheard In 1946, de Toth had written a released in 3-D and "Glowing and sold me their extra ticket. piece in Hollywood Reporter about Mono-Color" (tinted black & The American Cinematheque wanting to do a third-dimensional white). brought in an archival 3-D print motion picture. After the success The first evening of the de Toth for this screening in the original of the British 3-D short films of the retrospective was over, I still had dual-system format, with two pro- early 1950s and the huge success two more weekends worth of great jectors running simultaneously. of the limited November 30, 1952 film viewing and visits with this There was a discussion following openings of Bwana Devil (working versatile director. The American only the first screening with Andre title The Lions of Gulu, released by Cinematheque titled the retrospec- de Toth. As we were entering the United Artists in 1953) most of the tive Play Dirty: The Films of Andre back of the theater, I noticed major movie companies, who just de Toth (presented in association Andre leaving through the front months earlier had no plans to with Martin Scorsese). exit door. The print was in much make 3-D films, all wanted to On Friday, April 18th I rushed better shape than I could have jump on the 3-D bandwagon. from work in Orange County on imagined. There were some flaws, Warner Brothers had hoped to the very busy Interstate 5 freeway but I have seen much worse on make the first 3-D film from a to Hollywood and the American films that are not nearly as old as major movie studio. In January of Cinematheque's previous meeting this. Our group ushered ourselves 1953, Jack L. Warner okayed a place, Raleigh Studios' Charlie into the projection room after the sixty day shooting schedule with a Chaplin Theater located at 5300 film for a brief discussion with the $1,250,000 budget. Warners and Melrose Avenue (across from Para- projectionist. This location was de Toth rushed in hopes of beating mount Studios between Bronson & selected due to the fact that they the New York release of Bwana Van Ness). The Cinematheque is a do have a silver screen and from Devil. After twenty-eight days the non-profit movie theater that time to time screen 3-D films, not filming was completed, and it was brings unique film experiences (and opportunities to meet the

STEREO WRLD Volume 27, Number 4 @ them to Andre and due in part to chair, and after having broken his Ford's recommendation and part neck three times in his life, he due to a misidentification, de Toth can't turn his head as much as he got the job. would like. He apologized for not Their studio was located at the being able to look at some of the corner of Melrose and Bronson. In people who were asking him ques- its current life it is in fact Raleigh tions, but he said if he did his Studios, were the screenings were head might fall off. He kept the taking place. This screening was audience laughing with comments followed by an ultra-rare de Toth like this. He did enlighten the television show from the 1960fs, crowd as to how Crimewave got to one of two episodes of The West- be made. It was while they were erner, directed by de Toth. The filming House of Wax, that de Toth Andre at a 1997 post-screening Westerner was a short-lived Warner began to think what a thankless discussion. (Photo by Lawrence Kaufrnan.) Bros. television western produced job the police detectives have. He and written by Sam Peckinpah, had to fight the studio production filmmakers who created them) to and played by a young Brian office. They said shooting entirely Southern California audiences. The Keith! The audience especially on location was impossible, a pro- Cinematheque has become an liked the cards that stated "Place duction nightmare. Jack L. Warner exciting part of Hollywood History commercial here" in all the spots okayed the locations. The casting now that they have renovated the where the commercials belonged. department wanted Humphrey historic Egyptian Theater on Holly- This was also borrowed from the Bogart. Luckily, de Toth fought wood Boulevard which became UCLA collection. that too-it would have been a their permanent home in 1998! If Between films, I just had enough completely different film. The film you can't physically visit their the- time to run down to the Studio was shot in just over two weeks. ater, take a virtual tour of their Cafe and purchase a very warm The Glendale branch of Bank of film screenings, their celebrity- cup of coffee. The ads for the Cine- America leased their entire build- studded fund raiser The Moving matheque screenings stated that ing to Warner Brothers, because Picture Ball and the story of the the cafe is open before and during the picture offered an object lesson renovation of the Egyptian theater screenings. Unfortunately this was to would-be bank robbers. I don't at their website: http://www the only time I actually found the think that would happen today. A .americancinematheque.com. place open. I rushed back into the shot at the old Glendale Airport I had already purchased my tick- theater just in time for the 9:45 has de Toth's private plane in it, ets in advance and a copy of de pm showing of Crimewave (1954). his way of saying thank you to his Toth's newest book, De Toth on De It was very strange watching this mechanics for keeping him in the Toth: Pum'ng the Drama in Front of Warner Brothers film, made one air. Someone asked about Charles the Camera. I had hoped to have a year after House of Wax from the Bronson, who de Toth also used in little time to read the book before same creative team. It featured Riding Shotgun (1954). De Toth said the film. But traffic prevented me Gene Nelson (who was a song-and- he liked Charlie and enjoyed from making that wish come true. dance man), and from House of watching him grow as an actor. He I arrived just after 7:00 PM for the Wax, Phyllis Kirk, Charles Bronson then told a story, that is not in 7:15 screening of the UCLA- and blacklisted actor Ned Young. either of his books. They were Restored 35mm print of Ramrod But this film was totally divorced filming at Bronson Canyon. (1947). Released by Republic Stu- from the glamour of House of Wax. Charles was complaining about his dios, the 94 minute film was the L.A. noir doesn't get any better name (Charles Bushinsky, at the first "Adult" western. "Frank fights than this. Sterling Hayden plays time), de Toth was busying trying dirty, I've got to fight the same the toothpick chewing cop busting to finish the film. Since they were way," spits cowgirl Veronica Lake crooks all over Glendale and at Bronson Canyon, he said how (de Toth's wife from 1944-1952), Pasadena. His favorite phrase is "ya about Charles Bronson and went hell-bent on destroying everything slob." Shot in stunning deep-focus back to work on the film. Six in her path to defeat her own black-and-white by Bert Glennon, months later, he noticed that father. Lake's slippery, scheming Crimewave barrels through all 74 Charles Bushinsky had become performance is the biggest surprise minutes, from one crackling action Charles Bronson. of her career. Her Sullivan's Travels sequence to another. At almost On Saturday, April 19th, I (1941) partner, Joel McCrea, stars Midnight, the audience was ush- leisurely drove to Hollywood, stop- as the "ramrod" of the title, a ered down to the Studio Cafe, ping at a couple of bookstores ranch foreman trapped in a brutal where Andre de Toth was waiting checking to see if the new de Toth maze of deceit. for a post-screening discussion. It book was available. The book does In 1946, a new Motion Picture was a little chilly sitting in the have a 1996 copyright, but I was Company, Enterprise Productions, open-air cafe. De Toth had just left not able to find it at any book- Inc. was founded by David Lowe the Los Angeles Art Museum's stores or at Amazon.com. and Charles Einfeld. Lowe and Ein- screening and question and answer I arrived early, at about 4:00 pm, feld had hoped to have John Ford session. It was great to sit and lis- Andre and his (7th) wife, Ann were directing Ramrod. But, due to his ten to him talk. He is in a wheel- already there setting up for the 1 full schedule, Ford introduced I @ Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO WORLD 4:30 - 6:00 pm book signing. De by the area were Andre's Enterprise thin by the end of the line and Toth was very proud that his first Productions office had been. When steak and chicken was passing over book had sold out four months he returned to the book signing, the grill pretty fast. De Toth was after it was published. But, Faber Andre said, "My old office looks back for another discussion. This and Faber Limited has published a the same, they added a few more time the American Cinematheque softbound edition to coincide with coats of paint. The ants and ter- representative (tired of being the the new books release. The Cine- mites all remembered me." The brunt of most of de Toth's jokes matheque had both books for sale. movie-going crowd began to show and putdowns) invited Todd There was a small group of people up around 5:45 for autographs. At McCarthy (chief film critic for who showed up to get their auto- 6:15 pm the new 35mm print of Variety) to sit in and co-host the graphs at 4:30. I had him sign a Slattery's Hurricane (1949) was question and answer session. number of House of Wax items introduced. This brand new print Andre had called him Todd "cow- from my collection. I pointed out was supplied by Martin Scorsese. poke" McCarthy in his first book's that in the press book it Scorsese wrote, "I've always been dedications. There was a little announced "Director Plans Book fascinated by Andre de Toth's break before the film started. I real- On Warner 3-D Pic". One of the movies." and "Andre de Toth is a ized that I had seen the gentleman (phony) press releases in the press 'director's director', a special cate- talking to Todd McCarthy earlier book stated "The lessons learned gory that speaks for itself." in his in the day. When I had been in the about 3-D during the filming of forward to de Toth's Fragments: Por- bookstore, on the cover of Enter- Warner Bros.' House of Wax, which traits from the Inside (which was tainment@Home magazine, next to opens ...... at the ...... reprinted from Double Exposure the title "Where in the world is Theatre, could fill a book-and Take Three by Roddy McDowall). QUENTIN TARANTINO?". At first I will. Andre de Toth, director ... has The 87 minute Fox film starred had this impulse to pick up the collected a store of information Richard Widmark as the hotheaded phone and call the magazine and which will be the basis of a hand- pilot making all the wrong choices yell "I FOUND HIM!", but I didn't book for use by the entire indus- in life, beginning with dropping have their phone number. Instead, try. " his sexy, dope-fiend girlfriend I decided to eavesdrop on their After Andre read this, he pointed Veronica Lake for old flame Linda conversation. They were talking to his new book and said "It took Darnell. A strange, unclassifiable about House of Wax, Quentin said me a while, but here it is!" He then piece of work, Slattery's Hurricane he had a flat 16mm print of The admitted he had never heard of doesn't fit easily into any genre. Stranger Wore a Gun and said he any such handbook. Then a The screening was followed by a would like to see it in 3-D. The reporter from a foreign newspaper western Bar-B-Que. Unfortunately, American Cinematheque rep said showed up and did a quick inter- there had been only fourteen tick- they had mentioned it to Andre view. ets sold prior to the day of the and he didn't seem too interested There was a period where no event and thirty-four more sold at in it, so they didn't pursue it. Too one was there, so Andre and Ann the door, which was about eight bad! went for a short walk. They went too many. The food got a little At 8:45 pm, with Tarantino in the audience, the double feature began. Man in the Saddle (1951) The exterior House of Wax set remains today on the Warner back lot. was the first of six films Andre (Photo by Lawrence Kaufman.) made with Randolph Scott. They all were produced in collaboration with Columbia or Warner Bros. by Scott and his partner Harry Joe Brown. This 87 minute film was released by Columbia. A ruggedly handsome western, it has Scott as a heartsick rancher who refuses to give up his true love even after she marries another man. An adult sto- ryline, sophisticated characters, stunningly visual fight sequences, and rip-roaring brawls set against wind-storms, in darkened saloons, with the roof literally collapsing overhead-all really set this film apart. Springfield Rifle (1952) from Warner Bros. was the second feature. This 93 minute film has Union officer Gary Cooper, playing against character, branded a cow- ard and thrown out of the Army.

STEREO WORLD Volume 27, Number 4 b) Andre in 7 990 at a 3-0 film festival in Los Angeles sponsored by Chris Condon (center) of Stereovision Interna- tional. Also listening to his stories about the filming of House of Wax, which opened the festival, were its star Vincent Price and the NSA's Susan Pinsky (See SW Vol. 1 7 No. 7). Stereo by David Starkman.

The image of Coop with a yellow screen digital sets and, with the that he (after 43 years) had forgot- stripe literally painted down his use of some sort of viewing glasses, ten he made a third 3-D film. back is a stone-cold shock. Lon 3-dimensional images." In addition He answered questions about Chaney, Jr. plays one of his scruffy, to House of Wax, the audience "Lawrence of Arabia". He said sev- unshaven, bad-to-the bone, west- seemed very interested in the work eral times over the two week peri- ern roles expertly. Fess Parker in Andre had done on Lawrence of od, that a film could have only his first role, just two years before Arabia and Superman. I raised my one director and David Lean the December 15th, 1954 "World hand and asked Andre, "Would directed Lawrence of Arabia. When of Disney" telecast of Davy Crock- you have made your other two 3-D asked if he directed the train scene, ett, Indian Fighter made him a star films differently, had they not he admitted that he had. I have and coonskin caps a fad. Andre been in 3-D?" I was shocked by his seen in print, how he humbly took picked him out of a "cattle call" answer. First, he informed me and no credit for his work in this film. for the film. Like Ramrod, it hurtles the crowd that he had only made He, in fact, has not taken credit for you through a serpentine series of one other film in 3-D. a lot of his work and even given betrayals as the disgraced Cooper Then, he reiterated what he had others credit for his work, as he infiltrates a gang of Confederate just said about House of Wax, that did with the screenplay credit to horse raiders. you don't film for 3-D, He would Lotte Colin for Play Dirty. But, the During the break, I happened to make a 3-D film the same as a reg- credits I have for Lawrence list "Sec- pick up a copy of LA Weekly news- ular film. Andre had told the ond unit direction: Andre Smag- paper, which had an ad for an crowd that the paddle ball ghe, Noel Howard and Andre de Andre de Toth appearance at a Los sequence in House of Wax was only Toth". Perhaps Andre has also for- Angeles Borders bookstore. How included at the insistence of pro- gotten that after his television could I pass that up? After work on ducer Bryan Foy. De Toth himself work, as an excuse to enjoy the Wednesday, April 23rd, I again fought vigorously to keep it out of good life in Rome, he co-directed drove from Orange County to an the film, but did not prevail. He three Italian films. So, a film can area near Beverly Hills. I entered at felt that the sequence was gim- only have one director, unless an 7:30, to an almost standing room micky and gratuitous in that it had Italian co-director will qualify the only area in the bookstore. An ele- nothing to do with the narrative of film for government subsidies. vator door opened and I saw the film. I enjoyed hearing him talk about Andre. With a cup of cappuccino I had tried to question him at his work on Superman. He was sit- in his hands, he made his way to the previous Saturday book sign- ting in his office, having finished the table that was waiting. After he ing, about The Bounty Hunter and whatever project he had been made himself comfortable, he The Stranger Wore a Gun. When I working on, wondering where his began to take questions from the asked about The Bounty Hunter, he next meal would come from. There audience. On occasion, he had told me he didn't like that film. was a knock on the door, they trouble hearing the questions and Puzzled, I pressed for a reason, he wanted him to help make Super- the manager of the book store told me, "I am never satisfied with man fly. I remember, back in 1978, would "translate" the question. Sit- any of my films". So, I wasn't sure following the news stories about ting behind me, at the back of the if he didn't remember the film or the problems they were having room was Anthony Slide. Andre just didn't like it. I then asked making the flying scenes with would defer some questions to about The Stranger Wore a Gun, he Christopher Reeves look real. And Anthony. told me it was an okay film. I was- how they were going to scrap all When asked about being able to n't able to get him to talk about the footage and start over. So, see House of Wax at home in 3-D, his other 3-D film@).So, I had Andre said, "When you see the Andre talked at length on what hoped in front of a group of peo- movie, if he is flying, I shot it". I someday, due to digital and HDTV, ple, I could find out a little some- remember the films slogan "You'll every home would have, "Large thing. Well, what I found out was believe a man can fly". Superman

@ Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO WORLD I I I I showed him an autographed pic- fall, which is a shattering study of I ture of Raoul Walsh sitting in-front a married Everyman (powell) who of the Columbia's 4-way 3-D cam- has an affair with a single girl (Liz- era directing Gun Fury. His only abeth Scott), past the hypocritical statement after I showed it to him Hays Production Code Administra- was, "Walsh never made a 3-D tion Office. He said he invited two movie". of the six members to lunch with Stubborn, isn't he! I also tried to their mistresses and he was able to find out which 3-D movie he did- pass the film. n't remember making. I asked him At 9:30 pm we were treated to which was his other 3-D film, to the second brand new 35mm print which he replied "I only made one supplied by Martin Scorsese, Day of other 3-D film". Both of the other the Ozrtlaw (1958). Robert Ryan 3-D films were from the Randolph plays a fierce, friendless cattleman ScottIHarry Joe Brown team. In De who turns out to be the only hope Toth on De Toth, Andre states it was for a Wyoming town invaded by their idea to do The Stranger Wore a Burl Ives (another actor playing Gun in 3-Dl as it probably was also against type) and his gang of out- their idea to shoot The Bounty laws. It also starred Tina Louise Hunter in 3-D. Unfortunately, by its and Elisha Cook, Jr. Shot on loca- release date in September, 1954, tion in cold, almost existential 3-D was dead. The Bounty Hunter black-and-white, Andre had to was only made available in flat fight to film in black and white. By cropped widescreen and I have 1958 "color-mania reigned". never heard of it being shown in "Snow in color is still white". It is 3-D. not your typical western and is Friday, April 25th was the sec- more a 1950's study of characters ond to last day of the retrospect. I under stress. Ryan's almost agoniz- had to work late and missed one of ing ride was planned in the August the best films of the event. They heat. When they shot in February, 1 F~NTPRICE .FRANK LOVEJOY-PHYLLIS KIRK1 screened the UCLA restored 35mm the ground was several feet deep in CAROLYN JONES PAUL PlCERNl .<.a,--...... s.".,p.. u ..<.,-., print of Pitfall (1948) at 7:15 pm. snow. Long out of circulation, this dtlOlH CRANE WILBUR BRMN fOI hNORL Bertrand Tavernier, wrote in the is the first new print of the film in I preface of Fragments, "One of the over 30 years! One of the many formats of newspa- best film noirs, and one of the per ad provided to theaters in the most incisive". I made it in time Warner Brothers Press Book for The paddle-ball sequence so hated House of Wax. Also available were for the post-screening question and answer session. One drawback by Andre de Toth as "gimmicky" large banners and elaborate cut-out had a tie-in with the Fli-Back Com- displays for theater lobbies. The to the pre-American Disabilities Act Raleigh Studios Chaplin The- pany Ten million paddle-ball games biggest (24 sheets, 9 feet high) was in this special House of Wax version intended to be placed on top of the ater was the fact that it was were said headed for toy stores by theater marquee and showed char- upstairs and not accessible to this the Warner Brothers Press Book. It acters from the film leaping out of a director. The audience met at the suggested theaters arrange store screen over the heads of an audi- first floor cafe and listened to window displays and on-stage pad- ence. Charles Bronson is poised at Andre reminisce about the film I dle-ball contests for "newsboys and the edge, ready to jump to the side- had just missed. Many of the school kids" with the winners walk carrying one of the dancing amazing stories behind his fights appearing in front of the girls. (Ron Lobbe collection.) to get his films made are in his theater. Other gim- books. Andre told of his death- micks available earned a special Oscar for its spe- defying flight on Dick Powell's air- cial effects. plane to Palm Springs. Powell was After the question and answer going to produce and "maybe session, I talked briefly to Anthony direct" the film. Andre was origi- Slide. I mentioned that in their nally only going to co-write the book, Andre said, "It's too bad screenplay. A few weeks later Pow- none of the other one-eyed direc- ell decided to play the lead tors made third-dimensional ... (against type) and asked Andre to movies. John Ford, Fritz Lang, direct it as a favor (also, for no Raoul Walsh When, in fact, ..." more money). Andre picked the Raoul Walsh had made Gun Fury unknown, Raymond Burr from a (1953) in 3-D. Slide said he didn't photo the casting director had in a remember de Toth saying that. I stack of "nothing photos". The purchased a book for a friend and producers again wanted Humphrey stood in line for another auto- Bogart. Andre told how he got Pit- graph. When I reached Andre, I

STEREO WORLD Volume 27, Number 4 @ that just prior to the opening of the film, "Barney Ross was found, off the wagon ...in the gutter". "Too bad, it would have made a better ending". Before the final film began, I shook Andre's hand and thanked him for not only writing these fabulous books, but for telling all of his great stories. He has lived a full life. After his film career, he painted and worked in Bronze. His work is at the Vatican Museum. Now that his hands can no longer do that kind of work, he is writing. I Vincent Price desperately tries to extinguish a burning Marie Antoinette in a House of Wax wished him a happy birthday, even scene reproduced on the promotional View-Master reel that theaters could order from though I am still not sure if he is National Screen for use in a "3-0 VIEWMASTER SCENE DISPLAY CABINET FOR LOBBIES". Three 84, 87 or 90 going on 90. of the reels were offered for 8 1.85. (See SW Vol. 17 No. 1, page 20.) Also available, through the Warner Brothers Press Book for House of Wax, was a display cabinet with At 9:45 pm, Play Dirty (1969) viewers for Realist format slides of scenes from the film. was screened. The last film on which Andre received a full direc- Saturday, April 26 was the final when and where, to whom and torial credit. Andre was only the day. I arrived early again for the how I was born? I don't remember. Executive Producer until the direc- 4:30 - 6:00 pm book signing. I fig- I'd quote only hearsay." tor walked off the set, or left the ured this would be my last chance At 6:15 pm the double feature country, in this case. Andre pushes to try and get any unanswered began with the third brand new his pragmatism and cynicism to questions answered. I was still very print from Martin Scorsese-The their furthest extremes. Michael curious about Andre's age. The two Indian Fighter (1955) The French Caine stars as an inexperienced dates I have seen are May 15, 1910 title of the film La Riviere de nos officer leading his team on a very and May 15, 1913. When old Amours (The River of Our Loves) eccentric and deadly mission to friends saw him over these week- refers to Kirk Douglas' (literal) wet blow up German fuel dumps in ends, they asked "How are You". kiss with lovely Elsa Martinelli. North Africa. A film about the He generally said he was fine. On The film was the first production sheer mechanics of survival in this last day he was asked that of Douglas' Bryna Company. a sur- alien territory (against sandstorms, question and he said "You're either prisingly erotic western shot in land mines and your own com- alive or dead." Shortly after, when gorgeous, saturated Cinemascope. manding officers), The film is so I was alone with Andre, I ques- The film looks great considering a sharp and nasty you could cut tioned him about his age. He budget of around only $700,000. your hand on it. clammed completely up. So, I Andre had said that he enjoyed Dirty was made while Andre was repeated his last statement as a making 'B' films, because the stu- working for Harry Saltzman. I question "You're either alive or dios would generally leave him loved the black humor of the end- you're dead?". He shook his head alone. He was a real master of ing. Saltzman's wife, Jackie, hated no. He obviously did not want to making the screen look like there the movie and tried to get the end- talk about the subject. Several peo- was no budget to worry about. The ing re-cut. She was successful in ple with the American Cinemath- film also introduced Walter cutting out the Michel Legrand's eque had said Andre was 90. One Matthau and featured Lon Chaney, score of a children's euphorious, filmgoer, even said that Andre's Jr. and Elisha Cook, Jr. jubilant choir from under the mor- wife had said he was 90. I had Monkey on My Back (1957) was bid scene where Caine orders at already asked Ann about Andre's another brand new 35mm print. gun-point his rebellious patrol to birthday coming up in a couple of Although denied a seal of bury bodies of their ambushed weeks and she had said she wasn't approval, by accident it was enemy. This was done at the last sure what she would do, except released with a Production Code minute as the release prints started "Probably one candle". I began to number. This film is much darker to roll off the printer. We are treat- wonder, if he was 90 now, did that than The Man with the Golden Arm ed to the sound of the wind mean he would be 91 on May (1955). Cameron Mitchell stars in instead. "Our business is blowing 15th? So, I asked Ann, why she the true-to-life story of Barney fuel dumps," snarls a British sol- thought he didn't talk about his Ross, a former boxing champ with dier. In the same way, de Toth's age. She suggested that I talk to an addiction to both gambling and business has always been making Andre, since it really was his busi- morphine. A creepy and unnerving movies: hard-edged nuggets of ness. In his latest book he says little film, Mitchell's night-time adultery, despair and intrigue that "...anyone who talks about their drug forays are the reason for the often seem proudly out of place in age is either bragging or alibiing. trouble with the Hays office. Dur- the feel-good Hollywood of the Both are despicable. So why talk ing the discussion following the 1950's. about age? Does it really matter film with Andre, he mentioned

@ Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO WORD De Toth treated his films like a bank waiting to be cased and 1 Letters cracked. Pick any number of scenes Off-Stage Fear (Continued from page 3) from his films and you'll see the same dogged intelligence at work, I He1 Size Matters cutting, analyzing, probing with- Is it possible to have all of the out sentiment. I highly recom- Stereo pairs in the magazine repro- mend both of his books, which 1 In 3-D Rola duced at the size of the 2 pairs of detail one of the more memorably Phyllis Kirk, the DeautlIul David Hutchison on of Vol. outrageous careers in Hollywood. young woman who is chased by 27, No. 1 issue? That size is perfect Later in the year, the American il 3-D nionstcr ~crHros.' for free viewing. When pairs are Cinematheque sent out a question- "House of LVa, .ed of the reproduced at or almost at actual naire prior to the planning of a dark. size as in the article on Owen Bar- special series to include the best of "It's true," sne aamitted. "I rett they are too large to free view. their previous programs. I quickly frighten easily. I don't like dark We all have viewers, but part of returned my questionnaire asking alleys or creaky doors or bang- the magic of stereo is the ability to for House of Wax or any other de ing shutters. It's all I can do to just pick up the magazine and scan read a mystery unless some- through it free viewing with ease. Toth film. body's holding my hand." Anyway, keep up the good work. When the American Cinemath- Miss Kirk's natural feminine eque schedule arrived, it included fears are exactly what Director I'm sure that you have more to say two de Toth films from the previ- Andre de Toth hoped for when Grace over than the size of the ous retrospective and a question the actress was chosen for the photographs. and answer session with Andre. leading lady in the Natural Vi- Harry Howell The two films quickly sold out. I sion \VarnerColor film, opening The size at which stereographs are again went to visit with Andre and at the ...... Theatre on ...... reproduced has been a matter of thought was pleased to find him there as If a girl has never been and discussion for many years now. The the first film was beginning. I frightened with any intensity, he vertical Realist format pairs are jtrst ri'pht stood outside the theater with a reasoned, she can hardly be ex- for the easy free viewing size. Horizontal pectec1 to re~isterfear in very pairs from full frame 35mrn cameras xen- couple American Cinematheque realistic style on the screen. representatives, Andre and his wife erally need the larger size in order for : since Miss Kirk jumps at Ann. Bul details not to be lost among the half-tone ner own shadow and screams at dots, although as you will see in this Andre was in very good humor little furry things like mice, she issue, those with bold, simple images can and health. Ann said that he had turned out to be the finest terror run at the smaller size. Classic stereo- had surgery and is doing much queen of modern picture-making. views, so often halved or reduced in size to better. The Cinematheque reps On1 e look at Vincent Price's insi~ynificanceby other publications, are explained that they had already set dread ful face as the monster and reproduced at 100% in reco'pnition of their up for the Q & A session in a near- she :~pread terror to the last historic images and their valrre as artifncts by vacant sound stage. This time row iin the balcony, and when in themselves. With practice, many people the session was recorded for a stu- she was about to be dumped in a can extend their free viewing ability to dent video project on my favorite cauldron of boiling wax, the fuse pairs of 3-inch wide images. Unnat- director. Talking with the videogra- fright in her eyes was about as trral as the act may at first seem, it isn't real as it could get. on the level of advanced yo'pa or fire walk- pher, he stated that Andre had ing. The same control and the same mrrs- been very helpful, answering his Andre de Toth's 1953 thoughts on cles are involved in making up the five- questions and notifying him of "natural feminine fears" may or may eighths of an inch diference. not have been accurately reported public appearances. He said Andre - Ed. 9m had returned to the Borders book by the publicist writing this "news" store for another book signing and filler for the Warner Brothers Press a question and answer session that Book. Like the piece on the same page about an upcoming de Toth he was able to record. book on 3-0 movie making, this Learning About Curiosity got the better of me, could have been all in the imagina- Stereo Exhibitions so on a recent trip to Los Angeles, I tion of the PR department. A similar ------checked out the book supply at article, "How it Feels to Act in 3-0 (Continued from page 9) Borders. I am happy to report that Film " supposedly has Vincent Price as late as July, 1999, some auto- claiming that the cast gave more on a list to receive the entry forms for stereo exhibitions, please write graphed copies of De Toth on De realistic fight and love scene perfor- Toth remained at the Borders Books mances because of the special 3-0 or call us and provide your name, at 330 So. La Cienega Blvd., Los camera. (Ron Labbe collection.) address, zip code, phone number, Angeles, (310) 659-4045. e9 and whether you will consider entering cards, slides, or both. Write to: Shab Levy and Diane Rulien, 6320 SW 34th Avenue, Portland, OR 97201. Telephone: (503) 977-9876. If you have email and want more information, email us: dianeruOuswest.net .

STEREO WORLD Volume 27, Number 4 @ Can You Identify the Subjects of These Views? THE UNKNOWNSNeal Bullington

- ur unknowns this time were Signs include Dexter Meat Market oing crazy guessing the who, what or submitted by Jim Crain. The (5th building from the left), West- Cwhere of unidentified views in your col- 0first is a gray card with a ern Union Telegraph Office and lection? Get help from the entire NSA mem- group of men with sample cases. post office (tall building in the bership by sending views to The Unknowns, center of the block), dry goods 5880 London Dr., Traverse City, MI 49684 Perhaps they are stereoview sales- with return postage. Even views with printed men? Can any of our historians (building on the corner at the far titles from major publishers can sometimes shed any light on the men or the end of the block), and paints & fail to identify some aspect of the subject. building behind them? oils (left). r'r8 (Unusual subjects or ~nterestfng street sce n es The second view is a city scene are more likely tc ) be punted here than ge 'ner- ic houses or past ures.) Send I nformation ()n with a church spire in the distance. subjects you recognlze to the same addreSS. - .. -.-. - - -

@ Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO WORD North to Alaska by Mary Ann Sell

led dogs, the gold rush and majestic scenery. These are the Sthings that come to mind when you think of Alaska and these are just a few of the many subjects dis- played in the wonderful exhibit Juneau throzrgh the Stereoscope. Created by Dick Wood, National Stereoscopic Association member in Juneau and a collector of vintage Alaska memorabilia for over 20 years, this is an all-inclusive exhibit featuring the history of stereography as seen through views of Juneau, Alaska. The exhibit NSA president Mary Ann Sell using one of the many viewers available for visitors to Iuneau opened May 14 and will remain through the Stereoscope at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum through April, 2001. open until April, 2001. It includes ...... , ...... hands-on viewing with View-Mas- Main across from the Alaska State ter and Realist format viewers. A Capitol. Admission is $2.00. For computer is set up to surf through more information, contact Juneau- the many 3-D websites. All types of Douglas City Museum, 155 S. 3-D images are utilized from vin- Seward St., Juneau, AK 99801, tage stereo views through (907) 586-3572, www.iuneau.lib.ak anaglyph and lenticular displays. .us.parksrec.museum One area features museum-quality. equipment from Dick's private collection, along with many wonderful early stereo views. Another area features several View-Master reels of Alaska as well as reels from the books 3-0 Past &Present and View-Master Viewers-An Illustrated History. The reels are mounted in Please start my one-vear subscri tion to View-Master viewers, which are Stereo World ~nagazineand enrolf me as a affixed to an internal light source. member of the National Stereoscopic Association. There are about 20 Realist format U.S. membership mailed third class ($26). viewers set up in a similar manner, featuring life in Juneau from the C] U.S. membership mailed first class for faster delivery ($38). 1950s. a Foreign membership mailed surface rate, and first class to Canada ($38). There are printed materials to I I Foreign membership mailed international airmail ($56). look at (including copies of Stereo I I World) and a reproduction coin I Send a sample copy (U.S. $5.00, all other $6.50). I operated stereo viewer that allows Ple: ~semake checks payable to the Nat~orla1 Stereosco]3ic Association. the visitor to look at another ForeignI members pl ease remlt In U.S. dollars with a Canadlan Pogtal Money dozen views for 2%. order, an Internatlo nal Money Order, or a fo~.eign bank dlraft on a U.S. bank. All in all, it is one of the best -- - -- photographic displays I have ever seen anywhere. It is interesting, Name informative, and visually stimulat- ing for visitors of all ages. I suggest Address anyone planning a trip to Juneau be sure to visit. City State Zip Juneau throligh the Stereoscope can be seen at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum through April, 2001. The National Stereoscopic Ass( museum is open noon to 4 pm Fri- I PO Box 86708, Portland, OR 97286 I day and Saturday or by appoint- The Only National Organization Devoted Exclusively To Stereo Photography, Stereoviews, and 3.D Imaging Techniques ment, and is located at 4th and

STEREO WORLD Volume 27. Number 4 @ News from the Stereoscopic Society of America THE SOCIENNorman B. Patterson

am sorry to report that longtime and had the year's most popular Bachelor's Degree in mathematics member Walt McCabe of North- viewcard "Paris the City". from the College of the Pacific. Iport, MI, has had to retire from More often than not when one "Mathematics was not for me", he folio participation. His friends in looks into the background, inside mused, "I enrolled in the Theater both Realist and print format will and outside of stereoscopy, of Arts Department at UCLA as a grad- miss seeing his views and reading many Stereoscopic Society mem- uate student for two years. From his comments. Walt has been wag- bers, a considerable story unfolds. there, a job as a cameraman-editor ing a vision battle against macular And this is certainly so with David in the 1950s, doing 16mm Cham- degeneration and finally felt he Saxon. His involvement in photog- ber of Commerce films across the had to give up active participation. raphy goes back a long way. "I was South." For a stereographer serious vision in the Army in '44", he recalls, problems are especially distressing "and was sent to Belgium, and Film Editing ailments to deal with, affecting then to the Ninth Infantry Divi- In the mid-1950s David began a one's avocation as well as the gen- sion in Germany in 1945. In the job as a film editor working on TV eral life style. We wish Walt well past I had taken a lot of pictures, commercials and in due time and hope we can continue to see so I went to the Army newspaper joined the Editors Guild. Thus him at NSA conventions where he office, and I said. 'I'm a photogra- began what was to become a long has been a faithful attendee over pher!' I became the photographer and satisfying career highlighted the years. for the Ninth Division News. I did by three American Cinema Editors Speed Graphic work that used the Awards, five additional A.C.E. nom- David Saxon old flash bulbs. From then on I inations and an Emmy from the First, I must apologize. Mis- used a 35mm Leica." Television Academy. spelling people's names is the one Originally from Brooklyn, Saxon Sixteen years were spent with . sin for which one can never ade- went to Cornell University for a David Wolper Productions from quately atone. For David Saxon I year after returning from the war. which he carries many fond mem- did it twice.. . in Stereo World, Vol- He moved to California with his ories. "It was a very creative time ume 27 #2, page 31. (As Shake- family in 1948 where he received a and place", he recalls," I remember speare, on a bad day, might have written, "Out !!! ... danged T".) Let ...... me try that again. In the 1999 vot- David Saxon, photographed by Sylvia Saxon using a Mamiya 35mm, on a slide bar ing results for the Avian Print Cir- with a base of 1.5 inches. David says, "I am still constantly amazed at the way a cuit, David Saxon held down reasonably good photograph becomes a masterpiece in 3-0. (At least I see it as a masterpiece). A good stereo picture is breathtaking. I am not delving into the many fourth place overall with 25 points aspects of today's technology, just enjoying the beauty of this new (but very old) photographic art. "

@ Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO WORLD the long hours but nobody mind- including The Great White Shark, ed them. There was always some- Lonely Lord of the Sea. e Stereoscopic Society of America is a rgroup of currently active stereo photogra- thing different going on. And it phers who circulate their work by means of was very friendly... people at wow! postal folios. Both print and transparency for- Wolper let the other people who Today David Saxon has gone mats are used, and several groups are oper- were working do their thing, so back to his first love, photography. ating folio circuits to met the needs in each "I never stopped picture taking," format. When a folio arrives, a member views there was nobody sitting behind and makes comments on each of the entries me and saying, 'Put this here, put he states, "What most fascinates of the other participants. His or her own this there.' They wanted the bene- me is shooting still photographs in view, which has traveled the circuit and has fit of a person's skill, so they would 3-D for viewing with a stereoscope, been examined and commented upon by the look at it, and then make the a process that was invented in the other members, is removed and replaced with 19th century. Back in 1947, using a a new entry. The folio then continues its end- changes. And that's the way to do less travels around the circuit. Many long dis- it." camera and a small camera shifter, tance friendships have formed among the I had merely a momentary taste of participants in this manner over the years. Old Days ... Old ways 3-D. Then, several years ago, redis- Stereo photographers who may be interest- During this period Saxon worked covery of its miracles hit me full ed in Society membership should write to the Membership Secretary, Shab Levy, 6320 SW on The Story of a Wrestler and the force. Photography can be beauti- 34th Ave., Portland, OR 97207. very successful documentary ful but the impact of stereoscopic D-Day, among others. Everything photography is beyond descrip- was hands-on in those days. tion. When it is seen for the first www.cascade3d.org). The exhibition "There were no fancy editing time the reaction is always WOW!" was carried out under the full machines.. . everything was approval and oversight of the trimmed in. There were no elec- ED1 Photographic Society of America.. . tronics.. . we used Moviolas, then Electronic/Digital/Internet ...and star points could be earned under the flatbeds. I never liked using a into a brave new world we go. the usual PSA rules. I consider this Moviola, particularly with 16mm Society members and other stereo- only the beginning. Change is very film.. . it is a very slow instru- graphers who like to take part in often difficult to adjust to ... and ment." the many exhibitions and compe- we frequently tend to resist it (usu- In the 1960~~Saxon had con- titions around the world are ally to no avail in the long run). tracts with National Geographic and becoming aware of a new door Many experienced exhibitors edited many documentaries for that has opened ... or soon will. resisted entering due to unfamiliar- them (often leading to a personal Last October the Cascade Stereo- ity with preparing pictures digitally interest in the subject matter of scopic Club of Portland, Oregon, according to the rules. I deter- the films). He produced and edited successfully carried out the first mined t6give it a try and prepared many more documentaries for exhibition/competition of stereo an entry. It really wasn't all that Wolper in the years that followed: views conducted entirely on the hard.. . and if I can do it I would Monkeys; Apes and Man (for which Internet. Each entrant prepared the say anyone could. Now is the time he received an Emmy) Strange Crea- digital versions and transmitted to start to get ready for the next tures of the Night and Search for the them by email. Three selectors ED1 exhibition.. . Society members Great Apes, for which he obtained from different countries, commu- and other stereographers should his first A.C.E. Award. nicating through the Internet, con- not miss out on the fun. And a In the 1960s) David patented a ducted the judging. Winners and well deserved round of thanks process for creating multiple other accepted views were exhibit- should go to the pioneering filmed images without expensive ed on the Club's website (http:/1 Cascade Stereoscopic Club. me optics. It came to be known as "Multi-Vision" and some may remember its use (very effectively, too, as I recall) in a Nancy Sinatra 1 William England Picture Book Falls Flat TV special called Movin' With (Continzwd from page 19) Nancy. i Willy Wonka photography and stereography. So, if you are looking for an This is followed by brief notes account of William England's 1859 Moving on to feature films, about other early photographers. trip to North America, this is not David Saxon cut If It's Tuesday, This Here, his proofreading has slipped the book for you. Or, if you are Must Re Relc@umin 1969 and in up a bit. In the chronology there is looking for reproductions of Eng- 1970 the fabulous Willy Wonka and one paragraph that is reproduced land's images as double image the Chocolate Factory. Throughout twice, and he says that in 1870, stereo views, this is also not the the '70s and '80s he was very America dominated the stereo mar- book for you. But if you are look- active in television shows, specials, ket with three companies: Under- ing for a coffee table book with and documentaries. In the early wood & Underwood, The Keystone nicely printed, half stereo copies of 1990s David temporarily interrupt- View Company and H.C. White William England's photographs ed retirement and edited three Co. (whereas these companies did showing what some of North documentaries for Jacques not even begin operation until America looked like in 1859, then Cousteau, the undersea explorer, much later: in 1882, 1892 and you should get this book for your 1899 respectively). library (or for your coffee table). mm

STEREO WORLD Volume 27, Number 4 (b Civil War Go Deeper Into History .-.- .ma review by John Dennis

collection of Civil War stereo views the St. John's Island Rockville he first Volume of Bob Zeller's in existence." and is described in plantation. 1997 The Civil War in Depth some detail: Long thought to exist only as a Twas like seeing a collection of single negative (and published as the best Civil War stereoviews In all, Stanford owns more than 1,500 views ....She owns about 400 of the esti- such on a Srnithsonian Magazine known. Many images so often mated 1,000 wartime stereo views pro- cover), the author discovered left reproduced flat were finally seen as duced by Alexander Gardner and his and right halves of a view showing pairs by both stereo and Civil War associates. She owns 700 to 800 of the M.B. Brady on the Gettysburg bat- material collectors. (See SW Vol. 24 more than 1,400 wartime stereo views tlefield in the Merserve Collection No. 3, page 38.) issued by the E. & H.T. Anthony compa- at the National Portrait Gallery. Volume 11, published in 2000, is ny. She has the largest known group of Also among the Discoveries is a more like being allowed into some original Osborn and Durbec Confederate view described as the "rarest of the "back room" to see the really rare stereo views of Fort Sumter and the Charleston area. And she owns a group rare", the last of the "lost" Gardner stuff-the one-of-a-kind views death studies taken at Gettysburg. from the vaults and secret drawers of rare stereo views of the Wilderness battlefield that photohistorian William A. Previously published only as a holding the personal favorites of Frassanito calls the "Rosetta Stone" of half-stereo in Frassanito's Early people who supplied images for that series ... Photography at Geftysbur~,this only the original compilation. While For many photos, she has the only known stereo version of South that's true of some images in Vol- extant examples in their original 3-D for- Carolina soldiers laid out for burial ume 11, many are from sources the mat.... As I slowly went through box after with their grave markers appears in author didn't even know about box of views, I found myself staring at the book courtesy of the Robin unfamiliar images. Then I began seeing until after the publication of vol- Stanford Collection. ume I. In fact here had been no series of views I had never seen before, such as the Wilderness group.... If this vol- The first combat stereograph, initial plans for a sequel. showing Union ships firing on When Mr. Zeller learned of and ume passes the test as an important new record of Civil War photography, it is a Forts Moultrie and Sumter, is saw the Civil War stereoview col- testament to her collection. reproduced in its actual published lection of NSA member Robin Stan- stereoview format ca. 1880. The ford of Houston, the experience Other collectors contributing September 8, 1863, George S. Cook seems to have been a major factor rare or recently discovered views to image had been printed in Volume in the decision ta publish volume the book include Mike Griffith, I using separate Cook negatives, 11. Of the 139 views reproduced in John Richter, Tony Chibbaro, Chet but the commercially published it, 63 are from her collection, Urban, Don Parisi and John Hen- view, discovered in 1998, is far which is credited in the book's nessy. The first chapter is devoted sharper and more easily fused even foreword as "...the largest single to "Discoveries" in which recently though the ships remain tiny spots located or identified views are on the horizon. reproduced for the first time. Inte- Four of the views in the Discov- rior and exterior views of a church eries chapter show portions of the for slaves on a Rockville, South long lost Cyclorama painting of Carolina plantation by Osborn and The Battle of Second Bull Run. Sec- Durbec are followed by the same tions of the painting never seen in Charleston firm's views of slave any reproduction by modern histo- tombstones and slave quarters on rians appear on these J.F. Jarvis

(b Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO WORLD views, which display some depth thanks to the small trees and fences positioned in front of the 400 foot long, 50 foot high painting. The images filling the eleven other chapters are no less fascinat- ing, and many are as little known as those in the first chapter. Few are images published in other historical accounts of the war, and fewer have appeared before in full stereo. The Portraits section includes not only generals posed in front of tents, but spies, individual soldiers, families and Harper's Weekly artist Alfred R. Waud. The book's only pseudoscopic image occurs with a pairing of two four- lens camera negatives, a portrait of Grant by the Rrady Gallery. More than making up for this hard-to- i+--- -- notice error is an amazing, near - - .r**C mint condition ca. 1864 view of The "Viewer Trainer" with lorgnette inserted stands on a page of The Civil War m Custer in camp with his dog. Depth Volume 11 The tralner provides a septum and posrtlons the viewer at about the The chapter covering wartime 3- correct drstance from the page. At lower right is the Osborn and Durbec view tnstde D images of African-Americans the battery that first fired on Fort Sumter. includes two views of Fort Wagner on the beach of Morris Island, halves even a little wider than the hooked on stereo with the address where the black troops of the 54th three inches their original publish- of the NSA. Massachusetts attacked-an event ers would have cropped them to. The condition of the images later dramatized in the 1989 film Fortunately, the viewer included ranges from seriously damaged to Glory. A chapter in color of tinted with Volume I1 can handle that as clear as something stereoviews reproduces some impressive width. It's the same lorgnette pro- graphed last year. A washed-out, examples, including tinted ver- vided to new NSA members for blurry view of a young man next sions of two Gardner Gettysburg Stereo World viewing, and comes to some huge guns looks like war dead images--one the famous with a folding "Viewer Trainer" to something that could well have "Harvest of Death" view. slip it into until one gets used to been edited out until you read that Two of the rarest formats of using it without a frame and sep- these are two of the four cannon Civil War stereos are shown; an tum. on an iron-sheathed barge that Anthony French-issue glass view of In Volume I, it was encouraging fired the first shots at Fort Sumter. a hospital ship at City Point, Vir- to see so many famous views so Overcoming flaws that would get a ginia, and a full-size stereo well researched, as well as repro- picture rejected by many publish- ambrotype (in a Masher viewer duced with such care by a major ers, stereo can somehow let the case) of confederate artillery officer publisher. In volume 11, although history embedded in the depths of Columbus W. Motes. The mint done with the same careful an image flow out. One nearly condition tinted view is the only research and reproduction, it's sim- flawless image was taken inside known stereoscopic cased image of ply great to see these rare views at Harewood Hospital in Washington, a Rebel soldier, who (it gets even all. At least every other one is a D.C. showing the length of a ward better) survived both Sharpsburg gem you'll want to go back to over with every bed occupied, mosquito and Gettysburg to return to his and over-far more than can be nets ready above each one. Light career as a photographer in mentioned here. A stereoview of pours in every window onto the Athens, Georgia until the turn of the Gettysburg Address is astound- clean swept floor as if the scene the century! ing enough, even if taken a couple had been prepared for a PBS docu- As in Volume I, the views are of hundred feet from the barely mentary film crew. reproduced at about 90% of full visible speakers' platform. The The Civil War in Depth Volldrne II size, never more than two per Wilderness series by G.O. Brown is is one of those grand exceptions in page, and well clear of text or cap- impressive enough to get its own which a sequel outshines an tions. Scattered throughout the chapter. About a year after the already acclaimed original. book, as well as having their own 1864 Battle of the Wilderness, Although fewer stores seem to chapter, are new prints made from Brown stereographed unburied have given it prominent space if glass plate negatives in the Library skeletons of soldiers left in the they ordered it at all, this is one to of Congress. These are reproduced thick, gloomy woods and under- buy whether or not you have Vol- at the original size, making many brush. Also as in Volume I, this ume I. You just don't get into back book provides readers newly rooms like this very often. r30

STEREO WORLD Volume 27, Number 4 b) Current Information on Stereo Today David Starkman & ]ohn Dennis PokeScope 3-D Viewer on-magnifying stereoscopes adjustable non-magnifying stereo- using prisms or mirrors have scope, fitting even more effortless- Nbeen introduced at various ly into a pocket than the original times over the years, from "pocket Stereoscope". Its main Theodore Brown's "Blockit" pocket drawback may in fact be the ease stereoscope of 1895 to the plastic with which this roughly two inch prism lorgnette viewers produced square, one inch deep cube can be for over-under viewing by KMQ in lost on a messy desk or in an unor- the late 1980s. In 1997, Alan Lewis ganized drawer! produced an improved version of As with any non-magnifying viewer, the PokeScope is at its best Brown's pocket viewer under the When folded closed, The PokeScope name "Freeviewer's Assistant" (SW when viewing larger pairs. is about a two-inch square, one-inch Vol. 24 No. 5, page 17). Both the Whether these are in the form of deep cube with its prisms safely con- Brown and Lewis viewers shift the prints or images on a screen, the cealed inside. vision of just one eye, while other viewer fuses even pairs that are prism or mirror viewers have been poorly aligned, widely separated, images. Besides providing the designed for both eyes. or not at all square to the orienta- effect of the septum in a Holmes The latest of such viewers is tion of the viewer. It's ideal for viewer, the masking windows called the PokeScope", and com- pairs being manipulated or adjust- block out any confusing back- bines a pair of adjustable glass ed on a computer screen and for ground elements around the prisms with small masking win- observing the effects of any manip- images. The appropriate viewing dows to provide fusion of nearly ulation in real time 3-D. Standard distance is found by moving the any size image pairs from nearly stereoviews, while they will appear viewer back until the masked area any distance. The PokeScope is the tiny in the PokeScope thanks to is just a little bigger than the first viewer of its kind to overcome the lack of magnification and the image. the inherent limitations of previ- isolating effect of the masking win- The tiny viewer has been under ous mirror or prism stereoscopes. dows, can be easily viewed and development by NSA member Dr. Viewers made for one eye (even sorted even when laying flat on a Monte Ramstad for several years, with a masking window added for desk. Loosely arranged one above and features glass prisms that are the other eye) can make it frustrat- the other, five or so views at a time recessed inside their hinged housing or worse to fuse pairs, while can be fused at once. ings and shrouded to avoid reflec- two-eye adjustable mirror viewers The above trick is achieved in tions from inside the viewer or are often fragile and somewhat the same way large pairs are fused. from the prism glass itself. The bulky. Adjustable two-eye prism After the viewer has been opened edges of the front openings in the viewers have so far been rare, and "clicked" into position, the prism housing, as well as frames of heavy and very expensive. masking windows in front of the the masking windows, are beveled The folding PokeScope is easily prisms can be pulled apart just to further avoid reflections. the most portable of any enough to isolate the appropriate The result is a stereo image with a clean, black surrounding that can Even when open, the PokeScope prism viewer measures only about 2 x 5 inches. By hold- make print or screen viewing more ing and spreading the larger front section with the masking windows, it can be adjusted like using a good slide viewer. At for best fusion of pairs of nearly any size or placement. the same time, the addition of the masking feature contributes to an initial impression of a keyhole effect, even when used on large pairs. That's the trade-off for the flexibility of most non-magnifying viewers, and even more so with this one. The close study and mer- ited appreciation of a good stereo pair will always require some sort of magnification, either with a

I viewer or projector. But for the

@ Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO WORD quick fusion of nearly any format pair--or several pairs at once-the PokeScope is one of the best Self-stick Stereo Mounts designed and crafted devices ever elf-stick slide mounts for regular medium gray, pH neutral light to reach the market. S2x2 slides have been used for a blocking layer as well as a spotting The PokeScope is available for long time, replacing heat-seal dot printed on the lower left cor- $49.95 + shipping (including mounts at many photo labs. Now ner oriented for hand viewing. Image Manager software) from the convenience of these mounts While Realist 5-p mounts are cur- Graphic Media research, 21 1 Ridge- has become available for stereo rently available, other stereo for- crest drive, Cannon Falls, MN slides in the Realist 5-p format. mat mounts are said to be on the 55009, (507) 263-4611, Cutout "wells" provide vertical way. Self-stick mounts are available www.~okescope.com. alignment and allow horizontal from: adjustment for the stereo window Rocky Mountain Memories, and the desired point separation. 6203 Avery island Ave., Austin, After the film chips are taped into TX 78727, (512) 219-8408, position, the "release paper" is www.rmm3d.com. Upcoming removed to reveal the adhesive so Berezin Stereo Photography the mount can be folded and Products, 21686 Abedul, Mission Com~etitions sealed shut without heat or special Viejo, CA 92691, (949) 215-1554, equipment. www.berezin.com/3d. The new design (also available in (Closin~dates are listed first, fol- a heat-seal version) includes a lowed by the sponsor, the contact address, the format and the entry fee.) Mar.12, 2001, WICHITA, Mary Ann Rhoda, 2511 E. Funston, Wichita, KS Canadian Photo Historv Fair 6721 1-4629. Email: MRhoda3826Vaol J .corn. Slides & cards - North America he Photographic Historical Soci- available for printing on the $6, Other $7. Tety of Canada is presenting its P.H.S.C. website, Mar. 21, 2001, CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE, Annual Spring Photographica Fair htt~://web.onram~.ca/phsc. Don Smith, 145 West Park Ave., May 13, 2001, at The Coffee Time For more information or table Wheaton, IL 60187-6459. Email: Soccer Centre, 7601 Martin Grove reservations, contact Fair Chair- [email protected] & cards - Road (Y4 mile south of Highway 7, man Mark Singer. 47 Stornoway North America $7, Other $8. on the east side) Woodbridge Crescent, Thornhill, Ontario, Mar. 23, 2001, SOUTHERN CROSS, Mrs. (Toronto), Ontario, Canada. Canada LET 3x8 or phone (416) Nancy Moxom, 46 Glenayr Ave., Antique, classic and modern 879-7168. West Ryde, N.S.W. 2114, Australia. cameras, images, books, acces- Email: [email protected] - North America $8 US, Other $10 sories, etc. are available for both his column depends on readers for information. (We don't know everything!) Australian. the collector and photographer T from over 90 vendors from 10:OO Please send information or questions to David Apr. 14, 2001, OHIO, James R. Motley, Starkman, NewViews Editor, PO. Box 2368, 2721 Oak Park Ave., Cleveland, OH A.M. to 3:00 P.M. Admission is Culver City, CA 9023 1. 44109. Email: jmotlev3d@ameritech $7.00. A $2.00 discount coupon is .net. Slides-North America $5, Other $6. May 2, 2001, CORDOVA, Email: bill [email protected] & cards - North America $5, Other $6. May 10, 2001, ROCKY MOUNTAIN INTERNATIONAL, David K. Morison, Explore the World P.O. Box 1786, Grand Junction, CO & 81502-1786. Slides - North America of 3-L> Imaging, Past Present, in $6, Other $7. Jun. 9, 2001, CASCADE INTERNATIONAL, Details & forms: htte://www.~ascade3d m.Electronic, cards, & slides (max. 2 sections) - North America & Other $7. Jun. 8, 2001, 6th VIEW-MASTER INTER- NATIONAL Stereo Sequence Exhibi- tion, Lawrence Kaufman, 1607 Mari- P.O. Box 14801 posa Drive, Corona, CA 92879-1121. Columbus Email: kaufman3dVearthlink.net. VM OH 43214 reels - USA $7, Other $9. Many entry forms are available at: www.members.aol.com/~sastereo.

STEREO WORLD Volume 27, Number 4 (b 2" ARIDIS camera and prolector lenses. Also STEREO VIEWER LENSES. - two wedge-shaped BICYCLES AND MOTORCYCLES. Any stereoptlcs, Bolex 16mm camera and projector lenses. lenses, each molded and embodied in 1.5" photographs, ephemera, medals, catalogs, Lenny (415) 256 2218. square frame. Precision optical quality: build, ,memorabilia, etc. related to early cycling. Sin- - - experiment. $7.95 postpaid (USA). Taylor-Mer- gles or collections. Generally 1860-1955. Per- 3-D BOOKS, VIEWERS, and paraphernalia to suit chantcorp. 212 W. 35th St., New York, NY manent want. Loren Shields, PO Box 211, Cha- every stereoscopic whim and fancy, all at terrific 10001, (800) 223-6694. grin Falls, OH 44022-0211, Phone (905- 886- prices! For a free list, write, call or fax Cygnus 691 1, vintaae-antiaueQhome.com. Graphic, PO Box 32461, Phoenix, AZ 85064- STEREOVIEWS, AND 100,000 old postcards - -- - ~ 2461, tellfax (602) 279-7658. including many real photo postcards. Send me COLLECT, TRADE, BUY & SELL: 19th Century -- your want list. I collect stereo views and real images (cased, stereo, Cdv, cabinet & large ARCHITECTURAL CLASSICS in 3D from photo postcards of Worcester, Mass. Richard paper) Bill Lee, 8658 Galdiator Way, Sandy, UT View'Productions. Works by Frank Lloyd Spedding, 22 Tanglewood Road, Sterling, MA 84094. Specialties: Western, Locomotives, Pho- Wright, Bruce Goff and Frank Gehry on View- 01564-2015 email sDeddrQrnassed.net. tographers, Indians, Mining, J. Carbutt, Expedi- Mastem reels. Call (888) 782-8782 for details tions, Ships, Utah and occupational or visit www.view~roductions.~om. STEREOVIEWS, CDVs, CABINETS, etc. Direct sale: send me your wants. Tim Mclntyre, 137 COLORADO TOWNS! Specialties: Street scenes, BOOK, The Siege at Port Arthur; hardback with Nile, Stratford Ontario, N5A 4E1, Canada. Tel: buildings, occupational, farming, mining, rail- 3-D viewer. $15 Econ Air. (Cash preferred). Ron 51 9-273-5360, Fax: 51 9-273-731 0, email: roading and other transportation. Real photo- Blum, 2 Hussey Ave., Oaklands Park SA 5046, timoniQorc.ca, web page: htto:llwww.orc.ca4 graphs, all formats. Also all expeditions by Australia. m.I collect: Canada and Europe views - let Hillers, O'Sullivan, Russell, Jackson, etc. David BRANSON, MISSOURI VIEW-MASTER custom me know what vou have. S. Digerness, 4953 Perry St., Denver, CO 80212, phone (303) 455-3946. produced 3-reel cards. On-site views of caves, STEREO VIEWS FOR SALE on our Website at: famous entertainers, theme parks, etc. Only www.daves-stereos.com , e-mail: woodQ~ikeon CORTE-SCOPE VIEWS or sets, any subject or 2,500 produced. $10, plus $3.55 for Priority line.net or contact us by writing to Dave or Cyndi condition. No viewers unless with views. John shipping. Van Beydler, Box 827, St. Robert, MO Wood, PO Box 838 Milford, PA 18337, phone Waldsmith, 302 Granger Rd., Medina, OH 65584-0827, www.rollanet,oral-vbevdlerlvanl (570) 296-61 76. Also want views by L. Hensel of 44256. 3d. NY and PA. - - FLORIDA - ANYTHING pre 1920 From: Palatka, CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD Photographic His- Crescent City, Pomona Park, Welaka, Melrose, tory Museum. Stereographs of the first Interlachen, Sisco, etc., St. Johns River or Ock- transcontinental railroad are now on display at: lawaha River Steamboats. Mike Ratliff, 209 Cen- ALASKA & KLONDIKE stereos needed, espec~ally htt~:/lCPRR.org tral Ave., Palatka, FL 32177, email: - -- Muybridge; Maynard; Brodeck; Hunt; W~nter& mike- ratliffQiname.com. COLLECTION OF STEREOVIEW cards. One small brown; Continent Stereoscopic. Also buying old - - - collection of about 500t cards. Most real potos Alaska photographs, books, postcards, FOR TRADE, my TDC 116 with Selectron changer and in excellent condition. First $975.00 gets ephemera. etc. Wood, PO Box 22165, Juneau, (no single carrier or case) for View-Master 500. collection. Send SASE for more information. AK 99802, (907) 789-8450, email: Alexander Kruedener, 161 East 89 St. Apt. E, Steve Beisser, 607 Woodcombe Dr., Houston, TX dickQAlaskaWanted.com. New York, NY 10128, (21 2) 831 -0662, 77062. KruedenerQJuno.com. ALWAYS BUYING STEREO VIEWS AND REAL - JOHN WALDSMITH'S "Stereo Views, An Illustrat- PHOTOS of U.S. Mint, U.S. Treasury, and Bureau I BUY ARIZONA PHOTOGRAPHS! Stereoviews, ed History and Price Guide" available signed of Engraving & Printing. High prices paid for cabinet cards, mounted photographs, RP post from the author, $22.95 softbound, add $2.95 stereo views and real photos I need of U.S. Mint cards, albums and photographs taken before postage and handling. Please note: the hard- coining operations, Treasury and BEP paper 1920. Also interested in Xeroxes of Arizona bound edition is sold out. Mastercard, VISA and money engraving & printing operations 1860s- stereographs and photos for research. Will pay Discover accepted. John Waldsmith, 302 1920s. Especially seeking U.S. Mint interiors postage and copy costs. Jeremy Rowe, 2120 S. Granger Rd., Medina, OH 44256. and exteriors from Philadelphia; San Francisco; Las Palmas Cir.. Mesa. AZ 85202. New Orleans; Denver; Carson City, Nevada; Q-VU PRINT MOUNTS simplify mounting stereo Dahlonega, Georgia; Charlotte, NC; plus U.S. views. Sample kit $6, includes mounted view. Treasury & Bureau of Engraving & Printing oper- Black or gray $381100 ppd. Also, King Inn 21/4 x ations, Washington, DC and various U.S. Assay 21/4 viewers, mounts & achromatic lens kit. offices. Please mail or FAX photocopy, with price Q-VU. 817 East 8th. Holtville. CA 92250. and condition noted. I'll reply within 48 hours. s one of the benefits of membership, NSA members are offered free use of classified REALIST MODEL 81 projector. $750. k2.8 cam- Attn Dave Sundman, c/o Littleton Coin Co., One A era, $385. Electric viewer, $165. All mint condi- Littleton Coin Place, Littleton, NH 03561, FAX advertising. Members may use 100 words per year, divided into three ads with a maximum tion. T.D.C. Selectron changer with tray, $75. 603-444-3512, (est. 1945). of 35 words per ad. Additional wards or addi- Exc.tt. Shipping extra. James Ramsey, PO Box ASIA, NETHERLANDS AND RAUMBILD stereo tional ads may be inserted at the rate of 200 164, Kermit, WV 25674, (304) 393-3172. views. Keystone: England Vol. 1 and 2 - boxed per word. Please include payments with ads. STEREOVIEW PRICE GUIDE. Only $7.00!! Great sets or cards only. I need for Keystone Tour of We cannot provide billings. Ads will be placed for people buying from auctions and for collec- the World 1200 card set: Scotland 192, 195, in the issue being assembled at the time of tors who want to know the latest realized auction 199, France 410. Edward Vandenberg, 6 Admiral their arrival unless a specific later issue is values. Only numbered views over $50 are list- Dr. Apt. A372, Emeryville, CA 94608, faxlphone 'eq ues ted. ed. Doc Boehme, 1236 Oakcrest Ave. W, (510) 652-2243. Ser ~dall ads, M dth paymen Roseville, MN 55113 www.iamdoc.com. STE .RE0 WORLC) Clossifieds -- 561 0 SE 71st, Portland, Oh ,. --,. (A rate sheet for display ads is available from the same address. Please send SASE.)

@ Volume 27, Number 4 STEREO UVRLD I COLLECT ALL TYPES of photographs of New LOUIS HELLER of Yreka and Fort Jones, Callfor- STEREOVIEWS 1) WITH A CHESS theme, and 2) York City's Central Park (stereoviews, CDVs, nia. Anything! Also, any early California or west- Rogers' Groups of "Checker Players", "the Card cabinet cards, postcards, etc.) 1850-1940. Her- ern views wanted. Carl Mautz, (530) 478-1610, Players", "Checkers Up at the Farm", and "Foot- bert Mitchell, 601 West 113th St. Apt. 8-H, New cmautzQnccn.net. ball". Ray Alexis, 608 Emery St., Longmont, CO York. NY 10025-9712. (21 2) 932-8667 --~ 80501, e-mail: chessstuff91 1459Qaol.com. MCINTYRE VIEWS of 1000 islands, Alexandria - -- I'M LOOKING FOR the following 1950s Realist Bay & Ogdensburg, NY, Brockville, Ontario. Fred STEREO REALIST 1525 Accessory Lens Kit for Permamount slides from "The Realist Library of McCarthy, 1026 E. Gondola Dr., Venice, FL Macro Stereo Camera; Realist 2066 Gold Button Scenic Stereo Originals": 410, 413, 504, 922, 34293, (941) 497-6825, mccarthvQhome.com. Viewer; Realist 6-drawer stereo slide cabinet in 3100,3112,3113,4100, and 4101. Mark Willke, Exc.+ or better condition (must contain Realist 200 SW 89th Ave., Portland, OR 97225. (503) MUYBRIDGE VIEWS - Top prices paid. Also logo); Baja 8-drawer stereo slide cabinet with 797-3458 days. Michigan and Mining - the 3Ms. Many views plastic drawers marked "Versafile". Mark Willke, -- -- available for trade. Leonard Walle, 47530 Edin- 200 SW 89th Ave., Portland, OR 97225. (503) INDIANS & WESTERN, especially Colorado; all borough Lane, Novi, MI 48374. 797-3458 days. formats (especially large); delegation, survey, railroad, mining; Jackson, Russell, Savage, NEED PHOTOS AND INFO on Dakota. No. Dakota VIEW-MASTER STEREO-MATIC 500 projector O'Sullivan, Hillers, etc. Rob Lewis, 1560 Broad- and So. Dakota photographers (stereo, post with case & instructions for educational purpos- way #1500, Denver, C0 80202, (303) 861-2828, card, any format) before 1920. Examples: es. Russell Rubert, 131 Hillview Rd., King of ralewisQdenverlaw.com. Howard, Mitchell, Rodacker and Blanchard, prussia, PA 19406-2307 rrubertQhrloaic.com - ~ - Illingsworth, Pollach and Boyden, Cross and any (610) 265-2645. KOREAN IMAGES WANTED. Stereoviews, old others. R. Kolbe, 1301 So. Duluth, Sioux Falls, photographs, and glass slides of Korea. Alsoear- SO 57105. VISTA REALIST VIEWER. D.Smekal, 1765 Rose- ly travel brochures, books, postcards and bery Ave. West Vancouver, BC V7V 225, Canada. ephemera of Korea. Norman Thorpe, 6920 So. PRE-1900 CAMERAS with 2 or more lenses, or Fax: (604) 922-2855. South Meadows Road, Spokane, WA 99223, with movable lens or back for multiple images. (509) 448-431 1, thoroeQarias.net. Stereo card collections wanted. Dave Gorski, WASHINGTON, D.C. & VICINITY flatmounts by 21045 N. 124th Ave., Sun City West, AZ 85375, out-of-towners: Langenheim, John Soule, Bar- LOOKING FOR the original packaging boxes for (623) 975-4061. num, Bierstadt, Chase, Kilburn, Moulton. Alan the following in good condition: (1) View-Master Young, 404 Westlea Dr., Westfield, IN 46074, personal Camera. (2) Realist Red Button Viewer. SINGLE VIEWS, or complete sets of "Longfellow's avounaQind.cioe.com. -- .. - - - (3) Realist Green Button Viewer. (4) Belplasca Wayside Inn" done by D. C. Osborn, Artist, Ass- Camera. (5) Sputnik Camera. Contact: William abet, Mass., Lawrence M. Rochette, 169 Wood- WEST VIRGINIA stereoviews, real photo post- Rosenberg, (718) 763-4532, e-mail: land Drive. Marlborouah. MA 01752. cards, oter photography, postcards, books and wilbcQidt.net. other old paper. I buy from Xerox or e-mail scan. -- -- Tom Prall. PO Box 155. Weston. WV 26452

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2003 CI Supplies for Stereographers July 23-29,2003 O 3-D slide viewers At the Embassy Suites 0 Prin oscopes in North Charleston, CJ 3-D slide rnounts South Carolina Contact Bill Moll for more 3-D slide mounting supplies info or questions: O Books about 3-D & in 3-D whmoll(~aol.com Visit our World Wide Web Catalog at 2004 www.stereoscopy.com/ree13d July 2004 Reel 3-D Enterprises, Inc. At the Doubletree Jantzen Beach P.O. Box 2368 in Portland, Oregon Culver City, CA 9023 1 USA Contact Diane Rulien for Telephone: + l (3 10) 837-2368 more info or questions: Fax: +I (310) 558-1653 [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] .

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