THE MAGAZINE OF 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING, PAST 6 PRESENT
November/December 1998 Volume 2.5, Number 5
A PuMiition of NATIONAL STEREOSCOPIC ASSOCIATION, INC. I/ An Invitation to Share Your Best Stereo Images ASSIGNMENT^-D with the World!
e often have to consider the matter of how well a partic- Two BW~~Favorites" wular color print or slide pair will translate into black 8 white when selecting images for publica- tion in Assignment 3-0. But both of this issue's selections are original black & white print views which were also done in a format very close to the size used for most Realist format reproductions in Stereo World. No Deadline We're still asking you to send in "One of your favorites" from among all the stereo images you've ever photographed, drawn or oth- erwise generated. That's the extent of the category. Entries simply need to be images you find special somehow-something you'd like to share with other members even "Noonday Demons" by Robert E. Dias of Broomall, PA, was shot following photography of if you can't easily explain why. If regular flat publicity stills for a play of the same title at Temple University in Philadelphia. During his time as photographer for the University, Mr. Dias had cast members in several you wish, feel free to send up to theater productions pose for his stereo camera, in this case William Zielinski and Callum six stereos for us to do the selec- Keith-King. TDC Colorist and Wollensak Stereo cameras, Tri-X, Lowell Hot Lights, 1/50th, tion from a few of your favorites. f/5.6, Ian., 1995. As yet, no deadline has been set for this very open Assignment in the hope of eventua~l~sharinga wide variety of interesting views from more readers. The Rules: As space allows (and depending on the response) judges will select for publication in each issue at least two of the best views submitted by press time. Rather than tag images as first, second or third place win- ners, the idea will be to present as many good stereographs as possible from among those submitted. Any image in any print or slide format is eligible. (Keep in mind that images will be reproduced in black and white.) Include all relevant caption material and technical data as well as your name and address. Each entrant may submit up to 6 images per assignment. Any stereographer, amateur or profession- 21, is eligible. Stereos which have won Stereoscopic Society or PSA competitions are equally eligible, but please try to send views made within the past eight years. All views will be returned within 6 to 14 weeks, but Stereo World and the NSA assume no respon- sibility for the safety of photographs. Please include return postage with entries. Submis- "Multnomah Falls Through Fall Foliage" by Q. Brown of Troutdale, OR, was taken in the sion of an image constitutes permission for Columbia River Gorge in 7 994 with an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic and 55mm lens on a its one-use reproduction in Stereo World. All homemade slide bar using T-Max 7 00 film. other rights are retained by the photographer...... Send all entries directly to: ASSIGNMENT 3-D, 5610 SE 71st, Portland, OR 97206. Volume 25, Number 5 November/December 1998
THE MAGAZINE Of 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING, PAST & PRESENT Remembering Noel Archambault: 1961-1998 ...... 4 A PUbllCalrn d NATIONAL by Don Morren Stereo Forensics ...... A,...... 10 by Bruce MocGregor NSA Board I3f Directors B~llC. Walt01n, Choirmon Paula R. Fleming Endanger Critters Animated in LF 3-D ...... 15 Andv T, by Don Morren rtchison Lorenz Vorton Encounter in the Third Dimension ...... 16 adwell Review by Lnwrence Knufinan
NSA Uttrcers Larry Moor, President New Eye-to-Eye Books Reveal More Stereo Gems .... 26 Mary Ann Sell, Vice President Review by Don Mnraren Bill Moll, Vice President, Activitk ,--...u-.. c ...... LdllY nC>>, Jnrrlury An Ex amive Look at Stoddard's Work and Life ,... 29 David Wheel er, Treasurer Review P~y john Dennis Stereo Wl orld Staff john Den1i~s, Editor r. ean. lacooowla,0 ..L. ... Hssocrore. ~ ~ .. corrc,d... World's Fairs and the Stereo Connection ...... 30 Karen White, Associote Editor Review by Iohn Dennis Tim Wh~te,Associote Editor ke Province, Reseorch Consulta Mark Willke, Art Director Waldsmith, Subscription Monciger n R. Cibbs, Bock Issues Manogier Editor's View Comments and Observations ...... 2 'ow to Reach U by lolln Dennis NSA Membership Letters Reader's Comments and Questions ...... 3 (New o?ernb~rsh~ps, rpnewolr & 0ddn.a ch, P.O. 8 ox 14801, Columbus, OH 4 The Society News from the Stereoscopic Society of America ...... 21 Questions Concerning by Norman R. Patterson Stereo World Subscriptions Larry Hess, (602) 426-1295 European Gems Stereoviews from Old Europe and the Stories Behind Them .... 22 4647 E. Francisco Dr., #143, Phoenix, AZ 85044 e-rnail: [email protected] by Dennis Pellerin 61 Pierre Tavlitzki
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(But I'm Ied in Don Marren's memorial alcove just outside the door to the sure most people making remarks article in this issue. But there are auditorium for anyone with ques- along those lines would prefer that those people whose sheer sanity, tions about large format 3-D. His any such end to wait to find them enthusiasm, and friendliness make IMAX 3-D frame pairs, openness stereographing some exotic loca- even one encounter memorable and genuine interest in all aspects tion at about age 105.) and leave you looking forward to of stereography quickly obliterated As far as I know, Noel was the your next contact without any lin- most thoughts of the interrupted first participant ever killed during gering feelings of either hesitation presentation, although I'm sure he the production of a 3-D film. One or impatience was both flattered and a bit embar- soldier/cast member is reported to The occasion was the 1991 ISU rassed by the overwhelming audi- have died during the filming of Congress in Paris, at which Noel ence support he received. 1953's 3-D film Cease Fire, but had presented "Large Format 3-D From his work on Transitions in since that was a "semi docudrama" Film: The Stereographer" as one of 1986 to his death last year doing shot during Korean War battles, the shows in the main auditorium. an IMAX 3-D film in the Galapagos the situation was very different. At that point he had worked on Islands, Noel's was a life largely The still growing field of large for- the IMAX 3-D films Transitions, The devoted to the effort to produce mat 3-D cinema needed Noel's Last hzrffalo, and Echoes of the Sun, the best possible stereoscopic films knowledge, talent, dedication and gaining a sort of specialized stereo- for people all over the world. His inspiration more than it needed grapher fame through articles in skills as a stereographer and his any sort of martyr. Stereo World. His illustrated techni- work on every single IMAX 3-D There are now several new IMAX cal descriptions and anecdotes film through 1998 made him, for 3-D films coming up that I hope to about the production of these many, an object of astounded see, but I'd pass on all of them for spectacular films using the massive admiration and outright envy. another chance to talk with Noel IMAX dual-camera rig held most of Even the manner of his death in some stairwell packed with the audience in envious fascina- could be seen as having something excited stereo enthusiasts. tion with both subject and presen- of the dramatic aspect of "dying ter (who actually got paid for get- ting to work with the biggest 3-D camera in the world). The Congress organizers, eager to get the Saturday program back on schedule with more traditional 3-D slide shows (Noel's technical Green Bay diagrams and images were largely flat), tried to cut the presentation short by turning up the house where Stereo? Fine in '93! lights when he was about three- quarters of the way through. After howls of complaint from the audi- JU~8-12, 1999 ence and scattered arguments over the eligibility and merits of the All NSA '99 Convention material and forms presentation threatened to degen- are available on the new convention web site: erate into something between a minor riot and international inci- www.dddesign.com/3dbydan/nsa99 dent (or at least an unpleasant "first" for an ISU Congress), the Or, contact Convention chairman Harry Richards, lights soon went back down and Noel finished his presentation to 11506 N. Laguna Dr., Mequon,WI 53092, an enthusiastic ovation. [email protected] Surprised, but showing no signs of feeling bitter or insulted, Noel November/Uecernber 1998 STEREO W3RW Reader's Comments and Questions 45 Years in Reverse their three-dimensional glory. Up until just recently, my personal ecently, I purchased a few Needless to say, I corrected these experience concurred completely 1950s stereo slides, mounted in problems and consider myself the with this estimate of the time peri- Rold slip-in mounts of the same very first person to ever view these od when Cades was in business. time period. No doubt, the taker of 'Iides in true 3-D. However, recently I purchased ten these photographs became discour- Ray Walls stereoviews from the 1890s, each Johnson City, TN aged with stereo, because of the with the characteristic CADES finished product. Later CADES Library Views blindstamp. One view was by B.W. In the end result, the sprocket Surface Kilburn (dated 1893), four views were by J.F. Jarvis (dated between holes are visible below the lower who have cO1- edge the indicating the 1892 and 1897), and five views lected stereoviews for a good while were by Strohmeyer Wyman ( all slide should be viewed from the have at some time come across opposite side of the mount. Also, dated between 1895 and 1897). views with the word CADES blind- This appears to infer that Cades and more importantly, the film stamped on one edge of the chips were mounted in an incor- was in operation for almost twenty reverse of the cards. Paul wing years longer than any of us had rect order, resulting in a pseudo- provided us with some stereo effect. previously thought. Incidentally, information in his article "The these later views have little or I was amazed when I realized Cades Lending Library" (SW Vol. these slides had remained none of the informative notes and 14, No. 6). cross references found on the earli- unchanged for over 45 years. My The article stated that, in refer- deepest regrets are felt toward the er cards. ence to the views that M~.Wing I would enjoy hearing from any- original photographer, who never had obtained, "the latest date got to view these pictures in all one interested in the Cades Lend- might have been the mid 1870s." ing Library and the views that they circulated. Tom Rogers 11 11 12th St. Huntsville, TX 77340 3-D VIEWMAX I appreciate...y our glowing review of 3-D VIEWMAX. [SW Vol. onal Stereoscopic Association. 25 No. 4, page 28.1 I'm happy to scription to Stereo World report that in over a year on the pril issue of the current year. -- - - - internet with my stereographs for U.S. membership mailed third class ($26). sale, I've not had a single com- plaint or return. Many school U.S. membership mailed first class for faster delivery ($38). teachers are buying my viewers to Foreign membership mailed surface rate, and first class to Canada ($38). pass out to their class. I include my Foreign membership mailed international airmail ($56). own written instructions for the students on how to make stereo- Send a sample copy ($5.50). graphs with a single camera. I Your article in Stereo World has Please Inake checks payable to the National Stereoscopic /\ssociation. Foreign me lmhers please remit in U.S. dollars with a Canadiar1 Postal Mon sent a lot of business my way. Pe0- order, an 11iternational Money Order, or a foreign bank draft,on a U.S. bar ple are ordering all of the sets at - - ~ once, instead of one or two, as in the past. Your magazine carries a lot of weight. I've scanned the arti- cle and published it on my web site, and I've linked to the NSA page .... I'm proud to be a part of State Zip the printed history of stereo pho- tography via Stereo World. Ron Keas National St( Assoc iatior1 Ben Lomond, CA PO Box 14801, Columbus, OH 43214 The Only National Organization Devoted Exclusively To Stereo Photography, Stereoviews, and 3.D Imaging Techniques. STEREO WORLD NovemberlDeccmher 1998 d oel Archambaul', , Nveteran large-format (LF by Don Marren camera operator, stereogra er and cinematoqrapher, v killed in an ultralight aircratt crash along with its pilot, William Raiser, Jr., on the morn- ing of June26, 1998, in th Galapagos Islands. Raisner, was a retired Air Force pilo from Colorado Springs wh had prior experience filmir these islands. He founded Leading Edge Air Foils, a d tributor of ultralight aircraf engines and parts. Noel ar Raisner were filming Calap gos: The Enchanted Voyage, new IMAX 3-D film producl by lmax Corporation and Iv~an- dalay Media Arts of Los AnIge- les for the Smithsonian Institu- tio~~I. VVhen the aircraf t failed to retlurn on sichedulc !, a ground J -:.. ,.-.-.--L ancl ~IISC~ILII wab immediatelvJ initiated. Late in the afternloon of June29, three days afte r the search began, the aircraft spotted trom the air near i crater on lsla Isabella. The search team didn't reach t crash site until July 1. The cause of the crash has yet Director Colin Low was so impressed with Noel's amateur 16mm 3-0 film that he hired him as first camera assistant for Transitions, the first film in /MAX 3-0, which . be determined. The initial premiered at Expo 86 in Vancouver (SW Vol. 13, No. 3). Here Noel holds the clapper al search team rep orted th at it in front of the dual-camera /MAX 3-D rig, which is suspended from a crane for a had experienced hleavy tu~rbu- Canadian railroad sequence in the film. He would go on to work on every /MAX 3-0 - film through 1998's T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous. lence which could ~UJCa ...... thr 'eat to ultralight planes. 0 Novemherlllecember 1998 STEREO WDRLD ver and over again, the same words are repeated to describe 0Noel Archambault: "extraordi- nary," "remarkable," "amazing" and "irreplaceable." The adjectives are not used lightly either. Col- leagues, friends and family mem- bers support these words with praise for his patience and dedica- tion to detail, his communicative deftness, his humor, his passion for 3-D and his technical and artis- tic brilliance. Graeme Ferguson, producer and one of the founding fathers of The ]MAX Experience'", summed up all of the accolades by Not all of the impressive underwater shots in recent 3-0 films involved getting the saying, "Noel made a difference to camera or crew wet. A Great Barrier Reef sequence in Shooting Star was shot looking into this 6 x 6 x 4.5 foot tank filled with brightly colored coral, jelly fish, sponges, etc. the world, and we thank him for to represent the Silurian period. Noel is by the tank at the Queensland Heron Island that." Research Centre in Australia. Noel was a good friend to Stereo World, and subscribed before and bault. Imagine the record we after he became associated with would have today if people in his A last-minute call from Marti Boone, the National Film Board of Canada position had been willing and able Manager and Group Marketing (NFR) and Imax Corporation. He Director of lmax Corporation, to roam Hollywood sets in the 3-D brought Noel to Las Vegas to explain was always generous with his time years of the 1950s!" for interviews, and he eagerly 3-0 technology to a group of under- offered us stereo pairs he had shot An Unrivaled Stereo Expert privileged children at the opening of the /MAX 3-0 ride Race for Atlantis. with his Realist and View-Master Noel, who was born in Vancou- "He made the technology come alive cameras while on the sets and ver, B.C., had a passion for film for the children, " says Boone. locations of the films he worked even as a young boy when he and on. He even put us in touch with friends borrowed his family's 8mm the right people at Imax Corpora- camera and shot a three-reel ver- tion who would generously give us sion of Rumpelstiltskin and some 70mm film pairs over the years for other films. Instrumental sound- a more thorough coverage of their tracks were recorded on a separate films. Thanks to Noel, a higher tape. While studying for his Bache- standard of 3-D film coverage was lor of Arts degree at Simon Fraser established. University in nearby Burnaby, he John Dennis, editor of Stereo enrolled in their film workshop. In World, in an editorial (Vol. 16, No 1989, he told Stereo World (Vol. 16, 2), acknowledged Noel's largesse No. 2) that his interest in 3-D led by writing, "Only rarely have to experimenting with 35mm SLR stereo photos been made to record cameras and making a stereo film the production process of 3-D as part of his thesis. "I built a films. Most of the examples are crude 3-D rig using two 16mm publicity shots of movie stars, cameras on a plate with mirrors made by photographers allowed from an old Xerox machine. The only briefly on the set. It can make film was a learning experience a difference when the person with from beginning to end. By the the Realist is an insider-in the time the film was completed, I fig- case of our coverage of two new ured out how to shoot it correct- IMAX 3-D films (The Last Buffalo ly. " and Echoes of the Szm), it was the That film, George Nom's in Depth, stereographer behind the IMAX about a renowned Canadian sculp- camera himself-Noel Archam- tor, together with a written study when he was contracted to do fur- ther 3-D research and help design the new camera mount for the next two IMAX 3-D films, The Last Buffalo and Echoes of the Sun. He was stereographer on both films. Amazingly, 1992 saw five films featuring Noel's talents go into release. Besides two films in IMAX, there were three films in 3-D. In addition to being stereographer, he was director of photography (DOP) for 3-D Safari (full-frame 35mm), which was produced for Le Cine- ma en Relief at Futuroscope, The European Park of The Image in Poitiers, France. At the time, he told Stereo World (Vol. 19, No 3) that the position of DOP gave him personal satisfaction. "In future films, I would like to move away from the technical aspects of film- making as a stereographer and concentrate on the aesthetics of filmmaking as a director of pho- tography. Both positions do give you complete control, but it's the use of the medium that's of prima- ry interest to me now." The two other LF 3-D films released in '92 were ground-break- ers. He was stereographer, camera operator and second unit DOP on Shooting Star, a 5-perfl70mm film produced for Science North in Sud- bury, Ont., where it is still being showcased. The film is a rarity and a must-see stereo experience. It was the first 3-D movie in North Amer- ica to incorporate free-floating 3-D laser animation with film. His other LF 3-D film was Concerto for the Earth, where he was one of three stereographers (he was also 2nd unit DOP) used in the complex film. It was the first film ever creat- ed with the Showscan 3-D system utilizing 5 perfl70mm film at 60 frames per second rather than the standard 24 frames per second. Noel would go on to be DOP for three other projects, Into the Deep (1994) in IMAX 3-Dl DANANANANA: The huge /MAX 3-0 camera system towers over stereographer and camera operator ~~i~b~~~~ttj,,fonkfys (1995)~ a Noel Archambault on the vineyard set of Echoes of the Sun, the first and only film in lbmm music and cosmic /MAX SOLID0 which premiered at Expo 90 in Osaka, lapan. The film introduced the VoyaRe (1996) in IMAX. The latter I now famous /MAX cordless liquid crystal headsets and an umbrella-shaped dome film was produced for the Smith- screen which occupied the audience's total field of view (SW Vol. 16, No. 2 & Vol. 17, sonian National Air and Space No. 4)...... Museum. Director Rayley Silleck initially envisioned this film in 3- on stereo, impressed Colin Low was hired as the film's 1st camera who was about to embark as direc- assistant. In the following year he but a 'Oaring budget for 'pecial tor of the first IMAX 3-D film, Tran- had the same position on Niagara: effects and 'Omputer animation Miracles, Myths and Magic in IMAX. prevented this reality. One can't be sitions (1986). Noel, who had been too sure, but I'm very suspicious working at the NFR at the time, His career went into high gear NovernherID~rernhcr199R STEREO WORLD that there was a conscientious effort by the film's creators to make 2-D Voyage look like it's a 3- D film, if that's possible. Thanks to Noel's stunning camera work, some extraordinary special effects and Silleck's thoughtful and pre- cise direction, the illusion of depth is forever present on the big IMAX or OMNIMAX screens. Noel has worked on every IMAX 3-D film ever made since Transi- tions in 1986, a testament to the demand for his gifted and unique talents. (A complete filmography follows this article.) Friends Pay Tribute to Noel A celebration of Noel's life and work was organized by Imax Cor- As Shooting Star Producer Walter Woloschuk observed, Noel "wasn't fond of poking poration and held on Sept. 19, things in the viewer's eyes". But he did enjoy providing some in-your-face 3-0 for Stereo World with a pair of /MAX 3-0 frames following his presentation on the /MAX system at the 1998, at Toronto's Ontario Place 7 991 ISU Congress in Paris. With him is Susan Pinsky, who was part of a crowd gathered park. The event took place just around to ask him more about /MAX stereography and freeview the sample frames. steps away from the Cinesphere, (Stereo by lohn Dennis.) the world's first permanent IMAX theater which opened in 1971. The er, support and adapt to each other to him and make the absolute company thought of everything. until the goal is reached. In the most of any situation." Video monitors showed tributes to process she said, "Deep relation- Graeme Ferguson, who produced Noel that had been taped earlier at ships are forged-and that's a real Into the Deep, said, "The first thing the International Space Theater treasure. That's the sort of relation- that comes to mind when I think Consortium convention in Sydney, ship I had with Noel, and I trea- of Noel is his smile and his auto- Australia. Other monitors took us sure it very, very much." Dundas mobile license plate which read behind the scenes of filmmaking talked about the technical prob- 'ILUV3D'. Almost every time we and showed us Noel and crew lems Noel was confronted with met, it was the same thing, Noel members having fun on the set in when they were working on The had a new idea. If there had been various locations. A nice touch was Last Buffalo. "It was one of the some problem bothering us, Noel allowing guests to take a peek into films where I saw Noel at his amaz- would have a proposed solution. If Noel's private life by way of a few ing best. There were times when something hadn't been bugging dozen viewers containing his per- he faced insurmountable odds and us, Noel knew it was going to bug sonal Realist slides. The viewers he never lost his temper, his us pretty soon. He always wanted were hung on ribbons and tied to patience, his enthusiasm and his to tell us the solution before we rails where the slides were labeled determination. It was a fantastic ran into the problem." Ferguson and identified. thing to see." then went on to talk about 3-D in A more formal part of the gath- Colin Low, who directed and general and how the process had ering included tributes to Noel. worked with Noel on Transitions, become an enormous joke in the Sally Dundas, who produced the brought a message of condolences film industry, so much so that Academy Award nominated-Fires of and sympathy from the NFB who nobody would take it seriously. Kuwait, and who worked with Noel produced the film. "Everyone I "Establishing IMAX 3-D wasn't on several films in IMAX, said, talked to (at the NFB) was deeply easy," he said. "Film stock, projec- "Noel was a trusted and respected saddened by this terrible tragedy. tors and theaters were expensive, constant in her professional life. In 1985 and 1986, Noel was the but our determination couldn't be He was an extraordinary nice per- youngest member of our group. He dampened." He paid tribute to son often in extreme adverse con- was very popular with everyone Colin Low, Noel and the group ditions, like when I was being a and he made a very deep impres- who charged ahead with Transi- slave to the two demons of time sion at the film board. His youth- tions and IMAX 3-D "to show the and money and giving him a hard ful enthusiasm, energy, intelli- world that this was the right way. time. He was an amazing col- gence and diplomacy helped boost They created a film revolution, not league, technically and artistical- our project from a risky, complex only in IMAX, but also in the cine- ly." Dundas went on to talk about venture to a success." ma." what the word "colleague" meant Stephen Low, who directed Mark A tearful Richard Archambault, to her. She explained that when a Twain's America, The Last Buffalo Noel's father, acknowledged the group of people work together to and Across the Sea of Time, spoke of immediate outpouring of condo- build or create something, the his admiration for Noel and said, lences after the accident. "They combination of various individual "Noel could take what was given began with a series of short e- talents, skills, muscles, or whatev- tive and not very communicative. Many people are very fragile and they have to be nudged and moved in the right directions very carefully. Noel was excellent at that. We all miss him very much." Both Peter Parks, Director of Spe- cialist Photography for The Secret of Life on Eartlr, and Sean Phillips, Visual Effects Supervisor on T-Rex, remarked that Noel was very knowledgeable and that he had a tremendous amount of experience which he was very modest about. Phillips said that working with Noel was "an incredible experi- 1 ence. Noel was just one of the most amazing photographers and stereographers I've ever met. And he had a wonderful gift for under- statement. On T-Rex, we were try- Noel aims a 65mm camera rig at boiling mud pits in Iceland for the Primordial ing to do a lot of things for the sequence in Shooting Star (SW Vol. 19 No. 3, page 40). Director David Lickley first time. We relied on his advice appreciated Noel's patience and dedication and relates a horrific 30-hour adventure for what would work and what involving countless phone calls to travel agents and equipment suppliers. "To solve a wouldn't work. Whenever we ven- camera flickering problem in Iceland, Noel flew to Canada, got on another plane and tured towards something that Noel flew to Los Angeles, picked up the device to solve the problem, then flew to Sudbury, thought would be a disaster, he Ontario, where we were based, then flew back to Iceland. I felt so sorry for the guy had an understated way of saying, because he didn't get any sleep, but I also knew that it is what he wanted to do-get 'Well, you might have a little bit of out there and make sure thinas were perfect. " (photo, walleye Productions, ~nc.) a ~roblemwith that.' It was a p&lite way of steering things in the flowers and spiritual bouquets mails, often one or two words, right direction without ever being from all over the world. He then barely more than one or two lines, dictatorial. He had a wonderful said, "They continue today with but nonetheless heartfelt and sin- filmmaker's touch in 3-D and stere- the notification of donations to cere." He reported that by the time ography. It's very sad to lose him. the Noel Archambault Scholarship Noel's extended family of friends Everybody at large in the industry Fund in Film established at Simon from Toronto arrived in Vancouver who worked with him feels this Fraser University in Burnaby." On for a memorial celebration and way." video tape from Australia, Noel's mass on July 8, the condolences Andrew Gellis, executive produc- colleagues were generous with had grown to include cards, letters, er of The Hidden Dimension (aka praise of his talent and humanity. Four Million Houseguests), called Marti Boone, Manager and Group Noel "a truly remarkable human Marketing Director of Golf Village being. He lived moments of his life Noel Archambault and Imax, said that one of her to the fullest extent possible. For favorite stories about Noel started Scholarship Fund those of us who knew Noel, he will with a last-minute call for him to always be special. He was a col- scholarship fund has been set come and explain 3-D technology league, confident, partner and A up at Simon Fraser University to a group of under-privileged chil- most of all a friend. He was a prob- (Burnabv. Canada).,. where Noel dren. "In explaining 3-D headsets lem solver, a risk taker and he was st1udied hlrr 1 and cre;3ted a stu dent and 3-D filming, he made the tech- always willing to experiment. He St(ereoscopi c-3D film that led to nology come alive for the children. was a pioneer behind the camera. hi s beginnilngs in IM,4X 3D stere- The best part was at the end when , . .. , . , 8, He enjoyed taking all of us with ograpny. In Noel ~rcnam~ault's a little girl jumped up out of her him on his journey, as he saw it memory, donations can be made seat and ran over and embraced through the viewfinder. We had to the SFU scholarship fund. him as hard as she could. He was great plans. We were in the process Donors receive a tax recei~tand touched by that. You could tell of creating a program of education N oel's fami ly is notif ied of'the that he had a special skill of com- and training for new Noel Archam- dc )nation (r lot the ar nount) ar 1d municating with anybody." baults, a program which would W ho made it. Antoine Compin, producer of T- - .. , ,, allow Noel to pass along his spe- uonatlons snoula De sent ro Rex: Back to the Cretaceozrs, was cialized knowledge and experience. the Noel Archambault Scholarship impressed with Noel's special abili- We had almost completed a 3-D Fund, Simon Fraser University ties to communicate with people demonstration reel, developed to Develo~mentOffice. 8888 Univer- "in a very gentle and non-pressure help filmmakers, new to the medi- sil ADA way. He got things done by people um, grasp through film clips the v: who sometimes aren't very recep- @ NovemherlDeccmhn 1998 STEREO WRLD basic tenets of the format. The reel, the films and our memories of a Nc ~chambaultFilmography passionate, dedicated and loyal (S)=Srcmcutl~rrv~~c~(DOP)=Director of Photoqraphy (CO)=CameraOperator (lCA)=l~tCamera Assistant. colleague are his legacy which will I I live for years to come. Noel was a .195 . .- - cherished member of the Imax T-l?ex: Bock to the ~retacecIUS (S W Vol .25, No. 4) 11 ,- . . . . ,-... -. community who will miss him mar^ lwarnr AmerlCO (JWVol. 25, No. L) IMAX 3-D (S), Additional Photography both personally and professionally. -19s !7-.-- .. ------T-Rex, his last film, will be dedicat- The /MAX Nut( Vol. 24, No. 3) IMAX 34) (9, u:r(rln-n:. " U^. .r--. ,-r ed to his memory. He is a hard per- Thc ,,,uucrr utrrrcrrJzvrr (and Four Millio~,rrvu>ryuc>t~) (SWVol. 24, NO. 1) IMAX 3-D (S), (CO) son to replace and an even harder 194 person to forget." -- a Co smic Voyage, IMAX (DOP: -. . -.. . ,-..., Stereographer Ernest McNabb, LS: t~rstc~ry In ,pace- (JWvol. 25, No. 5) IMAX 5-U (S), (CO) who worked with Noel on Transi- tions, remembered him as being "an energetic, hard-working and NANANANA: Rainbow Bu tt Monkeys '16rnm Musi ross the Sea of Time (SW 'Vol. 22, Nc). 4) IMAX 3 -D (9, (CO) enthusiastic person. The next time ? - .- ...... -.. . -. we worked together (Wings of Wings ot Courage (Jw vol. 22, No. 3 & Vol. 25, No. 1) IMAX 3-D (s), (ICA) Coura'ye) his experience was much 1994- greater, but his attitude was just Into the Deep ( No. 5 & Vc ) IMAX 3:~(DOP), (5) the same." '3- Andri. Picard, producer of Rolling agine (aka 6'reaking Thrc)ugh) (SW M01. 21, No. : Stones: AT THE MAX, admired Noel's intensity. "He was truly 199 focused. He was always asking a 3-0 Safari (SW Vol. 19, No. 3) Super brnm s-u (DOP), (S) series of questions to help you clar- Shootlng Star(SWVo1. 19, No. 3) 5 perfl70rnrn 3-D (S), (CO), (2nd Unit DOP) ify your idea, pose solutions and The Secret of Llfe on Earth IMAX (2nd Unlt DOP) look at your idea in a different Concerto for the Earth (aka Concierto por la Terra) (SW Vol. 19, No. 6) SHOW-SCAN 3-D (5 P' 0 fps) (9, (; 2nd Unit DC way." Nl STEREO WORD Novernherlnecernber 1998 @ Stereo Forensics An Investigation into the May23,1880 South Pacific Coast Railroad Accident by Bruce MacGregor n Monday, May 24, 1880, members of the Santa Cruz 0County Inquest convened at an isolated stretch of railroad track in the San Lorenzo River Gorge, about five miles north of Santa Cruz, California, for the purpose of gathering evidence. Recessing from Judge John Dav- enport's courtroom, the nine mem- bers of the inquest met to view, first-hand, the location of a rail- road accident that had claimed the lives of 17 people the previous day. That afternoon, an unknown pho- tographer captured at least seven images of the visit, producing a set of unnumbered stereographs mounted on orange card stock. Extant originals, now in the collec- "Terrible and Fatal Railroad Accident near Santa Cruz, May 23, 1880." This contem- tions of Alan Young and Bill Wulf, porary sketch shows the wrecked flatcars and the minimal protection provided bear type-set labels relating the passengers by the wooden railings. (University of ~aiifornio~pecial Collections) images to the wreck that had occurred the day previous. One graphs played a role as evidence in the inquest board's key findings- reads: "View showing projecting the investigation of the wreck, and that evidence that might have rocks, where many of the unfortu- in the deliberation of the inquest been useful in conferring blame nate victims received their first board that followed. was covered up before the board injuries". In spite of the sensation- Nearly 120 years after the wreck reached the wreck site. This fact al labels and the commercial for- occurred, the photographs still may have been instrumental in matting of the finished stereo- establish the credibility of one of splitting the inquest board into graphs, it is clear that the photo- three unreconciled camps, each of which, in the end, returned a sepa- rate finding. Calfornia's Narrow Gauge Rai Before the Wreck This article is adapted from The Birth of California Narrow UUU~C,u nrurvrt- I a1 Study of the ~~hnolo~~of Thomas and Martin Carter, Bruce Mac As the year 1880 approached, a book in preparation by Stanford University Press; the author woul the city of Santa Cruz looked for- grateful for help in identifying and making available for copy any ei ward to new prosperity with the unpublished stereo or cabinet images of the six narrow guage railrc arrival of the narrow gauge South tured in the book: Pacific Coast Railroad. For the first South Pacific Coast RR (serving Dumbarton Point, Newa time, the coastal community Santa Cruz, all in California), the Santa Cruz & Felton RR (Santa Cri would be connected with San ton), the Santa Cruz RR (Santa Cruz an(j Watson!dille), the Montere), dT Sali- Francisco by a four and a half hour nas Valley RR (Monterey and Salinas), tkie North Pacific Cc last RR (Si ~~celito, train trip, short enough to make Tomales), and the Santa Clara Valley RR (Dumba~rton Poinit, Newark ). The possible single day business round author can be contacted by email at [email protected] DY mall trips between Santa Cruz and the at 241 0 Pimlico Dr., West Linn, OR 970 commercial districts of San Francis- co. Compared with previous con- @ November/December 1998 STEREO WRLD I)' bs &.A "View looking toward Santa Cruz showing the grounds where the accident occurred, helped keep its grade to a mini- and the Coroner's jury. " (Alan Young collection) ...... mum of 90 feet to the mile (about 1.70/0), allowing 20 mile per hour nections (a full day, one way only, tunnels were finished. A major headway over most of the moun- by ocean steamer or two days by petroleum reserve was accidentally tain grade. To maintain such stage) the new connection would discovered in the longest tunnel- speeds, the narrow gauge manage- be made at lightning speed. the mile and a quarter long bore ment prided itself on "industrial That connection, however, through the summit of the ridge. strength" engineering standards. proved to be an engineering night- Over thirty Chinese laborers died Rail, for example, was uniformly mare. It took four years to com- in the tunnel when a gas pocket, 52 pounds per yard-just four plete the 80 mile railroad, most of uncovered near the center of the pounds lighter than the rail used the time spent drilling eight tun- tunnel, exploded in November, by its standard gauge rival, the nels through the spine of the Santa 1879. Southern Pacific. Curves were no Cruz Mountains that effectively The tunnels, however, were one tighter than 16 degrees, and struc- walled off the coast from the San of the reasons behind the narrow Francisco Ray Area. More than two gauge's eventual success. They I and a half miles of the railroad ...... would be underground when the "View taken from the embankment, looking down 100 feet, showing the grounds where the disaster occurred. " Alan Young collection. E m. .A li :-j,nv j:,l.,. I STEREO WORLD NovemhrrlDccrmher 1998 @ tures, like bridges, were extremely on the SC&F were replaced with well built. earth fills. Deep excavations into However, rather than build to canyon walls allowed curves to be such standards for the entire 80 reduced. 30 pound rail was route miles to Santa Cruz, the rail- replaced with 52 pound rail. Two road's President, Alfred Edward new tunnels were constructed in Davis, opted to purchase control of the San Lorenzo River Canyon to a short line already in operation improve alignment. But there was between Santa Cruz and the small little the South Pacific Coast engi- lumbering community of Felton. neers could do about the steep This line, called the Santa Cruz & grade at the Hogback. It remained, Felton Railroad, spanned the last like a land mine, when the narrow seven and a half mile link in the gauge officially opened for busi- South Pacific Coast's route--down ness on May 15, 1880. the beautiful but rugged San The Runaway Lorenzo River Gorge. In operation hauling lumber from Felton to In the mood to celebrate the coastal ships at Santa Cruz, the opening of the South Pacific Coast, residents of Santa Cruz bought ,?i'.-i SC&F had not been built to the >.-/ - same standards as the South Pacific tickets on numerous weekend ---- Coast. Its rail was a light 30 "specials" between Santa Cruz and a station called Big Trees, a picnic The original tram order kept by Con- pounds to the yard. Its curves spi- ductor George Colegrove after the ground set in a theater of first raled down to 33 degrees, and to wreck. (Prof George tilldebrand collect~on) avoid expensive tunneling, a grade growth redwood trees, the site of of 127 feet to the mile (about today's Henry Cowell State Park. clear, hot afternoon moved fateful- 2.4%))had been used to surmount Big Trees sat just beyond the upper ly along. a granite ridge in the canyon end of the original Santa Cruz & The first error was the rescinding called the "Hogback". Ironically, Felton, about eight miles from of his train order by the railroad's even with a lightly built plant, Santa Cruz. dispatcher, A.H. Walker, giving there had been no major injuries At 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, another crew-also waiting on a or fatalities in four years of the May 23, 1880, a South Pacific siding at Felton, permission to SC&F1sindependent operation. Coast train crew waited at Felton return the special to Santa Cruz. Alfred Davis would take no with written orders to return one Colegrove recalled this decision chances. When he purchased the of the "specials" to Santa Cruz. with chagrin. It was unclear why SC&F in 1879, he ordered his com- The conductor on the crew was the order was annulled (Colegrove pany's engineers to begin re-engi- George Colegrove, and in his diary, kept the original train order neering the seven and a half mile Colegrove described what in his among his papers, perhaps as evi- long orphan. Most of the trestles estimation were a series of errors in dence that he told the truth), and 1 judgment that unfolded as the he openly questioned the dispatch- ...... er's judgment. Colegrove was "View looking northwest toward Felton, showing the curve where the cars jumped the familiar with the ~~~b~~kgrade track. " (Alan Young collection) and had taken trains over it numerous times while the railroad was being built. The substitute her? crew, assigned an engineer named he artlsr responslme Tor rne seven Known srereograpns raKen or rnc 2 WreCK Bob Elliott, had never been over Tsite remains unidentified. R.E. (Romane) Wood, perhaps tl ie best kr Town stereo photographer in the Santa Cruz area during the 1871Os, had sc )Id his the original SC&F. Colegrove home and moved out of the county by the time of the wrec ck. recalled coaching Elliott about the --- hazard's of the Hogback grade Two other commercial photographers 'were listed in the 1878 McKenny's while waiting on the siding at Fel- District Directory for Santa Cruz: J.E.D. Balc lwin and John Richard Hodson, ton. Colegrove's brakeman, both operating commercial studios on Pa cific-.. Aver lue in the late 1870s. Howard Anthrum (spelled Antrim C.W.J. Johnson is another possibility, operating a gallery in Monterey I in newspaper accounts), offered to 1880, but the demand to travel nearly 50 miles on short notice seerr go along with Elliott and ride in make Johnson's presence in Santa Cruz a long shot. In any event, thc the cab as a pilot, an offer which tographer in question produced some of the most uniaue stereoviem his-or her-time. Elliott accepted. The railroad presi- dent's brother, Sam Davis, also got on Elliott's engine, crowding into tunnel portal. Emerging from the crossing, a series of tight reverse the small interior of the narrow tunnel into daylight, passengers curves lay in wait for the train. If gauge cab. noticed the train picking up speed, he somehow avoided those death- The second error in judgment and heard Elliott sound one short traps, 100 yards beyond the curves, was made by Elliott's conductor. At blast on the whistle-a call for his the line crossed a high trestle. Big Trees station, conductor brakeman to spring into action. Lurching into the first reverse William Bones loaded an estimated There were no air brakes on the curve, Elliott felt the engine's 300 celebrants aboard three flat- train. Elliott's brakemen had to wheels lift up off the rail. Desper- cars, each just 24 feet long. A light respond to the whistle by physical- ate to slow the train, he "horsed wooden railing had been nailed in ly setting hand brakes on each car. over" the big reverse lever by his place around cars normally used to But with the cars packed to over- seat, forcing the drivers into a haul lumber, and crude benches flowing, the brakemen had to reverse spin. But the image of giant were constructed. The cars might shoulder their way through the wheels spinning furiously against have comfortably held half the crowds to reach the brake wheels. the engine's momentum is mis- number that actually boarded, All Elliott could do was wait for leading. Without adhesion to the forcing dozens of passengers to the anticipated tug on his draw- rails, the driving wheels would crowd together in the narrow bar, adding badly needed braking have as little braking power as they aisles. power. The tug probably never would the power to accelerate a Elliott whistled off from Big came. In a few critical seconds, the train if they spun in the forward Trees Station at 3:15 pm and took train was out of control. Elliott direction. Even with the engine his train into the heart of the San knew he was in trouble. A quarter going in reverse, it took 300 feet to Lorenzo River gorge. A short tun- mile past the tunnel was a public stop the runaway. nel at Rincon marked the top of highway crossing. Just beyond the the Hogback. The notorious Hog- ...... back grade began just south of the "View looking toward Santa Cruz, showing the curve in South Pacific Coast Railroad; also, the enqine that drew the wrecked train. " (Alon Younq collection) the run from Alameda to Felton. Twice on that run, Elliott's train had slipped out of its Miller hook- style couplings while in motion on the mountain track, the cars arrest- ed from coming apart by safety chains. The passenger concluded that Elliott had not handled the train well, allowing too much slack action between the cars. Even Elliott acknowledged that he had never been down the Hog- back grade before that day. But attention was quickly refocused on the condition of the track at the site of the derailment-a few yards south of the county road crossing in the San Lorenzo gorge. Witness- es reported observing sharp kinks at joints in the rail at the first reverse curve, suggesting the heat of late afternoon may have expanded the rail, causing a crimp. Other witnesses testified that the track had no ballast at that point, making it easier for heat to distort the track, skewing the joints to the point where a moving train might derail. The weight of the speeding locomotive could easily have pushed the unanchored track even further out of line, setting up the Southern Pacific operated the line when this 1980 photo was taken at the wreck conditions for derailing the flatcars site below the rock wall-near the spot where Highway 9 crosses the railroad. behind. The Coroner's jury wres- Today the Roaring Camp & Big Trees Railroad operates tourist trains on the line. tled with each of these alternative (Photo by Bruce MacCregor) explanations. Except for time to attend public funerals on Tuesday, Miraculously, the engine porary morgue in a Santa Cruz May 25, the jury remained at their remained on the rails, but the sec- skating rink. The wrenching sight task for nearly a full week, finally ond flatcar had derailed on the of mutilated bodies quickly estab- reaching a verdict on Monday, reverse curve, thrown towards the lished an obvious cause of death in May 31. bluff by centrifugal force. One cor- the minds of the jurors. But the ner of the flatcar impacted a solid root cause of the accident was The Findings rock outcropping, the sudden jar more difficult to determine. On Ironically, the coroner's board throwing passengers through the Monday, the inquest visited the labored under the handicap that shattered wooden railing and onto wreck site, bringing along a pho- the track had been repaired before the rocky ground. An instant later, tographer. His name, if it was a he, they could inspect it, and that lit- the third flatcar had run over the remains unknown, but that after- tle or no direct evidence remained prostrate victims, dismembering, noon at least seven stereo images of its condition at the time of the maiming and killing in its wake. were made of the wreck site, wreck. George Colegrove noted in Fifteen men, women and children including one view that included his diary that "the track was died at the scene.Two others died the locomotive involved, posi- cleared" the same night as the in the next 24 hours, bringing the tioned approximately where it had wreck, and he himself acted as casualties to 17 dead, and nearly come to rest after Bob Elliott's fran- conductor that night on a train 40 wounded. When Elliott finally tic efforts to stop the runaway running through the wreck site to got stopped, his fireman raced train. Santa Cruz. Articles published in back to the wreck, and found thick The next afternoon, Davenport the Santa Crrrz Sentinel on May 29 dust, like plaster masks, caked on began to call the first of 40 wit- I documented that the jury had nesses. Questions were raised questioned railroad section men the faces of the dead and dying. - about the competence of engineer who had repaired the track just a The Inquest Convenes Robert Elliott. The morning before few hours after the wreck occurred. Judge John con- the wreck, a passenger testified, The stereo views taken on Mon- ~enedthe coronerIs inquest Elliott had been at the throttle of a day, May 24 bear out this conclu- that evening, hastily impaneled to south bound passenger train on sion, showing not only smoothly view the bodies brought to a tem- aligned rail, but ballast filled in NovemberlDecember 1998 STEREO WORLD half the depth-or more--of most ties at the scene. In fact, on the sharpest curve, the spot were the Endangered Critters derailment allegedly occurred, super-elevation is clearly visible on the curve's outer rail, indicating a considerable amount of re-work had been accomplished in a period by Don Marren 1 of less than twenty four hours. Clearly, the railroad had "got to roduction has started on a new the evidence" before the coroner's Plarge-format (LF) 3-D film called jury. Endangered! The 40-minute family Today, in our suit-conscious soci- film is being produced by Endan- ety, such haste on the part of a gered Films Inc. in Toronto by a railroad would be labeled a cover- consortium of industry profession- up. At the time of the inquest, the als including Walter Woloschuk, many conflicting accounts of wit- Doug McKenzie, Richard Hanet, nesses and numerous competing Glenn Wong, Stephan Fanfara, theories about the cause of the Ingrid Weger and Howard Buck- wreck had the effect of fragment- man. Woloschuk and his Walleye ing the opinions of the nine man Productions Inc. produced Shooting board. On May 31, they returned Star, the 70mm 3-D film which not one verdict, but three. includes 3-D laser animation. That Three members of the board 1992 film is still running at Science blamed railroad management for North in Ontario, Canada. (See SW assigning an inexperienced crew to Vol. 19 No. 3.) mat films are visually stunning the train, as well as for "letting a Executive Producer Doug and the challenge is not to let sharp curve remain on that section McKenzie said, "We choose Endan- large-format techniques take priori- of the road without having noti- gered! as our first project because it ty over creation of a sound project fied the train men". A single mem- fit our mandate, which is to pro- based on a good idea." said Glenn ber of the board declared the engi- duce projects that are entertaining Wong, Vice-President. "Audiences neer incompetent. But the majori- and educational, while contribut- can be wary of films that are spe- ty-five members of the board, ing to the welfare of our environ- cial effects driven. They want the threw up their hands and ment." technology to enhance the film expressed honest doubt: "said acci- Endangered! is described by the and its entertainment value and dent results from unforeseen caus- producers as a visionary film that not overwhelm the story." es and that the same are to us will combine state-of-the-art ani- The film wiII be released in LF unknown." mation technology with live 3-D and 2-D presentations in the There were repercussions from action in a 3-D setting. "Large-for- spring of 2000. as the accident. Suits were filed pri- I I vately against the South Pacific coast ailr road, and settled, pre- sumably, out-of-court. Thomas Noel- -- - - Archarnbault - - Carter, the railroad's General (Contirirted from page 9) Superintendent, although found culpable in the minority report, Everybody who ever worked his presence. He was truly the resigned his post that June. Rut with Noel-or knew him-agree most exquisitely beautiful human passenger service was quickly that he was, as Stephen Low called being I ever met. There are some resumed, and the city of Santa him, "truly a spectacular human people who come into your life Cruz experienced the economic being." At the Toronto celebration and leave footprints all over your boom that many had predicted. of his life, Noel's fiancke Cara Bur- heart. Anyone who has shared Today the site of the wreck, a res reminded us that "his life time with Noel will have known a lonely clearing in a steep moun- expressed his philosophy. He lived man whose heart and mind are tain canyon, remains recognizable what he believed, and a key part of always open, always honest and from the seven stereo images. The that was his willingness to live in always loving."- stereographs themselves, like one empathy towards others. He was ~~k~~~l~d~~~~~~~: way mirrors through time, are always putting himself mentally in your position, and alwavs trvin~to A special thanks to Imax Corpo- eerie reminders of the disaster. I , v-- More than simply records of a ;ee things from your point of view. ration, especially Victoria ~inni'ck place, the stereographs helped That's an important thing that we and Juliane Brown, and to Walter build a case for the permanent role sometimes forget. And I chink that Woloschuk at Endangered Films photography would play in the was one of the keys as to how we Inc. and Walleye Productions Inc. gathering of forensic evidence. css all felt so comfor STEREO WRIB NovernherlDerernher 1998 @ Encounter in the Third Dimension Review by Lawrence Kauman awrerice Kaufinnn is pres 'le Stereo (71irb of Sc md writes obozit 3-0 films fo wsletter 3.D News. 1 '0 ,- -. expand on liis news items and reviews Tor btereo World, nnn we roo^ orw ward to wider and more timely coverage in this area wi 'tli his he1 t seems that Large Format (LF) Word came that E3D (mimicking Sean Phillips. A true 3-D fan, Sean 3-D movies are still few and far the coordinated distribution model had worked on the LF 3-D films I between. Only two LF (IMAX) of Hollywood) was scheduled for a T-REX and E3D, plus he is currently 3-D films were released in 1997. In national May release in Canada. working on future LF 3-D films. 1998, it looked as though we Famous Players IMAX theaters is Sean's presentation included 2-D would be treated to three new the first chain of large-format slides and 3-D video clips, with films. The first film was MARK theaters in the world to coordinate examples of all the multiple ele- TWAIN'S AMERICA IN 3-D (1998) a national coast-to-coast marketing ments necessary to make one very from Sony Pictures Classics, which and exhibition effort-which short effects shot for T-REX. opened July 4th. The second new seemed to partially explain the Sean is truly excited about the 3-D film for 1998 was Imax Corpo- delay of the film's release. developments in digital 3-D large ration's T-REX: RACK TO THE CRETA- Last Fall Director Ben Stassen format films. He predicts that CEOUS, which opened October 9th. screened E3D for the people who things are ready to take off. He We were promised a third, had worked on it. He could only prefers digital due to the zero lens ENCOUNTER IN THE THIRD DIMEN- show the left eye print of the film distortion that is possible using it, SION (E3D, an nWave Pictures pre- at the IMAX theater in Brussels, and talked at length about the sentation in association with since Belgium doesn't have a 3-D improvements in computer pro- Iwerks Entertainment, Movida and IMAX theater (yet). In January, E3D grams to create 3-D special effects. Luminair), originally scheduled to had a press screening at the Los Phillips mentioned one shot that be released in the fall of 1998. Angeles, California, Sciene Center he made for the upcoming This film had a sneak preview IMAX theater. I was disappointed SIEGFRIED & ROY-THE MAGIC BOX weekend at the Ultrascreen The- that no one involved in the film 3-D large-format film, that took a atre at the Ontario Mills mall in was present to speak or answer very long time to set up and was Southern California but it was not questions. Iwerks had its own very difficult due to the 240 pound to receive a 1998 release. It is my screening at this location on Feb- IMAX camera. He predicts that in belief that T-REX and E3D did not ruary 18, 1999, with the film set to the not too distant future, there want to compete with each other. open there on February 26th. will be a digital 3-D IMAX hand IMAX had big hopes for T-REX and The Stereoscopic Displays and held camera that will be able to two films being released at once Applications Conference was held take any shot with very little effort would not help either one's box January 25-27, 1999 at the San Jose or set up time. office grosses. T-REX had a good Convention Center, San Jose, Cali- I had a chance following Sean's opening. It was number 35 on the fornia, as part of IS&T/SPIE1sElec- presentation to ask him some Top Box Office grosses for its first tronic Imaging '99. Ben Stassen of questions. He remembered that he weekend (playing at only 3 nWave Pictures was scheduled as had called me a couple of years theaters). T-REX still has opening the keynote presenter with his pre- ago when E3D was in develop- dates planned for the Spring of sentation "Encounter in the Third ment. At that time he had been 1999, but it has a long way to go Dimension, A Revolution in 3-D searching for images of famous to become profitable. Cinema." Ben Stassen had to can- individuals, such as United States cel, but he was aptly replaced by presidents and Mahatma Ghandi @ November/December 1998 STEREO WORLD Max, the Professor's flying robotic assistant in the Institute of 3-0 Technology explodes into the audience after he inserts a lit stick of dynamite into his head in a scene from Encounter in the Third Dimension. O 1998 n Wave Pictures Detail from a scene in which the Professor gets zapped when his latest invention, Real- 0-Vision, malfunc- tions. One of the film's minor 3-D anomalies can be seen in the circle of light and the shadow that fall below the plane of the laborato- ry floor. (An image of Ghandi holding a I asked Sean about the museum Admittedly, When I first saw the stereoscope did make the final and he stated that he had spent film, I was bothered by the exten- film). Even though every U.S. pres- many hours there. I mentioned sive use of computer generated ident since Lincoln has been docu- one print of two scantily clad imagery (CGI). Rut, E311 does use mented in stereo, they didn't fol- women looking through a stereo- CGI to its maximum potential. The low that storyline. scope and how well the film han- film integrates CGI and live action Previously, Sean and I had a cou- dled the humor of the shot. Sean to explore the history of 3-D pho- ple of pleasant telephone conversa- said that as soon as he saw that tography and motion pictures. tions. I did nothing more than picture, he knew he would use it Included are clips from several 3-D suggest they contact UCRtCalifor- in the film. Even though the muse- ride films. It is interesting to note nia Museum of Photography and um didn't have the negative, they that the film made use of the new take advantage of the 350,000 did have an excellent print to BiClops" 87011570 3-D camera rig image Keystone-Mast collection, copy. I asked Sean about the delay which Stephen Hines built for just as had been done in 1995's in the release of E3D. He was not HinesLab, Inc. But, in order to be ACROSS THE SEA OF TIME (SW VO~. sure why (since the film was ready the first 3-D LF film to have sync- 22 No. 4) and MARK TWAIN'S AMER- in July of 1998) the release had sound, they used 35mm (as well as ICA IN 3-0 (1998). Sean discussed been delayed. He said he believed 5perft70mm and 8perft70mm) his first work in 3-Dl the titles for it had something to do the release cameras. The footage was then FRIDAY THE I.?TH PART 111: 30 (1982) cycles of IMAX motion pictures. integrated into 15perft70mm digi- and his recent work on AHEAD OF One of the "Must See" 3-D tal format on a computer. TIME (1995), a special venue film In forty minutes, E3D can only for Sony. Films explore a limited amount of 3-D In a later visit to the UCR/CMP, I The film is worth the wait. I history, but the film is well con- discovered that they had asked the believe it will become one of the structed. It begins in the digitally- museum for images of photogra- "must-see" 3-D films. It did have a created "Institute of 3-D Technolo- phers shooting with stereo cam- limited budget; nWave produced it gy". The Professor's laboratory was eras. Interesting to note that while for only $6.5 million (EVEREST was created entirely on a desktop com- the previous two LF films had made in 2-D for $6.8 million). E3D puter graphics workstation at a requested large copies (11" by 17") is a lot of fun, in the THRILL RIDE: digital studio. Initially, animators I believe) so the IMAX camera THE SCIENCE OF FUN (nWave Pic- designed a wireframe outline of could pan within the image, E3D tures, 1997) tradition. the laboratory, then applied vari- only wanted 8" by 10" size prints. ous textures to the drawings to provides the voice for his wise- cracking assistant M.A.X. (a flying robot). The Professor, not content with dry scientific explanations, presents (or attempts to present) Elvira, to show off his new process called "Real-0-Vision." Cassandra Peterson also portrayed Elvira in THRILL RIDE, plus Elvira has pre- sented 3-D films on television and did a preshow film for the 3-D motion simulator ride HAUNTED GRAVEYARD for Cinema Ride. To me, her presence in E3D seems like a gimmick that is surely not neces- sary, but apparently the makers of this film are counting on her to bring in more viewers. 3-D Film Clips from 1903 to Today Max takes us on a journey through time, from early cave Wireframe outline of the Professor's "Institute of 3-0 Technology" to which animators drawings to the discovery of per- applied texture, lighting, colors and atmosperic effects. o 1998 nwove Pictures spective by Renaissance artists. After discussing the world's first stereoscopic viewer from 1838, we travel to the turn of the century and stereo photography's "Golden Age." What I had hoped would be actual footage from the Lumiere Brothers L'ARRIVEE DU TRAIN (1903), instead turned out to only be a digital reproduction. The 1950s 3-D films are dis- cussed and we see some great clips from Richard Carlson introducing us to THE MAZE (1953, Monogram Pictures-this is from the trailer and is uncredited) (SW Vol. 20 No. 4 & Vol. 8 No. 6) as well as clips from several Paramount films and a couple of clips from CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON (1954) (SW Vol. 21 No. 1 & V01. 8 No. 6.). CAT-WOMEN was courtesy of Last Chance Pro- ductions and will hopefully some- day be part of their 3-D film festi- val (they are currently searching The Professor (Stuart Pankin) and his flying assistant Max in the final cornposited for a corporate sponsor). I asked image of the laboratory, from which they take viewers on a historical tour of 3-0 cine- Sean about the films that they had matography. 1998 nwove Pictures picked to use clips from. He said it was very hard to get permission give the set its shape and initial ENCE OF FUN, but this time they from the film studios. All the stu- appearance. High resolution colors are in 3-D. dios had their reasons. Universal were added along with lighting We meet the Institute's bright and Disney were not interested, and atmospheric effects to com- (and slightly disorganized) profes- because they currently have 3-D plete the environment. I enjoyed sor, played by Stuart Pankin. Stuart attractions at their parks. He said the opening with a CGI curtain is recognizable from his many TV Paramount on the other hand was and titles that utilize "spelling and film credits. He was in HONEY, very accommodating. So we are check". Again, this and several WE SHRUNK OURSELVES (1997) the treated to clips from FLIGHT TO other points in E3D are very remi- video sequel to HONEY, I SHRUNK TANGIERS (1953), IIVARO (1954), niscent of THRILL RIDE: THE SCI- THE KIDS (1989). In addition to MONEY FROM HOME (1954) and portraying "The Professor," Stuart THOSE REDHEADS FROM SEA7TLE (1953). @ Novernhrrlnecernher IOOR STEREO WRL7J After the 1950's film boom, 3-D might have appeared gone. But we know it is not gone or forgotten, hen with many of today's 3-D films coming from World's Fairs, amuse- 1 to Encounter E ment parks and museums all over ncounter in the Third Dimens!ion is curr,ently scheduled to run in 22 the world. To prove that 3-D is big- ger and better than ever, the Pro- E theaters around the world, with more to be added this fall. Conti jth of rurI and fornnat (headset, polar fessor next lets us take a peek at the theater nearest you for len! his collection of theme park films. or anaglyphic). In his laboratory, the Professor has February 1999 Openings: "stored" some of the best of these l California Science Center IMAX Theate!r, Los An? films of the past twenty years. As l Edwards IMAX Theater, Irvine, CA he proudly shows off his collec- l Edwards IMAX Theater, Ontarinnu, Ln tion, we come face to face with the giant mercurial chrome spider l IMAX Berlin Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Gt from James Cameron's TERMINA- March 1999 Openings: TOR 2: 3-0 (SW Vol. 22 No. 6) and l Sony IMAX Theater, New Yorl are chased by a dinosaur from l Loews Cineplex Navy Pier IM. ?r, Chicago, I1 DINO ISLAND 11-30: RETURN TO DINO l Regal IMAX Theater, Lincolnsl ISLAND. After the Professor's 3-D film IMAX Filmtheater, Dusseldorf, German; presentation, he decides to demon- May 1999 Openings: strate his motion simulator and 11-.,--- I. A l Silvercity Riverport Famous Playel> Ilvlnrr. nlc111IIUI ~d.BC Max reluctantly takes a test ride. l Colossus Famous Players IMAX, Langle; Max enters a contraption that Y BC l s IMAX, Toronto, C looks as if it were devised by Jules Paramount Festival Hall Famous Player ,. . Verne. With the giant video screen l Colossus Famous Players IMAX, Vaughan, unrar 10 looming above the laboratory serv- *Silvercity I'amous P layers IMPrX, Edmo~nton, Alb~erta ing as Max's eyes, we experience ah4oody Ga rdens, Gz jlveston, -TX the 3-D ride film JOURNEY l VVhite Rive 'r State Piirk IMAX, Indianapc)lis, IN THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE l E mpire IMI !r, Halifax , Nova Scotia EARTH. The submarine-like device drills through the earth, dives Jut ie 1999 A-rr,,r 1P.A through mysterious subterranean l b~a~cu,IlvrnA I IlcaLcl aL U~~SWOO~SCentre, Columbus, OH caverns, and navigates a furious *C 'amous Players IMAX, Missis!sauga, Or itario river of lava to the planet's core. l P t Famous Players IMAX, Mor itreal, Qu e bec Amidst radiant beams of light, the l I~AALe I neatre, Quebec City, Quebe~ voyage continues all the way to the other side of the world. The July 1999 Openings: vessel bursts through the earth's l Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan crust and emerges at the foot of l Tokyo IMAX Theater, Tokyo, Japan the Great Wall in China. I for one, am happy that I was not in a motion simulator seat while films. In early 1995, Charlotte Clay files were then transferred to film watching this portion of the film. Huggins, one of the top producers via a film recorder (essentially a Max also shows what happens to in special venue filmmaking (visu- machine comprised of a computer the appearance of every day al effects producer for HONEY, I and a high resolution monitor objects when the interocular dis- SHRUNK THE AUDIENCE, WINGS OF with a large format camera placed tance is varied: a busy freeway COURAGE and AHEAD OF TIME) on top of it). Computer files were looks like matchbox cars racing joined forces with nWave to estab- scanned onto the monitor which through a toy city, an owl seems lish the Los Angeles office of the reads the primary colors of red, the size of Godzilla, a camel looks company. green, and blue. In turn, the moni- like a tiny wind-up toy. On E3D, Stassen served as Execu- tor exposed the film three times, tive Producer and Director as well one for each color. For a large for- Months of Di ital Rendering as sharing the Screenplay credit. mat, high resolution film like E3D, and Transfer aork Huggins served as Producer. With the film recorder takes nearly two nWave Pictures, founded by Ben the extensive use of already avail- minutes to record each frame of Stassen and Brussels-based D&D able 3-D footage, this film's budget film. Considering the entire film Entertainment Group in 1994 was kept to a minimum. But pro- has a total running time of forty (along with its sister companies ducing the film required a huge minutes and requires two sets of Movida and Trix) became a pio- investment of time. The live action images (a left eye and a right eye) neer in the use of computer tech- elements were composited with at 24 frames per second, E3D has nology for the production of ride the completed imagery. The digital approximately 115,000 frames. 1 Working twenty-four hours a day non-stop, with a record rate of 800 frames a day, it took nearly five months to transfer E3D from com- puter to the giant screen. Almost 140,000 hours (the equivalent of 5,755 days) of digital rendering were required to create the CGI for the film. E3D represents an incredible achievement in digi- tal filmmaking. The largest part was done by Movida, Rrussels and the rest by Trix, Rrussels. Their pre- vious work includes motion simu- lator films, DEVILS MINE RIDE, COS- MIC PINBALL, SECRETS OF THE LOST TEMPLE, and VIRTUAL TIME MACHINE, among others. E3D was created by a team of 14 CGI animators over a one year period. Each worked on separate computers on a different part of the film at the same time. The live action film was scanned into com- puters at a resolution of 5.5K or 4K, at least twice or more than E3-D Director Ben Stassen rehearses a scene with Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Two that of traditional 35mm. Scenes 35mm cameras are mounted on the new BiClops'" 3-0 rig from HinesLab, Inc. The that contain the Professor, Max live action footage was later scanned and digitally cornposited into the film's comput- and Elvira have thirty-seven layers er generated environments, then output to 15 perf 70mm film. of images. Almost 2,800 Internet hours were spent transferring the June, '981 there are still plenty of data files from nWavels headquar- new titles in the works including: A VERY 3-D Virtual ters in Brussels to its post-produc- GALAPAGOS: THE ENCHANTED Stereoscopic World tion offices in Los Angeles. VOYAGE 've been seeing 3-D movies, From the beginning, nWave and CYRERWORLD slides, etc. since 1976, and this Iwerks had planned to release E3D SIEGFRIED &ROY - THE MAGIC BOX film a quantumleap only in 3-D. With E3D, they want in the ability and presentation of to maximize the market for the MEMORIES: THE REST OF ANDREW dis~lavinaa virtual stereosco~ic film with a multi-pronged attack. LLOYD WEBBER I world8,- that inteqrates with th'e I The film will be distributed in mul- tiple formats and versions: a 40 URSA MAIOR 1 1 live actors so well that we can I accept it as a real, and VERY 3-D DIMENSION DETECTIVE minute, stereoscopic 3-D version environment. It is not perfect. for large format 3-D theaters (8170 SPACE STATION 30 Those familiar with st'ere0 will and 15/70); a 40 minute, certainly find a few 3-.D THE BEAST , .. anaglyphic 3-D version for other anornolies (however tne glant (single-strip projection) theaters; a GULLIVER 'S TRAVELS IMAX screen is so filled with a four-minute ride film version for ADVENTURE PLANET richness of interesting things to simulation theaters; and a 12 look at, that it is quite easy to minute 3-D entertainment version OCEAN OF LIGHT overlook a n'linor err0lr here or for specialty theaters in amuse- STAR TREK 30 there!). Any 3-D enth usiast ment parks. (has been put on hold) (myself inchided) will surely Sony distributed nWave's first . , ,., SHREK want to see tne tllm several film, THRILL RIDE. With E3D nWave (rumored 3-D LF version of Dreamworks' times to appreciate the detail to becomes the first independent film next CGI feature). I'rl'e be found there. One caveat-if company to produce and distribute loud sound bothers you, bring a large format 3-D film. Someone along earplulgs to ma ke it a bit recently said "With regard to mc )re comfortable. IMAX..there are two kinds of 3-D 3-D REALLY BAD - David Starkman, movies ...bad and hlnc.rll :n,.rr rrl;tn. 3-D." I believe E3D helps prove this statement wrong. Not to worry, with the success of EVEREST and , with the growth of 3-D IMAX the- ater locations, [45 worldwide as of @ NovernherlDecernher 1998 STEREO WORLD News from the Stereoscopic Society of America THE SOCIETYNorman B. Patterson End of an Era lived a long life and until recently ing little public attention. Once was still active in Society matters again Bill Walton is at the fore- ord from the mother branch and was able to continue enjoying front of stereo pioneering, this of The Stereoscopic Society stereoscopy through seven time getting it onto compact discs. Win the United Kingdom decades. informs us of the passing of John Voting Results Singleton who was the most senior BW-3D-CD Once again it is that time of year member of the Society at the time For those who love to look at when the several folio circuits are of his death just before Christmas, stereographs (and don't we all ?) a sending in the results of voting for 1998. John was 93 years old and a real treat is in store. 3D by Dan the prior year (calendar year 1998 Society member for sixty five years, Shelley, sometime in late in this case). Each circuit deter- having joined in 1933. Sorting out March,1999, expects to release the mines the manner of voting and his records and other artifacts is Bill Walton 3D-CD, and this is one the method of tallying and report- quite a task as he accumulated a that we do not want to miss. The ing the results. The leading vote- lot of material over the years- CD ROM is said to contain 1000 getters are announced here. much of it related to Society activi- stereo views which one can call up Gamma Transparency ties. He was the main link between for viewing on the computer - the pre-WW2 members (mono- compatible with DOS/WIN, MAC, Circuit chrome printmakers) and those of & UNIX. Secretary George Themelis today, having seen everything in The bulk of the views represent a reports as follows for the Gamma between. Outgoing Society Presi- considerable sampling of the sub- (Realist format) circuit. dent Don Wratten (who is also the jects that have come before Bill Top Makers for 1998 UK representative for the Photo- Walton's stereo cameras, including 1st ...... Allan Roe ...... 78 points graphic Society of America) and military views from his book Back 2nd ...... Dale Walsh ...... 70 points Bernard Makinson are trying to to Basics as well as other military 3rd ...... Franklin Flocks ...... 60 points sort out the material he left. In 4th (tie) ...... LeeRay Kuipers ...... 50 points views mostly taken at Fort Ben- Wolfgang Sell ...... 50 points addition to records there are also ning, GA. Other Walton subjects literally thousands of stereo views covered include (but are not limit- Favorite Views for 1998 on glass or glassed slides in several ed to): Bill's trips to Japan; Scot- "Desert Sunset" by Allan Roe (21 points) formats including 6x13, 41x107, land "Then & Now" comparisons; "Get the Point" by Wolfgang Sell (20 points) "The Latch" by LeeRay Kuipers (17 points) and modern 35mm. In addition to Rochester and Niagara Falls, NY; John's work there are included the "Sunflower Field" by Dale Walsh (17 points) Arkansas and Georgia; Flensburg, "Teton Reflections" by Alan Roe (16 points) works of other sometime Society Germany; and his Personalities and members such as Phil Shenton and Places series. Ovine Print Circuit Stuart Hills. But it doesn't stop there. Also Secretary David Lee reports the It was always a treat to receive included are samples of the stereo combined results for 1998 for the correspondence from John Single- work of current members of print- Ovine circuit which has eight cir- ton as he invariably added new (to makers in the Stereoscopic Society culating folios. me) aspects of Society history. He of America, the Photographic Soci- Total Average Score ety of America, and the Interna- 1st place ...... David Lee tional Stereoscopic Union. Also a 2nd (tie) ...... George Freeman FeStereoscopic Society of America is a sizable heritage selection from the Mike lsenberg I group 0)f currently a(:tive stereo ,L photogra- archives of the Stereoscopic Society 4th ...... Michael Pierazzi phers who (-irculote the!,r work by mc ?ans of 5th ...... Rrandt Rowles ipostal fol1os . Both print and transparency for- of America features surviving mots ore us ed, and sevc ,ral groups a re oper- examples of the work of old-time Favorite Views . c, ...... A &, ..J. :.... -8. arlng roll0 cIrcuIr5 10 mer me neeu, I1r1 eucrl members as far back as the 1920s. 1 "Waianapanapa State Park" format. When a folio arrives, a mem ber views by David Lee and makes comments on each of th,e entries For more information one might visit the web site: http:www.ddde- 2 "Looking Upstream" of the other participants. His or her own by David Lee view, which has traveled the circuit and has sign.com/bw3dcd/bw3dcd.htm#l. 3 "Aspens" been examined and commented upon by the The price is expected to be $35 by David Lee other members, is removed and replaced with postpaid. This is really a unique 4 "Self Portrait" a new entry The folio then continues its end- by George Freeman less travels around the circuit. Many long dis- offering and I cannot think of any- thing to compare it to. I supplied 5 "The Road to Somewhere" tance frienalships have fiormed amor;rg the by Michael Pierazzi participant5 in this man ner over the years. the vintage Society views from 6 "Lost and Found" Stereo pt 7otographers who may b~e interest- which more than fifty were chosen by Michael Pierazzi ed in Societ y membersh~p should wri te to the -. - as examples of the work of our Membership Secretory, Shab Levy, 6320 SW 34th Ave., Portland, OR 9720 1. onetime members who kept stere- - - - ography alive when it was receiv- STEREO UORLD Novernber/Dec~rnher1998 b) Stereoviews from Old Europe and the Stories Behind Them EUWEAN GEMSDennis Pellerin & Pierre Tavlitzki Henri Lefort-A Stereo Stage Director hen (Pierre) Henri (Armand) yielded enough data to reconstruct night effects possible. Before being Lefort gave up the ghost on a sketch of his life. Lefort was born interested in the invention of the wFebruary 20, 1880, in a clin- in the town of Corbeil (near Paris) process that still bears his name, ic of Paris twelfth arrondissement, on August, 16, 1804, a few months Daguerre was a well known painter few people outside his circle of before Napoleon I was crowned of diorama). family and friends took any notice Emperor of France. Of his child- On February 21, 1849, Lefort of his death. Lefort's name was hood, little is known. His father, patents improvements to the con- soon forgotten until the two Nicolas Aubin Lefort, was a school- struction of optical toys which he inquisitive collectors responsible master and his mother died when calls "Polyoramas panoptiques." In for this article started digging up he was fifteen. a second patent taken out in 1852 information about one of the most On April 30, 1835, Henri Lefort, for an "Eidoscope," he dubs him- imaginative Parisian composition then a draftsman living at 33 rue self "maker of optical instru- photographers. du Croissant in Paris, married the ments." His first connection with Though Lefort still remains a Belgian-born Elisa Josephine stereoscopy seems to date from the shadowy figure, research in public Christophe. In 1848, he is listed in 1855 International Exhibition held archives and private collections the commercial directory as a toy- in Paris. An article in the photo- maker at 35 (later 33) rue du graphic journal La LumiPre men- Faubourg Saint-Martin where he tions stereoscopes exhibited by n this column, Denis Pellerin and Pierre will remain until his retirement Lefort and the 1855 Bottin lists his ITavlitzki provid e fascinating7 stories beh ind -..A *h" -I,".- ,.$ -,.- from business. An 1848 header name in the Optician section. It is both the subject^- urru rrrr rrlunr,, ... "8 ,vrrle unique views by European stereographers. also advertises him as a painter of not until 1859, though, that we Past Stereo World articles have examined dioramas (scenes painted on the can trace any stereographs pub- some famous European stereo subjects and two sides of a large canvas which lished under his name. On August producers, but you'll get an idea of how could be lit from the front or from 2 and August 20, 1859, Lefort reg- much more there is to see and learn through this series written from a European point of the back and thus made day and isters for public sale a total of 114 view. Readers' comments or questions concern- ing this column or European stereoviews are "The Concert. " A typical bourgeois drawing-room has been reconstructed in Lefort's invited. Write to Denis Pellerin, 2, Porte- studio which could be changed into a restaurant, a cave, or a forest. Twenty-seven VendBmoise, 4 1 170 Mondaubleou, France. people can be counted in the picture, some of whom appear in many other views. Unfortunately, (except for the lady sitting on the left in the foreground) it is not known whether they were friends or paid models. @ Novcrnhrr/December 1998 STEREO WORLD staged scenes numbered 1 to 213 "The Singing Cafe" ("Cafk Concert"). Singing cafes were popular places of enter- tainment. They proliferated in Paris during the reign of Napoleon 111 and offered all (some numbers are missing). sorts of attractions. The most famous ones were the Bataclan, the Alcazar, and the Although paid advertisements in Eldorado where the singer Theresa, who was later to be parnted by Degas, had her the 1861 to 1864 commercial frrst success. directories mention groups, interi- ...... ors, churches, and picturesque A few months later, Lefort, aged negatives advertises the deal in the sites, nothing else is registered sixty, passes on his business to his July 15, 1865 issue of the photo- until Au~st24, 1864 when anoth- former son-in-law, ~aulNicolas graphic journal La LlrmiPre which, er lS0 (numbers 790 Deverdun, who, owing to his poor short as it is, remains the most to 961) are deposited at the Min- health soon sells it to the promi- important document about Lefort's istry of Interior in accordance with nent stereo publisher charles work. Written by Charles Gaudin's the law. Gaudin. The new owner of Lefort's own brother, the chemist and daguerreotype photographer Marc- ...... Antoine Gaudin, this article men- "At the Champs Elyskes." The hustle and bustle of this famous Parisian avenue has tions that the Lefort Collection been fully reconstructed with real trees, street lights, chairs, benches, crinolined ladies, includes 1,500 views of the main and top-hatted gentlemen. The soldier and the nanny, the flower girl and the street towns of Europe, 500 Pictures of musicran were common characters. The Napoleonian Arc de Triomphe is clearly v~sible on the backdrop. --- ".-A------ STEREO WORLD Novernber/Decemher 1998 b) palaces in France and Italy, as well "The Two Ways of Life." Probably inspired by O.C. Reijlander's famous composite photograph, first shown in 7857, this allegorical composition depicting lndustry and as 1,200 staged scenes said to be ldleness was taken around 1859 in Lefort's first studio and seems to be one of a remarkable for their inventiveness series. (Another view, #377, shows an old miser on one side and drunk young men on and to include bus, swimming- the other). school, and railway scenes. If we consider the highest num- scenes (now at the Bibliotheque Furne, and Tournier, or Thiebault ber of the last stereos deposited by National de France) with the stere- is his masterly use of the biggest Lefort (# 960) and keep in mind os to be found in private collec- photographic studio of the period, that photographers hardly regis- tions further corroborates the exis- of a crowd of models (up to thirty) tered the whole of their produc- tence of a large amount of unregis- and of a huge variety of painted tion (which accounts for the miss- tered scenes. backdrops and cumbersome props . ing numbers 214 to 789) we can Apart from his large number of (trees, a horse-drawn bus, a rowing accept 1,200 as a correct figure for published views, what differenti- boat, a church altar and pulpit, to Lefort's compositions. A compari- ates Lefort from fellow composi- list but a few). Lefort's studio was son of the list of the 264 registered tion photographers like Gaudin, first located on the third floor of i the house where he had his busi- ...... ness but he soon moved it to a big "The Smithy." This rustic scene clearly shows how big Lefort's studio was. Note the stuffed horse and the backdrop cleverly cut to integrate the existing beams of the and rather dilapidated vacant shed shed. I "Italian Country Girls. " Sitting around an open-air altar, these Italian girls are resting later though) when one goes in the shade after or prior to performing a country dance. The volcano in the back- through the work of Henri Lefort. ground is shown erupting in other views, depicting the last day of Pompeii...... Though expensive to make, Lefort's compositions probably models to appear in the back- at 69 rue de la Grange-aux-Belles. sold well, as can be corroborated ground. The vicinity of the numerous the- by the large number of his views What we have read or seen aters of the Boulevard du Crime still to be found on the market and about film making has made us probably helped him get hold of by the fact that, unlike many other familiar and even blase with the all the various costumes and props stereographers, he did not go daily deeds of studio decorators, he needed for his staged scenes. bankrupt but died a well-off if not but one cannot help being remind- His training as a draftsman and famous man. Prints made from his painter of dioramas turned out ed of M6lii.s and of the pioneers of (Continrrrd on po I STEREO WORLD Novcrnherlnecernhrr 199 ' I Eye-to-Eye Books Reveal More Stereo Review by Don Marren heart-will admire the stunning certainly the photographer, who et set to go eye-to-eye with photography and appreciate the seems to have a death wish when wild cats, nocturnal creatures, informative text. These books you view his breathtaking photo- Gbirds of prey and coral reef could very will be the vehicles that graphs of the majestic animals in predators in four new diverse introduce 3-D to young readers for Wild Cats. Was there any apparent books featuring the stereography the first time. Old-timers (I mean danger? "Well," chuckles Bell, of NSA members Simon M. Rell experienced stereo aficionados) "even with attendants close by, and Mark Rlum. The quartet is a will certainly welcome the books you're always on your guard welcome addition to the first two to their ongoing 3-D libraries. because you are invading the cats' books in the Eye-to-Eye'" series Bell's photography is featured in space." Bell seems to have met his which began with Bell's Snakes and three of the books, Night Creatures, match while shooting three playful Lizards and Insects and Spiders (S W Wild Cats and Birds of Prey. He shot Cheetah cubs in their enclosure. Vol. 24, No. 2). all of his photographs at a variety "Just when I would get one of the The new books were released of public and private zoos and care cubs in focus and get ready to late last year and, once again, centers. They include: The Toronto shoot, the other two would jump we're happy to report that they are Zoo, African Lion Safari and North- on my back and knock me over." a visual treat. The Eye-to-Eye'" wood Buffalo and Exotic Animal Some of the cats featured in this series was created to encourage Ranch in Ontario, Wildlife on Easy book are close to extinction, so children to focus on nature, the Street in Tampa, SOS Care in Wild Cats offers a unique opportu- environment and photography. Escondidio, CA., and Alberta Birds nity to come eye-to-eye with them Although recommended for chil- of Prey Center. Many of the owls in life-like 3-D. One such cat is the dren ages 8 to 12, we still stand by and hawks were photographed at rarely seen Sand Cat, which can be our earlier statement that children Joseph Van OS Photo Safaris, found in the Sahara desert as well of all ages-and the young at HawkQuest, Rock Mountain Rap- as in desert areas of Asia. Rell tor Center and Raptor r ducat ion relates that during the Gulf War in Foundation in Boulder, CO. the early '90s, the government of Some of the most fascinating Saudi Arabia, fearing the loss of pictures that Bell has taken include many of their zoo animals, sent a images that are totally unidentifi- pair of Sand Cats to SOS Care in able in 2-D. In Night Creatures, for California. Up until that time, the example, one photograph ablaze in Sand Cat had never successfully swirling psychedelic colors comes been bred in captivity, but SOS alive in 3-D as a Bell's Horned Frog Care triumphed. In Wild Cats, Bell (no relation). (Blum plays similar offers us two shots of this beauti- tricks with our eyes in his book.) ful, docile-looking cat, one in 3-D, One of Bell's best shots in Ni'yht the other in 2-D. Creatures is the one of a snarling Bircls of Prey features some Jaguar with piercing, killer eyes breath-taking closeups of an assort- that would make anybody shiver- ment of owls, hawks, vultures, fal- @ Novcmber/l>eceml,er 1998 mEREO WORLD The small folding StereoFocusr" viewer (seen here on a page of views in Birds of Prey) works well if han- dled and stored with care. The 4.5 inch lenses enlarge the small images just enough to make the fine screen pattern visible, but the high quality of the printing makes this a minor intrusion. When viewed with lonqer lenses or free-viewed, the pairs come Stereographer Mark Blum using one of his custom underwater stereo rigs. Those close to photographic print quality. attending the 1997 NSA convention in Bellevue, WA, were able to examine some of this underwater gear and the 3-0 books it made possible at his Trade Fair table. cons and eagles. Most of these birds are not what we consider to and plants-all buzzing with life- Blum. "The camera is reflex view- be colorful, but Bell's photographs but it takes a great photographer ing at F2.8 and features a huge capture the sharp details of a mul- to seize the right moment and cap- Pentax high eyepoint pentaprism titude of lavish earth tones on ture the right images on film. In viewfinder from the Pentax 645 everything from a fluffy face of our journey underwater, we get an series. This is ideal for viewing feathers to the spectacular plumage intimate look at everything from underwater through a dive mask. of a bird's extended wings in large predators to minuscule para- The camera will focus at four dis- preparation for flight. sites, and we get to marvel at the tances with magnification varying For his photographs, Bell used wondrous explosion of hues from .2 to .7 life-size. When the the RBT X3 German-spliced stereo among neon-colored fish and spec- focusing distance is changed, the camera, an Exacta with a Hyponar tacular coral. I have far too many aperture size and spacing (the attachment, and a Nikon single- favorite photos to list here, but I stereo base) is automatically lens camera. Simon Bell is a famil- found the candid, eye-to-eye shot changed too. All controls may be iar name to NSA members. His 12- of a tiny Cleaner Goby going operated from outside the custom projector synchronized stereo pre- about its parasitic work in the underwater camera housing." sentations have been consistent mouth of a Nassau Grouper to be The image of the Leopard Shark hits at several of our conventions. both amusing and mesmerizing. was taken very, very deep. Rlum He specializes in stereo nature pho- Blum shot many of his photos reports that these animals frequent tography and he is the founder near Sipadan Island, Borneo, Little a shelf below 150 feet at one of the and president of BPS, a multimedia Cayman, Fiji, studio in Toronto...... Bonaire and Reproduced actual size, "Sand Cat" is one of the views from Coral Reef Life in 3-D Cozumel. His Eye-to-Eye book's Wild Cats. This and 23 other intimate close- equipment Coral reefs are teeming with life ups by Simon Bell are ready to remove from the last four pages includes a and insert in the viewer. o 7998 Sornerville House ~wksLimited and, thanks to Mark Blum, we get one-of-a-kind the chance to see it in realistic 3-D custom camera by visiting fringing reefs, barrier built on a I reefs and atolls in the book Coral Mamiya 645 Reef. Underwater life, with its infi- body which nite floating images, lends itself takes two I perfectly to stereo photography. images through Blum takes full advantage of these a single 80mm 3-D opportunities, and the result is lens. "Twin nothing short of amazing. Each apertures create 8 - 7 photograph is beautifully com- two images that posed and "layered" with contrast- are directed ing colors and images to great back to the film effect. True, Mother Nature can take a bow for the natural under- water "layering" of rocks, corals STEREO WORLD Novemher/llecernher 19' points by the remote Sipadan Island in Borneo. "I headed Societv - 4 Marjorie straight for the location and found (Continlied from page 21) this specimen at 170 feet (another photographer with a death wish?), Speedy Print Circuits Holstein which was the deepest I've been ormer Holmes Library curator then and since," reports Blum. Bill C. Walton tends all of the Marjorie Holstein died January 3, "Ascending slowly to the reef top, I Speedy print circuits which are F 1999 after a brief hospital stay. For finished off my roll of film. While limited to 12 members each and many years until its recent move decompressing near the surface, reports as follows. to Cincinnati, she and her hus- another Leopard Shark swam Speedv Alpha band Raymond were co-curators of leisurely by offering a perfect 1 ...... Ern Rairden the Oliver Wendell Holmes Stereo- photo op, but I had no film left. 2 ...... Bill Patterson scopic Research Library while it This is Murphy's first rule of under- 3 ...... Bill Walton 4 ...... Nancy Sobottka was situated at Eastern College in water photography." St. Davids, PA. Blum has been photographing Favorite Views Marjorie was personally respon- the natural world in 3-D for nearly 1 "Lilies" by Rill Patterson sible for much of the daily opera- three decades, working as a stock 2 (tie) "Dancers" tion of the Library, sorting out col- photographer or on assignment. by Craig Daniels lections, entering data into the He has designed much of his own "Dogwoods and Greybacks" computer files, and retrieving equipment to meet the new and by Mary Carpenter information in answer to questions special challenges of 3-D wildlife 3 "Touch of Venus" by Eileen Rohman from researchers. Her work was photography. Two of his books crucial to making the Library and (not in the Eye-to-Eye series) have Speedy Bravo its well organized collections what been previously reviewed in SW: 1 ...... George Freeman it is today. A more complete Beneath the Sea (Vol. 24, No. 1) and 2 ...... Dick Twichell 3 Rill C. Walton memorial to Marjorie Holstein will Ru >vemher/l>ecembcr1998 STEREO WZUD AD An Expansive Look at Stoddard's Work and Life eaders who enjoyed our feature I Review by john Dennis "Seneca Ray Stoddard" by Lois R nd Guenther Bauer (Vol. 23 No. 2) and who are eager to learn an account of how his likely first from paternalism to outright hos- more about Stoddard's life and painting instructor, Hiram tility toward African Americans, work will be delighted with Early Cartwright, instigated a July 4th, along with some similar quota- Days in the Adirondacks - the Photo- 1861 incident in which a "seces- tions regarding Irish immigrants. graphs of Seneca Ray Stoddard by sion" flag was raised by a drunken 1 Stoddard seems to have been dedi- Jeanne Winston Adler. While the mob in the very depressed area of cated to preserving the inspiring book doesn't use stereos, it does Burke Hollow, NY. Threatening to natural beauty of the Adirondacks reproduce Stoddard's work in vari- shoot anyone attempting to take for its existing population of small ous formats with great care, and down the flag, the mob was even- farmers and visiting campers, hik- often at the full 9.5" x 10" page tually confronted by hastily orga- ers and boaters of only particular size. nized railroad machine shop work- racial and ethnic backgrounds. This generous reproduction of ers from nearby Malone. An entire chapter is devoted to 112 Stoddard images provides a At the time, Stoddard had the artistic concept of "luminism" unique look at the lakes, wilder- already moved with his parents to as applied by some to Stoddard's ness, boats, and resorts of the Troy, where he became a decora- photographic style. With sources Adirondacks in the late 19th cen- tive painter of railway carriages for in the artistic inclination of the tury. The text is a major piece of the Gilbert Car Company. Civil day to look for God in images of research that examines in detail War related violence caught up wild nature, it is applied to both Stoddard's life, professional career, with Stoddard there in July of painters and photographers of politics, and photographic style as 1863, when he witnessed anti- about 1860 to 1875 who combined they related to and contrasted with draft, anti-black riots that caused a stark landscape realism with seri- those of his contemporaries. It the burning of an eight-block sec- ous attention to light. In the words shouldn't really be surprising that tion of the city. of the author, "The chief subject of this very busy man of so many tal- During his later years as a pho- the luminist landscape is light, ents and interests (and who played tographer in Glens Falls, Stoddard which beams from a single strong a key role in the preservation of apparently shared the interests of source and fills these often austere- the region as a State park), would many writers and artists of the ly constructed scenes with an prove to be as complex an individ- time in the search for religious ecstatic radiance." It would be ual as the one revealed in Adler's inspiration in unspoiled nature, interesting to hear what Stoddard research. spiritualism, the temperance move- would have thought of all this. It Stoddard's early training and ment, and homeopathic medicine. certainly does place him in good experience in art is covered in fas- In the 1890s, he painted ghosts, company, as the other noted pho- cinating detail, and even includes sprites, trolls and goblins into tographer most associated with the some of his negatives. concept is Carleton Watkins. Adler Another element often present concludes that "Stoddard, as a in that same "intellectual package" photographer with a background of beliefs of the time was a sympa- in craft painting and a family tree thy for abolitionist-oriented poli- packed with Calvinist (and later tics, but Stoddard seems to have Methodist) ministers, possessed joined the opposite camp on mat- natural links with som'e of the ters of race. Adler includes several chief sources of luminisrn." passages from Stoddard's writings (Continued on prwiorrs pnge) that reveal racial attitudes ranging STEREO WRW NovernberlDecernher 1998 @ World's Fairs and the Stereo Connection Review by John Dennis images, even when using halves of resources-and an old-fashioned t would be hard to exaggerate stereoviews to provide dramatic stereoscope with a good supply of the significance of the connec- illustration for articles or books. views, I'd choose the 'scope, and Ition between world's fairs or With a Keystone view tantaliz- say of the rest, 'Good riddance'. A expositions and the history of ingly included on its cover, World's basket of views lay on many a par- stereoscopic imaging. They are for- Fairs and the End of Progress by lor table around the turn of the ever associated from the begin- Alfred Heller marks a welcome century.... A week of reading, and ning, both having been introduced change to the above omission even then some sharp, engrossing stereo to the general public (not to men- though the book, to be published views after lunch on Sunday-that, tion Queen Victoria) with Lon- in April of 1999, uses no full I suppose, was a particularly Victo- don's Crystal Palace Exposition of stereoviews inside. Next to the rian state of grace." 1851. The fairs that followed all famous "Sea of Humanity" image Would that books on other over the world were generously from the opening day of the aspects of popular history included documented by stereographers and Columbian Exposition (and identi- even a fraction of that recognition publishers who advertised their fied as being from a stereoview) is of stereo's place in visual docu- "exclusive" coverage of various Mr. Heller's chapter "Bringing mentation! expositions on the backs of stereo- World's Fairs Back to Life". Here he Of course the association of new views now prized by collectors. explains that to best augment his stereo technologies and world's From the beginning, stereo- historical reading, "...I prefer to fairs didn't stop with traditional graphs were a part of the commer- spend time with my stereoscopic views. Chicago's 1933 Century of cial exhibits and competitions at view cards of world's fairs of long Progress introduced (and was doc- fairs as well as a vital means of ago. I have a faded one showing umented by) Tru-Vue filmstrips, documenting the events and circu- the inside of the Crystal Palace, while practical polarized 3-D pro- lating images of the buildings, photographed during the Great jection was introduced to the pub- monuments, exhibits and assorted Exhibition of 1851.... Here is a lic at the 1939 New York World's oddities to people separated by photo of the crowd on opening Fair, as was the View-Master. While oceans or years from the original day at Chicago in 1893, each face Heller doesn't go into that level of scenes. Rut written histories of spe- and body as if alive and about to detail in his sections on these fairs, cific fairs or of expositions in gen- move ....And in an instant, you can he does give considerable attention eral have rarely included more be transported to the Pay Streak at to the 3-D technology introduced than passing mention of stereo Seattle, 1909, or the Fountain of at fairs of the past few years-spe- Energy, all lit up of an evening in cia1 venue and large format stereo- San Francisco, in 1915.." scopic film. "When I am looking through Films that generally get only my stereoscope, if anyone should passing mention, if any, in other ask me to choose between all the material about fairs of the 1980s to advancements in visual communi- the present are covered, often in cation-the videocasts and the some detail, and often in positive videotapes, the computers, the terms. Even the 70mm 3-D film on movies, the laser light shows, the "Water" presented at the 1984 virtual realities, the Internet's Louisiana World Exposition in New Orleans in the U.S. pavilion is Of special interest is an entire social awareness. In a chapter on mentioned-a film covered in few chapter on a fair and a 3-D film future fairs, the formal "themes" of if any publications outside New that never happened-World City two upcoming fairs make the point Orleans except for Stereo World. In Expo '96 in Tokyo and a short, ani- well. For Expo 2000 in Hanover, the chapter on Tsukuba '85 in mated film about Leonardo da it's "Humankind-Nature-Technolo- Japan, the OMNIMAX anaglyphic Vinci actually flying that changed gy" and for Expo 2005 in Seto, film WeAre Rorn of Stars rates an themes and titles several times, Japan it's "Beyond Development: entire paragraph full of praise con- from Leonardo's Dream to Fly, Da Rediscovering Nature's Wisdom". cluding with, "...the potential for Vinci, Fly!. As an industry insider Both seem perfect for large format this medium was and is awesome." (Heller published and edited the 3-D films and stills in various The coverage can be critical magazine World's Fair for several stereo formats. when needed, as in describing how years) the author was in a unique While it's refreshing to see any We are Rorn of Stars was shown in position to follow in depth the book like this take stereo imaging the Fujitsu pavilion at Rrisbane in progress and eventual cancellation seriously, a writer of Mr. Heller's 1988: "An excessively worn version of that fair. Starting with the 1939 impressive experience and knowl- of their original 3-D graphics film Golden Gate International Exposi- edge of the subject makes its inclu- of the formation of the universe tion in San Francisco, he has sion even more significant. For col- didn't show well in a cramped attended 15 world's fairs and has lectors of fair or exposition views, space on a small slice of an IMAX researched earlier fairs in detail, collectors of world's fair memora- screen, in a dirty, crudely detailed including visits to the sites of bilia, or anyone interested in these pavilion staffed by bored young many where only foundations, massive events that both celebrate people." Most of the 3-D films and markers or less remain. and make history while forecasting formats introduced at various fairs More than any sentimental look and sometimes influencing the of the '80s and '90s to be found in at days gone by or compilation of future, this is a fascinating and Stereo World get at least some men- statistics, World's Fairs and the End vital book. OQ tion, including such now obscure of Progress examines the commer- efforts as Ravlev Silleck's 3-D film cial and political purposes behind about globai p611ution shown at fairs, and the graduai changes in Expo '92 in Seville. focus from unbridled "progress" to increasing environmental and A Boxed Set Booklet Archive I he NSA Information and Rook Correction: TService gets many requests for or several issues this ad was copies of the booklets which Fomitted and in others phone & WANTED accompanied the boxed sets of fax numbers were wrong. views issued by Underwood & for an Underwood, Keystone and H.C. Upcoming White. An archive of reproductions of these booklets is being started, STEREOVIEWS, Stereo World so that copies can be made avail- able to NSA members. If you have CDVs, Feature: copies of these booklets which you Author needs stereoviews are willing to share with other CABINETS, etc. of the Civil War era stereo enthusiasts, please contact Tex Treadwell at 4201 Nagle Road, Direct sale: send locomotive "The General" Bryan, TX 77801 or e-mail: me your wants. in any format including TexTreadwellOcom~userve.com. Tru-Vue, View-Master, etc. Contributors will be given full Tim Mclntyre, 137 Nile, Amateur stereos from the credit for their generosity. an Stratford Ontario, N5A Civil War Centennial and 4E1, Canada. Tel: 519-273- 1964 New York World's Fair 5360, Fax: 519-273-731 0, including this and other European-Gems vintage locomotives are (Contirlfmlfrom pnye 2.5) email: [email protected] also of interest. negatives were published well into web page: Send descriptions the 1900s. His plates changed htt~://www.orc.ca/-timoni or photocopies to: hands several times and some which have survived are now part I collect: Canada and Richard C. Ryder of the Roger-Viollet collection in 1806 Cedar Dr. Paris. A whole book could be ,Europe views - let me devoted to the work of Henri know what you have. Medford, NJ 08055. Lefort and more will probably be later mentioned in this column. OQ Current Information on Stereo Today David Starkman & john Dennis Gilde camera: Wide Format 120 Stereo and More hy Paul Pasquarello -- - - his past fall while attending PhotoPlus Expo East, a mega- Tphotography trade show with educational seminars, held yearly at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, I found my personal "dream machine". Having been a professional pho- tographer for the past 35 years, with very special interests both in stereo and Panoramic photogra- phy, I was particularly drawn to an all new camera introduced at this year's show: the GILDE, more specifically the Gilde 66-1 7 MSTN (3D). Handcrafted in Germany by Dr. Kurt Gilde, the Gilde is a multi- functioning, 120 roll film camera with the ability to shift its lens l5mm horizontally and up to 42mm vertically, in addition to offering lens tilt of up to 10mm. Along with these lens movements, One of the various focal length "Stereoblocks" next to a Gilde camera body, showing the camera offers an adjustable the stereo septum box inserted. Where on most cameras there would be a flash unit image format of 6x6, 6x9, 6x12, is instead the Gilde's unique, variable format, zoom viewfinder. 6x14 and a 6x17 (a 1:3 image ratio). Dr. Gilde offers several acces- by Franz Miller of Germany. More It doesn't stop there. It is a sories for his unique camera to aid information about this fine camera medium format stereo camera as both the stereo and panoramic is available by visiting the GILDE well. Using paired and linked 58 users. Accessories include optional camera web site, through 135mm lenses called ground glass screens, either-a I http://www.~ilde-kamera.de Stereoblocks, 6x7 or 6x9 stereo deluxe version, with collapsible pairs may be produced. Should this hood and built-in magnifier, or a Gilde Camera with a Stereoblock not be enough in the way of versa- more basic screen that necessitates lens pair mounted on the body but tility, when using the 75, 90, or the use of a focusing cloth. Either positioned for use of just one ;ens, 135mm Stereoblocks, one of the ground glass is very useful for criti- centered for panoramic purposes. cal focus and cropping, particularly paired lenses can be capped and -- - - the camera functions with one when lens shift or tilts are lens as a normal (I should say not employed. A Polaroid back is also so normal) multi format panoram- available. Fitting inside the film ic camera covering up to the full magazine, it enables the proofing 6x17 format. of a full 6x17 scene on two sheets of Polaroid film. The Rollie Digital- The GILDE is supplied with a vario viewfinder, an ingenious Chip-Pack DSP 104, a digital back, device that not only masks to the with a format of 3lx31mm and desired picture format of 6x6 to 2048x2048 pixels, is also a~~ailable. 6x17, but also zooms to enable I viewed several dramatic stereo viewing all of the formats at the 6x9 transparencies in a beautifully various lens focal lengths. crafted, lighted, hand viewer made @ NovrmbrrlDecernher 1998 S(rERE0 WORLD or by e-mailing Dr. Gilde at made in Switzerland. Mr. Anthony Stereo photographers. Direct ques- gildee~ilde-kamera.de. Sansone, president of I.P.T., indicat- tions about prices and ordering to International Photo Trading is ed at the show that he is very International Photo Trading, Box the importer of the GILDE camera. excited to be representing the 9069, Hurlburt Field, FL 32544, They are also the importers of the GILDE camera and looks forward to (850) 863-2972, e-mail: very fine ALPA camera system hearing from both Panoramic and [email protected]. A Stereo Print Master on CD he Rill Walton 3D-CD Project Images from Shab Levy and Klaus The CD will be DOS/WIN, MAC Tincludes a historical collection Kemper representing the North and UNIX compatible. It will cost of several hundred stereo views America-Germany Stereo Card Cir- $35 US, postage included, to any- presented as both stereo pairs and cuit. where in the world. Anyone who as anaglyphs. A lorgnette viewer, Images from Stan White representing places an order within the first 90 and a pair of anaglyph glasses will the PSA days of release (currently planned be included with every CD. The Images from Walter Dubronner repre- for July 1, 1999) will receive a raf- contents include images and infor- senting the ISU Stereo Card Circuit fle ticket with their CD. This raffle mation about: Mono (2D) to stereo (3D) conver- ticket will provide an opportunity Army basic training from Bill's sions by Craig Daniels to win a custom made set of 20 book-Rack to Basics Miscellaneous Stereos including a celebrity stereographs which we Personalities & places series of Scotland then & now views will be giving away to one lucky person. This set of 20 cards will be Celebrity stereographs Stereographs of Bill's Trips to Japan, Rochester NY & Niagara Falls visible at the NSA 99 convention Miscellaneous military stereographs Flensburg, Germany including several Trade Fair. including Vietnam memorials, heli- Sample images, more informa- copters, ranger and airborne training then & now views tion and on-line credit card order- Images of old Stereoscopic Society Arkansas and Georgia stereographs including several then & now views ing are available at the project's members, from the SSA archives web site: Images from Dick Twichell & Rill Pat- Several years of Walton Christmas card views http://www.dddesign.c0m/bw3dcd/. terson representing the SSA For those who do not wish to I use a credit card to order, personal ...... , ...... One of the celebrity shots to be found on the Bill Walton 3-0CD, this view of Vice checks and money orders can also President Al Gore was taken by Bill in March, 1998 and includes a caption on the be used. Simply mail them, along back: "VP A/ Gore works the crowd who awaited his arrival at Lawson Army Airfield, with your mailing address to Dan at nearby Fort Benning. He visited Columbus State University and made a major Shelley, DDDesign, 2441 Ranch speech on education. Security was extremely tight for his visit and I was required to Lane, Colorado Springs, Colorado fully explain Stereo Realist to the Secret Service agents, before I could get media cre- 80918, USA. dentials. " RealityVision: Autostereoscopic Nirvana? lowing reports circulating on pupil" concept, you're probably on Gthe internet and in magazines the right track. But in place of the like Wired and New Scientist have fresnel condenser, LCD projection generated a lot of interest in an panel, seven lenses, and mirrors autostereoscopic display system that take up an arcade game size called RealityVision. In develop- unit, RealityVision uses a holo- ment for about the last ten years, graphic plate (a "Holographic Eyes RealityVision is the work of Lon- Optical Element") to split light LIR don holographers Edwina Orr and from a point source into narrow / / David Trayner who have the tech- left-eye and right- angles directly nology near the marketing stage behind an LCD panel on which the with 50 patents worldwide. left and right images are interlaced viewer for standard 3-D slides An explanation of the system to match the corresponding optics designed by Bill Ewald at Kodak in should probably start with what it in the hologram. The desk-top unit the 1950s. In it, the images being lacks. As with any autostereoscopic plugs into a computer like a stan- projected on a small ground glass display, no viewing lenses or filters dard monitor and will also display screen are guided toward the need to be worn, but this one 2-D images appropriate eyes via a fresnel field involves no lasers, no moving Like other autostereoscopic dis- lens. To learn his secret treatment parts, no barrier strips, no lenticu- plays, this one has a limited view- to keep the ground glass from dif- lar lenses, no image projection, no ing zone but an image reported to fusing the directionality of the two multiple lenses, no mirrors, and no be cleaner than others. A head- images, see SW Vol. 23 No. 4, special software or electronics. To tracking system and movable light pages 27 ST 31. function, the system needs only source could make the zone larger, Besides its relatively compact left and right images from paired and multiple light sources could size, the RealityVision display (if cameras, 3-D video tapes or stereo- allow two people to view the mass produced) could be far less scopic computer programs. screen at once. Apparent depth is expensive than other autostereo- What RealityVision does, in the reported to be from 8 inches in scopic units, since material costs most basic terms, is guide light vis- front of the screen to 16 inches for the key Holographic Optical ible only from the angle of the left behind it. Element could be as low as $5 eye through vertical image strips Since the seven images and lens- each. The current resolution of 800 on a liquid crystal screen making es of the HinesLab system men- x 600 pixels will later be improved up only the left image. Light guid- tioned above are used to provide a to 1024 x 1280. Details of the sys- ed to just the right eye illuminates wider viewing zone (for even mul- tem can be found in an illustrated the alternating right image strips. tiple viewers) and look-around paper by Orr and Trayner at: If this sounds something like the ability, a better comparison with www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/mes/Research HinesLab 3DTV system (SW Vol. 22 RealityVision might be provided /Groups/wr/vrsig97/~roceed/OO8/ No. 6, page 12) based on the "exit by the very pre-holographic table hasdpave.htm. She's Got A Ticket to View. ... he world's first 3-D bus tickets December of last year as part of a LEGO construction toy system, Tappeared in London during promotional campaign for the new ZNAP. Over 20,000 special tickets with a 3-D photo and logos printed on the back were issued to passengers on selected routes in London's West End. Drivers issued the tickets in the normal way and gave each rider a pair of anaglyphic glasses to view the wheeled LEGO vehicle emerging from the surface of the ticket while the type twists through several planes of depth. Busy London 3-D entrepreneur and NSA member David Burder cre- ated the 3-D graphics and supplied the glasses for the unique promo- tion. ue to limitations of time and space will also allow events to be May 2 (NY) Dspace, the Calendar will now announced longer in advance and, American Photographic Historical Society Photographica Fair. Open 10:OOam to concentrate on events of clear when possible, in more than one 4:00pm, Metropolitan Arts & Antiques Pavil- stereoscopic content or association. issue. ion, 110 West 19th Street, New York, NY. This will enable us to give more NOTE: Events listed in boldface type are Contact Sal Mule, (718) 386 9627. Ample attention to photographica shows likely to be of special interest to stereo col- street parking available on Sunday. oriented toward images and to lectors and photographers. May 16 (OH) exhibits, meetings or other events April 11 (GA) Columbus, Ohio Book & Paper Show, Vets specifically including stereoscopy Southeast Camera & Image "Expo 99" Memorial Hall, 300 W. Broad St., Columbus, ShowlSale, Cobb County Civic Center, Mariet- OH. 325 tables,including photos. Contact in whole or in part. The added ta, GA. Contact Ray Brokaw, PO Box 360033, Columbus Productions, PO Box 261016, r- 1 Decatur, GA 30036-0033, (770) 987-2773. Columbus, OH 43226, (614) 781-0070, Upco ming National April 24-25 (MA) www.columbusproductions.com. July 8-12 (WI) hlCd Photographica '99 - The Boston Show! Spon- , Conventions sored by the Photographic Historical Society NSA Green Bay '99, Regency Suites Hotel, of New England at Waltham High School, 333 Main St., Green Bay, WI. See the web 617 Lexington St., Waltham, MA. Dealers site www.dddesign.com/3dbydanlnsa99 or from U.S., Europe, and the Orient at 200 contact Harry Richards, 11506 N. Laguna Dr, / Green tr: tables of cameras, equipment and images Mequon, WI 53092, [email protected]. with a generous representation of NSA mem- bers and stereographica. Contact PHSNE, PO Mesa, Ai Box 650189, West Newton, MA 02465-0189, (617) 965-0807 before 9:00 pm EST. -- -- 6-1g The Last You are invited to join the Nimslos? STEREOCZUB OF ffering lenticular 3-D print pro- 0cessing services for 4-lens cam- SOUZ N C! ORNIA eras, 3-Dx of Duluth, GA, is now also offering (via their web site), Informative and enrerrainine I Monthly meetings "the last of a limited number of monthly newsletter Competitions new 35 mm Quadra Lens 3-D cam- ,;-.re eras." (A photo of the camera 3-D Slide exhibitnvmma IWorkshops reveals what is clearly a Nimslo with the name blacked out.) Contact: David W. Kuntz, TI 09 Quailhill [)I., Rancho P alos Verdes, CA, 90275, USA, The $169.00 price matches close- 310-377-5393, Fax 310-377-43c~, uwnu~~u(gcompuse~ e.Luw,-..... ~~~~~.,/home.earthlink.net/-campfireI..&"./ ly that of the Nimslo when it was introduced, as does the price of the "Opti-Lite" flash under its original name at $28.00. Shipping charges in the U.S. are $11.95 if both cam- PRECISION FOLDING STEREO VIEWER era and flash are ordered, $7.95 for For all standard camera only. For film and print Reallst 30 stereo slldes. NEW processing prices or to order a Glass or cardboard mounted. Folds flat, LARGE camera, contact 3-Dx, 4850 River welghs only 1 oz. Green Parkway, Duluth, GA 30096, Prepald mlnlrnum order LENS Tel 770-497-0727 Fax 770-497- $1 0 0O.Add $2.00 for 8334, or visit: sh~pplngand handllng www.3-dx.com/home.htm . FREE CATALOG AVAILABLE TO ORDER CALL TOLL FREE 800-223-6694 MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED his colum~Idepends 01n readers for Tinformatic In. (We don' t know eve? thing!) TAYLOR MERCHANT CORP. 212 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 F 'lease send it7formotton olr questions 1'o David .. , , ,,. rd.. ,.n ". Srar~rnan,fvewvfews. ro~ror,KU. rrox 2368, Culver City, CA 9023 7. 3-D MAILIPHONE BID AUCTIONS. View-Master, JOHN WALDSMITH S Stereo V~ews,An Illustrat- WRAYSCOPES AND VIEWS - More new cards stereoviews, and more! Top quality/nlce prlces! ed Hlstory and Prlce Gu~de"available slgned available. Write or call for updated list on Send LSASE. Satisfaction absolutely guaran- from the author, $22 95 softbound, add $2 95 Nuviews or Wrayscope information. Jim Wray, teed. New bidders encouraged to join. Call for postage and handl~ng Please note the hard- 8921 E. 49th Place, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74145- simple instructions on how to bit successfully. bound edltlon IS sold out. Mastercard, VISA and 7320, (91 8) 664-4909. Also, always buying 3-D! Norb Schneider, 7245 Dlscover accepted John Waldsmlth, 302 W. Palo Verde, Peoria, AZ 85345, (602) 486- Granaer Rd . Medlna. OH 44256 3721. - - NEW STAR-D ACHROMATIC AND STAR-D STEREO VlEW CARDS 111 trade for your duplicate 3-D SCANNING SERVICES. Send 35mm nega- STEREO SLIDE VIEWER now available. Comes V~ew-Master reels and packets N~cetrams, tives, slides or prints and we'll scan your images with a halogen bulb and is offered in Realist occupatlonals and clty scenes plus general onto CD-ROMs. Only $5.00 per stereo pair! Con- ($84.99), European ($99.99) and Full Frame vlews (no Ilthos). Joe Hohmann, 515 Moylan tact DDE, PO Box 2689, Costa Mesa, CA 92628. ($99.99) formats. Also new, archival stereo slide Ave., Medla, PA 19063. www.DigitalDreams3D.com (877) 362-2436 storage boxes not available for years! Also avail- toll-free. able: halogen viewer bulbs [frosted ($1 1 for 3) and clear ($13.50 for 3)], replacement 20mm 3-D WITH YOUR CAMCORDER - The Nu-ViewbD achromats, reproduction stereo cards and View- adapter is an electro-optical device that when master reels. Berezin Stereo Photography Sup- 1 MORE1 Will buy or trade for more Mono Lake attached to most camcorders, produces stereo- plies, 21686 Abedul, Mission Viejo, CA 92691, vlews Old or new Send photocopies wlth terms scopic three-dimensional video recordings. (949) 581 8378. http://www.berezin.com/3d, GC Freeman, POB 189717, Sacramento, CA Camcorder Magazine (Feb. 1998) stated, "This is [email protected] 95818. real, bona-fide stereo-lens, look around the pole 3-D!, our first reaction - WOW!" Video Magazine NIMSLO 3-D CAMERA with Nimslo Opti-Lite. 19th CENTURY NUMBERED sequential sets of highly recommended the Nu-View" 3-D system Made in Japan, Nimslo International Limited. local scenery, buildings, factories, towns, etc., as an excellent value and Penthouse Magazine $75.00. Zak, W5081 S. Dakhaven Circle, Wau- by regional issuers. While it would be nice if the (both June 1998) called the Nu-VieP a product toma, WI 54982, (920) 566-2323. sets are complete, I realize that most sets, par- "You just have to buy". Nu-Vie@ fits camcorder ticularly obscure ones, are not. Please quote lenses up to 58mm and sells for $399. A com- STEREO VlEW CARDS - Estate collection, U.S. what you have. Immediate decision, immediate plete starter system including two pair of Nu- and foreign. Great selection of many subjects. payment. Dave Bowers, Box 1224, Wolfeboro, Shades'" LCD glasses are available for $499. Call Dolores Hendrickson, 2650 W. 223rd St., NH 03894, Fax (only): (603) 569-5319. (888) 883-3843 today. Bucyrus, KS 6601 3, (913) 947-3360. - ALWAYS BUYING STEREO VIEWS AND REAL AUTHOR OF "HOW TO CORRECTLY TAKE Super STEREO VlEW PRICE GUIDE. Only $5.00!! Great PHOTOS of U.S. Mint, U.S. Treasury, and Bureau Stereo Photographs" will sell you copies of 10 of for people buying from auctions, collectors who of Engraving & Printing. High prices paid for his best efforts. Color, 4x6, Loreo format. Send want to know the latest realized auction values, stereo views and real photos I need of U.S. Mint $4. plus 42e S&H to: Christopher Baer, 2501 or for insurance companies insuring large col- coining operations, Treasury and BEP paper Riverside Dr. #509A, Coral Springs, FL 33065. lections. Only numbered views over $50 are list- money engraving & printing operations 1860s- ed. Doc Boehme, 5650 Brandlwood Ct., WBT, 1920s. Especially seeking U.S. Mint interiors BOOK, The Siege at Port Arthur; hardback with MN 551 10-2275. and exteriors from Philadelphia; San Francisco; 3-D viewer. $15 Econ Air. (Cash preferred). Ron New Orleans; Denver; Carson City, Nevada; Blum, 2 Hussey Ave., Oaklands Park SA 5046, STEREO VIEWER LENSES - Two wedged-shaped Dahlonega, Georgia; Charlotte, NC; plus U.S. Australia. lenses, each molded and embodied in 11h" Treasury & Bureau of Engraving & Printing oper- square frame. Precision optical quality: build, ations, Washington, DC and various U.S. Assay COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS experiment. $7.95 postpaid (USA). Taylor-Mer- offices. Please mail or FAX photocopy, with price - new edition, by 0. Henry Mace. Contains chap- chant Corporation, 212 West 35th St., New York, and condition noted. I'll reply within 48 hours. ter on stereographs. $19.95, plus $3 shipping. NY 10001, (800) 223-6694. Attn Dave Sundman, c/o Littleton Coin Co., 646 Check or money order. Thge Dixie Press, PO Box Union St., Littleton, NH 03561, FAX 603-444- 110783, Nashville, TN 37222. STEREOVIEWS, CDVs, CABINETS, etc. Direct sale: send me your wants. Tim Mclntyre, 137 3512, (est. 1945). DARIUS KINSEY flatmounts. Serious inquiries Nile, Stratford Ontario, N5A 4E1, Canada. Tel: BICYCLES, TRICYCLES, manumotive transport only. Alan Young, 404 Westlea Dr., Westfield, IN 51 9-273-5360, Fax: 51 9-273-731 0, email: and motorcycles. Stereoviews or any photo- 46074. [email protected], web page: http:llwww.orc.cal graphica, memorabilia and ephemera. Singles, -timoni. I collect: Canada and Europe views - let duplicates or collections. Thanks! Lorne Shields, FED-STEREO CAMERAS: serial #433012 $275, me know what you have. serial #934356 $250. With original case, shades, PO Box 211, Chagrin Falls, OH 44022-0211, (905) 886-691 1, e-mail: [email protected] instructions in Russian. Stereo Realist Manual VIEW-MASTER FILM CUllER: Used, but cuts -. -- ~ ~p by Morgan $120 -top condition. Stereo Photog- nice clean chips. I will include a good photo- "BK DEVIL TISSUES (Diableries), especially #20 -raphy by-- Waak $25. (908) 236-7371. copy of original instructions. $275 includes (Concert Infernale). Also, SW & Mexican archae- shipping in U.S. Charles Trentelman, 3556 INVENTORY REDUCTION: Civil War 3-0. The ological sites - stereo views. Russ Bodnar, Box Fowler Ave., Ogden, UT 84403, (801) 394- 220, Nageezi, NM 87037, (505) 786-5937. original set with nine premium images available 02329, e-mail: summicronlQaol.corn. -- -- below production cost @$2.25 ea. Case lots only CENTRAL PARK - I collect all types of photo- (150 count). Jim Van Eldik, 205 Jefferson WILLIAM C. DARRAH'S The World of Stereo- graphs of New York City's Central Park (stereo- Woods Dr., Peachtree City, GA 30269, (770) graphs, the definitive book on stereography, is views, CDVs, cabinet cards, postcards, etc.) 487-6709. available directlv from the oublisher. Send check 1850-1940. Herbert Mitchell, 601 W. 113th St. or money orde; for $24.95 (US), postage paid, Apt. 8-H, New York, NY 10025-9712, (212) 932- to: Land Yacht Press, PO Box 210262, Nashville, 8667. TN 37221-0262. @ NovemherlDecemhcr 1998 .STEREO WORLD ., . , , , , CHINESE BOXER REBELLIONICI~I~~S~crllne and I COLLECT VlEWS ~nand around St~llwater,Mln- SPUTNIK W.CASE, stereo Kodak 111 orlq carton pun~shment/Russo-Japanese War - Please nesota. Views by Sinclair, Stridborg, Loornis, box and info, Belplasca w.case. Realist st. view- enclose titles and condition - to Harry Jarosak, and Carli. Highest prices paid. James S. John- er with reostat. D. Srnekal, fax (604) 922-2855. ~. ------PO Box 92, Stormville, NY 12582. son, 15224 Upper 63rd St., Stiullwater, MN 55082. STEREO DAGUERREOTYPES; all kinds, all CIVIL WAR STEREO CAMERA - Top price paid for nations & subjects. Any condition. Ken Appollo, good original Anthony or Stock camera. Robert I COLLECT VIEWS OF SAN DIEGO, California in PO Box 241, Rhinecliff, NY 12574, (914) 876- Jaffee, MD, One Rykowski Lane, Middletown, NY Realist or View-Master format! Contact Dave 5232. 10941, (914) 343-8997 eves. Weiner, PO Box 12193, La Jolla, CA 92039. ~- STEREO REALIST 1525 Accessory Lens Kit for COLLECT, TRADE, BUY & SELL: 19th Century I'M LOOKING FOR the following 1950s Realist Macro Stereo Camera; Realist 2066 Gold Button images (cased, stereo, Cdv, cabinet & large Permamount slides from "The Realist Library of Viewer; Realist 6-drawer stereo slide cabinet in paper) Bill Lee, 8658 Galdiator Way, Sandy, UT Scenic Stereo Originals": 410, 413, 504, 922, Exc.+ or better condition (must contain Realist 84094. Specialties: Western, Locomotives, Pho- 3100,3112,3113,4100, and 4101. Mark Willke, logo); Baja 8-drawer stereo slide cabinet with tographers, Indians, Mining, J. Carbutt, Expedi- 200 SW 89th Ave., Portland, OR 97225. (503) plastic drawers marked "Versafile". Mark Willke, tions, Ships, Utah and occupational 797-3458 days. 200 SW 89th Ave., Portland, OR 97225. (503) --- 797-3458 davs. COPIES OF VIEWS of Brigham Young (1801- MAGIC LANTERN SLIDES: 3Y4 x 4", photo- 1877), cowboy and cowboy life and Utah views. graphic, advertising, coming atttractions. Relat- U&U 100 SET "IRELAND" #18, "Proud Ancestors Researching for scholar publication. Any infor- ed ephemera. Tom Rall, 1101 N. Kentucky St., of A Noble Family - Stately Picture Gallery of mation appreciated and acknowledged. Send Arlington, VA 22205, (703) 534-7612, fax 534- Kilkenny Castle Ireland." Sets/singles - Ireland. photo-copies to Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, 270-H 0285 e-mail: marketfleaQaol.com Listlprices K.J. Dalton, 357 Unity Rd., Trumbull, JSB, BYU, Provo, UT. 84602 or e-mail: CT 0661 1-4934, (203) 371 -0227. richard-holzapfelQbyu.edu MUYBRIDGE VlEWS - Top prices paid. Also Michigan and Mining - the 3Ms. Many views UTAH & NEVADA! Albumen photos, stereos to CORTE-SCOPE VIEWS or sets, any subject or available for trade. Leonard Walle, 47530 Edin- mammoth plates, esp. Savage, O'Sullivan, Rus- condition. No viewers unless with views. John borough Lane, Novi, MI 48374. sell, Hillers, Jackson, etc. Bryan Furtek, 476 E. Waldsmith, 302 Granger Rd., Medina, OH South Temple #236, Salt Lake City, UT 841 11, 44256. NEED STEREOS AND OTHER pre-1920 photos for (801) 532-6865. book research on photography and photogra- FLORIDA AND SOUTHERN STATES views espe- phers such as Howard, Mitchell, Fouche, New- VISTA - REALIST viewer, pay cash or if preferred cially small town, riverboats, street scenes, iden- combe, Scott, De Long. Hamilton, Perry etc. partial trade for antique stereo items possible. D. tifiable buildings, occupational also early military Robert Kolbe, 1301 So. Duluth, Sioux Falls, SD Smekal, 1765 Rosebery Ave., West Vancouver, - Jacksonville/St. Augustine if priced right - 571 05. BC, V7V 225, Canada, fax (604) 922-2855. -- please no scenic generics - buy - swap. Box 1325, MacClenny, FL 32063. NSA LIST - I am preparing a list of "Peter WEST VIRGINIA STEREOVIEWS, CDVs, photo Bergheim's Holy Land Series "for publication in postcards and other older photography relating FLORIDA STEREOS of historical value, especially the NSA series list. Needed information is the to West Virginia, including Fairmont, Harper's Tallahassee, Tampa and Gainsville: Price and Number and the description of the view which Ferry, Morgantown, Parkersburg, Weston, describe or send on approval; highest prices appears on the reverse, Contact by mail or E- Wheeling and other places. Tom Prall, PO paid for pre-1890 views. No St. Augustine. Hen- mail. Bert Zuckerman,59 Overlook Drive, Box155, Weston, WV 26452, wvabooksQaol drickson, PO Box 21 153, Kennedy Space Center, Amherst, Ma 01002 or ZuckermnanQpltpath .com FL 32815. .Mass.edu WILLIAM H. RAU - I collect all types of catalogs FRENCH 19th CENTURY tissue stereoviews want- SARATOGA AND SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY stere- and photographs by Rau (stereoviews, lantern ed from the Diableries series. They depict os wanted. Send priced photocopies or original slides, prints, etc.) Arthur Farrell, 3720 Country scenes in hell of skeletons in a series of 72 stereos on approval. All postage paid for Lane, Charlottesville, VA 22903-7637, (804) images (1860-1 890). Rebecca, (212) 228-7757. approvals. James B. Dorsey, 42 Saratoga Circle, 977-3081, e-mail BewulflQaol.com -- Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. I BUY ARIZONA PHOTOGRAPHS! Stereoviews, YOU COULD HAVE told the world of your stereo cabinet cards, mounted photographs, RP post SHAKER photos wanted. Please send Xerox copy neeeds in this ad space! Your membership entl- cards, albums and photographs taken before with price. Richard Brooker, 23 Old Kings High- tles you to 100 words per year, divided into three 1920. Also interested in Xeroxes of Arizona way, Wilton, CT 06897. ads with a maximum of 35 words per ad. Addi- stereographs and photos for research. Will pay tional words and additional ads may be inserted postage and copy costs. Jeremy Rowe, 21 20 S. SINGLE VIEWS, or complete sets of "Longfellow's at the rate of 20$ per word. Send ads to the Las Palmas Cir., Mesa, AZ 85202. Wayside Inn" done by D. C. Osborn, Artist, Ass- National Stereoscopic Association, P.O. Box abet, Mass., Lawrence M. Rochette, 169 Wood- 14801, Columbus, OH 43214. A rate sheet for I COLLECT REALIST views of Civil War Battfe- land Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752. display ads is available upon request. (Please fields and related sites. Bud Wawro, 127 send SASE for rate sheet.) Prospect St. 3-8-3, Auburn, NY 13021. s one of the benefits of membership, NSA ARCHIVAL SLEEVES: clear 7 5-mil Polvwvlene A members are offered free use of classified CDV (3 38' X 4 318') per 100: $7 case of 1000: $60 advertising. Members may use 100 words per CDV POLYESTER (2-mil ) per 100: $10 case of 1000: $90 year, divided into three ads with a maximum CDV PAGE 6-pocket top load per page: $0.50 caseof 100: $20 of 35 words per ad. Additional words or addi- POSTCARD (3 34' X 5 W) ~er100. $8 case of 1000: $70 POSTCARD PAGE 4-pockei top load ber 100: $16 case of 500: $70 tional ads may be inserted at the rate of 20a 4' x 5' per 100: $8 case of 1000: $70 F )er word. Ple ase include 1Iayments wi th ads. STEREO 1#6 3/4 COVER (3 W4' x 7') per 100: $9 case of 1000: $80 1Ve cannot pr ?ovidebilling s. Ads will b~i. placed STEREOPOLYESTER per 100: 2-mil $12 or 3-mil $16 i~rl the issue b eing assembled at the ti!ne of CABlNETlCONTlNENTAL (4 318' X 7') per 100: $10 case of 1000: $90 #10 COVER (4 318' x 9 518') per 100: $10 case of 500: $45 L ific later issu their arrival rnless a spec e is 5' x 7' per 50: $7 case of 200: $25 requested. BOUDOIR (5 112' X 8 112') per 25: $6 case of 500: $80 Send all ads, wrrn paymi ent, to: 8'x 10' per 25: $8 case of 200: $40 STEREO WORLD Classifie 11'x 14' per 10: $8 case of 100:. $45 ds, 16' x 20' (unsealed flap) per 10: $20 case of 100: $99 561 0 SE 71st. Portland, OR 97206. Russell Norton, PO 1070, New Haven, CT 06504-1070 A rate sheet for display crds is availat )le from Bx US SHIPPING: $4 per order. Institutional billing. (1996) he same adc fress. Please send SASE.) - SFERE0 WORLD Novcrnbcrlneccrnbrr lOOR @ HASSLE-FREE 3-D WITH THE TECO-NIMSLO CAMERA AND 3-VIEWER Use the lightweight auto-exposure camera to make: 36 Slide pairs Close-ups at 3 distances Lenticular Prints Use the Universal viewer to display: Realist and View-Master rollfilm NimsloINishika rolls Mounted slide pairs slide r PRICES: slide r New camera ...... $145 *Your Nimslo modified (UK) ... $63 I-D Close-up attachments 6", 12", 30" dist's (ea) ..... $29 . Opti-Lite flash ...... $29 Eveready case ...... $12 3d Teco 3-Viewer...... $87 Add $3 shipping per order. lnr Calif. residents add 73/4% sales tax. . Box 23158 7, CA 90'23 MFD. BY: 1 USA TECHNICAL ENTERPRISES 1401 Bonnie Doone Corona Del Mar, CA 92625 Tel. 714-644-9500 800-903-TECO CATALOG OF STEREOSCOPIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA 4th International Stereo Card Exhibition PUBLICATIONS 81 PRODUCTS A PSA recognized exhibition for POSTERS makers of full size stereo print views BOOKS VIEWERS Open to all-newcomers to stereography and/or SDISCOVER international exhibitions especially invited. VIEW-MASTER LENTICULARS Closing date - May 29, 1999 3D-ZOM 3-D COMICS AND MORE! For a FREE copy, write, call, or fax: CYGNUS GRAPHIC P.O. BOX32461-X Phoenix, AZ 85064-2461 U.S.A. I Tel+Fax: 602-279-7658 1 (b Novernher/Decemher 1998 ST'EREO WRLD Stereographs from the Collection of David Feigenbaum AUCTION IN NEW YORK: TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1999 AT 6 PM Our April 27th, 1999 sale of photographs from EXHIBITION OPENS SOTHEBY'S the Collection of David Feigenbaum will offer over Saturday, April 24 at 10 am 1334 York Avenue 4,000 stereographs in approximately 8 lots, and will New York, NY 10021 include topics such as the Civil War, the American West, . INQUIRIES the United States, Humor and Genre, Boston, and Denise Bethel New England, as well as photography-related subjects. or Christopher Mahoney C. R. Savage 21 2.606.7830 The Joining of the Rails fax 21 2.606.7833 From the Union Pacific Railroad series. 1869 CATALOGUE 800.444.3709 outside the continental U.S. 203.847.0465 fax 203.849.0223 SOTHEBY'S Linkable for RBT slide mounts Stereo Dissolve. Calibrated Compact and easy to use. for precision Accepts interchangeable Ekta- stereo alignment: graphic lenses and projects an A sliding pin bar system inside extremely bright image with fade the mount, locks the film chips up and down. Designed for 41 x in by their sprocket holes. The 101mm stereo mounts, with im- pin bars are fully adjustable for age size up to 23 x 33mm horizontal placement, and are (other formats t.b.a.). vertically adjustable in .I mm increments. When mounting images taken with a stereo Brackett Auto-Synch System camera, vertical and rotational This portable system electronically and mechanically synchronizes problems are eliminated. two Ektagraphic 35mm projectors for either stereo projection or Reusable snap-together design: 2D dissolve. Two or more systems can be linked for multi-projec- RBT plastic mounts are easy to tor dissolve presentations. use, and have smooth beveled edges and corners. Stereoscopic products & services: [email protected] Cameras, Macro Stereo, Slide Mounters Viewers, Projection Systems, Consultation We're Moving! Watch for our change of address. www.stereoscopy.com/3d-concepts OBox 205 Waban,MA 02468 (61 7) 332-5460 ..... -- -e,;ic .. ... __...... - .- pklr;ea WAU ue y--:: ,:;.< ,:;.< \ ,::> *I1 .:j, ;/ u--amable paid for enA'-- ,A+,:,+- :ollections or individual views, <. ,;*:.+i$k k',' ,,,:-:: .> .> $1 ?' . ,\,-y*" @.*,,., !ase contact his Great-GrandsolLip,.,,: ,;,;!i.s:i . , -7.- '1 1'3. i! {- , <.'' , .x,, ,! ; *$,;.: 'b , ' ' c.,, - c.,, ,/ i, .if,,[', ~ ?$,,'.$,* , :+. i', ' :':?,' .' it, ,,,;;2,j+b.;,qc, it 1 gg ..:yki.zy,: I. (,, .. ' PAUL WEITFLE, . Y.:, i\\, , : ,' + ,.,:,>,%,i>,' , .... .-.. , -d:?(,:1(4(-+rh) yt ,; , , -.-. .. loso9 GENTLEWIND DRIVE . P ' ., !;v:i> ' jp:;4;. , . - 1 L-;1;, , .tb.>.v -- !.). ., 1, ! ~*.y,t i:, .I1 r ti1 tv).~i:; j\ ,\!,- ,<' . , .,., , ~:.!CINCIN \\,?$, ; ',!'.. 1,: '> * $,- .:,":;.:;.',. . . !<$:! 'NATI, , ,$I;:; .( .. &yi,: -..--- c.2. \\,?$;:: .I:...,, .A,-:, ;I,!/!! *, .+ #d* ,: A Lp .:;: .', :Twi;$,>?,, mu /,\,&$ ~ a,,,!K,.. . , ::: -...~.' ./: (519.11 IQ \,,, . ;.r, x, !*. ,be.>, \:, ,.,$? *.. -, >/ ,., ,;,7f';7: ,l,~;.,,3: '.,yk't;l'" '. "\"(2; $,,&J- ,. i" ~ , ..,.. ttjl;i*i .,,> .\.$. ,., . ,. , ,\ .&: -,> .., . , -- .9-<::.T Pwe . . *_. RE0 CARD AND AUCTIONS yef ferean $ferenpfire (Since 1981) John Saddy 50 Foxborough Grove London, Ontario N6K 4AS CANADA Main Phone Line (519) 641-4431 Personal Fax Line (519) 641-2899 E-mail: [email protected] CONSIGNMENTS WELCOME FROM ANYWHERE ON EARTH[ Take advantage of my powerful, extensive, and ever-expanding mailing list, built up through world-wide advertising and reputation so you the consignor can benefit from excellent prices on choice material. TERMS FOR CONSIGNMENT EACH LOT IS CHARGED ITS INDIVIDUAL COMMISSION DEPENDING ON ITS REALIZED PRICE. If lot realizes up to $40 ...... 30% "I SPECIALIZE IN If lot realizes $41 .OO to $200.00 ...... 25% CONSIGNMENTS; If lot realizes $201 .OO to $500.00 ...... 20% I BUY TOO!" If lot realizes $501 .OO or more ...... 15% I (Etc.1 These auctions include fine STEREO CARDS Ranging in price from bulk lots View-Master, strong in both U.S.A. at 25 cents per card, to single-card lots at hundreds of and Belgium-made reels, packets, dollars per card. I also handle viewers, Richard glass etc. 1'11 handle any 3-D format including Tru-Vue films and views, full-size glass views, tissues, cased images, boxed cards, Meopta reels & Realist format slides. I also handle cameras and other equipment. Anthony a968 DOGS AND CATS (8820) Abraham Lincoln Sold for SI705. Centennial - - Photographic 5 -:e -- 2l i~~;.p?== CO.#2025 t Liberty Hand at the Philadelphia ': THE MUNSTERS (8481) 1876 Exhibition Sold for $490. Contact me to get on my mailing list Please specify if your interest is Stereo Cards, View-Master, or both. THE MAGAZINE OF 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING, PAST & PRESENT ...... N talian Country Girls. Sitting around an open-air altar, these Italian girls lare resting in the shade after or prior to pehnning a country dance. This and other examples of the work of "St- Stage DirectorNHenri Lefort are included in the cdunwr "Ewcftcan Cans" on ww 22.