September/Odober 199 1 Volume 18, Number 4

National The Tune-Master

ere's a rare piece, though it H was just released in 1990! The "TUNE-MASTER C-D Viewer" is actually a compact disk disguised as our beloved View-Master! Put out by Enigma Records to promote 17 bands from The Dead Milkmen to Captain Beefheart, it's a very clever piece of merchandising that urges the user to "play reel loud". Inside the sleeve is the die-cut full- color cardboard "viewer". The TUNE-MASTER logo imitates quite well the View-Master logo. When the viewer is unfolded one sees the inside of the viewer and a "TUNE- MASTER Stereo Reel". Now I'm waiting for a 3-D CD for a PC ... rn

I Desi'pned to look just a card holding a current model View-Master, the "T~rncJ-Mas- tern was a limited edition compact disk issued to promote Enipna's recordin!: '~'~~illlI/ / I artists, and is now a collector's item. I

The inside of the "viewer" is printed to match the actual inner workings of a View-Master, even thourgh they haven't opened like this since the Model R. The disk it holdc does an even better imitation of a View-Master reel, except for the over-size center hole. STEREOI \ Table dContents Volume 18, Number 4 SeptemberIOctober 1991 Copyright 01991 by the In This Issue

Samoa: Stereoviews & Stereotypes ...... 4 by Alison Devine Nordstriirn NSA 1 of Dire tctors Andy tirlscom A 3-D Festival in Paris ...... 16 David Hutchison by john Dennis Dieter Lorenz Holmes and His Stereoscope ...... 24 Susan l by Laurance Wolfe T.K. Tre Paul \ 3-D in Children's Stories ...... 16 by Robert G. Wilson NSA Officers New Video Looks Into Stereo History ...... 40 Gordon D. Hoffman, President A Review by Iohn Dennis John Waldsmith, Vice President, Activities ohn Weile~;Secretary vid Wheel1er, Treasurc Regular Features Ste orld Staff Editor's View Comments and Observations, by John Dennis ...... 2 John Denrlis, Editor mar^ WIIIKe, Art Director Lt?ffer~Reader's Comments and Questions ...... 3

onal St€treosco The Society News from the Stereoscopic Society of America, by Norman B. Patterson . 14 A ----I ASSOCL--.,.iatinn . (Membersh@s,~renewals!address changes, Library Report News from the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, by Talbot Crane .... 29 classrfied ads, drsplay ads) P.O. Box 14801 NewViews Current Information on Stereo Today, by David Starkman 6rIohn Dennis ... 32 Columbus, OH 43214 Calendar A Listing of Coming Events ...... 37 Stereo 'World Editorial Off ice! (Lenrers to the editor, articlles, Buy, Sell, or Trade It Here calendar listings) Classified ...... 38 5610SEi.'1 st Ave.- 'ortland, C)R 97206 3-D Movie!s" Editor >n-rrl Bill Shc ,,,U'Y 17350 E. Temp le Ave., #39< LaPuente, ()A 91 744 "3-D Treasu~res" Editt Front Cover: Ron Lhvvv.hhn Underwood & Underwood No. 10390, nson St., Boston, MA 02130 "Some of our Pacific Island cousins and NewViews" Editor their home, Tutuila, Samoan Is." An in- David Starkman depth look at the socio-political implica- IX 2368. Culver City, CA 9"""' tions of the stereo views (and their cap- "Thre Unknotuns" Edit tions) of the Samoan Ialands appears in Dave l

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STEREO WORLD SeptemberlOctober 1991 Excuse # ,,*@+II<< Samoa first Holmes stereoscope provides a ust as the goal of matching Alison Devine Nordstrom's fea- look not just at the fragile old Stereo World publication dates to ture on the stereo coverage of viewer, but at some of the photos Jthe real-world calendar was edging Samoa in the early 20th century OWH himself took - including a slowly into sight, the sort of com- provides a deeper than usual look stereograph. Also included is one puter disaster that only happens to at the way subjects were chosen of the images Holmes spent a lot other people befell this unsuspect- and posed by photographers and of time looking AT; the Anthony ing publication. The issue you're later edited and described by pub- view (#206) of New York's Broad- reading would have been in the lishers. The article is as much way. The essay this busy street hands of members weeks earlier, about what was not stereographed scene inspired includes the famous had it not been for the sudden and published as what was. While line: "It is a leaf torn from the death of our computer's hard parts of it may impress some read- book of God's recording angel." drive, wiping out the almost- ers as academic speculation, the In fact, the 1861 Atlantic Month- ready-to-save, edited versions of seldom discussed fact remains that ly piece is much longer than the several articles. the leading stereo publishers gave quotes used in the article, taking I had just turned the computer the American public a very limit- Holmes on eloquent flights of Vic- on for some final work on a few ed, edited, and simplistic look at torian fancy in praise of stereo- captions when there, blinking the non-European world. graphs. After going on about celes- insolently at me, was a solitary Even when produced under the tial photographs of all our doings, question mark on a blank disk best of intentions, the published he asks, "Is motion but a succes- icon - an ominous symbol of images and captions could range sion of rests? All is still in this pic- doubt on a screen that until then from paternalistic at best, through ture of universal movement .... Yet had always seemed so cleverly biased and misleading, to racist the hurried day's life of Broadway helpful. No emergency measures and exploitive at worst. Examples will have been made up of just by the book, the phone, or the ser- from among views of African such stillness. Motion is as rigid as vice people at the computer store Americans and Native Americans marble, if you only take a wink's could determine what happened are all too easy to find and are dis- worth of it at a time." I wonder if or retrieve the articles, which in cussed in several sources. This arti- Holmes could have imagined how computer jargon had suddenly cle points out, using a remote sub- much more fascinating the Antho- been demoted to "data". As I con- ject seen in only a few views, that ny views would become 130 years templated the weeks of retyping, the same awareness should be later? Now if only today's stereog- editing and general restoration applied to views that froze in real- raphy had a promoter of the work facing me, the question kept istic depth people from scenic and stature and enthusiasm of Oliver tugging at the back of my mind; exotic places all over the world. Wendell Holmes. ap "just where did all those words While the impressions given to the and paragraphs go?" I could only audience of this early mass media imagine them ending up in the may have been generally sympa- same non-dimensional void as the thetic toward the people pictured, hapless victims of malfunctioning they were far from accurate or Deeper Star Trek transporters on endless complete. When Oliver Wendell television re-runs. Holmes predicted that "the Stereo- Than the I'm not at all sure that editing graph is to be the card of introduc- material the second time around tion to make all mankind acquain- Average Bear (either one's own or other people's tances" he may have had in mind Beginning sat;rday ~anuar~25, work) results in a net improve- societies who could produce and 1992, portions of the NBC-TV ment or just provides opportuni- exchange their own stereographs, animated series Yo, Yogi! will be ties for more second guessing and omitting those people whose cards broadcast in Pulfrich 3-D. Glasses general editorial mischief. A word of introduction would be created for the Hanna-Barbera production processor makes the latter all too and controlled by huge companies (featuring Yogi Bear and the gang) easy anyway, at least until the day with their own interests in lands will be distributed through a it turns into a word annihilator. thousands of miles from the peo- national promotion. (See Stereo Needless to say, all material is now ple in the views. World Jan.lFeb. '89, pages 2 and saved onto back-up disks a couple 14.) aa of times a day - probably assuring A Wink's Worth that the new hard drive will sur- Speaking of Holmes, Laurance vive well into the next century. Wolfe's article about the history and recent restoration of the very

2 STEREO WORLD SepternberlOctober 1991 Random Fusion I ran into similar problems is excellent! I highly recommend it s a stereographer, I was sur- when I began to experiment with for anyone who shoots in low- A prised to learn that many my Nimslo camera without the use light situations. While they cannot members of the NSA are unable to of Nimslo/Nishika labs for lenticu- mount my stereo slides of make freeview. lar prints. I used Eastman 5247 prints from the negatives, I find it By freeviewing, I was able to dis- negative film for a trip I took to very useful to have a roll of uncut cern the pattern, or patterns, Kenya and sent the exposed nega- slide film so that I can mount it appearing in the random dot stere- tives off to three labs for un- myself AND a roll of the negatives ogram (Stereo World, JulyIAug. '91, mounted "slides", crossing my fin- from which I can have more slides page 30). It appears to be an alpha- gers and knowing that I would at made OR take the negatives to an numeric pattern consisting of the least get decent negatives back. outfit which will produce the letter MI followed by the number The roll processed by Dale Film prints I want. 700 in a diagonal upper-left-to- Laboratories in Hollywood, Florida I realize that this letter has bottom-right design, with an un- produced exactly what I was look- become sort of a plug for RGR, known starlike multiple object ing for: an unmounted film strip which I didn't intend for it to be. above to the right of the numbers. that I could mount myself. (I did My advice, when looking to have In fact, I sometimes observe two not opt for prints, they do not do film developed from mail order, is or a doubled set of numbers and half-frames or other stereo for- to be very careful. Check out their starlike objects, but with only one mats.) color separation, and realize that letter M. This single and doubled I think this is an option that lost film is a stronger possibility stereo effect is observed even when people who mount their own when mailing. optical aids are used. Are my eyes stereo transparencies should inves- Daniel Munson playing tricks on me or have I tigate. The option of having nega- Los Angeles, CA passed my "STARE-E-0" test? tives and transparencies at the same time was very unique to me Relative to Lawrence Lancaster's Ron Paul Smith warning letter in the MayIJune Sharon, MA when I learned about the process, and I continue to use it. issue, I have had excellent results Both. Experienced freeviewers expect to Michael Bittner from 5247 and 5294 films (Holly- fuse image pairs of at LEAST a separation Wilton Manors, FL wood" movie types) in both TECO- of 65mm for "parallel" viewing. But NIMSLO and REALIST cameras over STARE-E-0 and other single-frame random This is a response to Lawrence a period of several years. dot stereograms contain integrated "pairs" Lancaster's letter regarding the Since commercial mounting of of images with as little as 2Smm separa- "Hollywood" film laboratories. NIMSLO size frames is not avail- tion. Unless they pay close attention to the Your editor's response is correct in able, Technical Enterprises devel- usually included fusion dots, people experienced at free view in^ can easily pull the that the printer masks are not oped a viewer that does not integrated images far PAST the intended available for these labs, which do require mounting of the stereo fusion point and fuse elements of the the bulk of their business in stan- pairs. Instead, it uses the positive images in several different 3-0patterns. dard print formats. I have used filmstrip supplied by the various Optical aids can do no better than the eyes many of these different labs for labs that process these "movie" at selecting the intended elements of the both stereo and non-stereo pho- films. See Stereo World Nov. '89 integrated images for firsion. Some single- tography and I find a different page 23 for a description. frame random dot stereograms are problem which is, to me, more of a Prints from Eastmancolor nega- designed for cross-eye (convergence)view- concern than having to cut and tives have been quite acceptable, ing, but the same problem can occur when but must be trimmed from stan- overly energetic freeviewers apply their mount my own slides. I have visual dexterity to these, as well. found that many of these labs dard sizes. My experience has been -Ed. have color problems. One lab in primarily with Red Tag Photo, Washington tends to have very 2214 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA More on Movie-stock Labs blue pictures, while another in 90405. They have often exposed ~aliforniaseems to be heavy on two adjacent NIMSLO frames on I would like to comment about the yellows. I have found only one each 4x6 print. I assume the Seat- Mr. Lawrence Lancaster's unpleas- lab which I consistently use - RGB tle, Florida and Texas labs might ant experience with a Texas com- Color Labs in Hollywood. provide the same service. pany that he apparently used I tend to shoot a lot of theater Jim Lucas because their ads probably raved pictures in both stereo and "flat", Corona del Mar, CA about getting prints and slides so I need a high speed color film from the same roll of Eastman with good color separation. RGB (Continued on page 13) "motion picture" negative film. offers a 500 speed indoor film that (Letters, May/June, '9 1.)

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Stereoviews & Stereotvpes d A by Alison Devine Nordstrom

espite their small size and tization of information must have microcosm a larger pattern evident Dcomparative insignificance, contributed to a growing sense of in most travel photography of that the Samoan Islands did not escape shared nationhood in a country time. Postcards, magazine photos, the lenses of roving stereographers which was rapidly assimilating albumen prints and other photo- in the nineteenth and early twen- immigrant cultures and expanding graphic products for the tourist tieth centuries. Although the num- into its western territories. Signifi- trade and the armchair traveler all ber of stereo images made there cantly, pictures of foreign coun- seem to have followed similar pat- was small, they offer a remarkable tries made up more than half of terns of product development and example of the editorial choices, the offerings of Underwood & marketing. All of these formats fol- both political and artistic, which Underwood in 1905. lowed accepted conventions. They governed the publication of stereo The rise of this aspect of the ste- offered, and thereby reinforced, images in their heyday. Stereos of reograph industry demonstrates in what buyers expected to see, and Samoa reflect the stereotyping of unfamiliar cultures which accompanied the territorial expansion of the "Amer- ican Century", and may offer insights into American public opinion, and how it was created. In the late nineteenth century, popular stereographs simultaneously served functions of entertain- ment and political or social education. Throughout the United States, Americans shared visual packages of presidents, popes, Fig. 1. Unpublished Underwood & Underwood view by lames Ricalton, "Sarnoari.~alor~g,sirlr animals, travel, art treasures, volca- the Sonoma offering their wares for sale." This and figures 2 and 3 are transposed and noes, wars, train wrecks, domestic reduced from full contact prints of the original negatives for easier viewing. Courtesy California scenes and humor. Such democra- Museum of Photography, Keystone-Mast Collection, University of California Riverside.

STEREO WORLD SeptemberlOctober 1991 5 tributed his stereo views, or used the images as magic lantern slides or text- book illustrations. John L. Stoddard and Burton Holmes, the two most renowned travel lecturers of their day, and Dr. Albert S. Bick- more of the American Muse- um of Natural History illustrated their talks with Ricalton photographs. It is safe to say that Ricalton images, in these many formats, were Fig. 2. Unpublished Underwood & Underwood, "A Samoan House of Pago Pago, Samoan seen by millions. 1slands"by lames Ricalton. Courtesy California Museum of Photography, Keystone-Mast Col- Ricalton's images themselves are lection, University of California Riverside. I documentary in intent, straightforward in style, and predictable in were divorced from the context of of Pacific Islands. Born in subject matter. Early conventions the culture they were taken in, Waddington, New York in 1844, of European travel photography both by the nature of the photo- Ricalton was trained as an educa- had emphasized the appropriate- graphic form itself and by the cul- tor, working twenty years in the ness of recording the striking tural stereotyping which influ- public schools of Maplewood, New architecture of monuments, cathe- enced maker, buyer and seller. Jersey as a teacher and principal. drals and the like, and this As popular subjects departed fur- In 1891, he began serious world approach was repeated for non- ther and further from the actual travel, crossing the ocean forty- European cultures in Ricalton's experiences of the viewer, an three times and producing over images of the Pyramids and the Taj unavoidable fragmentation 100,000 photographs. In addition, Mahal. When photographing the occurred. No longer a marker for he undertook two expeditions for people of unfamiliar places, Rical- memory, as was the case for early, Thomas Edison (in 1888, to dis- ton often presented them at their local depictions, these new images cover a source of bamboo for mak- most exotic and anomalous: an became a substitute for experience. ing the carbon filament of the upper-class Chinese woman with Treated as objective information in incandescent light bulb, and in bound feet, a Hindu fakir prone on a matrix actually created by per- 1911, to field-test a newly invent- a bed of nails. Without back- sonal interpretations of what existed movie camera) and maintained ground information on the cultur- ed beyond the frame of the lens, a large collection of typical Victori- al and philosophical environment these fragments were dangerously an travel memorabilia: exotic cos- from which these seemingly incomplete. Safe in their assumed tumes, musical instruments, ani- bizarre practices evolved, the peo- familiarity with unknown places mal skins and guns. He was also a ple depicted must have taken on and events, viewers had little successful lecturer and writer, pub- aspects of the carnival sideshow. incentive to seek more informa- lishing several books with Under- They are reduced to mere curiosi- tion, and few ways of obtaining it. wood & Underwood, most notably ties whose images reinforce nega- No input or exchange from the "China Through the Stereoscope", tive stereotypes and confirm the people captured in the abstracting and articles for Scribner's, Outing, viewer's expectations that people rectangle of the stereograph was and the New York Herald. Ricalton of color are ignorant, barbaric and possible, despite the viewer's illu- died in upstate New York in 1929. in need of the moral (and econom- sion of being present in the image. Ricalton appears to have been ic) uplift that comes with exposure One of Underwood & Under- very successful at the sale and mar- to Christianity and Western goods. wood's most prolific and adventur- keting of his work. Not only Strongly patriotic, Ricalton cov- ous field photographers was James Underwood & Underwood, but ered a number of the wars which Ricalton, whose few images of Scott & Van Altena, Charles A. extended American power in the Samoa were to provide many Beseler, and Moore, Hubbell & CO., Pacific, including the suppression Americans with their first glimpses purchased, published and dis- of the Boxer Rebellion in China, and the Spanish- American action in the Philippines. He produced popular stereo sets on both subjects, which were sold as part of the Under- wood & Under- wood travel system for education about foreign lands. Ricalton stopped in Samoa on one of his journeys long enough to produce at least six images, three of which were published. Under- wood & Under- wood dates the negatives as being made in 1906, making it likely that they were Ftp. 3. Unpublished Underwood & Underwood, "A Samoan Home and Its Occlrpnnts - Pago Pago" by lames Ricalton. Courtesy California Museum of Photo,praphy, Keystone-Mast Collec- shot while he was traveling tion, University of California Riverside. between Japan and Australia that year. Since no images of Apia (then German Samoa) appear, it seems spent a day or less in Pago every photographs we know of could likely that he called only at Pago few weeks while en route, and the have been shot within a mile of Pago, a much smaller settlement, presence of a photograph cap- the harbor, and nothing about then under the administration of tioned "Samoans alongside the them Suggests any profound the United States Navy, for which S0n0ma offering their wares for awareness of Samoan culture, or it served as a coaling station. The sale", (Fig. 1) taken on board, sug- even exposure to special aspects of Sonoma, which ran regularly gests that Ricalton's experience of Samoan life such as siva-dancing, between Honolulu and Auckland Samoa may have been both brief tapa-making or kava-drinking and limited. Certainly, all of the which Ricalton's audience would surely have found exotic and fasci- Fig. 4. Underwood & Underwood No. 10699, "U.S. Pacific naval station in harbor at nating. Pago-Pago, Tutuila, Samoan Is. " by James Ricalton. George Polakofcollection.

STEREO WORLD SeptemberIOctober 1991 7 Fig. 5. Underwood & Underwood No. 10700, "T~rtuila'stropical welcome to the traveler - station, and in the foreground, road to Pago-Pago, Samoan Is." by lames Ricalton. George Polakoff collection. seven children, three of them naked, two in lava lava and two in Underwood & Underwood never being heavy, and not young, with versions of Western clothing. They published the Sonoma image. It is flat pendulous breasts. Her face stand passively on the beach, undistinguished photographically and arms are deeply tanned, while ankle deep in water, looking at the and shows dory-style boats, rather her breasts and torso are not, sug- camera, in front of two small than picturesque outriggers, hold- gesting that this was not her usual boats. Washed in beside them is a ing faceless people wearing West- costume. Seated in the house, and waterlogged coconut. Another ern clothing and carrying open also looking directly at the photog- published photograph (Fig. 5) is umbrellas. Contrary to the cap- rapher, is a woman wearing a com- centered on an American flag, sur- tion, most of the boats appear to bination of Samoan and Western rounded by tropical foliage. In the be empty. The other unpublished clothing, sitting with several chil- foreground are three young boys, images are both primarily of local dren. wearing only beads and lava lava . houses, "A Samoan House of Pago Underwood & Underwood elect- At their feet is a large and incon- Pago" (Fig. 2) and "A Samoan ed to publish only three of Rical- gruous Panama hat, perhaps the Home and its Occupants-Pago ton's Samoan photographs, proba- photographer's, in use as a marker Pago". (Fig. 3) In the first of these, bly in 1906 or 1907, shortly after to indicate where the boys should a thatched, open fale, or native they were purchased, and it is stand. The handwritten caption house, is framed by symmetrical instructive to compare the original which accompanies the negative, palm trees and centered in the negatives with their published "The street from the naval dock to shot. Five seated figures in the forms. All three images feature the village of Pago Pago", becomes, foreground serve to establish scale: children only, and two seem to on the published card, "Tutuila's three naked children and two emphasize American presence and tropical welcome to the traveler- women, both wearing long-sleeved accomplishments in Islands which road to Pago Pago, Samoan missionary-inspired holoku dresses, had acquired increased importance Islands", although there is nothing and the upswept, Gibson girl following the American conquest welcoming in the unsmiling and hairstyle favored in Europe and of the Philippines and the opening perhaps ill-at-ease expressions of America at the time. The other of the Panama Canal. "Harbor at the boys. photograph appears to have been Pago showing S.S. Sonoma at The Ricalton negatives show taken nearby, as the same trees Naval Dock, along with old train- three shots of houses and their and mountain appear in the back- ing ship Adams" (Fig. 4) (probably occupants, a convention shared by ground. Here, despite the title, Ricalton's caption or one written both the Underwood & Under- only part of a fale is depicted. from his notes) is re-captioned and wood and Keystone travel series Beside it is a Samoan woman, generalized upon publication to since, after 1912, Keystone had naked from the waist up, leaning become "U.S. Pacific naval station begun purchasing certain Under- against a coconut palm and look- in harbor at Pago-Pago, Tutuila, wood & Underwood negatives. ing, without expression, directly Samoa". In addition to the ships, Reorganized into new sets charac- into the camera. She is not the the photograph shows the recent- terized by lengthy texts printed on stereotypical South Seas siren, ly-completed American coaling the backs of the cards, the Key- stone cards were widely used in

8 STEREO WORLD SeptemberIOctobcr 1991 schools, with a text format addres- It is intriguing to consider the appropriation that reflects the sing such topics as "Geography", emphasis on children in all three assumptions of a generation grow- "Races of Mankind", "Architec- published photographs. To be sure, ing up in a time when the United ture-People and Homes", and schools had become a major mar- States was firmly entrenched over- "Products and Industries" accom- ket for stereo views, and children seas. The caption is printed, with panied by suggestions that they be enjoy looking at pictures of chil- the text, in English, French, Ger- used in the teaching of "Child dren, but it is also within the spirit man, Spanish, Swedish, and Rus- Life", "Manual Training", "Botany", of the times to perceive such peo- sian, suggesting not only interna- and Home Economics". Both of ple as Samoans as the "little brown tional distribution, but the poly- the photographs glot population previously dis- of turn-of-the- cussed, and a "Safe in their assumed familiarity with century Ameri- third, unpub- ca. Used by mil- lished by Under- unknown places and events, ~iaM?r~had lions, both in &inder- the and wood, were little incentive to seek more~information, as part of public included in the and f~ Ways of obtaining it." school curricula, Keystone 100 cards such as card set, "Philip- these would pine Islands, Hawaii and Samoa". brother" of missionary exhorta- have contributed greatly to the It is perhaps significant that the tions. Children were, perhaps, socialization and homogenization house image chosen for publica- more easily represented than of recent immigrants into the tion "A Samoan home at Pago adults as innocent, powerless and melting pot of mainstream Ameri- Pago", (Fig. 6) employs an angle capable of training and improve- can thought, by creating a sense of which shows only the end of the ment. The exclusive presentation "them" shared by even the most house, giving it a compact round- of children in the icon-like images recently arrived of "us". The ness more pleasing, symmetrical that stood for Samoa in a multi- largest portion of the text catalogs and exotic than the more card travel set, and in the popular Samoans in terms of race, equating ramshackle effect of many of the mind, may have had a subtext "the most perfect type of the Poly- houses seen from the side. In the implying that all Samoans are nesian" with their "light brown foreground are bundles of pan- childlike and therefore in need of color" and "splendid physique". danus, incorrectly identified in the America's benevolent paternalism. Subtle gradations in skin color are text as coconut palm leaves, in The photographer's straightfor- an important concern at this time, readiness for roof thatching, while ward title, "A Samoan home at with darker Africans and Melane- two small children, a boy and a Pago Pago", became, upon publica- sians seen as more savage, barbaric girl, hand-in-hand, stare some- tion, "Some of our Pacific Island and less open to civilization. The what balefully at the camera. cousins and their home", an overall tone towards Samoans is benevolent, although it is also simplistic and patronizing. "They are Fig. 6. Underwood & Underwood No. 10390, "Some of our Pacific Island cousins and simple, honorable, generous and their home, Tutuila, Samoan Is." John Weiler collection.

STEREO WORLD SeptemberlOctober 1991 9 hospitable, but brave fighters" gested by the text written for their despite the title, an emphasis on who live in "primitive houseV(s)of later printing by Keystone. It coconut trees, with a scattering of "roughly hewn ...logs". Most seems likely that the curriculum/ houses and a road in the back- telling, perhaps, is the section on text format preceded the choice of ground. The "British Samoa" of "Products and Industries", which photographs, so that this short- the title indicates that it was cap- dismisses the waning copra trade hand image (Fig. 6) was selected to tioned after the 1914 cession of in one sentence and ethnocentri- represent Samoa because it could German Samoa to New Zealand, cally maintains: be focussed on the coconut in the and the card is a further example The real importance of these category of agricultural product. of Keystone's accumulation of oth- islands lies in their position, which This fragment of a culture's totality er firm's work, having been pur- makes them a first-class coaling and has long been a standard aspect of chased from Foss of Philadelphia repairing station on the direct line of school geography courses, one of sometime before 1930. The Key- the great highway of commerce obvious interest to a nation that stone 100 set "South Sea Islands between San Francisco and Australia. had things to sell of trade, and and Hawaii" sums up Samoa in They are also in the route of generally useful in defining the one predictable image, titled "A steamship lines passing through the Panama Canal. importance of other countries to Child at Home in Samoa" (Fig. 7) our own. That these are American featuring a curly headed tyke in Thus, Samoa is drawn into the islands is emphasized by the beads and lava lava, smiling win- American empire in the Pacific as a "our ...cousins" of the caption, but somely at the camera. Behind the commercial link between white the bulk of this photograph's child, two posts and a portion of new worlds. Teachers were encour- information, both visual and ver- roof are visible. The text is not aged to use this photograph of bal, deals not with people but with organized around curriculum in Samoa in teaching about the Canal trade. Its appearance in a set with this set, but like the "our... cousins" Zone, 6000 miles away, mentally Hawaii and the Philippines sug- card, stresses the "friendly, kind, extending the Monroe Doctrine to gests that this series was an sunny-natured natives" and include everything which touches attempt to justify American posses- emphasizes "the baby's wavy hair an ocean which touches North or sions in the Pacific at a time when and light brown skin". Again too, South American soil. The charac- the earlier White Man's Burden on this card, the Panama Canal is terization of Samoa as some kind approach to colonialism was grow- referred to as a source of Samoa's of rest stop on the highway of ing passe in the face of the grow- significance, and the American commerce affirms the inevitability ing American isolationism which island of Tutuila, actually a small of Samoa's role in the great scheme preceded World War I. and minor part of the Samoan of Progress, and further justifies Keystone is known to have pub- chain and its culture, is described American presence there. lished three other Samoan views, as "the most important island", Although three images are cer- of which the photographers are where "the United States has made tainly not enough from which to unknown. One, "Village near Apia, a very strong naval station". draw solid conclusions, it is tempt- British Samoa, remote among the Another unattributed card appears ing to compare the simple patrio- Waves of the Pacific" shows, in the Keystone 1200 set "Around tism of the 1906 Underwood & Underwood images with the more complex economic interests sug- Fig. 7. Keystone No. 16405. "A Child at Home in Samoa." John Weiler collection.

10 STEREO WORLD SeptemberIOctober 1991 Fig. 8. Keystone No. 16455, "Trail Leading to Mountain Tomb of Robert Louis Steven- ritual, with the viewer safely dis- son, Mount Vaea, Samoa." Iohn Weiler collection. tanced from the event, and no sense of the passion and danger the World", published in 1936, photographer just passing which characterized these times in where the only image of Samoa is through. Samoa. The "fine mats" in the #1038, "Trail Leading to Mountain As late as 1932, Keystone was foreground represent an act of Tomb of Robert Louis Stevenson, purchasing stereo views of Samoa rebellion, for it was government Mount Vaea, Samoa" (Fig. 8). For from Merl LaVoy, an American restrictions on their traditional cer- Keystone perhaps, as was the case freelance photographer and film- emonial exchange that came to for other distributors of Samoan maker. Photographic technology symbolize white repression of images, the fact that the dreamy had evolved considerably between Samoan customs. Here, with no and beloved Scot lived and died in LaVoyfsand Ricalton's times, per- context provided, they would Samoa encapsulated all the viewer mitting much shorter exposure mean nothing to the viewer, espe- needed to know about those time and the consequent expan- cially if the Mau image was juxta- islands and their people. Here the sion of subject matter to include posed with Lavoy's other pub- text language is lush and effusive, people in motion. Of the six LaVoy lished shot, a group of traditional- referring to "palm-fringed islands stereos of Samoa known to exist, ly costumed girls dancing the siva, of the South Seas", inhabited by only two appear to have been pub- with surf, beach and palm trees "Dark-skinned" Polynesians and lished. In one, "A session of the behind them. The girls wear strap- "haunted of old by pirate craft" 'Mow', a political organization in less brassieres. Part of a Western where "clouds trail cool draperies American Samoa" (Fig. 9), the dis- style porch crowded with a above his grave and the burnished tinctive shape of the fale figures Samoan audience in dresses is visi- surface of the Pacific is outstretch- prominently, its symmetry exag- ble at one edge of the image. Oth- ed far below". Here, it seems to gerated by the formal ring of seat- erwise the shot is purposefully suit the publishers' purpose for ed figures around it, and height- timeless. Samoa is presented as Samoans to be dark-skinned and ened by the dramatic beach and unchanging and untouched by exotic, so as to emphasize the palm tree landscape which serves Western influence. The girls are appealing romantic nature of as its background. The setting, forever young and beautiful. The Stevenson's decision to live there. depiction and misspelled caption sun always shines. The photograph itself, of trees, do little to inform about the Mau Non-American stereo images rocks and the start of a trail up a movement itself, a continuation produced in Samoa do not appear mountain, says so little that it into the 1930s of the violently to differ greatly in theme, subject functions primarily as an excuse suppressed Western Samoan rebel- matter and commercial use from for the text. One wonders that a lion of the 1890s which led even- their American counterparts. These picture of the tomb itself, with its tually to the forced exile of several include a few by Alfred Burton of maudlin inscription and magnifi- prominent residents, and the pub- New Zealand, published at the cent view for background, was not lic killing by police of a Mau lead- same time as the Burton Brothers' arranged for, a circumstance which er. Indeed, the comforting message "Coral Islands" series, a series of suggests that this image, too, was of the stereo view is of order, disci- posed studio shots by Josiah Mar- taken hurriedly between boats by a pline and perhaps quaint native tin bearing titles such as "Fijian in Ambush", and an overtly commer-

STEREO WORLD SeptemberlOctober 1991 11 cia1 set attribut- ed to G. Reimer, and published most probably

before the turn + of the century by the Berlin firm of J.F. Stiehm. Credits on the card identify Riemer as the Marine- Zahlmeister, or purser, of the f * German ship ' S.M.S. Hertha b, which traveled regularly between East dik ( Asia and the Pacific Islands between 1874 and 1877. The photographs function as trade cards, bearing Fig. 9. Published as Keystone No. 24230, "A Session of the Mow." Contact print of original slogans which urge viewers to negative. Courtesy California Museum of Photography, Keystone-Mast Collection, University of make the trip. Predictable in sub- Riverside. ject matter - dancers, bare breast- ed women, jungle scenery, and a directories in 1897, reflecting, per- the shorthand images which made group of mission school girls - haps, the shorter duration of the up all the viewer needed to know. their use appears to have been stereo fad in Europe. Sources: Stereographs are an important directly related to the encourage- Darrah, Stereo Views, Gettysburg, PA, ment of German tourism to the example of mass-produced and 1964 outposts of their empire. The internationally distributed photographic imagery, which, like post- Adas, Michael, with Susan Kempler images are straightforward, with and Doreen Rappaport "America little attempt at idealization or cards, book and magazine illustra- Discovers the World: James R~cal- artistic effects. In No. 273, tions, and certain prints made as ton's Travels on Next to Nothing" "Gruppe unter Brodfruchtbh- multiples for direct sale, provide (brochure essay) Trenton, New Jer- men" (Group under Breadfruit useful insights into the selection of sey state Museum, 1985 Tree) a passively seated group, how an otherwise unknown place Kempler, Susan and Doreen Rappaport mostly of women and children, was to be portrayed. Because the "Travels on Next to Nothing: Under- looks uncomprehendingly into the stereo craze in the United States wood & Underwood's James Rical- camera. They have been posed coincided with the country's peri- ton" Stereo World Vol. 7 #4, according to European group-por- od of great territorial expansion, Sept./Oct. 1980 trait conventions, in two lines, these ubiquitous cards can be read Archives, California Museum of ~ho- children seated, and centered on as signifiers of America's view of tography, Riverside, CA an unidentified chief. The group is the world. Samoa, despite its brief ~~~~~h,~h~ world of Stereonra~hs, flanked by two trees, a breadfruit role in the diplomatic affairs of Gettysburg, PA, 1977 and a palm. Numbering on these distant governments, was and is, Keystone Catalog #23, Keystone View cards indicates that they were part an unimportant group of islands Company, 1923 of a larger series, probably featur- whose people had little influence Gossett, Thomas E, Race The Histor ing the Heste's other ports of call. on ideas held about them. The of an Idea in Amer~caNew York, Other cards of the same format number of popularly marketed Schocken Books, 1965 and publisher exist of Tonga, stereo views of Samoa is quite Keystone 1200 Set Guide, Keystone Maori New Zealand, and Palau. small, compared, for example, to view Company The Stiehm firm appears to have those Or pumas, J.C., Anatomy of Paradise: followed the pattern of expansion nia, yet certain themes are evident Hawaii and the Islands of the South that we have seen in the United even in such a small number. Seas Amer~canlnst~tute of Pac~fic States, having grown from a single Timeless primitivism, a sensual Relations, New York, William Sloane photographer to an industry palm tree filled paradise, and the Associates, 1948 which employed several men in comforting presence of compre- Auckland Museum and Institute, New the field or bought images from hensible European civilization, Zealand freelancers. Stiem was active before whether in the form of a naval Archives, Peabody Museum, Harvard 1880 and is last listed in Berlin base or of Stevenson's grave, were

12 STEREO WORLD SepternberlOctober 1991 Letters (Con,nued ,,,, ,, Anthony's Ethics regular Brady employee, and that genheim's stereos of Niagara based For the benefit of all NSA mem- was probably true for Barnard and on the paper print stereos is mis- bers who may be interested in the photographers Out at the leading to anyone not familiar subject, I would rather present front during the Civil War, espe- with Langenheim glass stereos. some comments on the ethics of cially in the early days of the war. The Langenheim paper stereos, Edward~~~h~~~ here instead of in SO there was a good basis for their except for some late prints, are the article proposed by complaints about not getting cred- generally very disappointing Mr. Mark DiLaura. [Letters, May/ its. because of their very low contrast. June '911 The one area of Anthony's publi- On the other hand, the best glass ~~~~i~~~i~~of the texts of the cation of stereographs which has stereos from the same negatives labels on Anthony stereographs raised eyebrows is that of a consid- are of incredible quality. They shows that Anthony gave credits erable number foreign and have ample contrast and are very to a number of photographers genre subjects in his output. Some sharp. The ones that are carefully whose negatives were used to pro- of these that are listed in his cata- tinted come remarkably close to duce them. Some of the ver~earli- log seem have been providing the sense of reality one est stereos issued by Anthony, of pirated publisher'^ gets from a modern color slide. New Hampshire, have credit lines views. Even more are Except for the development of for F.B. G~~~,and there are credit others which were published with- instantaneous photography, pho- lines over the years to Thos. C. out being identified as Anthony tography with wet plates made Roche, Brady (including some issues, although the Anthony neg- very little progress, beyond what West Point scenes, not just the ative numbers visible in quite a we can enjoy in the best Langen- Civil War series), Doremus, et al. few of the prints identify them as heim glass views, for many years. The Central Park series first done such the There It is regrettable that Langenheim by Roche and only credited to him are pirated many EurO- glass views are mostly Very rare. help explain what seems to have pean views the Paris Quite a few probably exist today in been Anthony's policy. Roche was Exposition. only one or two examples. The a freelance photographer at the Technically, Anthony probably commonest early U.S. glass views time he photographed Central violated no law if he pirated Euro- extant are Babbitts of Niagara and park and he did not become a reg- pean views because they were not a high percentage of these are fad- ular employee of the ~~~h~~~ firm copyrighted in the U.S., but it was ed, often irregularly, or are marred until after he completed the park not the thing by spots. They were not properly series. The agreement between On the other hand,Anthony was washed after fixing, despite all the Anthony and Roche evidently not alone in pirating foreign water at Niagara. However, the included acknowledgement of views. A catalog almost certainly best Babbits and some other mak- Roche's part in the operation. from Newel1 of Philadelphia exists er's glass stereos have rich black However, once Roche became a which contains a large selection of and white tones and often are trea- company employee, all the nega- COPY prints of foreign views and sures in any collection. tives he made on company time there are many other examples of What I have personally seen of became company property and he similar pirating which eventually glass stereos and stereopticon no longer received credit. included many American publish- slides produced years later by E. & There was nothing unusual ers' views, even Anthony's. H.T. Anthony & Co. has not about this. We do not find credits In any case, in a period when matched the quality of the work to William H~~~~ ~~~k~~~for the general business ethics were often done in glass by Langenheim et all negatives he made for Styles, or to it seems to me that or of Ferrier in Europe Seaver for the negatives he made the extent that we can Frederick S. Lightfoot for Pollock. judge from the available evidence, Greenport, NY m Again, where ~~~h~~~ bought was fairer to freelance American negatives outright from photogra- than Brady and probably phers or studios, as in the case of quite a few pub- the first California series, he had lishers. The loyalty of Roche to no obligation to credit the source. and the prodigious num- ~h~ controversy between ~~~d~ ber of negatives and the technical and the photographers who advances he produced for him worked for him relative to credits for treatment for their negatives probably has of his employees. created the impression that pub- I don't want to beat to death the lishers of photographs owed cred- discussion of who did the first its to all the photographers who excellent stereos of Niagara [Let- supplied their negatives. Gardner, ters, Jul~/Aug.'91page 40], but any who had his own studio, was not a discussion of the quality of Lan-

STEREO WORLD SeptemberlOctober 1991 13 So, How Do They Do It? are usable - my favorite is a TDC landscapes or other middle to far eaders of Stereo World are Vivid.) These old veterans general- distant subjects. Some people like Rarlytreated to reviews of new 1~ had excellent lenses and SY~- them because they are easy to use stereo equipment which may or chronization. They have a good under snapshot conditions - good may not be easily found in the real range of time and aperture as was for grandpa to snap the little ones marketplace. Over the years we expected in their day, and consid- at family events. Sometimes lentic- have followed ill-fated ventures ering that good stereo usually ular prints are circulated as extras from their hopeful inception to needs adequate depth of field, f/8 in the Society folios but for the their often quiet but sometimes through f/16 or better are desirable most part, the less said the better. acrimonious demise. None of these apertures avoid fore- 35mm Stereo ventures has produced the new- grounds or backgrounds. Used on With Modern Cameras technology stereo cameras and a tripod, these cameras can produce excellent stereo views on Two especially popular ways to viewers which would have all of make stereo views with up-to-date the modern niceties and be readily 35IIlm film. Even hand held, with care, they can be more than ade- cameras involve the use of a slide available to purchasers at a bar or joining two match- reasonable price. It just has ing cameras together. not been in the cards for "At least anything that is being The slide bar is a popu- the stereo enthusiast to get lar method and every folio much help from a disinter- experimented with usually makes offers some examples of ested photographic indus- the rounds in the folios, and the this technique. ~tcan be try. The stereo world of the frequency of such appearances done with any camera but '90s is still waiting in vain is especially effective with for our industrial "giants" indicates a degree of acceptance. " ,,,, clOseups~ is not to enter the '80s or for that usable with subjects matter the '70s. Nor does which are likely to move there seem to be much hope for quate. Most have range finders change as one looks ahead. With which I poor and not during the time lapse required nearly as dependable as an eyeball between this in mind we might well ask A variation of this method is the how people are currently produc- @estimate. There is no automatic exposure Or - be Pre- so called (among other names) ing stereo images. The interest in weight-shift stereo, obtained with stereo photography is probably pared to do this yourself. These are fine cameras which served us well a sing1e camera taking two Pic- more and fraternal now tures of a scene while shifting than ever before - due in large part many years but, like some us, their parts are worn and show- one's weight from One foot to the to Stereo World and its effects as between When communicator and teacher. ing the effects of age. Yet, they are still workhorses for today's stereo the camera moves The Stereoscopic Society of approximately the right distance America, being composed entirely photographers - last. to give normal stereo. But watch of stereo photographers, probably Nims10 and out for moving leaves or drifting gives a realistic cross section of the The ill-starred Nimslo venture shadows or any other motions in methods and preferences of stereo did produce a sizable number of the subject. This is tricky but some image production currently in new stereo'cameras which were photographers do it very well. An common use. At least anything unfortunately tied to a hopeless improvement on the method uses that is being experimented with format - the lenticular print. I an automatic winder to rapidly usually makes the rounds in the won't go into the alterations produce consecutive exposures. and the of such which many clever people have This allows stereo views to be appearances indicates a degree of performed on these cameras to made from a moving airplane or a acceptance. make them more useful. They do boat and is a very good way to pro- With Aging Cameras accept regular 35mm film and can duce hyperstereo. A very large number of stereo produce 3-D prints or transparen- Single lens stereo is really an views appearing in the Society cies within some limitations of advanced technique, as there is folios are the products of cameras exposure and format. Adapted much that can go wrong. Also, dating from the 1950s or 1960s: models have made good snapshot proper cropping and alignment of Stereo Realist, Revere, TDC, Kodak Cameras at 'lose dis- the stereo pairs requires a lot of Stereo, etc. They are old cameras tances and the results appear rep- understanding to get it right and and are likely to break down. (I larly in the folios - mostly family look natural. But, it is also true currently have five, three of which pictures that are a cut above the that many of us get started in 3-D average. They do not do well on

14 STEREO WORLD SepternberlOctober 1991 with a single lens camera and it's the cheapest way to edge into stereography. Views obtained in 1 3-D TV IS HERE! 1 this manner are always present in the Society folios. A more expensive way to pro- GET HIGH DEFINITION QUALITY duce stereo is the matched camera method. Everything costs double, FROM YOUR HOME TV! and if you use good 35mm cameras that is no small investment. A MODEL 2001 proper rig to hold and align the cameras is needed and synchro- nization of the shutters may give HOME 3-D THEATRETM one headaches. But some very Co"uR"'" STEREOVI~ORTM impressive rigs are in use among the Society membership, resulting Prn TO CAPTURE THE MAGIC OF 3-D ON in remarkable stereo views entered YOUR HOME TV,you will need a 3-D TV in the folios. Using regular 35mm StereoVisorTM,and a Model 2001 cameras does permit full frame StereoDriverTM.Plug the StereoVisor, power supply and the video out from 35mm transparencies which have your VCR into the StereoDriver. Put great impact when seen in your your 3-D videotape in the VCR, turn lighted hand viewer. [For a look at down the lights and enjoy fantastic 3-D! current developments in spliced, Each StereoDriver can be used with four or more pairs of StereoVisors by using stereo custom-made SLR stereo cameras, mini plug splitters. see Newviews in this issue.] Exotic Forms of Stereo E Always of interest to Society SCIENCE FICTION members is the result of using Cat Women of the Moon (1 953) (G) unusual methods and/or modern The Zoo (1 966) (PG) Stereo extension cord @ $1 4.95 technology to obtain stereo views Hideous Mutant (1 976)(PG) Stereo Mini Plug Splitter @ $3.95 not feasible just a few years ago. WESTERN 30 for he 2 1 sf Cenhrry (40 pages) @ $5 Professional Products Brochure (Info. on Special macro techniques have Oudaw Territory (1 953)(G) ADVENTURE Stereo Camera Swikher, Stereo Camera long been an attention getter Lens, Stereo Video Projection, Wireless Rising Sun (1 973)(PG) when producing ultra-closeups. StereoVisor) FREE ADULTS 3-D TV T-shirt (Colorfvl3-0 Nlogo w/ These have grown into startling First Kisses (1 972)(R) stereo views in high quality, show- collage of classic 3-D movies posters) Hawaiian Fantasy (1976)(R) Specify Sizes (Men's only), S, M, I,or ing the world as we have never Political Pleasures (1975)(R) Xl). $20.00 seen it. The Stewardesses (1969)(R) VHS Tapes @ $49.95 Lately, modern electronic Criminals (1973)(R) BETA @ $59.95 devices have moved the camera off Sexcalibur (1982)(XXX) 8MM @ $59.95 center stage in producing stereo Chambermaids (1972)(R) Super VHS Stereo @ $69.95 images by exotic means. 3-D MISCELUNEOUS SUBTOTAL imagery obtained from the Scan- The World of 3D (1989)(G) $49.95 Sales Tax (7%in CA only) ning Electron Microscope and 3DTeaserVol. 1 (PG) $29.95 (Clips Postage ($6 / 3D Theatre; $1 0 / 3D computer generated stereo images from 3D movies) Theatre for 2, $2 per tape or accessory are included among these electron- Bill and Coo (1 947)(G)- the all-bird item). ic methods. Possibilities along classic "Solidized" $29.95 COD - cash or money orders. ALLOW 6 WEEKS FOR PERSONAL CHECKS TO CLEAR these lines have only begun to be Sam Space (1954) (G) Animated, explored. What next? I imagine we 10 minutes, $1 9.95 -TOTAL AMT. ENCLOSED will know when we see it in the 3-D Computer Graphics (1990) 20 min. games-super-computers!$1 9.95 Unfo~notely,we are currendy unable to accept credit card purchases. Society folios. Exotic methods pro- TRAILERS duce a small but important sub- 2D Trailers for 3D Movies - 22 rare Name (print) group of current stereo view pro- trailers (50 minutes) (PG) $39.95 duction. More important, they "Solidized" 2D Trailers for 3D Movies & help keep it ever fresh and new. (50 minutes) (PG) $39.95 Cily State- Zip NEW TITLES AVAILABLE SOON! Society Membership Phone (- ) Stereo photographers who might CHECK LIST I am over 21 (sign) be interested in joining Society 8 members in their enjoyment of Home 3-D Theatre $1 89.95 (1 StereoDriver, 1 Stereovisor, 1 Movie) PRICE AND AVAllABlllTY SUBJECITO CHANGE WrmOUT NOTICE folio activities should write to the Home 3-D Theatre for 2 @ $269.95 corresponding secretary, Jack E. (1 StereoDriver, 2 StereoVisors, 2 Movies) 3.D TV CORPORATION Cavender, 1677 Dorsey Ave., Suite Stereovisor @ $49.95 Box 13059 San Rafael, CA 94913-3059 C, East Point, GA 30344. akl StereoDriver @ $1 49.95 415/479/3516 FAX: 415/479/3316

STEREO WORLD Septernber/October 1991 15 he 228 people from 17 coun- and publications were available Ttries who attended the 8th remained open through Sunday. World Congress of the Internation- Running simultaneously with all al Stereoscopic Union in Paris of this was the "First International experienced a true "International Symposium on 3-D Images" where Festival of 3-D", as the entire event 90 professionals from academic, was titled. Over 50 stereo slide pre- industrial and research organiza- sentations by nearly as many inter- tions gathered to hear 42 papers national presenters ran from 9:30 presented in ten sessions spread am to 11:OO pm (in morning, after- over 3 days. Topics ranged from noon and evening sessions) during the neuroscience and psychophysi-

by John Dennis three and a half days of the cal aspects of 3-D to the optics of September 25-30 Congress. In lenticular video, sequence coding addition, there were ongoing for broadcast 3-D TV, and stereo exhibits of lenticular prints, 3-D drawing as well as several medi- video systems, slides (via automat- callscientific and industrial applied rear-projection) and PHSColo- cations of stereo imaging. Besides grams. (see JulyIAugust NavViews.) equipment for stereo slides, flat Various formats of 3-D films slides, and lecture-style overhead were projected, and examples of projection, the symposium room custom made 3-D equipment from was set up with a translator's paired cameras to mounting rigs to booth and a sophisticated wireless drawing and viewing devices were headset system for simultaneous displayed and demonstrated. A translation of all papers to and trade fair room where equipment from English, French and German. All Festival of 3-D functions were held in the Palais de Tokyo, built on the seine in art deco style for the Inter- national Exposition of 1937 and now known as the Museum of Modern Art, specializing in photography and film exhibits. The maze of marble stairways, cav- ernous halls, and spa- cious rooms easily accommodated the gathered stereo enthusiasts. Its location in the heart of Paris, very near- The reflecting pool and fountains of the Palais de Tokyo, site of the 1991 ISU Congress. Those ly in the shadow of the attending the congress entered the building behind the columns at the center. The columns at ~iff~lT~~~~, made right connect the two main sections of the museum. All photos by the author except as noted. extended lunches and

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-- afternoon excursions an irresistible Rare vintage stereographs were temptation - even for some of the featured in four presentations and French members. included in at least one other. Projection facilities were impres- "Japon 1900" by Pierre Tavlitzki sive by any standards. The huge and Gerard Metron used expertly 1 main auditorium with its plush copied old black & white views of seats (almost too comfortable for Japan in combination with deli- jet-lagged North Americans) made cate and appropriate Japanese it easy to find good viewing 1 positions. For those deter-

I the ~resentations.rest- Ym rooks located just off the 41&!d side aisles made the long climb back up the stairs necessary music, creating one of those only for lunch and dinner breaks. moment-in-time experiences. The building's multiple auditori- "expedition Charcot dans ums and projection facilities are llAntarctique" by Jean Hebert, just one example of French inter- Gerard Metron and Pierre Tavlitzki est in film study, exhibition and showed unpublished views by a preservation, backed by millions of member of a 1904 French Antarc- dollars annually (more than any tic expedition. This was probably other country in the world) from one of the few times these historic the Ministry of Culture. The spe- images have been viewed in stereo cial wide sliver screen for the by people other than the families congress was about 16 by 27 feet and seemed to match the grand scale of everythingilse about the event. Vertical seams were visible in the lighter areas of many images, but it allowed very large projection of full-frame slides and 3-D films with minimal ghosting. The projection platform, set up in the balcony, included the Brackett Dissolver, the German RBT automatic tray projector, and various com- binations of 2x2 projectors with synchroniza- Three PHSColograms on display in the downstairs exhibit area. The barrier strip parallax tion and stereo sound. panoramagrams with their bright and deep computer generated 3-0 images grabbed the attention of many members on their way into the main auditorium.

STEREO WORLD SeptemberlOctokr 1991 17 Alexander Klein, in charge of Stereo World's European circulation, was on the Festival of 3-D organizing committee and sold recent SW issues at the trade fair.

and associates of the original expedition members. "Le Voyage en Egypte, en 1909 et de nos jours" by Gerard Metron and Dr. Jean Binot also featured amateur stereographs, exhibiting through carefuil~made The Palais de Tokyo (at center just behind the trees from the Seine) as seen from the top of some of the amazing images of the Eiffel Tower. The Festival of 3-D occupied two rooms in the left half of the structure people and places which were and the auditoriums and hall on a lower level between the two main sections visible here. often less posed and controlled than commercial views of the day. than any pairs on a printed page. in the events, toppled guard tow- As with the Antarctic views, the Complete view sets of several ers, and the famous equestrian original stereos were among the operas were shown in their origi- statue as seen from the top of the made amateurs in the nal story sequences, accompanied Brandenburg Gate. 13cm and 45 by music from the operas illustrat- Seen flat, "Norway Highlights" vlate formats of the late 19th and CU.-, by Rolf Koch would have seemed iarly 20th centuries. Preserved on Good examples of stereojournal- like a selection of stunning, color- these plates in boxes, cupboards ism have been shown on rare occa- ful pictures for an expensive calen- and collections all over Europe and sions, but "The Wall" by Peter Kos- dar or a series of large posters. In the world are stereo images of the mowski, Petra Kipf, and Stefan stereo, these scenics proved the details of everyday life in streets Jiinemann provided some of the value of the 2 V4 x 2 Y4" format in and parks, yards and homes. A most extensive and dramatic docu- filling the screen with bright, long hidden, unique visual history mentation of a historical event sharp images that placed the rocks waits for more of the sort of effort ever seen in 3-D. The work of these and wildflowers of the Norwegian exemplified by these programs for German Stereo Club members cov- coast in the laps of the audience its identification, preservation and ered the hectic days in 1989-90 instead of on a calendar page. exhibition. leading to the opening of crossing "Shades of Green" by David Bur- "Les ThCiitres de Paris" by Paul points in the Berlin Wall, early der provided a fast-paced, exciting Wing expanded on the coverage of efforts to chip holes through the look at the environmental delights tinted tissue views of miniature concrete, the gathered world of Northern Ireland through dra- scenes from French operas, as seen media, the huge crowds, and the matic scenics and beguiling in his Mar./Apr. '91 Stereo World final dismantling of the entire macros. The six minute, four pro- article. The projected slide copies, structure. Views from both sides, jector, 160 slide show produced for some moving in on central details the top, the bottom, and even the the Department of the Environ- in scenes, revealed the exquisite shattered center of the wall were ment of Northern Ireland was model sculpting, sets, tinting and included, along with dramatically reviewed in the MayIJune '91 highlight piercing seen in the close stereos of people caught up Stereo World. 1860s views far more effectively

18 STEREO WORLD SepternberIOctober 1991 - 3-D movies were not neglected, probably the most popular being a 12 minute wide-screen film by the French Defense Ministry which took full advantage of the huge screen. Fast moving, very close sequences on the ground and in the air (from both inside and out) of fighter aircraft and transports provided spectacular 3-D effects through nearly flawless stereo cin- ematography. Somewhere between a 3-D "Top Gun" and a sophisticated TV car ad, the film had a good portion of the audience ready to buy a Mirage when it was over. Outstanding stereo images from Part of the congress audience enjoying the plush seating of the large alrditorirrm in the I'alais nearly every corner of the world de Tokyo. and of subjects the size of moun- tains and bridges to those involving macrostereo and electron microscope imaging were included among the presentations at the congress. Some "old favorites" like the nature work of the late Pat Whitehouse and the table-top humor of Stan White were included, but many of the shows had never before been seen outside the countries or clubs of those who photographed or assembled them. Reactions to the congress ranged from "best ever" to mixed to criti- cism of the way various aspects were organized and of technical problems and delays in projection. The rear of the Symposium room between presentations. Seated directly in pant of the transla- Despite reminders from some tor's booth is the sound technician monitoring transmissions to the wireless headsets. long-time members that even the nearly legendary 1987 congress in Switzerland suffered from annoy- ing technical lapses and delays of its own, many attendees in Paris still spoke among themselves of disappointment with specific mat- ters of congress planning and communication of details. Some of these feelings fused into expression during a presentation by IMAX cinematographer Noel Archambault, who held the fascinated attention of most of the audience with a description of his work on the 3-D IMAX film "The Last Buffalo". (See Stereo World MayIJune '89.) After covering the design and evolution of the most massive 3-D camera in the world Symposium speaker Iacques Penin presenting his paper "Artistic 3-L) L)rawit~y"in wl~icl~Ire and its related IMAX 3-D projec- disclrssed the techniques he has developed during his 12 years in the field. His paper, heard in tion system (with the help of a one of the "Professional Applications" sessions, was illustrated with 36 projected 3-0 draw- series of flat slides and diagrams), ings. His career has included work for View-Master, and his 3-0 drawings are well known he had started showing some of among European stereo enthusiasts through club ptrblications. his own Realist format slides of the crane-mounted camera rig in use shooting wildlife in the Canadian

STEREO WORLD SeptemkrlOctokr 1991 19 English describing the purpose and primary topic of each paper presented as well as a complete schedule and a brief biography of each of those chairing one of the ten sessions. ISU President Pierre Tavl- itzki's introduction to the booklet covers the purpose of the ISU and the congress, and adds that the ISU sponsored symposium will open a new line of communication between professionals and "the best 3-D amateurs." "Under its banner, for the first time in the modern history of 3-D, a synthesis will be possible between the points of view of 3-D amateurs and professionals." Hany zur Kleinsmiede, right, at the 3-D Rook Productions table in the trade fair room. Most of the professionals gathered for the symposium saw at least some of the ISU stereo projection programs and talked infor- mally with a few members. And many members attending the congress peeked into the symposium room (past museum guards who were checking for the correct color of badges) as they entered the adjacent trade fair room. It's too soon to tell whether or not this initiated a synthesis, but the usual response from professionals isolated in a highly specialized application of stereo imaging is one of amazement when first exposed to the quality, amount and variety of amateur work in all areas of 3-D. A real appreciation by IMAX cinematographer Noel Archambault, left, shows paired 3-0 IMAX movie frames to "amateurs" of the often highly Susan Pinsky and lean Poulot in the mirrored stairwell leading to the main auditorium. When technical and narrowly focused arrangements for a pair of 6x7 format slide projectors (suitable for showing 3-0 IMAX stills) work of professionals often were unsuccessfirl, he passed some frame pairs around for freeviewing following his presenta- depends on well written (and all tion. too rare) articles in publications like Stereo World or Stereoscopy or wilderness. Suddenly the house resumed - both audience and orga- one of the larger stereo club publi- lights came on with an announce- nizers perhaps recalling the poten- cations. ment from the projection area that tial of "people power", so dramati- Like the similar 3Dmt confer- the show's allotted 15 minutes cally illustrated in the previous ences in Montreal or the computer were up and that it must be halted day's stereo coverage of the end of oriented SIGGRAPH conferences, due to previous delays in the day's the Berlin Wall. While nobody the relatively high fees for the schedule. seems to have left under the illu- symposium (over $400 U.S.) cov- No other presentations having sion that an ISU congress could be ered the special expenses involved been literally cut off in mid sen- run as an exercise in participatory in a major professional meeting tence, Mr. Archambault calmly but democracy, there was more general and helped fund the congress as firmly explained that his under- talk later that day about questions well. The required investment of standing had been that he had of planning and communication. attention and energy on the part half an hour, and asked the audi- The International Symposium of Festival of 3-D President Guy ence if they wished to see the rest on 3-D Images ran from the 26th Ventouillac, ISU President Pierre of his slides. The question was to the 28th, giving professionals Tavlitzki, and the organizing com- answered with the most enthusias- and theorists from 12 countries mittee was of course compounded tic ovation yet heard in the the opportunity to share results of by the special requirements of the congress. Following more back- current research with others in the symposium. This made the Festival and-forth between balcony and same or related fields. The official of 3-D an even more impressive stage, and a second round of sup- symposium booklet includes 110 achievement overall, especially in portive applause, the show pages of abstracts in French and

20 STEREO WORLD SeptemberlOctober 1991 the eyes of those who had helped with other congresses or various national stereo club conventions. One of the greatest challenges facing any ISU congress is the language problem. During the stereo projection programs, Jean Soulas of the Stereo-Club Franqais provided helpful translations from or to French and English for the intro- ductions to many of the presentations. As in years past, this left some shows with extensive narration in a language understood by only part of the audience. But never before was there another 3-D event in progress for members to think about, just one floor above, with UN style simultaneous translation and high-tech headsets. One of the more popular presentations was that of Sylvain Amoux, who showed the finished Even knowing that any such products of his stereo drawing machine. Here he demonstrates its use on Sunday when the gen- arrangement would be prohibitive- eral public was invited in to see the equipment and some of the slide, video and film images ly expensive for an entire ISU featured at the Festival of 3-D. congress couldn't erase all twinges of envy among the audience. twinkling-light ceiling and piano- Comparisons of the single sheet, bar style live music couldn't two sided program handed out for detract from an appreciation of the this congress with the 47 page very real, historic and magnificent booklet supplied at the 1987 city gliding past, or of the fascinat- congress in Switzerland were hard ing and delightful people sharing to avoid when the question of such a truly memorable experi- translation was being discussed. ence. The ISU's French hosts had While the 1991 program listed demonstrated in depth the literal times, titles and presenters and meaning of "joie de vivre." had FrenchIEnglish translations of On Monday the 30th, two some titles, the 1987 program had busses full of ISU members, armed provided two paragraphs on each to the teeth with stereo cameras, show, repeated across its pages in set out on a day-long photo tour English, French and German. to two historic sites; the estate of Many agreed that some kind of Vaux-le-Vicomte and the palace of Sylvain Arnoux views the 3-0 output of' printed information like that Fontainebleau. Past jammed morn- his stereo drawing machine, the most would be the most practical coming rush-hour traffic on the free- compact such device yet seen. Finished promise between total translation way, the busses drove into the pairs are visible at left. A more detailed and minimal translation. open countryside and turned account of the instrument will appear in a The location of the congress just down a narrow road tightly lined future issue. a few meters from the Seine made with trees that seemed to form a it seem only natural that the offi- living portal into the past. 1875 to 1908 and serving as a mili- cial Sunday evening banquet hap- The grand house and gardens of tary hospital in 1914. pened on one of the dinnerltour Vaux-le-Vicomte were built in A light rain and mist provided boats that nightly cruise up and 1661 by Nicolas Fouquet, Lord stereographers roaming the visual- down the river like endless proces- High Treasurer to King Louis XIV. ly endless, well maintained formal sions of floating floodlights. Con- When the king attended a lavish gardens with a soft and timeless versation, wine and film flowed reception at the new estate, his quality of light that enhanced freely as the sizable crowd relaxed reaction is reported to have been views of the estate from nearly any with old and new friends, roamed one of jealously over a home more angle. Inside, the ornate halls and from table to table shooting stere- impressive than his own and of rooms were hung in every square os of each other, or just stared in doubt concerning the source of the foot with paintings and tapestries momentary silence as the boat pre- funds. Three weeks later, Fouquet from the 17th and 18th centuries. sented a new view of some historic was arrested for financial malprac- One hall was lined with portraits building or monument, illuminat- tice and imprisoned for the rest of of French aristocrats who had lived ed as if there were some need to his life. The estate has remained in in the house or who had enjoyed secure a copyright to the name private ownership ever since, its opulent facilities from Fou- "City of Lights." Even the atmo- undergoing major restoration from quet's time until the French Revo- sphere generated by the boat's lution. The carefully restored con-

STEREO WORLD SeptemberIOctober 1991 21 dition of the rooms and furnish- ings would have allowed them to return and resume their former lives, except for the clicking and flashing of several dozen stereo cameras which would certainly have accompanied any such mani- festation. The estate's central grand salon with its 60 foot high cupola was filled with a crew taking down some decorative netting and artifi- cial flowers. At the door, a sign apologized for any inconvenience caused by the use of the room to introduce Dior's new "Dune" per- fume. The general assumption among the watching tourists was that the estate must have served as a location for the shooting of a Waiting in a coliriyard to tour Vaux-le-Vicomte, Sander Kiesel of The Netherlands discusses Dior TV commercial. his paired SLR rig with Paul Wing. The next day, it was learned from the "Style" page of the Inter- national Herald Tribune that Vaux- le Vicomte had in fact been the scene of another lavish party that weekend, opening the "Paris social season" for 1991. Helping financier Bernard Arnault launch the new Dior fragrance had been guests like Marie-Helene de Roth- schild, Gregory Peck, Isabelle Adjani, Gina Lollobrigida and Princess Soraya. Some 2,000 seashells, 10,000 golden roses, 700 orchids, 600 lilies, 1,000 candles, 2,500 glass baubles, a Mexican band, laser lights, and fireworks over the gardens had enhanced the estate's opulence for the evening. ISU members, it seems, missed a chance to stereograph the Valix-le-Vicomte as seen from one of the many sculpttires in the formal gardens. This one is aristocracy not by 200 years, but achially in one of the sections ofgarden nearest the house. Only a fav of the ISU tourists ven- by hours. tured through the rain and mist to the far end of the gardens. The tour's other stop was Fontainebleau, where the eager 3-D tourists gathered on the stairs from which Napoleon had waved goodbye on his way into exile. The wide, curving stairs and stone walls made an ideal place for the traditional group stereograph, repeated in endless variation as various people joined in posing and/or shooting. Inside, the group passed through rooms which were already historic when the now very collectible antique tinted tissue views of their ornate furnish- ings were made. Next Time - ISU I'resirler~tI'ierre Tavlitzki rnod~lsthe traditional ISUpresident's sweater as a parting X~S- ture drrring the floating banquet. David Rurder of London, England was named ISU president The 9th World Congress of the for 1992-93. (Stereo by Peter Schnehagen.) International Stereoscopic Union will be held in Eastbourne, Eng- land, September 22-27, 1993. That but in addition to its 3-tier seaside same year, the Stereoscopic Society promenade and many 19th centu------B (the oldest 3-D organization in the ry style shops, it even has a Muse- II kt ional world) will celebrate the centenary um of Shops. Hotels in a variety of of its founding in England. All price ranges exist within a five ;tereo8 scopic those interested in the art and minute walk from the Congress Jnion technique of 3-D photography are Theater. invited by the Stereoscopic Society Some 25 hours of top-quality ZLD' and new ISU President David Bur- 3-D shows from around the world, ESS der to join in the celebration by exhibitions, workshops and plenti- attending the ISU congress in this ful opportunities for socializing are classic British seaside resort. planned. Excursions to Brighton, Two interesting coincidences Arundel Castle, and the old-world EASTBOURNE UK mark this event: The "chunnel" town of Rye will provide plenty of link to Europe will open that year targets for stereo cameras. (Start (obviously scheduled for the con- stashing away your spare change try representative. Dues for 1992 venience of ISU members) and the now!) For more information con- are $20.00. The ISU magazine facility reserved for the ISU tact Congress Director Donald Stereoscopy is published four times congress is (believe it or not) the Wratten, 10 Homefield Road, a year. News, how-to articles, and "Congress" Theater! Radlett, WD7 8PY, England. reviews of new equipment are Eastbourne won the English ISU Note: gathered by an extensive network Tourist Board's "Top Resort for of country representatives from Excellence" award in 1990, and Membership in the Internation- around the world by editor Allan has been known as "The Empress al Stereoscopic Union is on a cal- Griffin. of Watering Places" since Victorian endar year basis. If you were a Representative for the USA: Paul times. It not only boasts one of the member in 1991, you will receive a Milligan, 508 La Cima Circle, finest surviving piers in the world, renewal application. If not, get Gallup, NM 87301. no your application from your coun-

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STEREO WORLD SepternberlOctober 1991 23 Holmes and His

by Laurance Wolfe

he prototype of the Holmes Tstereoscope, an invention that spurred the proliferation of stereo views in the mid nineteenth century, was born again recently in New England and shown publicly 132 years after it was developed in a Boston basement workshop. What is probably the foremost stereoscopic artifact of world-wide interest in the Victorian era emerged from the closet for display at the New Hampshire Histor- ical Society's exhibition rooms in Concord, NH. The prototype of the stereoscope invented in 1859 by Oliver Wendell Holmes - of which there is no record of previous public exhibition - was on loan from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. This was the alma mater of Holmes Sr., father of the Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who donated the viewer along with other paraphernalia of sentimental or intrinsic value. Phillivs Academy's then head- master 'lfred E' in a letter to a contributor, that 1 Before restoration, a piece of the hood was missing from the right side of the Holmes pro- ru~ypc.+nh,hn T~n1 rrr uwl-.. .I ..used for a handle is clearly visible here. (Photo by Jim Sheldon, Phillips Associate U.S. Supreme Court Jus- Academy.) tice Holmes had sent two stereoscopes to Phillips Academy in February of 1927. One was the pre- Humble Birth who, after all, was one of the 19th cious prototype Holmes viewer A description of the Holmes century's leading wordsmiths. The and the other was one of the stereo viewer is best told in the man who wrote The Autocrat of the clones manufactured circa 1870. language of Dr. Holmes himself Breakfast Table and other books,

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h. h. - hold the stereographs which were inserted in slots cut with a saw at different distances. A partition was necessary, which I made short, but wedge-shaped, widening it as it receded from the eye. A handle was indispensable, and I made a small brad-awl answer the purpose,taking care that it was placed so far back as to give the proper balance to the instrument - a point which bungling imitators have often overlooked. A hood for the eyes was needed for comfort, at least, and I fitted one, cut of paste- board, to my own forehead. This primeval machine, parent of the multitudes I see around me, is in my left hand as I write, and I have just tried it and found it excellent. For at least one of us who have sought for years to have the Holmes prototype exposed to the light of day and the eyes of stereo worshipers, the first glimpse of the "contrivance" inspired a maxi- mum of awe and not a little sur- prise, stemming from the size of the Holmes baby. Not a bouncing eight-pounder, more like the size of a preemie. The prototype Oliver Wendell Holmes, c. 1869. This photo by john Sloan Notman was used as the ?on- appears to be a % model'of the tispiece for The Schoolboy, a poem by Holmes privatelyprinted to help celebrate the cen- average clone which followed for tennial of Phillips Academy, Iune 6, 1878. Holmes read the work at the celebration for the the next 75 or so years. (Or even academy where he had once been a schoolboy himself. Courtesy Oliver Wendell Holmes longer, when you take the sophis- Library, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. ticated Red Wing model into con- sideration.) and poems like Old Ironsides, The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay, and Chambered Nautilus, earned quite a few laurels with the English language and was highly qualified to describe his own brainchild ten years after its birth: The simple stereoscope was not constructed by accident but was the carrying out of a plan to introduce the instrument to its simplest terms. Two lenses were necessary [now missing from the prototype] and a frame to hold them. I pro- cured two of the best quality, and cut a square frame for them out of a solid piece of wood. A strip of wood at right angles to this was required to hold the pictures. I shaped one, narrow in the middle, broad at both ends; at one end to The Holmes prototype viewer prior to its recent restoration, which inclrrded removal of the tape support the lenses, at the other to on top of the paper hood. (Stereo by Jim Sheldon, Phillips Academy.)

STEREO WORLD SepternberlOctober 1991 25 I come to whatever there was to be gained by its manufacture .... From his establishment there have come certain improvements of much value, particularly the sliding arrangement for adjusting the focus, in place of the original slots, or narrow grooves, and the method of holding the pictures. % These added a little to the expense, but a great deal to the conve- nience. A Holmes View of Stereo's Worth Other thar~mir~or repnrrc to the hood, the main elernrrlt allowin~qplrblicdisplay of thr Dr. Holmes was never known to Holmer viewer way the curtom playtic di~playcase for maintainin'q the artifact's stability. The be parsimonious with words. Even finithen effort is seen here at the New Hampshire Hirton'cal Society's recent photo history in his younger days, his garrulity exhibit. (Stereo by Larrrance Wolfe.) was an identifying foible. He didn't need the opportunity to talk Holmes was not loathe to praise Anthony in New York, and Joseph - he talked. In describing Henry his invention. He wrote further in L. Bates in Boston. He was success- Anthony's instantaneous views, of 1869: "I felt sure this was decided- ful with the latter gentleman, which number 203 was one, Dr. ly better than the boxes common- albeit the second time around. He Holmes outdid his own verbosity. ly sold, that it was far easier to writes, again in 1869: His inventory of images in one manage, especially with regard to Mr. Joseph L. Bates, to whom I stereo view tumbled from him like light, and could be made much had shown one of my first models, a torrent, and seemed even more cheaper than the old-fashioned and who had had one made by my detailed than a camera might contrivances .... I believed, also, pattern, to my order, had been record: thinking over the matter pretty that money could be made out of If a strange planet should seriously, and come to the conclu- it. But, considering it as a auasi sci- chance to come within hail, and sion that there was something in entific improvement I wished no one of its philosophers to ask us, as my skeleton stereoscope. He went it passed, to hand him the most pecuniary profit from it, and so far, at last, as to make a few of remarkable material product of refused to make an arrangement them on his own account, and human skill, we should offer him, by which I should be a gainer. All I found purchasers for them. I was without a moment's hesitation, a asked was to nive it to somebody very glad to have somebody get who would manufacture it for sale profit and pleasure from my con- stereoscope containing an instantaneous double view of some great trivance, and made him quite wel- to the public." thoroughfare - one of Mr. Antho- The good doctor discovered that giving his stereoscope to a distrib- utor was the difficult part. He tried G.W. Wilson No. 104A, "Dryburgh Abbey - Tomb ofsir Walter Scott." Dr. Holmes had a Langenheim in Philadelphia, collection of about a thousand views. Many were views of England, Ireland and Scotland by photographers with the documentary and artistic skills of Wilson. ny's views of Broadway, (No. 203) E. and H.T. Anthony No. 203, "Broadway from Barnum's Museum." In the /arcyestereo for instance .... But what a wonder view collection owned by Holmes, there were 12 Anthony views. This one inspired an it is, this snatch at the central life entire essay about the dynamic street scene and the unique abilities of stereographs to doc- of a mighty city as it rushed by in ument civilization. It's also the source of the famous Holmes quote crediting stereo as the all its complexity of movement!... work of "God's recording angel." Bequest of Mrs. Edward Jackson Holmes, Edward lack- There stands Car No. 33 of the son Holmes Collection. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Astor House and Twenty-Seventh Street Fourth Avenue Line. The old woman would miss an apple form No wonder No. 203 was the for years because of its fragile con- that pile which you see glistening Holmes favorite! It was as crowded dition. Moving and exposure to on her stand. The voung man with action as those bygone news- changes in temperature, light, and whose back is to us couid swear to Paper cartoon puzzles here the moisture had precluded showings. the pattern of her shawl.... Notice reader was urged to identify every When the New Hampshire Histori- the caution with which the man object whose spelling began with a cal Society expressed-an interest in driving the dapple-gray horse in a certain letter of the alphabet. His displaying the prototype of the cart loaded with barrels holds his curiosity led Dr. Holmes to scruti- Holmes viewer in its 1991 photo reins - wide apart, one in each nize the "puzzle" down to the tini- exhibition "An Eye to Eternity: hand. See the shop boys with their est fly speck. 150 Years of New Hampshire Pho- bundles, the young fellow with the lighted cigar in hand, as you see by Stabilizing a Piece of tography", the NSA and the Photo- the way he keeps it off from his Stereo History graphic Historical Society of New body, the namin stooping to pick England combined with Phillips up something in the midst of the The Holmes prototype had been Academy to fund the stabilization moving omnibuses, the stout withheld from the general public of the artifact. philosophical carman sitting on ebl the cart tail, Newman Noggs by

STEREO WORLD SeptemberlOctober 1991 27 As could have been expected, Holmes also tried his hand at the photographic art which so fascinated him, stereography. This interior view titled "The Old Clock on the Stairs" no doubt required a fairly long exposure, indicating that the apparatus must have been interested Holmes enough to make a special effort to record it. Bequest of Mrs. Edward lackson w5E Holmes, Edward Jackson Holmes Collection. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Stabilization included means to said to have met with the Kilburn deter deterioration and to Brothers, the latter seeking advice THE WOLMES STEREOSCOPE, strengthen the stereoscope with- before embarking on their stereo- Wlcb the Invcn?tnns sad Impmn mcnb ddrd b JONEPH L. R 4TES, out altering the appearance of the scopic business venture. The l20 Wuhnrton Street, Bwbn viewer as it was found. Construct- Holmes prototype was exhibited as ing a sturdy, secure, plexiglass dis- the centerpiece of the stereo seg- play platform and a uniquely- ment of the Historical Society An early model of the HolmesBates view- designed carrying case were also exhibit. Devoted to the best er appeared in one form or another on the backs of views by Bates and other New accomplished by the Northeast known of New Hampshire's several England publishers, promoting the new Document Conservation Center. hundred 19th century stereogra- stereoscope to customers still using Brew- The early medical career of phers, this "Focus on the Kilburns" ster-style "old fashioned contrivances." Holmes Sr. included a stint as Pro- segment covered nearly 45 years of (Collectors have yet to turn up any copies fessor of Anatomy at Dartmouth the Kilburn stereoscopic business of the invisible view card shown in this College. A further Holmes New as well as a good share of New classic logo!) Hampshire connection came some Hampshire's other known stereog- 25 years later when the physician- raphers. m author-inventor-philosopher was Pioneers of Photography in Print illiam & Estelle Marder, the early photographic industry. authors hope to bring out in the Wauthors of the Anthony, The Highlighted are early photogra- coming years, covering additional Man, The Company, The Cameras phers and the men and women photographers. The price is $28.00 published in 1982, have responsible for introducing many (plus $2 shipping, USA) from announced publication of Pioneers new methods and inventions in William and Estelle Marder, PO of Photography. The new 91 page photography. Box 15224, Plantation, FL 33318 - soft cover book is a collection of Published in a limited edition of or - PO Box 222, Ware, MA short biographies of important 200 copies with many illustrations, 01082. nrr individuals in the development of the book is the first of several the

28 STEREO WORLD SeptemberlOctober 1991 I e are glad to report that the our members to send any stereo- Jay Schindler - Check. WLibrary now has a backup related material, including books Alexander Klein - Book. team. Dorothy and Talbot ("Ick") and publications! Find an interest- Cygnus Graphic - Anaglyphic poster of Crane have volunteered their ser- ing article? Send us a copy. Cash solar system. vices, and are now busy learning donations are always appreciated. Ron Fredrickson - Slide presentation all of the many operations in- We are financially self-supporting on Yugoslavia, photographed by volved. We would also like to through donations and a major the late Helen & Henry Erskine. thank Bill Zulker for taking over grant, which made it possible for Dr. John Sharrer - Book. while Raymond was recovering us to purchase our computers. Walter Selle - Copy of bibliography from his accident, and again when The library is open by appoint- and listing of his former collection of stereo literature. I was recovering from surgery. ment only. Would you like to visit? As of this report, Ick will be For further information call the Dieter Lorenz - Book. doing the Library Report for Stereo Holsteins at (215) 649-4214, or Roger Nazeley - 2 books. World. For many new members, write to the Holmes library at East- Ray Haines, Jr. - Large format stereo prints & single-prism viewer. who may not be familiar with the ern College, Fairview Drive, St. John Richter - Tipton catalog. library, we thought it might be Davids, PA 19087. helpful to give a brief history of it. Robert King - Griffith & Griffith Latest Gifts to the Library Alaskan listing. The NSA Librar David Johnson - Box of View-Master John Waldsmith - Book. What, Where, do? material. Dr. Dale Hammerschmidt - Folio Note- The Oliver Wendell Holmes Freeman Hepburn - 4 books. book Entries, Print Folio AP-3. Stereoscopic Research Library was Wesley Banse, Sr. - 300-set WWI, view- Brandt Rowles - Prints of NSA conven- dedicated on Aug. 10, 1979 at the er & book. tion at Manchester, NH. Canton (OH) Art Institute. The ini- Paul Wing - Box of stereo-related Several boxes of material from the files material including 50 stereo slides of the late Lou Smaus. tial holdings were largely from the by the late ~elenkrskine. collection of NSA founders Rick Gary Mangiacopra - Linex Stereo Cam- Latest Purchase Fund and Fran Russack, with John Wald- era material. Acquisitions smith as the first curator. 30Imagics by ~imVan Keulen. Since early 1982 the library has Stereoscopic Drawing by Arthur Girling. been located at Eastern College, St. 3-0 Star Maps by Richard Monkhouse Davids, PA (a suburb of Philadel- &John Cox. ma phia) and has grown considerably thanks to many donations, particularly the Helen Moseley collection of approx. 15,000 stereo views. From time to time the library has been able to make a few purchases of stereo-related material. Today the library's collection - all on computer - numbers in excess of 20,000 stereo views, plus slides, prints, publications, books, catalogs, articles, etc. and a few representative viewers and pieces of projection equipment. Included are View-Master reels and an increasing collection of contemporary views, prints and slides. Twice a year (fall and spring) the library hosts a regional NSA meeting, and everyone is invited (and encouraged) to attend the program. The library is a volunteer operation, and the contents are only as good as your contributions. We urge

STEREO WORLD SeptemberlOctober I991 29 3-Dby Robert G. Wilson in Child

any subjects have been used oscope, Eddy is able to hear Library". Santiago is a young boy M in Children's stories. One sounds and see movement in the in New York City with a stereo- example is airships. A friend of view. Hanging in the middle of scope and a stereo view of the fine mine collects airship items and has each view is a long rope with a tas- pet chicken he used to have in more than 20 children's stories sel on the end. At one point, Puerto Rico before he moved to involving airships. On the other Eddy's cat Herm tries to grab the New York. None of his friends hand, there appear to be relatively tassel and falls into the view. Eddy believe that he used to have a few books which include stereo as then sees two images of his cat, chicken. One day he is able to per- part of the story. While not specifi- one in each view, where the cat suade his teacher to allow the class cally looking for children's stories, had not been before. Then, as to visit his home, and he shows off in my 18 years of collecting 3-D Eddy looks through the viewer, he his chicken by having everyone items I have obtained only four, grabs the tassel and "the lenses in look through his stereo viewer. and the use of stereo is vastly dif- front of his eyes rushed outward Tom Swift and His ferent in each of them. on all sides, the papery specks and cracks on the surface of the picture 3-D Telejector The Astonishing disappeared, and Eddy suddenly At the beginning of this book by Stereoscope found himself inside the stereo- Victor Appleton 11, the young In this 1971 book by Jane Lang- scope." Once inside, everything in inventor Tom Swift Jr. has already ton, Eddy receives a present of a the view changes from faded developed a "3-D Telejector" - a five card set of stereoscopic cards brown to wonderful color. form of 3-D television that does from his uncle, an Indian Prince Through this manner, Eddy, his not need a screen - and he is work- with magic powers. The five cards sister Eleanor and Herm are able to ing on further enhancements. are indeed special. When looking participate in some historic events The book gives a good descrip- at each of them through the stere- tion of how Swift's basic system and to live some amazing adven- - tures that always start with the Tt is a boxlike device about view on the card. And always, studded with tun- when it is time to return to reality, the children happen upon a small structure with a sign over the door which reads: PHOTOGRAPHER'S STUDIO Stereoscopic Views and Portraits Taken WALK IN The children have their portraits taken with a 3-D camera, and as the flash powder explodes, they fall back into their own living room. Then the stereoscopic card which started their adventure would always change, with the original view appearing as a blurred, framed image hanging on the wall behind a 3-D portrait of the two children. The Astonishing Stereoscope by \or~e Santiago Santiago by Pirra H~lpr6,Illrrstratc~d by Lan'pton, ill~rstrationsby Erik Rlegvad. This short book by Pura Belpre is Symeon Shimin. New York: Frederick New York: Harper & Row, 1971. from a "Teacher's Read-Aloud Warne & Company, Inc., 1969.

STEREO WORLD SeptemberlOctober 1991 .en'sb Stories

ing knobs and dials. Protruding such spots of light. Swift talks of era. One half of the camera he from the front of the machine is a two enhancements to this system. changes by mounting a pistol short lattice work antenna which One allows for the use of space aimed at his subject - the other projects the image. A chemical dust, collected with his new space half he leaves unchanged with a mist, obtained from luminescent dust collector from his spaceship. camera lens focused on a photo- sea creatures, is sprayed into the The other is an enclosed system graphic plate. His bulb release room. The telejector beams out a which collects the chemical mist mechanism is adapted so that the picture signal on two waves of and recycles it. pistol is discharged upon squeez- slightly different frequency - and Swift then develops a "light ing the bulb, and the camera lens by varying the difference, the image" principle that he includes opened when the bulb is released. range at which they'll be exactly in his telejector. This makes his He could then take his photograph 180 degrees out of phase (the 3-D system self-contained, with no immediately after firing the pistol node) can be adjusted. Part of the need for outside luminescent parti- and capture the departing spirit. projected signal passes through the cles to form the image. Unfortu- This still does not lead to success node as waste energy. Another part nately, he does not describe how and in the end he uses his special- is reflected back from the node to his new system works. But he does ly adapted camera to kill himself. the transmitter. The third part of give a spectacular demonstration. Children's books which include the signal is absorbed right at the One evening, "suddenly, at the 3-D as part of the story do exist, node, and the energy causes the stroke of nine, a gigantic three- but they are not easily found and chemical mist to glow, giving s sin- dimensional image of Tom Swift Jr. it is a real challenge for the collec- gle spot of light. As the telejector appeared in the night sky. The 3-D tor of 3-D items to locate them. scans, it forms a complete three- picture ...was visible for hundreds [The Astonishing Stereoscope may dimensional image out of many of miles." One person previously still be found in the children's sec- critical of Swift says that Swift has tions of some libraries.] ca "made present day television look like horse-and-buggy stuff." The Camera Fiend In this 1911 work by E.W. Hor- nung, Dr. Baumgartner is doing research in spirit photography. He has a theory that at the moment a person dies his spirit leaves him, and if a photographer is able to expose his film at precisely the correct moment, he should be able to capture the departing spirit on his photographic plate. His efforts to gain access to the hospital death-beds and to the execution sheds in prisons are without success. So he locates derelicts who have no meaning to their lives and kills them, taking a photograph of them as they die. But his experi- ments are always failures. This, he figures, is due to the time delay Tom Swift and His 3-D Telejector by between death and the camera Victor Appleton 11. New York: Grosset & exposure. To eliminate this delay The Camera Fiend by E. W. Hornrrn,q. Dunlap, 1964. he modifies his stereosco~iccam- Toronto: McLeod & Allen, 191 1. I I

STEREO WORLD SeptemberlOctober 1991 31 New Equipment at Paris ISU hile John Dennis will be information in the viewfinder, and Wreporting about the general YashikaIContax lens mounts. activities of the Paris ISU Congress, The lens base is 64.5mm, while I thought that I, equipment buff the film picture aperture base (cen- that I am, would report on some of ter to center) is 66.5mm1 with a 24 the new equipment that I saw x 33mm image area. This creates a there. built-in stereo window in a fashion The most interesting trade fair similar to the Realist system. This table was that of RBT-Raumbild- also allows the viewfinder eye- technik GmbH. You may remem- pieces to be spaced so that stereo- ber my past report on the RBT scopic viewing with both view- The RBT Yashika spliced SLR stereo cam- Stereoprojektor 101 (a fully auto- finders is possible! era. The lens separation of 65.4mm is less matic, auto focus, 50 slide tray The lenses are completely cou- than other customized cameras of the projector for Realist format slides), pled for focus, aperture and zoom type, and allows 3-0 viewing through the two functioning viewfinders. and the RBT plastic stereo slide settings. The lenses demonstrated mounts. Uan./Feb. '90, page 28.) were Tokina 28mm to 70mm We have also mentioned the new zooms, but any suitable lenses can Yashika gave their blessing. It real- RBT Stereo SLR camera based on be coupled on special order. RBT ly is a beautiful job. two Yashika 108 bodies. The recent makes a special 1 518 x 4" mount How well does it work? I can congress provided an opportunity with 31.5mm apertures especially only say that I saw at least 6 or so to get a look at this camera first- to go with this camera. different congress attendees using hand. In actually handling this camera this camera. I asked a few how the To refresh your memory, this is a I was extremely impressed by the like the camera and all were fully automatic stereo camera that finish of the entire job. New top enthusiastic, reporting no prob- takes advantage of many of the pieces and a bottom plate were cre- lems. features that we now expect to ated to integrate with the twinned What are the negative features? find in better modern SLR1s. These camera body so that, for all practi- The only one that I ran across is features include multi-program cal purposes, this camera looks as that in the conversion process the auto exposure from 16 seconds to if it rolled right out of the Yashika automatic diaphragm feature has Y2000th second, motorized film factory this way. In fact, RBT to be disabled. This means that if advance that automatically winds claims that they sent a camera to the aperture is set to f116, you are properly for the stereo format, DX- Yashika to get approval to keep the viewing through the viewfinder at sensing from IS0 25 to 3200, LED Yashika name on the camera, and fl16. This is nice for depth-of-field preview, but it means that in darker conditions one will have to "open up" for viewing and then stop down again for shooting. A I bit of bother on an otherwise automatic camera. I also have personal reservations about the 24mm x 33mm format, mburq instead of the full-frame 24mm x wrvlnniv 36mm size. While this allows for a "normal" lens base, it means that film will always have to be developed uncut and mounted later. With a 24 x 36mm format and a Shown here achrol size is one ofthe new KHTplastic molrnts desip~edfor film from the 76mm lens base, one can take RRT Yashika Stereo camera. The 31.5mm apertures allow the widest practical images in advantage of getting film back in any standard Realist format mount and could tempt some 2x2 stereo shooters to use them standard 2 x 2" mounts from the as well. Many viewers and projectors would require modification to see the entire image, processor. Very handy for initial however. In this mount is a view by Peter Schnehagen of Allan GrifFn and Guy Martin at the Paris ISU Congress. previewing and editing, along with giving the larger film format. I dis-

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L------cussed this with RBT and they said camera with a detachable motor Mr. Kato reports that custom pro- that they now can also supply this drive. duction time is approximately 3 camera in a "full-frame" version The finish is not as slick as RBT1s. months. He is also willing to dis- for about 10% more. If you look closely you can see evi- cuss custom features and consider- This brings up the last bit of dence of the join of the two cam- ations. He can be contacted at: news - the price. Custom work like eras. The end result, however, is Peter Kato, Wildenbruchstrasse 10, this does not come cheap. The reported to be of high technical D-4000 Dusseldorf 11, Germany. export price (without German quality. I talked to one American Telephone (direct from USA) is sales tax) is 2,874.56 DM for the user who gave a glowing report on 011-49-211-57 01 79. body. Tokina 28-70mm zooms are his OPTRON. He said image align- The production may be limited, 555.26 DM, and coupling and ment is just perfect, and he tested but it is nice to see some new qual- matching charges for the lenses is the shutters with flash at 1/1000 ity equipment coming on the mar- 272.81 DM. That would make a sec and got perfectly matching ket. Now, why don't we seem to total of 3,702.63 DM. At the cur- slits. have any camera Technicians like rent approximate exchange rate, Price is also in the $2,000. range. this in the USA? this would be about $2,258.60. Cameras are made to order, and Even more interesting was the working prototype of a new model that RBT is working on based on two Ricoh SLR bodies. First, although the price is not finalized 3-D Part I1 on Long Island they expect it to be cheaper than At first thought, a historical Funding from the Bayville Muse- the Yashika. It also offers more fea- museum may not seem the most um helped student filmmaker Ron tures including motor wind and likely place to expect an exhibition James create a playful 10 minute rewind, auto exposure, multiple dedicated to current work in 3-D movie titled "Shore Things" as exposure, auto bracketing, and holography, 3-D photography and part of the ongoing 3-D program. self-timer. Other features including movies. But at the Bayville Histori- James, now a film major at the format will be about the same as cal Museum on Long Island, last State University of New York, was the Yashika (except for the Pentax year's exhibit "3-D From Stereogra- energized by a visit to the Muse- K lens mount). Because they do phy to Holography" was so popu- um's previous 3-D exhibition and not have permission from Ricoh to lar with visitors that a new exhibit, hopes to incorporate what he use the name, they presently do "3-D Part I1 - From Holography to learned about stereoscopic cinema not want to say which model they Stereoscopic Cinema" is now run- in future projects. A photo of the are using as the basis for the cam- ning through May 15, 1992. young cinematographer wearing era. I will certainly report more Major pieces by several leading three pairs of 3-D glasses illustrat- when information becomes avail- holographers are on display in a ed coverage of the exhibit in the able. specially designed gallery. The Arts section of the November 13 RBT seems to have a backlog of entire exhibition is displayed in a Newsday. orders for their cameras (over 100 maze of adjoining spaces, includ- The Bayville Historical Museum stereo Yashikas are reported sold), ing one in which light is focused is on School Street in Bayville, so expect a wait, both on replies on moving images for a demon- New York and is open Wednesdays and delivery time. They have no stration of the Pulf~icheffect with and Sundays, noon to 4 PM with USA agent, so you can contact the filters provided. free admission. For information them directly at RBT Raumbild- call 516-628-2011 or 628-1439. technik GmbH, Karlstrasse 19, D- 7307 Aichwald 4, Germany. FAX (for direct dial from USA) is 011-49- 711-36 39 56. The only other current maker of custom SLR stereo cameras is Peter Stereo With Sole Kato, also of Germany. He was also shot the stereographs of the shoes in Paris, demonstrating his wares, A 1991 sales promotion by the Rockport Shoe Company resulted for the upscale promotion. Rock- mainly a stereo SLR based on two in the creation of over a thousand port Shoe dealers all over the Ricoh models which he has named country displayed the stereoscopes the "OPTRON 3D". This has very classic brass and mahogany stereoscopes and a series of stereo card on pedestals similar to those hold- similar features to the stereo ing shoes in their windows during Yashika camera, with electronic views showing some of their shoes in close-up 3-D. The viewers were the late fall of 1991. Apparently exposure control and speeds from few chose to make the viewers 16 seconds to Y~ooothsecond, plus made by reproduction instrument specialist Erik Van Court, whose accessible to customers so that the B. Lens base is 76mm, and film company produces precision shoe views could be seen through apertures are 24 x 36mm. Film reproductions of a variety of the viewers intended to exhibit advance is by manual wind, them. We will try to present more although he has made at least one antique scientific, optical and mea- suring devices. A former commer- details in a future issue. I I cia1 photographer, Van Court also 1 I

STEREO WORLD SeptemkrlOctokr 1991 33 6x6 Stereo Rig Imported

camera is now available in the U.S. thanks to NSA member Quentin Burke, manufacturer of the Q-VU self-masking stereo print mounts. The dual camera rig had been mentioned in the Photokina article, SW Nov./Dec. '90, page 26 as well as in the January '91 Popular Photography, page 53. Until recently, however, communications with the Su Mond Company of Taiwan had been difficult and no reliable means of ordering the camera could be provided. The camera consists of a svliced 1 pair of Chinese twin:1ens The King Inn rplicrd 2 1/4 x 2 I/4" crlrnrru rig. reflex 120 roll film cameras. Film 1 advance, focus and shutters are connected, while a built-in non- unique feature on the King Inn is interested in the expense of 6x6 coupled light meter replaces the the tiny flashlight on a cable next slide mounts and projection equip- left viewfinder. The 75mm fl3.5 to the meter to check settings in ment. lenses are combined with 1 to low light conditions! The sample The King Inn 3-D Multi Viewer Nwth sec plus B shutters and a PC slides seen so far are impressively is one of the few lighted viewers flash connection. A custom alu- sharp, and of course the camera on the market for 6x6 format minum case is included to carry could be used for color or black & stereo slides. Two small fluorescent and protect the bulky rig. One white print pairs by those not tubes are switchable for front or back lighting, allowing either slides OR prints to be viewed. It runs off four AA cells, but an adapter is included for 110 AC operation. Another adapter is included for viewing pairs of 2x2 slides. The viewer is available sepa- rately for those presently using a single camera or other pairings of cameras in this format. The King Inn camera and case are $1350.00 plus $10.00 shipping and the viewer and case are $140.00 plus $5.00 shipping from Q-VU, P.O. Box 55, Holtville, CA 92250. Phone: 619-356-4102.

Stereo Print Service The stereo card views displayed at Grand Photo lab of St. Paul, MN (MayIJune '91 NewViews) were by Quentin Burke of Holtville, CA. The mail-order lab's price for each monolithic stereo print pair from 35mm stereo color negatives is now $1.25, and shipping and insurance is now $2.00 a roll. For details, contact Grand Photo, 1681 Grand Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105. King Inn Ii,yhted viewer in its case. (Or see Stereo World Mar./Apr. '90, page 38.)

34 STEREO WORLD SepternberlOctober 1991 Coming: 3 High-tech 3-D Conferences Three-Dimensional technology and display - including stereo- bec. (The 1989 "3Dmt" was cov- as utilized in video, computer graphic images. Representatives ered in a two-part Stereo World arti- graphics, holography and film is from more than 75 companies will cle in the JulyJAug. and Sept.Oct. becoming a hotter item of interest be present to answer questions. '89 issues.) around the globe every year. Fol- The conference is sponsored by This year's conference will lowing the professional sympo- the Society of Photo-Optical include material on 3-D film and sium held in conjunction with the Instrumentation Engineers and the video, stereoscopic computer 1991 ISU Congress in Paris, three Society for Imaging Science and graphics and animation, virtual more scientific conferences are Technology. Conference fees range reality systems, holography, 3-D scheduled for 1992 in three differ- from $450 down to $50 (for stu- multi-media technologies, 3-D pro- ent countries. dents) and one-day registration is duction and management, and 3-D FIRST is the International sympo- possible for specific events. For theory and research. Exhibits, sium on Three Dimensional Technol- more information, contact Society demonstrations and previews of ogy and Arts, to be held at the Insti- of Photo-Optical Instrumentation 3-D media systems will take place tute of Industrial Science, Universi- Engineers, PO Box 10, Bellingham, over the three days of the confer- ty of Tokyo February 3-7. The 37 WA 98227-0010. Phone: 206-676- ence. papers scheduled to be presented 3290. For details, contact 3Dmt'92, will cover recent achievements in THIRD is "3Dmt'92", the 1992 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, Montre- 3-D image technology and exam- International Conference on Three al, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada. ine practical means for future Dimensional Media Technology to Phone: 514-848-2539. FAX: 514- exchanges of 3-D image media in be held May 18-20 at Le Centre 848-3492. the global communication net- Sheraton Hotel in Montreal, Que- work. Many will concentrate on technical aspects of 3-D video broadcasting standards and autostereoscopic video display concepts. The papers are largely by Mail Order 3-D An Invitation and for researchers, theorists and At least two current mail order All active stereo photographers engineers working in computer catalogs offer stereo related items are invited to send entries to the and video fields, but an IMAX pre- from what may seem unlikely 13th Southern Cross International sentation will be included as well sources. An assemble-it-yourself as stereo slide programs by Guy stereoscope kit is offered on page 5 Ventouillac and Jan Gjessling. of the current Mason & Sullivan's Registration fees are Y26,000 per Classics in the Making catalog. The person plus more for the technical reproduction standard Holmes tours and banquet. For specifics, scope and stand is of cherry wood contact Joji Hamasaki, Institute of and brass, and includes twelve Industrial Science, University of reproduction vintage views and Tokyo, 7-22-1, Roppongi, Mina- instructions for making your own toku, Tokyo 106, Japan. FAX, +81 3 stereoviews. The firm's address is 3402 5078, +81 3 3479 2766. 586 Higgins Crowell Road, West --- SECOND, a conference called Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA 02673. befoie, this is a Electronic Imaging Science & Technol- Another catalog called Things good opportunity to to give it a ogy is scheduled February 9-14 at You Never Knew Existed" from the try. The PSA approved event is the San Jose Convention Center in Johnson Smith Company features sponsored by the Sydney Stereo San Jose, CA. Presentations and liquid crystal shuttering goggles Camera Club and the closing date workshops on Stereographic Dis- for 3-D TV on its cover. On page 91 for entries is April 3, 1992. For plays, Virtual Environments, Prac- appears an ad for a home 3-D TV rules and entry form, write to tical Holography and Holographic system including driver and shut- Allan Griffin FPSA, 4 Kathy Close, Stereograms will dominate the tering glasses to attach to your Pymble, N.S.W. 2073, Australia. event under the theme "Vision VCR, and one sample 3-D video and Visualization." A two-day tape, similar to the offer from 3-D technical exhibition aimed at TV Corporation in their Stereo potential industrial and institu- World ads. The Johnson Smith ntis column depends on renders for infor- tional customers will feature Company is at 4514 19th Court mation. (Wedon't know everything!!)Send equipment for electronic image East, Box 25500, Bradenton, FL information or qrrestions to Dnvid Stnrkman, P.O. Box 2368, Culver City, CA 9023 I. acquisition, storage, manipulation 34206.

STEREO WORLD SeptembhrlOctober 1991 35 New 3-D THIS IS THE MOST COMPLETE AND Poster & Book Source BEST BOOIC Cygnus Graphic, the folks who next to prints) are also available. AVAILABLE ON created the large anaglyphic poster Coming soon from Cygnus is a of the entire Solar System (SW book specifically on the problems STEREO Nov./Dec. '90, page 14) have and techniques of publishing 3-D expanded their mail order product images in books or posters, for line to include 3-D books, comics, those with good material and ideas viewers, and View-Master reels. but no experience with printing The books, some of which have firms and technologies. not before been available from U.S. A complete catalog of 3-D publi- sources, cover a variety of subjects cations and products is now avail- and include both anaglyphic and able for $1.00, (refundable with side-by-side stereo images. Several any order over $10.00) from: styles of anaglyph glasses (as well Cygnus Graphic, PO Box 32461, as elastic cords for hanging them Phoenix, AZ 85064-2461.

Wide-Screen 3-D 3-D HDTV Camcorders The powerful Japanese TV The remaining stock of Toshiba broadcaster NHK is experimenting 3-D Camcorders is being sold with lenticular wide-screen TV, through Reel 3-D Enterprises at according to an article in the Octo- about a third of the system's origi- ber '9 1 Popular Science. Images nal price. (See NewViews, JulyIAug. from four cameras are multiplexed '89) While sales didn't inspire and projected from an LCD panel Toshiba to make the camera a per- Third Printing ! onto a rear projection screen fitted manent stock item, it has at least Ilardbound, 300 pages with lenticular lenses designed for now become competitive with viewing at 16 feet. The system prices of many 2-D camcorders. would take advantage of current The complete outfit is now priced Hundreds of illustrations, progress with wide-screen high- at $995.00 and includes the cam- definition technology. Techniques era, remote control, liquid crystal many in 3-D! for data compression could be shuttering glasses, and a synchro- refined for broadcast of the four nizerldriver box. m images, or fiber-optic cables could eventually carry the signals direct- Only $49.95 postpaid ly into homes. Order direct fro111 publisller! Send order and persorial check to:

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36 STEREO WORLD SeptemberlOctober 1991 January 18 (CA) 231 Market Place, Ste. 379, San February 16 (CA) NSA REGIONAL MEETING, 7:30 pm Ramon, CA 94583. Call 510-828- Buena Park Camera Swap Meet, Schultz Auditorium, Stanford Uni- 1797. Sequoia Club, 7530 Orangethorpe versity, Palo Alto, CA. The multi-pro- February 2 (MI) Ave., Buena Park, CA. Call 714-786- jector slide show 3-D's Greatest Hits Detroit Super Used Camera Show & 6644. will be shown. Contact Robert Sale, Holiday Inn-Fairlan, Dearborn, February 16 (GA) Bloomberg, 415-459-3013 days. MI. Contact Photorama USA, 20219 Atlanta Camera Show & Sale, Atlanta January 18 (FL) Mack Ave., Grosse Pointe Woods, MI Mariott-Northwest, Atlanta, GA. 4th Jacksonville Camera Show & 48236. Call 313-884-2243. Contact Photorama USA, 20219 Sale, Holiday Inn, 9150 Baymeadow February 3-7 gapan) Mack Ave., Grosse Pointe Woods, MI Rd., Jacksonville, FL. Contact Pho- International Symposium on Three 48236. Call 313-884-2243. torama USA, 20219 Mack Ave., Dimensional Image Technology and February 22-23 (CA) Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236. Call Arts, University of Tokyo. (See San Francisco Bay Area Camera 3 13-884-2243. Newviews item) Contact Joji Show, Scottish Rite Auditorium, 1547 January 19 (FL) Hamasaki, Institute of Industrial Sci- Lakeside DL, Oakland, CA. Contact 2nd Daytona Camera Show & Sale, ence, University of Tokyo, 7-22-1, Carney & Company, 231 Market Voyager Hotel, 2424 N. Atlantic Ave., Roppongi, Minatoku, Tokyo 106, Place, Ste. 379, San Ramon, CA Daytona Beach, FL. Contact Photora- Japan. Call +81-3-3479-2766 or +81- 94583. Call 415-828-1797. ma USA, 20219 Mack Ave., Grosse 3-3402-6231 (EX. 2314). February 22 (VA) Pointe Woods, MI 48236. Call 313- February 8-9 (FL) Richmond, VA Camera Show & Sale, 884-2243. Florida Photocollectors 16th Annual Holiday Inn, 6531 West Broad St., January 25 (CAI Camera & Photo Show, North Miami Richmond, VA. Contact Photorama LA Image and Antique Photographic Armory, 13250 NE 8th Ave., Miami, USA, 20219 Mack Ave., Grosse Show, Quality Motel, 5249 W. Cen- FL. Contact F.P.C., PO Box 15224, Pointe Woods, MI 48236. Call 313- tury Blvd. (near LAX) First show in Plantation, FL 33318. Call 305-473- 884-2243. Southern Cal. devoted to "images 1596. February 23 (MD) and antique camera equipment." February 9 WJ) Washington, D.C. Photorama USA Contact Chuck Reincke, 2141 Sweet Second Sunday Camera Show, Fire- Camera Show & Sale, Holiday Inn Briar Rd., Tustin, CA 92680. Call man's Hall, Parish Drive, Wayne, NJ. (Lanham) 5910 Princess Garden 714-832-8563 eves, 645-1475 days. Contact Second Sunday Camera Parkway, Lanham, MD. Contact Pho- January 25 (FL) Show, 25 Leary Ave., Bloomingdale, torama USA, 20219 Mack Ave., 3rd Gainsville Camera Show & Sale, NJ 07403. Call 201-838-4301. Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236. Call University Center Hotel, 1535 SW February 9-14 (CA) 313-884-2243. Archer Rd., Gainsville, FL. Contact Electronic Imaging, Science & Tech- February 23 (IL) Photorama USA, 20219 Mack Ave., nology Conference, San Jose Con- Chicago Fantastic Camera Show, Grosse Point Woods, MI 48236. Call vention Center, San Jose, CA. (See Westin Hotel O'Hare, 6100 River 313-884-2243 or 407-352-1400. Newviews item.) Contact the Society Road, Rosemont, IL. Contact Bill January 26 (FL) of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Moritz, 815-886-0101 or Fantastic 4th Orlando Camera Show & Sale, Engineers, Box 10, Bellingham, WA Photo Flea Market, 20219 Mack Ave., Howard Johnson Hotel, 304 W. Colo- 98227-0010. Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236. nial Dr., Orlando, FL. Contact Pho- torama USA, 20219 Mack Ave., Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236. Call 313-884-2243 or 407-352-1400. January 26 (CA) Santa Barbara Camera Show, Earl For all standard Warren Showgrounds, Santa Barbara, Reallst 3D stereo slides. CA. Contact Bill Bagnall, 714-786- Glass or cardboard 6644 or 786-8183. mounted. Folds flat, February 1 (OH) weighs only 1 oz. Giant Toledo Camera & Computer Prepaid minimum order Swap, Galdieux Pavilion, 2630 $1 0.00. Add $1 .OO for Laskey Road, Toledo, OH. Contact shipp~ngand handling. Photorama USA, 20219 Mack Ave., FREE CATALOG AVAILABLE Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236. Call TO ORDER CALL TOLL FREE 3 13-884-2243. 800-223-6694 MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED February 2 (CAI MINIMUM ORDER 520 00 Hayward Camera Show & Sale, Cen- tennial Hall, 22292 Foothill Blvd., TAYLOR MERCHANT CORP. 212 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 Hayward, CA. Contact Carney & Co.,

STEREO WORLD SepternberlOctober 1991 37

> 3-D EQUIPMENT and V-M reels. For my EARLY 1900s NUDES in 3-Dl Nine qual~ty VIEW-MASTER Personal "type A" filters, latest list, send 60c in US stamps (no reproduced Realist slides only $18: A frac- (pair) Exc.+, $5; Realist ST-41 camera, SASE) Francois Beaulieu, C.P. 63 CDN, tion of the cost of the originals! Famous extremely early serial number (A0678), Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3S 2S4. 3-D Dreams Bathing Beauties catalog is Exc.+ with original-style eveready case, always free! 3-D Dreams, Box 1441, strap, $195; Realist film-sorting box from 3-D PRODUCTS! Books, posters, View- Orem. UT 84059-1441. mounting kit, green fabric-covered, hinge Master, 3-D viewers, etc. - a wide variety torn, otherwise Exc.+, $5; Like-Life viewer, to suit just about everyone! For our new HYPERSTEREO FIREWORKS! Spectacu- (rare, before name was switched to Life- catalog, send $1. (refundable with order) lar, brilliant, colorful and extremely dynam- Like), Exc.+ in original box wlinstructions & to: Cygnus Graphic, Box 32461-X ic fireworks, in hyperstereo by Dexter waranty registration cards, $50;Kodak PK- Phoenix, AZ 85064. Richards Ill, specify "Twin-35mm" or "Real- 20 slide processing mailers, can be used ist" format and send a $5 check to: Brevity, for 24-exp. rolls, $3 each. Please add A REVOLUTIONAL extraordinary 3-0 Inc., PO Box "Ow,Santa Clara, CA 95055. effect. King Inn 3-0 6x6 system, Inc.: 2%" UPS. Mark Willke, 200 SW 89th Ave., CameraIMulti ViewerlMounting Press1 JOHN WALDSMITH'S "Stereo Views, An Portland, OR 97225. (503) 297-7653. Mounting Frames. Sunny Tseng, 3F, #5, Illustrated History and Price Guide" avail- VIEW-MASTER single reels for sale. please Lane 148, Fu-Hsing, S. Rd. Sec. 2, Taipei, able signed from the author, $22.95 soft- send SASE for list. B. Shotsberger, 4917 Taiwan. bound or $34.95 hardbound, add $2.95 Cockrell Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76133. postage and handling. Mastercard and BOX SETS and assorted items, Yellow- VISA accepted. John Waldsmith, PO Box stone National Park U&U, 24 of 30 card 191. Svcamore. OH 44882. set, EIC, $50. Around the World U&U, 72 cards, 3 missing, $115. ltaly U&U, 81 of KEYSTONE 600 card World Tour set with AUSTRALIAN VIEWS and 1950s 3-D 100 set plus 14 U&U of Italy, total 95 cards viewer, 56 slides missing, 205 duplicate comics wanted for U.S. views (or cash), no EIC $125. Panama U&U, 30 cards, 10 slides, Excellent to Good condition, call Kilburn, Keystone, U&U please. All letters missing plus 3 assorted Panama, total 33 (518) 793-4287 or write Dunbar, 20 John answered. Warren Smythe, 258 Cumber- cards, EIC, $70. 30 assorted ltaly U&U St., South Glens Falls, NY 12803. land Rd., Auburn, NSW 2144, Australia. EIC $75. 16 assorted Niagara Falls views, NEW TOSHIBA 3-D VHS-C Camcorder. COLLEGES, and 1500 other selected 13 by Geo. E. Curtis $85. EIC. The follow- stereo views in stock. Will trade only for ing are multicolored lithoprints box set Lightweight; easy to use. System includes LCD shutter glasses and allows viewing of Maine flat mount views - any subject or views. Comic series, 99 cards. $40. EIC. condition. Write or call for details: Blaine E. Europe, 97 cards, some Egyptian, $40. 3-D TV videos too. Now only $1995. 3-D Illusions, Box 25231, Los Angeles, CA Bryant, 864 Bridgton Road, Westbrook, box GIC cards EIC. Views of the World, 93 ME 04092, (207) 854-4470. cards, $35. box PIC cards EIC. Pic- 90025, (213) 207-1658. turesque America, 105 cards $45. box GIC SELVTRADE: 10 reel set of Alpine Wild- EXTREMELY RARE View-MasterIMattel cards EIC. Holyland, 100 cards $50. box flowers, near mint, with bound reproduc- demo reel and viewer, "Barbie's 3-D Wheel EIC cards EIC. Please add $4. for PIH tion of Stegner book. $75. or trade for an of Fashion". Issued as part of Barbie store additional 75e. Henry Medina, 181 equivalent value in South America single display #854 (cited in the Collector's Ency- Thomas St., Brentwood, NY 11 71 7, (516) reel views. Will also purchase Central and clopedia of Barbie Dolls, P. 248), and used 273-1 832 evenings. South America single reel views. Elliott to market Barbie Dolls and accessories during 1960, one year after the dolls were COMPCO SLIDE BINDER in original box, Swanson, 808 Hayward, Bremerton, WA 98310. initially introduced. The special viewer has instructions and reusable glass slides with been modified to lock in the reel, and has 100 masks: $35. 1952 Realist magazine SPECTACULAR TRICK PHOTO! See a jet a cable for securing it to a counter. Shows ad: $5. Nord stereo projector: $150. Aire- plane flying out of the hollow core of an some wear, but overall very good to excel- quipt Stereo Theater to view 20 slides: oversized juicy peeled orange. This show- lent condition. Trade only for Bell & Howell $195. Wood tray holds 100 Realist slides: stopper inspires awe and enhances any TDC 11 6 projector or mint unused View- $10 each. Art Faner, #I01 - 1961 Center, collection. Please specify "Twin 35mm" or Master PS cutter. Sell: Sawyer's View- Salem. OR 97301. "Realist" format. Send $5 check to: Brevity, Master theater, mint (never assembled) in Inc.. PO Box "0. Santa Clara. CA 95055. original cardboard package - $45. ppd. E. - -- Swanson, 808 Hayward, Bremerton, WA STEREO VIEWER LENSES - Two wedge- 98310, (206) 479-8197. As pc ~rt- of .-their nrembership, NSA members shaped lenses. Each molded and embod- are overed fee use of classif~edadvertising. ied in 1'X" square frame. Precision optical STEREO NAZIS: Good quality, mounted Mem hers may us e 100 word5 , per year, divid- quality; build, experiment. $7.95 postpaid standard format. Rephotographed ten best ed in to three ads with a mar imum of 35 (USA), Taylor-Merchant Corporation, 212 ditional woi of 100 Raumbild 1936 Nazi rally, including word s per ad. Ad .ds and addi- West 35th St., New York, NY 10001 tiona'1 ads may b e inserted at the rate of 20c six close Hitlers. New collector trading for .., ... t..... 2 interesting views, especially Pan-American per wora. rrease,.. rncruae payments with ads. STEREO VIVID; TDC Model 116; Excellent We cannot provide billings. Deadline is the Expo. Whatcha got? Jerry Hanley, (716) cond., 4" lenses. (614) 475-5709, $350. 875-2827, 368 Highland, Buffalo, NY prst day of the month preceding publication UPS included (USA). date. Send ads to the National Stereoscopic 14223. Association, PO. Box 14801, Columbur, STEREO WORLD - Vol. 2 #2; Vol. 4 #I-5; TENNIS. Want anything old, even non-3-D OH 43214, or call (419) 927,2930. A rate Vol. 6 #2, #5, #6; Vol. 8 #4; Vol. 9 #2, #3, or non-photographic. Will trade from my sheet for display ads is availtzble upon #6; Vol. 10 #2. #5; Vol. 13 #2, #5; Vol. 14 general collection of stereo views and pho- request. (Please send SASE.) #1, #2, #4, #5, #6; Vols. 7, 11, 12, 15, 16, tographica. Brandt Rowles, PO Box 671, 17 complete; Vol. #18 #1, #2. + Mint Norwich. NY 1381 5, (607) 334-5932 $120., Ron Owen, PO Box 4277, Napa, evenings. CA 94558.

38 STEREO WORLD SepternberlOdober 1991 AFRICAN AMERICAN c~v~l~anand m~l~tary I BUY ARIZONA PHOTOGRAPHS! Stereo STILL LOOKING for Stereo Realist brand stereograph~ccards from Clv~lWar, the views, cabinet cards, mounted pho- slide storage cases, chests, and files in west and World War I. Paul Batchelor, tographs, RP post cards, albums and pho- Exc. or better condition. Also looking for 11330 S. Edbrooke Ave., Chicago, IL tographs taken before 1920. Also interest- certain BAJA stereo slide cases and 60628. ed in xeroxes of Arizona stereographs and chests. Mark Willke, 200 SW 89th Ave., photos for research. Will pay postage and Portland, OR 97225. (503) 297-7653. ALASKA AND KLONDIKE stereo views; copy costs. Jeremy Rowe, 2331 E. Del Rio also Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes & Tin- Dr.. Tem~e.AZ 85282. STlTZ STEREO ADAPTER 52mm size type stereos. Send copies, descriptions, adapter ring. Interested in other sizes as prices. Thanks! Robert King, 3800 Coven- INDIAN TERRITORY, Oklahoma Territory, well. Also, Pentax 200mm F/4 telephoto try Drive, Anchorage, AK 99507. or Oklahoma. Any stereo views, pre-1922 lens (not the F14.5). Keith Kurek, 502 real photo post cards, cabinet view, CDV, S~artanAvenue. East Lansina. MI 48823. ANTIQUE STEREO VlEWS at ridiculous or Territorial memorabilia. Also Fayet- prices like $5 and up! What about other teville, Arkansas' Hansard views of any TENNIS. Anything, even non 3-D or non- types of 3-D? Doesn't anyone collect location. David Reeh, Box 4231, Tulsa, OK photographic. Brandt Rowles, PO Box comics, magazines, holograms? Where 741 59. (918) 492-1656 (H) 224-7997 (0). 671, Norwich, NY 13815, (607) 334-5932 are all those people? I don't get it. Richard eveninas. Ross, Box 478, St. Peters, MO 63376. LAWRENCE, MASS. New collector seeking historical stereo views of my city. Please US MINT, Coins & Paper money stereos ASTRONOMY VIEWS of moon, planets, write with description and reasonable price wanted! Views of coining, printing opera- comets, sun, etc. Phone (508) 865-4126. to Bob Frishman, 173 Prospect St., tions, Mint exteriors, interiors from Lawrence, MA 01841. Philadelphia, San Francisco. New BOXED SET OF AFRICA. Complete. Also Orleans, Denver, Dahlonega (Georgia), South Africa diamond mining & related. MUYBRIDGE VIEWS. Too orices aid. Also Charlotte. Carson Citv. Treasurv De~t. Alan Young, 404 Westlea Dr., Westfield, IN Michigan and Mining :(he 3 MS. Many (washington, DC) are wanted. ~speciall~ 46074. views available for trade. Leonard Walle, seeking long U&U series (#12120-12219) CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD stereo- 60 Pinto Lane. Novato. CA 94947. circa 1904 showina Philadelphia mint graphs (also Union Pacific): Alfred A. Hart. operations. sendany view's for my PALESTINE - Holy Land stereos, and approval priced, or send Xerox copy with C.E. Watkins, A.J. Reilly, Anthony, Durgan stereos showing synagogues and other & others. Dr. James Winter, 15145 Mulhol- condition and price. Same day reply. David Judaica, by F. Good, Bergheim, Frith, Bon- Sundman, president, Littleton Coin Co., land Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90077, (818) fils, Edward Wilson, Bierstadt, etc., to 784-0619, Fax (818) 784-1039. 253 Union St., Littleton, NH 03561, (603) trade or purchase. I have many flat 444-5386. COLLECT, TRADE, BUY & SELL: 19th mounts and French tissues of European Century images (Cased, stereo, Cdv, Cab- scenes. exhibitions and aenre. Write to VIEWS OF GLASS MAKING industrv, alass inet & large paper). Bill Lee, 8658 S. Glad- David ~scalon,11 5 ~tlanscAve., Berlin, exhibitions, glass blowing, etc. send info iator Way, Sandy, UT 84094. Specialties: NJ 08009. and price to Jay Doros, 780 Chancellor Avenue. Iwinaton. NJ 07111 -2997. Western, Locomotives, photographers, PHOTOCOPY of pages 93 and 94 of "Make Indians, Mining, J. Carbutt, Expeditions, Your Own Stereo Pictures" by Julius B. WEST VIRGINIA stereo views by Ander- Ships, Utah & Occupational. Kaiser (1955). Harold Wright, 295 Edison son, Bishop Brothers, William Chase, G. COLORADO stereo views by James Thur- Dr.. Vermilion. OH 44089. Kirk, E. McGarry and others, including scenics. Send photocopies to: Tom Prall, low. Will purchase or trade your wants in REVERE STEREO camera book. Lost in stereo views. Arthur Farrell, 33 E. 5th St., Rt. 3, Box 146, Apt. 6, Buckhannon, WV moving. Bought in late 50s. Tom Conley, 26201.. Huntinaton Station. NY 11 746. 284 Danforth St. #310, Portland, ME COLORSCOPE, NOVELVIEW and Adis- 04102. WHEELER 100th MERIDIAN Exposition cope wanted. Film rolls, cards, viewers 1871-1874, needed: 11,14,15,17,31,36. STEREO VIEWS by Edward L. Wilson from Please send Xerox, front and back. I. and view lists. Bob Zeuschel, 805 West- "Scenes in the Orient" series. Will pur- brooke Mdws. Ct., Ballwin, MO 63021. Richer, 25 W. 19th St., New York, NY chase or trade your wants in stereo views. 10011, (212) 989-6600. FLORIDA STEREOS of historical value, Arthur Farrell, 33 E. 5th St., Huntington especially Tallahassee, Tampa and Station, NY 11 746. WOLLENSAK 10 stereo camera in excel- Gainesville. Price and describe or send on lent to mint condition and working order. approval, highest prices paid for pre-1890 John Holt, 24 Stoneledge Drive, views. No St.Augustine. Hendriksen, PO Maumelle, AR 72113, (501) 851-4408. Box 21 153, Kennedy Space Center, FL 3281 5. I AM A CONTINUAL BUYER of Block Island. Rhode Island 1. Stereos, 2. Cabi- COMPUTER USERS ! nets, 3. Real photo post cards. Ship for Ii you use a computar and arc intwustud in shannq prompt payment: Peter Benin, 96 Bald Hill andlw axpanding your knowledqe d sterao Rd., Wilton, CT. 06897. photgrpahy join me on GEnie to talk stweo. I BUY ALL "VISTAS CUBANAS" stereos by Ghir offeras a $4.95 mu month vlan called E. Anthony, also Cuban views by M.E.A. 'Star Survicu' with =tad usa of Anfaaturus amcmq which is the PHOTO bulletin Mestrel, Vere F. Campbell, Griffith & Grif- hrd. The stereo topic is TOPIC81 of CATAGORY 823. Typp "M8009,12"from the top or fith, European American, Universal Photo any othar menu, thpn use command 83 to SET CAT to 823, command 87 to READ msgs Art Co., M.H. Zahner, B.W. Kilburn. Box in TOPIC 81. I'm not an employee of GEni in any way. I just want to 'spread the word'. sets by Keystone and U&U on Puerto Rico You will need a MODEM to connect your computer to the phone line. To pin GEnie, usu and Cuba. CDVs made by F. Fredericks in Cuba and CDVs by Marc Ferrez of G. your modem to dial 1-800-63&8369 (HALF duplex), upon connection enter "HHH" (no Leuzinger in Brazil or Chile. Henry Medi- quotes, no RETURN). GEnir will raspand with "UB=",rntcr "XTX99499,GENIE"then na, 181 Thomas St., Brentwood, NY prass RETURN. Hava a major credit card w your chacking account numk ready. GEnir 11 71 7, (516) 273-1832. offars a money back guarantee, try it fw 35) davs?cancel and get your $4.95 back ! You can sent mr E-Mail on GEnia to "R-AMIRAULT",or you can write me for mora information, Pichard Arnirault, PO Box 469, Malden, MA 02148

STEREO WORLD SeptemberlOctober 1991 39 New Video Looks Into Stereo History A Review by John Dennis

pher Philip Brigandi in the mid quality of the images themselves 1920s. He complained, "I thought that make the video a good poten- I was hired to take pictures, not tial tool to help expand interest in destroy them!" But Brigandi at stereography as a vital and unique least knew better than most which historical record. images to save, and his choices were years later to become the core of the vast Keystone-Mast Collec- tion at the CMP, which provided the over 150 views seen in the hile watching a recent airing tape. (A detailed, stereo-illustrated Wof the PBS program The article on Brigandi appeared in American Experience, covering the Vol. 2 Number 3 of the CMP Bul- Johnstown Flood, I noticed again letin.) how many historic stills used in Portrayed by actor Michael Hop- programs like this are from unac- pel Philip Brigandi is seen entering knowledged stereographs. And a vault, sitting down, and inserting again the wistful thought came to Michael Hoppc' c2.s I'lrilip Ipanning around within that time limit the basic history of ject.) the view. A number of leading stereography from Wheatstone to The actor never speaks (narra- stereo photographers (including the Second World War. While the tion is all voice-over) and at the Brigandi, Ricalton and Ponting) tape makes no attempt to simulate end of the video he simply turns are shown in views taken on loca- actual 3-Dl the nature of stereo out the light and walks out of the tion or with cameras or viewers. vision and imaging techniques are vault. As a device to tie the story Among these is the delightful view explained and full stereo cards are together all of this works quite of Ricalton about to cross a river in repeatedly shown. Produced by smoothly, but the character does a India on the inflated hide of a bul- Sandpail Productions of Studio lot of pensive gazing-into-the-dis- lock. City, California with the California tance during parts of the narra- Some of the most memorable Museum of Photography, the tape tion. If there was any concern views known are used, including concentrates heavily on American about the live-action color visuals those of the building of the views of the late 19th and early detracting from the monotone vin- transcontinental railroad, the 20th centuries as represented in tage views, the results clearly prove development of aviation from the the museum's Keystone-Mast Col- there was nothing to worry about. Wright Brothers through the lection. The fast moving selection of his- 1940s, the career of Teddy Roo- Ironically, the tape's narrative toric images and the well edited sevelt, and the San Francisco earth- opens at one of the lowest points narration give even viewers with quake. Samples from various coun- in the entire history of stereogra- no background in stereo a reveal- try and world tour sets add inter- phy: the disposal of "excess" nega- ing overall look at the scope and national flavor and reveal some of tives by the Keystone View Com- richness of its history. But most of what Americans were being shown , pany - a task assigned to stereogra- all, it's the inherently fascinating of other peoples and cultures. While no substitute for viewing original images in a scope or for seeing some of the many stereo slide presentations assembled over the years by NSA members, the ON THE HISTORY OF STEREO PHOTOGRAPHY! tape is nevertheless well worth having on hand for a good visual introduction to the history of The video "Stereo Photography: Places and Times stereography. Remembered" uses over 150 images from the Keystone-Mast As the first effort of its type, the Collection of the California Museum of Photography, to illustrate tape is an encouraging indication the history of stereography between 1850 and 1940. In this of what could be done given the entertaining and informative program the story of stereography is funding for, say, a two hour TV told through the reminiscence of Philip Brigandi, one of the top special that could include more on stereographers for the Keystone View Company. the rich history of stereo imaging from Europe as well as images and The rich soundtrack for the program incorporates Brigandits techniques from more recent reminiscence, quotations from contemporary sources, and period times. Rapid-fire editing, dramatic music by Scott Joplin. "Stereo Photography: Places and historical narration, and lively Times Remembered" is a time machine, which will transport sound effects could help hold the attention of people with at least a the viewer to the heyday of stereo photography, and provide an latent interest in real images of in depth understanding of the history behind of the photographic history. And those who get really wotk hooked could then buy the "com- panion book" complete with full To order your VHS copy send $39.95, stereo pairs, a viewer, and an NSA plus $3.00 shipping and handling. California residents must add membership form! 8.25% sales tax. STEREO PHOTOGRAPHY: Places and Sandpail Productions Times Remembered is available in 3608 Avenida del Sol Studio City, CA 91604. standard 112" VHS format for $39.95 including shipping. (Cali- fornia residents add 8.25% sales tax.) To order, or for information on other formats, write to Sandpail Productions, 3608 Avenida del Sol, Studio City, CA 91604-4020. na

Bennett Exhibit Opens he work of Wisconsin stereog- Bennett created over the years. Trapher H.H. Bennett will be Bennett's classic views of the Wis- exhibited at the Milwaukee Art consin Dells and the surrounding Museum from January 17 through countryside helped encourage April 12, 1992. Located in the tourism among the newly travel- museum's Teweles Gallery, the ing American public following the exhibit will include about 50 pho- Civil War. Exhibited nationally, tos, many of which have never sold widely, and published in trav- TAIWAN! before been shown. H.H. Bennett: A el books, Bennett's photos helped Sense of Place will also include illus- shape the popular perception of fl Camera trated tourist guides from the 19th the Midwestern frontier. century, maps, cameras and stereo- Lectures, a symposium, a poster r/ Viewer graphs from public and private and an illustrated catalog will collections. The exhibition is made accompany the exhibition, which r/ Mounts possible through the cooperation will also travel nationally. More of the H.H. Bennett studio Foun- information is available from the AVAILABLE FROM: dation. Milwaukee Art Museum, 750 N. The Bennett Studio is unique Lincoln Memorial Dr., Milwaukee, Q-VU among stereograph publishers, in WI 53202. P.O. BOX 55 that it not only remains intact, but (A feature article on H.H. Bennett continues to make available prints will appear in a coming issue of HOLTVILLE, CA 92250 from the huge stock of negatives Stereo World.) na Phone: 619 356-4102 Sylvain Arnoux demonstrating his stereo drawing machine at the ISU Congress in Paris in September. Details on the congress appear in "A 3-0 Festival in Paris" on page 16.