A taste of the late '40s through the early '60s found in amateur stereo slides I hvMarkWillLc 1 relatives who are no longer living, Kodak cardboard mounts stamped Death Remembered are especially precious to me. IdFER 62'1,are otherwise unlabeled, ne of the things that I enjoy With that being said, however, giving us no information about I've personally never had the who the girl is or what may have so much about stereo is its 0ability to transport me to desire to revisit the type of scenes happened to her. Some of the other places and times, allowing preserved in the stereo images ribbons near her read "Beloved me to see and revisit locations and below! I prefer to remember people Niece", "Cousin" and "Daughter". events from the past. Almost as if I who have passed away by viewing The inside lining of the casket is stereo slides of them when they really quite amazing, and is had a time travel machine, I feel like I am once again there in were still living, but some people captured beautifully in stereo. person, viewing things first hand. obviously feel differently. Our second view, submitted by Stereo images of children long Our first slide this issue is one of Ron Labbe of Massachusetts, was since grown older, or of friends or three different shots taken of the apparently made by a studio in same young girl. The slides, in Michigan. I suspect this might have been a service offered by the funeral home. The glass-mounted slide's printed label lists the name of the deceased woman, along with "Born June 14, 1877': "Died May 18, 1954" and the name of the studio. The image seems a bit posed, with the artist's hand positioned just right so it does not to block the deceased woman's face. But why would an artist be working on a painting with her back to a deceased person in a casket? These are memories I'd rather not revisit! r'rrr is column combines a love of stereo rphotography with a fondness for 1950s-era styling, design and decor by sharing amateur stereo slides shot in the "aolden2 aae" of the Stereo Realist-the late 1940s through the early 1960s. From clothing and hairstyles to home decor to modes of transportation, these frozen moments of time show what things were really like in the middl~of the twentieth century If you've found o classic '50s-era slide that you would like to share through this column, please send it to: Fifties Flavored Finds, 5610 SE 71st, Portland, OR 97206. As space allows, we will select a couple of images to reproduce in each issue. This is not a contest-just a place to share and enjoy. Please limit your submission to a single slide. If the subject, date, location, photographer or other details are known, please send that along too, but we71 understand if it's not available. Please include return postage with your slide. Slides will be returned within 6 to 14 weeks, and while we71 treat your slide as carefully as our own, Stereo World and the NSA assume no responsibility for its safety. A P~,bl#~nl#onol lational Stereoscopic Association, Inc. Volume 313, Numbe lulv1A1 gust 2007 NSA Board of Directo Larry Moor, Chorrmon Andy Griscom Dieter Lorenz William Moll Russell Norton Page 4 Page 24 Page 37 Richard Twichell Leonard A. Walle Bill IC. 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Inc Pr~ntedin USA. glaciers like this could provide the best possible visual record of these steadily Stereoscopic Society of America A subscrpt~onto Sler~oll'orid IS part (AIi~hnt~dwith 111e Nor!o!loi Jf~rcorropaArrocmfron) of NSA niernbrrrhip vanishing wonders around the world. Our feature "Ice Was Nice" by john Dennis .es Cehman, Membersh~pSec Annual membership dues: invites stereographers to get busy shooting them for future generations. 36 Rochdale Dr., Fort ~oll~nr,Ci $32 th~rdclasr US, $44 f~rrtclarr US, (970) 282-9899 $44 all lnternatlonal memberships Back Cover: e-mall les@ge_hmanorq Annual memberih~psinclude six Irruer 6. -- of S~PRO World, a plastlc lorgnette This image from Robert Balcomb's article "The Cuban Missile Crisis and vlewer, and a rnembersh~pdlrectorv Continuous Strip Stereo. " is from a late 1940s test of the KA- 18A Stereo Strip Stereo World on the Web Member, camera. Like other samples from the camera, it's unidentified and could be w.stereoview.org InternationalStereoscopic Union considered a fine candidate for our "Unknowns" feature. Comments and Observations EDITOR'SWEW john Dennis History Detectives Show Deepens Screen Mystery suppose I should have known final edit by Lion Television in were involved with the production from the PBS promos that ran New York (the show's co-producer and shooting sessions at the 3D Idays ahead of the June 25th sea- with Oregon Public Broadcasting), Center, but we remained "sworn to son opener of History Detectives, left out all references, visual or ver- secrecy" in the interest of promot- that we were in for a wild ride. As bal, to the NSA and Stereo World, ing some serious research into a a small image of the screen passes and may have been the reason a historic use of stereo imaging. His- across the frame, followed by file picture of the stereo strip projector tory Detectives researchers looked footage from the 1962 Cuban Mis- (SW Vol 9 No. 6, page 6) appeared carefully into a number of sources sile Crisis, a voice-over poses the during a description of the stereo and arranged interviews with the dramatic question, "Is this the strip camera and its installation in most knowledgeable of the avail- secret weapon used to save Ameri- an FlOl Voodoo jet. The actual able experts, including NSA mem- ca from World War Three?" (See camera does show up later in the ber Robert Balcomb. (See his well- SW Vol. 32 No. 5, page 8.) segment, but since it is no longer timed article "The Cuban Missile Weapon or not, the now famous on display at the Air Force Muse- Crisis and Continuous Strip screen did get the full investigative um in Dayton the images found in Stereo" in this issue.) The verdict treatment from the popular PBS the above issue of Stereo World they reached seems perfectly logi- show, and host Wes Cowan's flash by. cal, given the questions they asked knowledge of stereography consid- The show's concluding negative and the answers they got. erably enriched the footage shot in verdict on the possible use of the Unfortunately, the letter from Portland's 3D Center of Art and screen in JFK's Oval Office was of the late Bob O'Brien that accompa- Photography. But the fast-paced course known to all of us who nied the screen was written nearly 10 years after his 1983 SW article in which he first revealed its possi- ble historic use in a single short paragraph. In the letter he indi- cates that the screen was used far earlier in the crisis than the timing he specified in the article, written I'lease start my one-year subscri tion to closer to the actual events.