September/Odober 199 1 Volume 18, Number 4 L 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 cur- rent 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! 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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.