tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post114544186396334701..comments2024-03-27T10:27:59.266-04:00Comments on John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: RETRO TOY FLASHBACK # 37: the GAF View-MasterJohn Kenneth Muirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15629979615332893780noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-78081199293255506012008-02-29T08:59:00.000-05:002008-02-29T08:59:00.000-05:00Here's the official website for View-Master: http:...Here's the official website for View-Master: http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?t=page&a=go&s=viewmaster&p=landing_flash&site=usLionel Braithwaitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03024473793409118944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-1145639400994651462006-04-21T13:10:00.000-04:002006-04-21T13:10:00.000-04:00View-master reels were terrific. Even better than...View-master reels were terrific. Even better than a DVD, we got to see scenes from our favorite movies and tv in sharp 3-D! No pixellated pictures! In addition to classic Trek, and Space:1999, I also treasure another View-master reel, UFO (it's the best way to appreciate the terrific model work). Some reels are better than others. For example, many of the pics from Star Trek: The Motion Picture are simply 2-D publicity photos, with the 3-D effect achieved by pasting the photos onto an unrelated background. All the photos from classic Trek were in true 3-D. Unfortunately, effects photos (for classic Trek) featured a small Enterprise model in front of some Christmas lights. Understandably, process shots weren't available in 3-D.<BR/><BR/>I don't think Star Wars reels were ever made. It would be great to see those classic scenes in 'three dimensions'...almost like seeing the props in one of those Star Wars museum exhibits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-1145534688064766562006-04-20T08:04:00.000-04:002006-04-20T08:04:00.000-04:00Of course I remember Viewmasters. I have my Viewma...Of course I remember Viewmasters. I have my Viewmaster (not the one with the supplementary light, though) and several dozen sets of reels upstairs. I believe I have ISLAND AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD; if not, I have the VHS tape (DVD is available; not sure it's worth it at full price). Also have THE WALTONS (and all three LASSIE sets). They originally were made by Sawyer and go back to the 30s or 40s. I have a plastic one now, but my original Viewmaster looked as if it were made out of Bakelite. If it wasn't, it was some other very solid plastic material, with a metal viewchanger. When I would go on vacation with my parents, we would buy the Viewmaster travel sets of whatever attraction we had been to. So I have reels of Disneyland in the 70s, Washington DC, Busch Gardens in VA when it was known as "the Old Country," etc.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00684124498981972463noreply@blogger.com