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The main subjects of View-Master reels were Carlsbad Caverns and the Grand Canyon. [1] The View-Master was marketed through Mayer's photo-finishing, postcard and greeting card company Sawyer's Service, Inc., known eventually as Sawyer's, Inc. The partnership led to the retail sales of View-Master viewers and reels.
The takeover would pay off further in 1955, with reels of the newly opened Disneyland. [6] The Tru-Vue Company was a subsidiary of Sawyer's, Inc. [10] Through the 1950s Sawyer's successively introduced new models of its View-Master viewer. Sawyer's introduced the View-Master Personal Stereo Camera in 1952.
The View-Master Personal Stereo Camera was a 35mm film camera designed to take 3D stereo photos for viewing in a View-Master. First released in 1952, the camera took 69 pairs of photos on a 36-exposure roll of 35mm film, taking one set while the film was unwound from the canister, and another set while it was rewound.
The company was purchased in 1951 by Sawyer's—the manufacturer of the View-Master—because Tru-Vue had an exclusive contract to make children's filmstrips based on Disney characters. [3] Tru-Vue moved at that time from Rock Island, Illinois, to Beaverton, Oregon, [ 4 ] near where Sawyer's had built a new plant, and for a few years was a ...
A stereo transparency viewer is a type of stereoscope that offers similar advantages, e.g. the View-Master. Disadvantages of stereo cards, slides or any other hard copy or print are that the two images are likely to receive differing wear, scratches and other decay.
Digital Ghost was a German-language Star Trek fan film set within the continuity of the Star Trek: The Next Generation movies. It is the story of two (previously unseen) Starfleet officers from USS Enterprise-E (played by Erich Redman and German Big Brother star Kerstin Klinz) delegated to test the next, completely automated starship, the Enterprise-HC.
Logo for the first Star Trek series, now known as The Original Series. Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise that started with a television series (simply called Star Trek but now referred to as Star Trek: The Original Series) created by Gene Roddenberry. The series was first broadcast from 1966 to 1969 on NBC.
The Starfleet emblem as seen in the franchise. As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the science fiction series that would become Star Trek.Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in outer space—a so-called "Wagon Train to the stars"—he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, intending each episode to act on two ...