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@retrosteveuk That's great!
I've still got my early red one, along with a more recent (smoother corners) version. I'm trying to remember what slides I've got... might just have to go and have a look!
I also picked up one of these kids projectors over the years. Of course with this you don't get the 3D effect.
Fun fact, the slides fit quite nicely into a floppy disk box...
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How about a Boombox Lego Kit, Game Boy Jukeboxes, a 3D View-Master Movie (!?) and more news from the retro scene, all packaged up into a digestable, entertaining video format? Join me for the latest edition of Retro Newsround, (12th February 2026.)
Video Link:
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Yes, my dear, you can still buy a View-Master.
I have one from the 1960's in a drawer with some reels.
It would be fun to sit in a group of people staring into smartphones but clicking one of these while saying loudly, "Hell yeah! Oh, fuck!, Man, that's hot!"
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Phil Johnston Set To Pen Live-Action ‘View-Master’ Movie From Mattel Studios, Escape Artists & Sony
#News #EscapeArtists #Mattel #PhilJohnston #Sony #ViewMasterhttps://deadline.com/2025/11/view-master-movie-mattel-phil-johnston-1236613916/
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Ads are creeping in more often on streaming services thees days. But it's not a new trend. 📺
On this vintage #ViewMaster reel note that the first image is an ad, while it promises “scenes from just six…” - not 7, but you won’t miss that last one. (Yes, this is a promo reel, but I couldn’t help myself 😜)
I pulled an old reel out after reading this post from Lucasfilm's Pablo Hidalgo on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/infinata.bsky.social/post/3lojsmqrxn22b
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In October 2010 the wife and I headed to upstate New York for the regrettable task of combing through her parents’ home after her mother passed away and before the house was sold. Like so many generations before us, it was our job to comb through the accreted objects of two lifetimes and find anything we wanted to preserve.
Here are 5 photos from our exploration, revealing tiny pieces of the 20th century shining through a family’s life in America at its height.
My wife’s father was something of a photo buff, with a variety of cameras, including some fascinating early Polaroid models.The View-Master was a staple of mid-20th-century kids toy boxes, with swappable disks that held tiny positive film frames arranged to provide a stereoscopic view of various still-image stories. Fairy tales, cartoons, and more were the subjects. This particular model was one of the first.My wife’s father was a soldier in World War II and had this German first aid kit filled with war memorabilia he’d collected. That included things like formal medals from the United States—including a Purple Heart—but also some Nazi gear, taken from… well… we don’t know. He refused to talk about his experiences in the war (which… yeah… that’s fair).The obsession with cameras meant there was a huge collection of 8mm films captured though the 1960s and 1970s. He filmed typical stuff—family gatherings, vacations, and other events. In the years since we converted all the reels into video.And here’s the camera that captured all those family memories on silent 8mm film. The camera required manually cranking the geared mechanism on the side, which apparently would apply tension to a spring inside, which would then release the tension as mechanical energy at a set rate ideal for pulling film through and releasing the camera shutter.What’s remarkable to me, looking back now, is thinking about how future generations will acquire our massive digital libraries, but the source objects that shot our videos and photos will be largely lost.
And so it goes.
https://digitalpolity.com/2024/08/04/5-photos-decades-of-life-revealed-after-death/
#8mm #camera #death #film #homeMovie #photos #Polaroid #ViewMaster #WorldWarII #WW2 #WWII
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Currently making View Master discs for a show in San Francisco. Made using transparency film and laser cut recycled paper, the work will be displayed on this vintage (1950s) View Master.
This work is about fog and trans visibility and is part of a larger body of work on the same subject.
Thinking about the potential of low/no power display technologies of the past and what their formal qualities (in this case 7 stereographic images in intimate proximity of the body) might offer.
#oldnewmedia #newmedia #creativetechnologies #viewmaster #nopower #lowtech #trans #transartist #newmediaart #contemporaryart #stereogram
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Method acting enters the toy movie era: the Stephen Collins cartoon
