PICTURES OF THE PAST: A Time Travel with the "View-Master"

A "non-fictional" time travel to the 50s and 60s in 3D: The View-Master is retro tech: An analog viewer for stereoscopic (3D) images. There are several photos from the 50s & 60s for this system, which are presented in this video. Not in a kind of random slide show. It's a documentary about this system, how to digitize the pictures and mostly a guided time travel to the middle of the twentieth century.
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View from Grimsel Pass to the Furka Pass, Canton of Valais, Switzerland
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[@TheTerryGene]

Thank you for posting this. The 3D effect is stunning. Somewhat ironically, I viewed it on my Oculus Quest 3 headset. I have been a 3D enthusiast ever since I was given my first Viewmaster in 1955. These reels bring back memories.

[@davidvalentin5956]

Just watched this on my OLED 4K TV, switched the screen to 3D side by side and it looks incredible!! Thank you!!!!

[@SPACETIMETECH]

I'm glad you like it. I think the scanned images look much more lifelike on a large screen than on the original View-Master, which produces quite small images.

[@davidmacphee3549]

Search ' 3D Lois lane 97 Tribute to Curt Swan' if you like Side by Side 3D. My Art, 4 yrs ago. Hope you like Fan Art Dave!

[@irwanTawa]

Thanks for your sharing memories...I love much View Master...💯👍👍👍👍👍

[@SPACETIMETECH]

Nice to hear that you like my video.

[@RSEFX]

Having grown up with View Masters (the first one I got was in 1951, and we used the type C viewer) I find myself in very familiar territory here. In fact, my brother and I helped the VM people on one of their shoots on a film called BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS (no doubt not one of their biggest sellers! ha), and have made my own reels with pictures I've taken myself. I wish the photographers had increased their inter-ocular spread a lot for the wide vista city and landscape shots, to exaggerate the 3-D, since, past a certain distance, objects begin to flatten out, losing their sense of rich depth. A note about cropping for tv: Sometimes films have been shot with a hard mask in the camera so that they can't be inadvertently shown in the "squarer" old tv format. Sometime this has been done to avoid revealing special rigs that were necessary for shooting, say, visual and/or special effects. (The 1960 film THE TIME MACHINE was victim to this, as tops of miniature sets and incomplete masks on the creatures wound up being seen on tv, things that were cropped off when the film was theatrically shown, initially, for the "wide-screen" format. Thanks for the video. Fun to see a lot of these. (Maybe post some of these side-by-side reversed to look at with crossed-eyes?---though some people cant look at 3-D this way. So, maybe not a good idea, huh?)

[@SPACETIMETECH]

Thanks for your comment, especially for the interesting story about your personal, very special View Master experience. Regarding your question: At the moment I don't plan to upload the film again in side-by-side. I don't have much time at the moment. But maybe sometime in the future.

[@awesomelife3710]

Invented by Wilhelm Gruber, from München, Germany 🇩🇪

[@nageswararaovarmayakama4722]

Im big fan of VM... from India. Present trying to make our own reels...

[@glenndyke3371]

Question out of ignorance: What kind of glasses should I view these with?

[@SPACETIMETECH]

There are several options: You can use a VR headset (a real VR headset or a smartphone VR headset). Or you have 3D glasses and a 3D-capable TV. In this case, these are 3D glasses with polarizing filters or shutter glasses. And the third option are anaglyph 3D glasses. These are 3D glasses with two differently coloured foils and work with any monitor, but a large part of the colours of the image is lost. Without glasses you can watch the video in 2D. To do this, switch from 3D-anaglyph to 2D under Settings in the KZbin player. The KZbin app for smartphones is missing the option to switch from 3D to 2D. You can only do that on a computer. I don't understand why either.

[@bobmcl2406]

Excellent video. A real loving tribute to View-Master. I also have loved them since I was a child in the 1960s (I still have my original viewer and quite a few reels). These days, I collect reels when I can find them. Cheers from Canada.

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

Not ignorant, but curious! Good question!

[@CherryPascalle]

Das wäre was für Steampunk Fans. Man müsste nur einen View Master in dieser Ästhetik bauen.

[@giorgiolazara3367]

Vedendo i due dischetti che presentano nei primi anni 60 una missione lunare e, confrontandoli con la realtà, si ha un’idea di quello che passa tra la fantasia e la realtà sulle prossime missioni spaziali ..

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

3-D glasses should be included, if they weren't.

[@davidmacphee3549]

Darn. The best I can get is anaglyph 3D with Windows 10 not 'Side by Side' I am way beyond anaglyph. I am highly skilled producing my own High Definition 3D. I can even paint entirely in 3D. Don't believe it? ' (Search ' 3D Lois lane 97 Tribute to Curt Swan ' ) for a quick example.