Tru-Vue: the Other Viewmaster

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@screwthecabal6453 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for showing the set I sent you. I'm all smiles. You really do your homework about stuff and I think that's awesome! Again, thank you.

@zacharyjames3091 2 ай бұрын

Feel like a video on the stereo realist system has got to be in the pipeline now! Love the stereoscopic rabbit hole

@MattMcIrvin 2 ай бұрын

Oh, hey, my grandparents had one of these! (The kind that took vertical-feeding cards.) I remember being a bit bemused by it: a View-Master but... different. Interesting that at that point in the product evolution, it was actually the same company as View-Master. Of course, by the time I encountered it, Tru-Vue was gone and GAF was selling View-Master to the kid's market (and *definitely* had reels with Disney content--that was most of what I had).

@CAMacKenzie 2 ай бұрын

My parents had a Tru-Vue when i was a little kid in the 1950s. Being a little kid, I had difficulty getting the film strips to work so my Dad had to set it up for me. He must have found it annoyingly inconvenient to work, as I only remember seeing it a few times. I particularly remember black and white pictures of riding mules at The Grand Canyon. I had forgotten that the color was slightly yellow, but thinking back, yes, it was, and I just thought it was strange.

@PlutoniumBoss 2 ай бұрын

I've got one of those flagship 502s, and I have to say the advance mechanism doesn't seem to be as reliable as Viewmaster's. It's in excellent condition, it doesn't feel worn at all, but I usually have to help it advance far more often than I do with a Viewmaster (model C).

@Themanwithnoscreenname 2 ай бұрын

A Nu Vue on the Tru Vue, I see.

@jhonbus 2 ай бұрын

Whu knu?

@gonzo_the_great1675 2 ай бұрын

I really wished the intro was actually in 3D! (I was going to get some gels and try it, but realised the images were identical).

@DankNoodles420 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for all the content, I really appreciate all your hard work! Keep it up!! 3:09PM 10/31/2024

@therealchriscunningham 2 ай бұрын

I am now desperate to understand how the Dan Dare Walkie Talkies were "magnetically powered"...

@Bartok_J 2 ай бұрын

I don't know about the Dan Dare walkie talkies, but I had a pair of Johnny Seven ones from the 1960s. A web search on "Johnny Seven phone set" will show you the photos. They had no amplification, but each contained a standard (8 ohm, IIRC) loudspeaker (as found in cheap transistor radios) that doubled as a microphone - it provided enough energy to be heard at quite a reasonable distance. I'm guessing the Dan Dare ones worked on the same principle: simply two loudspeakers connected together by a piece of cable.

@paulhan9843 2 ай бұрын

Your videos are great! I think we're about the same age. (26) I think you'd look younger without the 3 piece. It's a groomsmen style cut.

@patrickshannon4854 2 ай бұрын

Does your plethora of collection interests include children’s toys such as cap pistols, tab&slot pressed metal toy vehicles & toy structures like circus venues, gas stations, and medieval castles? Growing up in the 50’s I was the grateful recipient of many 2nd hand pre-war toys. I have nostalgic memories of playing with these toys.

@geoffreypiltz271 2 ай бұрын

I am not sure about your given reason for the orange colouring of the original strips. I think it may be due to the type of film used. Kodak colour print film has always had an orange cast to enable correction for the colour imperfect dyes in the negative when a positive print is being made (a complex subject).

@jbalazer 2 ай бұрын

The orange color of Tru-Vue film strips has nothing to do with the orange appearance of color negatives. Color negatives are orange because of the masking system that Kodak invented and released in 1950 as Eastman Color motion picture negative film. Tru-Vue film strips are black-and-white positives, and predate Eastman Color. Incidentally, the orange cast of color negative films is not carried forward into prints. The masking system allows colors to be reproduced more accurately when prints are made. It is indeed a complex subject, but to state it briefly, the masks serve to isolate the cyan, magenta, and yellow images from each other so that they can be extracted individually with minimal interference between each other during the printing process. Of course when color negative films were invented the entire printing process was optical and chemical, so scientists and engineers where limited to the materials available at the time. Had color film been invented in the era of digital image processing, computers would have solved the problem with no need for optical color masks.

@geoffreypiltz271 2 ай бұрын

@@jbalazer Yes, I knew all that, no need to explain it. It still seems strange to deliberately colour b&w with an orange cast. Does it really make the slides look better when viewed or was there a technical reason due to the film material used? Or where they originally normal b&w and have turned orange with age?

@briansmith-l1q 2 ай бұрын

tru view also made 'films' of Sally Rand, and Gypsy rose lee

@galeng73 Ай бұрын

While trivial, I'm bored and catching up on videos I've not had time to watch in the past couple of months and I think it's pronounced 'bake ah lite'. I did a quick Google and the results confirm what I am thinking.