View-Master
Sign in to saveView-Master is the trademark name of a line of special-format stereoscopes and corresponding View-Master "reels", which are thin cardboard disks containing seven Stereoscopic 3-D pairs of small transparent color photographs on film. It was originally manufactured and sold by Sawyer's.
Key facts
- Toy.name
- View-Master
- Toy.image
- View-Master Model G.jpg
- Toy.image_size
- 200px
- Toy.caption
- A View-Master Model G, introduced in 1962
- Toy.type
- Stereoscope
- Toy.inventor
- William Gruber
- Toy.company
- Mattel
- Toy.country
- United States
- Toy.from
- 1939
- Toy.to
- present
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- stereoscope
- Country
- United States
- Official website
- www.view-master.com
- Image
- 1980 3D View Master model J with Scooby Doo disks Made in Belgium.jpg
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- Commons category
- View-Master
- inception
- 1939-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- 1919–1956: early photo services
- New business venture
- Expansion
- 1950s
- 1962–present: stereoscopic toy
- 2015–2019: Virtual reality
- Cumulative production
- Recognition
- Notable uses
- Film
- See also
- References
- External links
View-Master is the trademark name of a line of special-format stereoscopes and corresponding View-Master "reels", which are thin cardboard disks containing seven Stereoscopic 3-D pairs of small transparent color photographs on film. It was originally manufactured and sold by Sawyer's.
The View-Master system was introduced in 1939, four years after the advent of Kodachrome color film made the use of small, high-quality photographic color images practical. Tourist attraction and travel views predominated in View-Master's early lists of reels, most of which were meant to be of interest to users of all ages. Most current View-Master reels are intended for children.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “View-Master” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.