Shooting stars

[Marvin Jones <72657.3276@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Apropos 3d pictures of the famous: in the introduction to  _3D Hollywood_
>mention is made of the fact that Harold Lloyd was the first president of the
>Hollywood Stereoscopic Society, formed in 1950: members included Dick Powell,
>Art Linkletter, Ronald Colman and Edgar Bergen. Members of this society were in
>a position to stereograph a whole galaxy of 50s stars, and what we see in _3D
>Hollywood_ probably only scratches the surface of what might be available. Does
>anybody know if there is any surviving record or archive of the Hollywood
Stereo
>Society, or any way of getting access to its members' collections?

The Stereo Club of Southern California (SCSC) is a direct decendant of the
Hollywood Stereoscopic Society, but in our large archive (which includes some of
Lloyd's originals) there are only a few shots of famous stars. The library is
currently cared for by Susan Pinsky and David Starkman of Reel-3D Enterprises.

Although off on a tangent, this discussion reminds me of a time a few years ago
when actor Bruce Davison, who is a friend of mine, asked me to edit his 8mm home
movies for him. The funny thing was that they looked just like everyone else's
home movies, with embarrassed-looking friends self-consciously mugging for the
camera, except these friends were the likes of Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner,
Lucille Ball, and Nicol Williamson! It's refreshing to know that EVERYBODY acts
foolish in home movies!


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