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[P3D Bob Shotsberger <bshots1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In reply to Jamie Drouin's post:

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 19:47:42 -0500

 13) 3D theater in Austria?
        by P3D Jamie Drouin <jdrouin@xxxxxxxx>

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 16:38:03 -0800

        Speaking with an artist-friend the other day, he remembered
visiting a large circular 3D 'theater' in Austria sometime between 1930-40.
He said that it was built within a larger library facility and that
approximately 100 people sat around the perimeter looking into stereo
viewers.  Every couple of minutes there would be a series of 'clicking'
sounds and the images would change.  I assume that it was a long film strip
which looped, an if you sat long enough you'd see all of the images. He
remembers the seats were a deep red velvet with gold detailing, and the
large theater was just as elaborately finished. Does anyone know what this
would be and if it still exists?


                                                       :-)jamie.

Jamie Drouin (jdrouin@xxxxxxxx)
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    View-Master Collector
    and Stereophotographer
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Can't answer all the questions, but if you will check your back issues of
Stereo World,
March/April, 1994 page 8 and following you will find an excellent article on
the Kaiser Panorama, which matches the description, except for size, of the
"3D theater in Austria?" your friend describes. Apparently some of these
Theaters still exist in museums in Europe. (This also happens to be a color
issue and the views are tinted).

Bob Shotsberger


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