Re: Original Holmes cards

[P3D Dr. George A. Themelis <fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>What other medias/mediums were competing with stereo in vying for
>people's leasure time/money? Movies (and radio) boomed in the 20s, and
>TV boomed in the 50s...

We've discussed this many times in the past.  Somehow I do not see how the
TV displaced personal stereo photography.  It did not displace 2d
photography which today is more popular than it has ever been with the
prolification of point & shoot cameras and cheap supermarket and drugstore
processing.  Right now every member of my family (parents, brother, sister)
has their own (2d) cameras and are recording prints, incuding my 10 old
niece.

>>From 1850 - 1910, I don't think there was a new entertainment technology
>which came along of great enough significance to displace
>photography/stereos...

People have talked about the automobile and the appearance of pictures in
newspapers and magazines.  They say that people lost interest in buying
stereo cards of distant lands when it was easier for them to actually
travel there or see those pictures in magazines.  Again, this explanation
is not enough for me.

Some very valid reasons seldom discussed are the flooding of the market
with a product that makes the public sick and tired of seeing it around
(this is definitely true for stereo cards... antique furniture dealers
where buying these pieces loaded with stereo cards which they had to throw
in the garbage, being viewed at worthless).  Also, the difficulty in doing
stereo photography and the problems associated with viewing them.

George


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