SVE projector and CLYDE MCCOY

[P3D AMUNDSON_MICHAEL_A. <amunmich@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

About an hour after posting my note on the SVE stereoprojector I received 
e-mail from our interlibrary loan dept informing me that my order for 
Dorothy Dent's LANDMARKS IN LEARNING: THE STORY OF SVE had arrived.  In 
it, I finally found a little information about my projector.  Here it goes:




OK, now I'm ready:

        Just prior to the war [WWII], SVE [Society for Visual Education] 
had developed the first three-dimension projector for showing filmstrips 
and slides.  This projector, known as the Model SA, was another product 
that found a war time application.  The design of the Model SA projector 
provided two optical systems in a vertical format.  These two images were 
projected simultaneously.  The images were illumintaed by a two-filament 
lamp, each filament providing 300 watts of light.  The projector was 
designed to show single-frame filmstrips, as well as mounted slides.  To 
accomplish the three-dimensional effect, pictures of each subject were 
taken with two camera properly separated and attached to a bar.  The 
developed pictures were then placed on single frame filmstrips or mounted 
as slides.  To accomplish fully the three-dimensional effect, each viwer 
sued Polaroid glasses.  This three dimensional projector was incorporated 
into a special device and used by the United States Navy for gunnery 
training.  The Navy used this projector and the realistic, 
three-dimensional pictures to train men in the depth-perception skills 
for all kinds of gunnery operations. (p85)

iS THIS THE FIRST PROJECTOR?

Well, I have one of those projectors and about 500 stereo slides of 
Glacier, yellowstone, Bryce, Grand Canyon, Yosemite National Parks and 
the World's Fair of NY (1939) and the Golden Gate Expo (1939) in stereo 
color.
They are all dated 1939 or 1940.

They are also stamped with a name and address.

Clyde McCoy
Ft. Wayne Indiana (or Chicago)


Can ANYBODY HELP WITH EITHER THE PROJECTOR OR THE NAME?

Still looking
Mike AMundson
amundson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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