Re:(Stero nudes( SELL-3D digest 123)

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

I am forwarding this classic piece to photo-3d where it belongs... I have
always wondered why all the nude pictures I have seen from the 50s were
shot in inferior film base.  Why not glorious nudes in everlasting 
Kodachrome?  Bob Howard with his infinite knowledge and wisdom gives the 
answer.  Thanks Bob! -- George Themelis

Reply to message from bobh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx of Tue, 13 May
>
>RE: No I don't have any for sale! But Charlie H. of Rabbit Hutch 
>stereo club having admired some recently acquired asked about the 
>history?
>This maybe should be repeated on Photo-3d but here goes.
>In the Stereo Realist era which was exclusive from 1946 to about '51 
>when others like Kodak and Revere etc. got on the band wagon, there 
>much like Polaroid, were so new found uses for the camera and nudes 
>were one. I remember when at Westinghouse Lamp in Bloomfield, making 
>one of my many trips to NYC (20 minutes or so by bus) and I was in 
>Courtland/Vesey steets the Radio Row. I was interested in hifi, and 
>on the trail of a place that had the new Williamson transformer for a 
>British hif fi amo circuit. I went upstairs to a dingy loft and while 
>waiting at the counter heard some giggling and laughter. I went back 
>and found the clerks with a Realist viewer and a stack of nudes taken 
>on Fire Island by the boss I believe. They showed me those and 
>eventualy waited on me and I got my transformer.  Most such 
>clandistine pix were on crummy Ansco Color that could be home 
>developed and haven't stoodt the test of time. Kodak was pretty fussy 
>in those days so few nudes were sent there for processing. Some pros 
>had an arrangement for pickup at the lab so Kodak would not have to 
>lput them in the US Mail.
>Ektachrome came a bit later and was of course used but also until 
>much later had poor keeping qualities. As mentined the Hollywood 
>branch of the raunchy magazines soon had stereo slides to market. For 
>some reason this source has always been in N. Hollywood. BobH


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