Lestrade and Bruguiere

[P3D John Bradley <JB3D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In Photo3D Digest  2091 =

Peter van Zuijlekom says he is pulling =

together information on Lestrade and
Bruguiere, and asks for contributions.
His search engine apparently found 2
references to the topic under my name,
so perhaps I should make a start. My
information is sketchy , and I too have
wondered about getting people to pool
their data on these, so well done Peter
for getting this started!
I will keep this as brief as possible.
I believe Bruguiere was the earliest =

operator.they produced glass slides in =

45x107 format from about the 30's. =

These were taken with the Jules Richard =

Verascope camera. I have slides in =

black and white and sepia and white.
At a later stage they converted the format to
celluloid slides. The images were still in
45x107 format and the scenes remained
unchanged. The first style of celluloid slides
were two part , with the flimsy plastic slide
encased in a tranparent protective sleeve
rather like a sleeve for a realist format slide.
The second celluloid style was one piece, =

with the image on a stiffer strip of plastic and =

no sleeve. Both glass and celluloid versions =

were sold in small boxes of twelve views. I
have a list from the celluloid era which lists
500 different sets. The majority are views of
French locations , but a few of other European
locations and N. Africa. The standard viewer =

for this format was a simple cloth covered
wood (later cardboard) box viewer with
push pull focussing.
After this they turned to colour slides in 7 =

sprocket (European)format. These came =

only six to a box. The list I have of these =

shows them all to be of  France , with a =

few "children's" sets. I havn't ever found
the viewer for this style, although of course
you can view them in any European format
viewer.
They next turned to what  Americans
would probably term "Tru-Vue card style".  =

I think this must have been in the late 50's =

or early 60's.This was a popular format in =

Europe with several firms producing multiple =

view cards and viewers. Best known were
Lestrade (more of them later), ColourRelief,
Romo,Marte, StereoColour.
Brugiere lists show several hundred sets. =

Again they were principally French locations,
with some coverage of the rest of Europe =

including England, and some  depicted =

naughty  topless cabaret shows.
The cards were 8 views to card , and viewers
came in a variety of versions including a =

focussing model.
Contrary to what Peter says in his posting ,
at some point Brugiere did produce some
Viewmaster format reels. Not many I admit,and
they are very scarce , but I do have one in
my collection.
I'll stop here before going on to Lestrade
a)To avoid taking up a whole digest
b) to give the moderators a chance to politely
tap me on the shoulder and tell me to shut up
if I'm going on too much
c) to give people a chance to correct any errors
so far.
d)to get some sleep!



Best wishes,
John Bradley
JB3D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx =


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