P3D New Book from the UK

[dalia miller <dddalia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I received this message and thought I'd pass it along for those interested.

>Just published by The Projection Box, London, "Theodore Brown's Magic
>Pictures - the Art and Inventions of a Multi-media Pioneer" is a new book
>about a little-known English inventor. In the 1890s, Brown patented a
>mirror device that enabled stereoscopic photographs to be taken with a
>standard camera -  and went on to market several such devices over the next
>twenty years. In 1903, his book "Stereoscopic Phenomena of Light and Sight"
>was published, and he sold many different examples of his patented 'Magic
>Post Card"; an anaglyph postcard with cut-off red-and-green viewer.  In
>1913, Brown became English patentee and promoter of the 'Kinoplastikon'
>cinema system - singing, coloured, pseudo-stereoscopic motion pictures,
>presented to acclaim in London the year before Charlie Chaplin made his
>first film. At the same time, Brown was interested in developing 3-D movies
>that could be seen without viewing aids, and spent thirty years developing
>and patenting improvements to his system. Eventually, he abandoned
>stereoscopic images for fully dimensional 3-D pop-up models, in the
>'Bookano' series of children's books, popular in Britain in the 1930s.
>
>Fully illustrated (over 200 b/w illustrations, and several colour plates)
>the hardback book comes complete with three different viewers for viewing
>the anaglyphs, stereo pairs, and 'changing picture' illustrations.
>
>For details of how to order from the USA and elsewhere, please e-mail:
>s-herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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