P3D Re: Hefner and Realist

[emdesher <emdesher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Gabriel Jacob wrote:

> >I was watching a show on the History Channel called "The Fifties" this
> >evening.  About 40 minutes into the one-hour program, they were doing a
> >segment on Hugh Hefner and the sensation that Playboy Magazine caused.  
> >
> >Among the many photos shown was one of Hefner and an unknown (to me)
> >photographer standing behind a tripod-mounted Realist in some studio.  Who
> >were they shooting and where did the slides end up, I wonder?
> >Best regards,
> >Bill Davis
> 
> Don't know about the photographer, but I remember reading recently that
> when Playboy was launched (in the heyday of the 50's 3-D craze) it was
> intended to be a 3-D magazine! So I suppose Hefner knew a thing or two
> about 3-D!
> 
> Gabriel
> 

A further stereo related aspect to Marylin Monroe is that she posed for 
some early EMDE Products ads...in my posession.  A number of MM 
collectors have verified the photos to me.  The EMDE ads appeared in some 
late 1940's/early 1950's photo magazines and in dealer literature.
Dennis Sherwood  emdesher@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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