P3D Re: Places & Times Remembered

[fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dr. George A. Themelis)]

Thanks Ken for a very nice review of this Video tape.  
I am ready to order it now.

Just two side notes:

>    The history covers Wheatstone, Brewster, Holmes, Underwood and
>Underwood, Keystone and the travelogue-by-stereo phenomenon.  There
>is no mention of transparencies, Realist or sirds, of course,
>Brigandi havin retired long before these were more than dreams. 

*Glass* transparencies, even in color ("Autochromes"), were not a dream in
1935 when Brigandi retired.  As a matter of fact, they were very popular. 
I mentioned the article "A Stereo Treasure" by Chuck Weiss in the last 
issue of Stereogram about the lot of glass negatives, transparencies and
Autochromes from early this century.  Also check Paul Wing's book on
Stereoscopes, under Jules Richard and Taxiphote.  The reason Brigandi does
not mention them must be that they were mostly an amateur photographer's
game and out of U&U or Keystone's business interests.

>    I was interested to see one display of a page from a catalog of 
>1903 showing what was billed as "Theodore Brown's 'Blockit' 
>stereoscope - New Patent! - Price 1 /6 post paid, from Theodore 
>Brown, 26 Diamond Rd., Bournemouth - Unlike any other stereo scope - 
>Gives wonderful effects! "  The device shown could almost have been a 
>photo of the now-available Freeviewer's Assistant-- a one-eyed, 
>rectangular device, held between the fingers, and having one of the 
>diagonally-directed mirrors visible through the eyehole.

It is no secret that Alan Lewis got the idea from Brown's invention as
shown in his book "Stereoscopic Phenomena of Sight and Light" (available
from Reel 3-D).  This information is in Alan's web page too.  BTW, I got
the book that Dalia mentioned some time ago about Theodore Brown and his
amazing inventions.  I will be reviewing it some time in the future.

Thanks again for a very interesting review!

-- George Themelis


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