P3D Re: Gallery Showings

[jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gabriel Jacob)]

Greg Wageman writes,
>The presentation medium for these stereopairs was... the 
>ViewMaster viewer.  However, these particular viewers had
>had some custom modifications done.  They had bent some
>heavy-gauge metal plates to wrap around the top of the
>viewer, thus preventing the reel from being removed, and
>also around the bottom, evidently for durability.  The
>viewer itself was attached to the table with a long chain
>of twisted-wire links which attached securely to the bottom
>plate.  Neither the viewers, nor the images they contained,
>were going *anywhere* (short of a pair of boltcutters).

When the 3Discover was first introduced in the Montreal
market, the 3Discover people (actually contracted out to
a third party) had set up a traveling exhibition booths
at different shopping centers. Of course I went to check
it out. They had quite a few 3Discovers secured with
those metal plastic-covered cables. They just drilled a
hole in the 3Discover casing to keep "it" from walking away. 

Anyways, I was observing the reaction of the people to the
viewer and information given by the exhibitors. The reaction
was favorable but since the 3Discover viewer and cassette
form an integral package, it wasn't apparent that there is
a cassette or that they are interchangeable. There were no
cassettes (without the viewer) in sight. 

After awhile I figured most people would assume that they
would have to buy a different viewer for each title.
I asked the exhibitors why they didn't show how easy it
was to take out and exchange cassettes.

The cassettes were not secured to the viewer in any 
manner so the exhibitors were instructed told not
to advertise the cassettes or that they can be inter-
changed to prevent the cassettes from disappearing.

Gabriel


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