P3D Re: DrT is no Harold Lloyd

[Ben Melton <beejay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DrT writes:

Lattie Smart writes, regarding Dr. T's Stereo Expenses:

>> Now, all you need to do is take a lesson from Harold
>> Lloyd and hire a "personal Secretary" to do all your
>> loading and mounting! :-)

> Well, DrT is no Harold Lloyd... Lloyd's granddaughter
> writes in the introduction of the book "3-D Hollywood"
> that Harold took over 300,000 3D pictures.  He died in
> 1971. Assuming good 20 years of stereo photography (from
> the appearance of the Realist), we have an average of
> 15,000 pairs or about 500 rolls a year, for 20 years!!!
> No wonder he needed a "personal Secretary" to do the
> mounting!
>
>-- George Themelis, looking forward to retirement :-)
>
Way back in 1976, I had difficulty with my projector
synchronizer when I was about to do a slide show in
Seattle.  I took it to an AV repair shop for emergency
resuscitation.  The repair man who did a "while-I-waited"
repair Job for me said that he had once been a repairman
at the Realist plant.  He said that every year, Harold
Lloyd brought all his realist equipment to the factory
and spent a week hanging around the plant while his equipment was being
renovated.  With people like that hanging around, it must have been a
rather interesting
place.

Ben Melton, looking _backward_ to retirement 14 years
ago already.

Happy hunting!



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