P3D Re: Good Old Henry

["Dr. George A. Themelis" <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm... you guys won't let me do any work tonight! :-)

>Thinking out loud, I wonder if 3-D would have caught on in the 19th
>century if they had color! I'm speculating if they did, 3D wouldn't
>have been as big a deal. Heresy, I know! ;-)

Definitely heresy! :-)  Around the mid 1930s when Kodachrome 16 mm
color slide film was being first introduced, a young man by the name
of William Gruber was experimenting with his twin camera rig, being
convinced that the combination of COLOR and STEREO would be both
popular and profitable.  

As we know today, this young man, who is the inventor of the View-
Master system, was correct.  Over one billion reels and a hundred
million viewers later, View-Master remains the most popular stereo
entertainment system of all times.

A few years later, another young man, Seton Rochwite, was 
experimenting with 35 mm color stereo slides.  Convinced that the
combination of color and stereo could revolutionize the way people 
record pictures, he took a viewer and stereo slides with him in his
interview with the David White company in Milwaukee in 1943.

He too appears to have been justified, as he is no other than the 
inventor of the most popular stereo camera of all times, the Stereo 
Realist.

So, we see that the introduction of color gave stereo one of the 
biggest boosts it ever saw.

Personally, I very much refer B&W in stereo than color in 2D.
But, I'll take both if I have a choice.
    
>Name witheld. ;-) 

Ditto! :-)


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