P3D Victor Anderson

[Ray Zone <r3dzone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Moll wrote:

<I am looking for LENTOGRAPHs by Victor Anderson 3D Studios (located at the
time in NJ).  These are about 12"x 16" lenticular mounted images sold
commercially.  Please respond off-list with titles and prices.

Does anyone know what type of camera was used or anything about the printing
process?  How about a catalog of their offerings, how they were distributed,
etc.?  Anybody have some of Anderson's old equipment for sale?>

Ray Zone responds:

	My response is posted to the list because I feel there may be some
interest in the work of Victor Anderson who was a great gentleman and a
real 3-D avatar.

	I met Victor in 1989 at the Optigraphics Company in Texas when I
was producing the "Ghostbusters II" lenticular 3-D point-of-purchase
display for RCA/Columbia Home Video.  The Optigraphics Company acquired all
of the assests of Victor Anderson 3D Studios sometime in the early 1980s.
	The Ghostbusters II lenticular 3-D was produced using a device of
Victor's that may have been the same one used to produce the 12 x 16
Lentographs.  It consisted of a 35mm movie camera mounted on a horizontal
tracking rail.  There was a setting for convergence so that the 35mm camera
revolved slightly as it horizontally tracked an overall interocular
distance of about 3 feet while filming a volumetric sculptural model at a
distance of about 15 feet.
	Of the many film frames produced in this fashion 20 intermediate
frames were selected for photographic mastering to a positive film
transparency.  This multiplexed positive transparency was then
autostereoscopically viewed using a black line barrier grid (along with
diffusion backing).
	The positive film transparency was color separated for four-color
process printing using a 300 line screen.  The four-color printed sheets
were then precision mounted to the back of a high grade lenticular plastic
sheet (3/16" thick).
	One of the products some of the older readers of p-3d might
remember from the early 1950's is the Cheerios lenticular images that came
glued right to the outside of the box.  It was a real mistake in premium
marketing because little hands in the supermarket tore those 2 inch square
animated "flip" images right off the box and pocketed them.  Victor laughed
when I reminded him of this and said that the executives at Battle Creek
tore their hair out over that one.  At the time that Victor produced these
lenticular animated squares his company was called "Vari-Vue."
	A list of Victor Anderson products such as the Lentographs and the
"flip" animations would be a real contribution to 3-D history and an
acknowledgement of the unique contributions of this stereographic
innovator.

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