Cutting edge TECHNOLOGY in the 1950s

This is a View-Master Model E made in Bakelite in the 1950s.

Each reel has seven pairs of colour slides, taken with the fairly new Kodachrome film, giving the viewer seven 3D images of various scenes.

The titles of some of the reels show just how old they are with names of countries having changed decades ago.

The manufacturer changed hands many times and today, there is a joint venture with the current owner, Fischer Price via Mattel, and Google to produce a View-Master Virtual Reality viewer, based on virtual reality using smartphones. Some progress.

You can read more about it HERE


I have no idea why I still have this sophisticated "toy" but it does have the name of my cousin written on it. I introduced him to Blip some time ago but he has not posted an entry for four months. Let's see how long it takes him to notice this and claim his property.