Viewmaster: The 70s child home theatre system

[ScottA]

I still have my standard VM projector and all the reels from my younger days. Even have a nice little carrying case for it. I'm pretty sure my brother had the talking one, but I don't remember what reels it had. I want to say it was Superman.

[HardyGirl]

Wow! I have both the standard and talkie versions of Mr. Spocks' Time Trek, (otherwise known as Yesteryear on the Filmation cartoon). I have always loved Talking view-masters. I have the classics (2 of them) here at home, and the new talkies at my school. In fact, yesterday, since it's been pouring here, I broke out the standards and talkies at my school, and the kids were engossed for about 45 mins. I've never had a talkie projector, but I've had 2 standard projectors. When I used to teach pre-school, I would have the kids color small boxes to look like cars, break out the view-master projector, and we'd play drive-in movie. Once, I even let them eat popcorn in their little "cars". It was fun, and they had a ball.

View-masters ROCK!

[david_b]

I know for some shows, like the TOS Trek and perhaps Space:1999, the production staffs and actors set up shots specifically for the GAF folks, who were on the sets of those productions.. It wasn't just playing around with studio photos afterwards.

That's the coolest part of the GAF Viewmaster story to me..

david_b

[CaptainTrenchcoat]

Loved viewmasters. I bought some old reels off ebay recently. I grabbed the ones where they created sets then photographed them. I think they called it table art. Some of the old Disney reels are like that.

[RSS]

While I never had the luxury of talking Viewmaster or a projector ($50 could be used to purchase more action figures than I'd ever need) I did have the "Mr. Spock's Time Trek" reel set displayed and I loved it dearly. IMO, Filmation did no wrong in the 1970s IMO.

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