Back in the days of old Earth Viewmaster film slide viewers were the high tech Virtual Reality of the day. Slides with incredibly clear colourful images allowed snarling fur covered stone-age kids to see their heroes in stunning three dimensional action. Many contemporary favourites were in the Viewmaster catalogue, not only fishy stories about Flipper or epic neverending wild west adventures with the Cartwrights… but also real life superheroes like Batman and futuristic space shenanigans starring Colonel B B B Buck
The ability to take, produce and view 3 dimensional photo images originated almost a century ago in the 1930s. The first View-Master slides and the “Model A” viewer became commercially available in 1938
View-Master “Model A” was produced between 1938 and 1944 and was very popular with the US Military Forces for mapping and aircraft identification
The classic View-Master we all know and love was the “Model J” (see Batman picture below), it was produced for almost 20 years – 1975 right up to 1994. You can read extensive View-Master history at the 20th Century Stereo Viewers site
Here are a few of the mint in packet ViewMaster film reels we have available on our ZapWow listings
Bat-tastic ViewMaster Batman reels mint in unopened packet on unpunched card
* 1978 Vintage Story Reels x3 Set BB492-123E DC Comics
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Serious fun filled space action Star Trek ViewMaster film reels mint in unopened packet on unpunched card
* 1979 TOS Space Story Reels x3 Set Vintage GK057-123E
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Seventies fun filled space alien action with Mork and Mindy ViewMaster film reels mint in unopened packet on card
*1979 Space Story Reels x3 Set Vintage BK067-123E
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Exhaust fume filled fun starring Dukes of Hazzard ViewMaster film reels mint in unopened packet on card
* 1982 Story Reels x3 Set Vintage BM019-123E
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Brilliant Buck-tastic Buck Rogers ViewMaster reels mint in unopened packet on unpunched card
* 1980 Space Story Reels x3 Set Vintage SciFi BL015-123E
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