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I recently pulled out my old Viewmaster and reels from the 60s. I have one that lights up when you push the top bar down. I have reel sets of LOST IN SPACE, TIME TUNNEL, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA,STAR TREK, UFO TV SERIES,20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, APOLLO MOON LANDING,MAN IN SPACE,NASA, & DINOSAURS. These images still look pretty cool...even by today's HD/CGI standards. Anyone else here still have your Viewmasters?
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Long gone, but they sure were cool. 
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Man, did I love Viewmasters when I was a kid. Had tons! Really loved POSEIDON ADVENTURE and KING KONG ones. Almost as good as the Anobile movie photonovels!
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I sold them over 30 years ago. My first set was LOST IN SPACE. Loved them!
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I used to have a set of reels from Ray Harryhausen's animation for THE ANIMAL WORLD. I would pore over those images, in 3-D no less, regretting that I'd missed the film in theatres, a wildlife documentary, with one pretty short sequence about dinosaurs, which was actually the highlight of the film.
Seeing the Harryhausen dinosaurs was thrilling. There weren't many reconstructions in the mid-50's. Now you can see CGI dinosaurs all over the place; TV even has better special effects than I ever used to see in movies.
If anyone is interested in this dinosaur sequence, by the way, it's available as a supplement on the DVD release of THE BLACK SCORPION, which I bought just for the ANIMAL WORLD footage.
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the one I have( DINOSAURS )is the Harryhausen/Animal World stuff, but on all 3 reels without the rest of the documentary.
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I'd forgotten those things existed. How technology flies. They'd not raise an eyebrow today.
But I found one in my parents' effects. I remember having 'The Omega Glory' from 'Star Trek' amongst others, around 1970 or so.
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My dad had one. It's somewhere back in the other house. I remember reels from STAR TREK and BATMAN. There was also a lot of stuff like the Apollo missions, King Tut's treasures, and volcanic eruptions.
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My dad had one. It's somewhere back in the other house. I remember reels from STAR TREK and BATMAN. There was also a lot of stuff like the Apollo missions, King Tut's treasures, and volcanic eruptions.
I remember a Houston Space Centre one, a 'Seven Wonders of the World' and many travelogues.
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Thor- Viewmasters are hand help 3 dimensional image "binoculars" (though smaller) which you place round wheels/reels into which have stereo still images of anything you might want to see...they've been around (the U.S.) for decades. They did tons of different subjects...check wikipedia or google "Viewmaster"
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