Product Details

• Actors: Pamela Glintenkamp
• Directors: Pamela Glintenkamp
• Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: January 5, 1992
• Run Time: 40 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0967452201
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #628,721 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Open up a microcosm of history and there will appear new and fascinating layers to eras we thought we knew. In this documentary, an added dimension is exposed through a history of stereoscopy. Providing popular entertainment for the family, stereo viewing was a pastime that peaked in the 1860s and again in the 1890s, generating millions of discrete visual records of the times.

Appearing as a former photographer for the Keystone View Company, the narrator reflects on the period between 1850 and 1920, when photographers took their twin-lens cameras around the world to capture landscapes and architecture, wars and cultural events, disasters and political moments. They were adventuresome, aggressive, and shared a camaraderie as photojournalists of the day. Stereographs brought news into the living room. It was an atristic common denominator, a publicity tool, and an educational asset sold with guidebooks and maps.

The reminiscent approach, used in combination with stills and reproductions, gives a feeling for the craft and equipment. Technologies and techniques are covered more casually. It is fascinating o see the breadth of exposures, including the Civil War stereos by Matthew Brady, promotional scenes for the railroads, the Sino-Russian War, explorations, inventions, exotic lands, expositions, and the real money-makers, like the San Francisco earthquake. The art of communication was its consistencies although the medium changes.

The video presents the singularity of this photographic era and its influence like an illuminating flash finally fading as first motion pictures developed and then television put even the large stereo companies out of business.

There is a great deal of information woven into this account, and it corresponds well with the stills. The editing gives the content a steady motion, and music by Scott Joplin, along with appropriate sound effects contribute ot the nostalgic quality of the piece. With its many instructional possibilities for social studies and art classes, as well as pure pleasure and an intem for the photographic collector, this neat presentation should not be passed over. --

Product Description

The three-dimensional images of stereo photography covered the development of the transcontinental railroad, the career of President Theodore Roosevelt, tours of the far off lands of Egypt and India, the San Francisco Earthquake and much more...Stereo photography was the newsreel of its day!

The Keystone-Mast Collection of the California Museum of Photography is the largest surviving archive of American stereoscopic photographs in the world. Over 200 images from this collection illustrate the history of of stereography in this 40-minute video.

The story of stereo photography is told through the reminiscence of Philip Brigandi, one of the top stereographers for the Keystone View Company. The rich soundtrack for the video incorporates Brigandi's reminiscence, quotations from contemporary sources and period music by Scott Joplin.

"Stereo Photography: Places and Times Remembered" is a time machine that will transport the viewer to the heyday of stereo photography and provide an in-depth understanding of the historical context of the photographic work.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 3D Stereo, August 10, 2007

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Jim Baternik "Jim" (CaliforniaToday) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stereo Photography: Places and Times Remembered [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Good review of stereography. B&W informative history. Recomended for the stereo (3D) viewers. It may be hard to find a copy, but I found one on the web and one on ebay.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars stereo photography, December 2, 1999

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thomas mcnamara (massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stereo Photography: Places and Times Remembered [VHS] (VHS Tape)

if you enjoy stereo photog-raphy aka 3d or better yetyou collect stereo cards,then this video is for you.this 40 minute video takesyou back to the heydey ofstereo thru narration andpictures of keystone photographer phillip brigandi.we start with the very inc-eption with a stereo viewerbeing introduced at the london crystal palace of 1851.from there, stereo caught on and from that time to the 1920s, stereo was literally the newsreel ofits day. much history ismentioned, also with plentyof photos, make this videoa fascinating journey whenthe majority of people traveled no further thantheir armchair.