3- Vtg 1930s 3D Tru-Vue San Francisco CA Wharf Chinatown Film Expo Stereoview

Description

Set of 3 - Vintage 1930 3D Tru-Vue San Francisco CA Film Strip Reels
#523 #524 #525
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I have been collecting 3D media for the last 30 years and finally decided it's time to part ways with some of my favorite
things.
This is a rare complete set of three vintage Tru-Vue film strip reels of 3D pictures taken of the historic San Francisco in
the 1940s with all 3 film strips in matching red & white boxes and each complete with it's cardboard film holder insert.
Each film strip reel contains 14 different 3D stereo images for viewing within a Tru-Vue viewer stereoscope (not
included). See this historic city as it was in these wonderful 3D photos from 75+ years ago! Today these reels are very
interesting historic stuff, and all in eye-popping 3D! Complete sets almost never show up leaving collectors to find each
film strip one at a time.
In John Waldsmith's excellent Stereoviews Price Guide (1991) the films are listed at for the set. Today 25 years
later, the reels are even harder to find. On CraigCamera website a complete set in Ex condition is selling for .00.
These views are atleast in Exellent+ condition and priced well below their amount.
The 3D views contained within the three strip set include:
Film Strip #1:
--Oakland Bay Bridge from Yerba Bueno Island
--Golden Gate Exposition as seen from Yerba Bueno Island
--The Ferry Building built in 1898
--The Southern Pacific Building
--The East Bay Rail Terminal
--Market and Grant Street Intersection with Trolly with Examiner Building behind them
--Dewey Monument in Union Square
--Chinatown w/ Shangha Low  Restaurant in background
--Volunteer Firemen Monument with Coit Tower in background
--Treasure Island from Telegraph Hill
--Alcatraz Island, the most dreaded prison
--Fisherman's Wharf
--SF Yacht Harbor
--Palace of Fine Arts from the 1915 Exposition
Film Strip #2:
--San Francisco City Hall
--Library & Civic Center
--Mission Delores
--Business District from Telegraph Hill
--Conservatory in Golden Gate Park, De Young Museum
--"Portals of the Past" on the shore of Lloyd Lake in Golden Gate Park
--The Japanese Tea Garden
--Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park
--Chinatown (with several cool old cars!)
--The Cliff House #5
--The famous Seal Rocks
--The Palace of the Legion of Honor.
Film Strip #3:
--Market Street with Bay Bridge in background
--Overlooking lake Merritt at the Oakland Business District
--Overview of Piedmont
--Scottish Rite Temple of shores of Lake Merritt
--The Campanile on the Berkeley Campus
--Injured Ball Player on the University of California Campus
--University of California Stadium
--Stanford University in Palo Alto
--Mosaics on the Facade of the Chapel at Stanford
--Mark Hopkins and Fairmont Hotels from Telegraph Hill
--Flowers for Sale on street Corner
--Cable Car on Jones Street
--California Street with cool 1940s Cars
--Golden Gate Bridge
Condition:
The film strip reels are all in excellent condition and all are in their original red and silver boxes with the original cardboard insert protector
s!  I have personally gone through each film strip reel with white gloves on and inspected every frame and every film cog. All
are perfect guaranteed! I would suggest when viewing these rare films (and all other Tru-Vue films), to pull them slowly through
the viewer rather than using the advance lever. This is how the cogs get torn.
All of the boxes have just slight shelf wear as to be expected as can be seen in my photos, but all flaps are present and there are no
tears or crushes anywhere on the boxes. I have tried my best to photograph every aspect of the boxes and film strips. Please
check my pictures out and if you have any questions, please email!
Thanks for looking!
About Tru-Vue from the UK Viewmaster website:
TRU-VUE Inc., Rock Island, Illinois USA manufactured the viewers and over 400 different 3D film reels. The company was founded in 1931 and after the 1933 "Century of Progress Exposition" in Chicago grew and flourished through the 1930's and 40's. The original viewers used 35mm filmstrips, generally containing 14 stereo views, which were pulled through the viewer using a lever (visible at the bottom of the left-hand photograph below). In 1949 Tru-Vue sold over a million reels of film!.  The quality of the 3D presented is generally very good, although the films need to be handled carefully. Film-strips and viewers were made between 1933 and 1952. Ultimately the Tru-Vue company was acquired by Sawyers View-Master in 1952, who wanted the rights to Disney licences held by the company.
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