{"id":26096,"date":"2023-06-09T01:03:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T05:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=26096"},"modified":"2023-06-09T23:48:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T03:48:28","slug":"leaping-lizards-sandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/leaping-lizards-sandy\/","title":{"rendered":"leaping&#8217; lizards, Sandy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26097\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/projector-Popular-Science-Jan.-1950.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26097\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26097\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/projector-Popular-Science-Jan.-1950-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Article on the popular View-Master projector in Popular Science magazine<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. &#8230; as Little Orphan Annie often said to her mutt &#8230; This article from the start of 1950 reports a colour projector for less than a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sawbuck\">sawbuck<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>While the inexpensive bakelite device projected Kodachrome slides, there was a small hitch. It accepted only View-Master reels &#8211; those seven scene, 14 slide, marvels that were viewed as stereo in \u00a0a viewer or projected as &#8216;flat&#8217; slides with this little guy.<\/p>\n<p>We were blessed on our <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/View-Master.html\">September, 2006 Stereo night<\/a> to have the Sells (Mary Ann and Wolfgang) as featured speakers on View-Master of which the two were preeminent collectors.<\/p>\n<p>NB. Since we borrowed Annie&#8217;s favourite saying as the post title, I felt it was appropriate to feature the best song from the stage and movie production of Annie, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KahOD-93D7U\">Tomorrow<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. &#8230; as Little Orphan Annie often said to her mutt &#8230; This article from the start of 1950 reports a colour projector for less than a sawbuck! While the inexpensive bakelite device projected Kodachrome slides, there was a small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/leaping-lizards-sandy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2017,14,1450,636,4359],"class_list":["post-26096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-article","tag-film","tag-projector","tag-view-master","tag-viewmaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26096"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26118,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096\/revisions\/26118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}