Here are images from the vintage Talking View-Master adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. The artisans who worked for GAF, the ones who designed, built, lit and photographed these scenes, are all unknown so far as I understand. The discs were scanned in by Lance Cardinal. Thank you, Lance!
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This is a handsome production. It's too bad the artists' identities aren't known.
I see this production was designed for the "Talking ViewMaster," an interesting early-1970s contraption which added a soundtrack to a ViewMaster reel. A celluloid phonograph record was attached to the back of the picture reel. You loaded the combo into a special viewer. When you pressed a button the record spun and an acoustic playback head played the sound. Sound quality wasn't great but it was a cool idea. For those interested, a ViewMaster collector posted a YouTube video about the Talking VM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybyuADVp_uk
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