I still remember clutching my red and white plastic View-Master in my pudgy little fingers, carefully inserting a reel chock-full of images from Star Trek or Batman or Lost in Space, advancing each frame with a satisfying metallic “ker-chang” (it seemed important to do this as LOUDLY AS POSSIBLE. Why? I don’t know, I’m a guy.)
In those days before VCRs, DVDs, blu-rays, etc., this was one of the few ways to relive your favorite shows “on demand” in between reruns. And what a way to experience it: not only in living color, but in THREE DIMENSIONS! I had no idea at the time what miraculous process made this possible. All I knew was that it was pretty darn close to magic in my book.
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