Remembrance Day 2021: Colonials, Hospitals & Command by Cl.Holliday is an experimental artist specializing in three dimensional stereoscopic art and photography.

Right?ДЄnaglyphs, slightly less racist for lack of captions

Right-side frame of вЂњShadows creep into the streets вЂ“ We hurry back to the city.вЂќДЄs the film advance lever is pulled on the Tru Vue stereoscope, it advances the view forward two notches вЂ“ meaning with the 2-frame offset between the stereo pairs, the actual strip is held at optimal viewing distance, eliminating the need for any sort of optical correction in the cheap lenses.Д«ut we all know that we should pull the film through carefully, and not use the lever, to cause as little damage as possibly to the 85+ year old filmstrip.

Left-side frame of вЂњLights go on in the stores вЂ“ It is late afternoon.вЂќ.

The left-side frame is not pictured, but would be to the left of the leftmost frame pictured here.

Right-side frame of вЂњend creditsвЂќ view.

Left-side frame of вЂњShadows creep into the streets вЂ“ We hurry back to the city.вЂќ.

Frame indicating that this roll was printed from the first master created on 15 February 1934.

Otherwise, the frames from left to right are: If you already know all this, skip to the anaglyphs (these anaglyphs worked very nicely). IвЂ™ve included a five-frame selection from the end of this reel in order to demonstrate the anatomy of a Tru Vue filmstrip. Interpreting the End of a Tru Vue Reel A selection from the end of вЂњNew YorkвЂ™s ChinatownвЂќ. So why not kick back, try to remember that this was 1934 and a little racism was just to be expected from a Rock Island, IL manufacturing company, and practice your free-viewing skills?ДЇirst off, isnвЂ™t Chinatown part of the city? Probably moreso than Staten Island? In any case, note that in this final slide, we need to rush away after вЂњshadows creep into the streetsвЂќ вЂ“ clearly, we donвЂ™t want to be left alone with all these laundries after dark.

This set вЂ“ with multiple merge points in almost every image, is ideal for neophyte free-viewers to practice on вЂ“ the images are contrasty, and the multiple anchors at differing depths can help keep you in the game. Regardless, this strip is a real rarity вЂ“ IвЂ™ve seen it sell for almost $100 without the condition being described вЂ“ so itвЂ™s unlikely even that most Tru Vue enthusiasts have found one. The opening frame with aвЂ¦ delightfulвЂ¦ little ditty about Chinatown, as well as the single-frame start-of-roll designation.Дespite the seriesвЂ™ innate silliness, the stereoscopy is done quite well, and my working theory is that the photographer was focused more on pulling off technically proficient shots than on interesting subject matter. With bizarre street scenes, racism, seemingly random buildings, and very few photographs of some of the more important buildings (do a Google Image Search), this roll is pretty silly.

ItвЂ™s a mystery why many of the rolls were discontinued вЂ“ but this is not the case with the 1934 gem вЂњNew YorkвЂ™s ChinatownвЂќ.

Tru Vue published, and then quickly discontinued, numerous sets of 3D filmstrips in the 1930s.

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