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The View-Master brand name eventually came to be recognized by 65% of the world's population, but Gruber disliked the name, believing that it sounded too much like Toast-Master, Mix-Master or some other kitchen appliance. [5] The View-Master was introduced at the 1939 New York World's Fair, marked "Patent Applied For".
The number of dealers selling View-Master products had grown to about 9,000. [18] Sawyer's made its first public offering of stock in 1962, [20] and a second offering was made three years later. In 1965, the View-Master product line represented 37 percent of the company's sales, whereas slide projectors and accessories accounted for 43 percent ...
The company was purchased in 1951 by Sawyer's—the manufacturer of the View-Master—because Tru-Vue had an exclusive contract to make children's filmstrips based on Disney characters. [3] Tru-Vue moved at that time from Rock Island, Illinois, to Beaverton, Oregon, [ 4 ] near where Sawyer's had built a new plant, and for a few years was a ...
View-Master Interactive Vision is an interactive movie VHS console game system, [2] introduced in 1988 and released in the USA in 1989 by View-Master Ideal Group, Inc. [3] The tagline is "the Two-Way Television System that makes you a part of the show!"
The View-Master Personal Stereo Camera was a 35mm film camera designed to take 3D stereo photos for viewing in a View-Master.First released in 1952, the camera took 69 pairs of photos on a 36-exposure roll of 35mm film, taking one set while the film was unwound from the canister, and another set while it was rewound.
In 1981, GAF sold View-Master to a group headed by Arnold Thaler, head of Ekco Housewares, for $24 million. In 1987, six years later, a thriving View-Master International purchased Ideal Toy Company and became known as View-Master Ideal (VMI). To mark the event, the company issued the first 3-D stock certificate, issued with red/blue glasses to ...
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