# Viewmaster **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 22, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewmaster/921218 "2020-09-22T06:27:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewmaster/921218/1 "2020-09-22T06:27:02Z")
Is there a list available of every Viewmaster disc? I would like to know how many movies, cartoons and tv series have been depicted on those discs. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewmaster/921218/2 "2020-09-22T09:03:24Z")
I think getting such a thing might be nigh on impossible. I recall some outfits, way back in the Dark Ages when I was a kid addicted to the thing, making custom discs. And, of course, there were copycats that fit the original. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewmaster/921218/3 "2020-09-22T09:08:42Z")
Just to be clear, are you talking about this? > **[View-Master](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View-Master)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > View-Master is the trademark name of a line of special-format stereoscopes and corresponding View-Master "reels", which are thin cardboard disks containing seven Stereoscopic 3-D pairs of small transparent color photographs on film. It was originally manufactured and sold by Sawyer's. > The View-Master system was introduced in 1939, four years after the advent of Kodachrome color film made the use of small, high-quality photographic color images... ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewmaster/921218/4 "2020-09-22T09:44:47Z")
I’m into a rabbit hole now. This site claims there were over a billion reels issued and that it is has as comprehensive a list as possible but it’s working very slowly for me at the moment: [http://www.3dstereo.com/Viewmaster-URL/](http://www.3dstereo.com/Viewmaster-URL/) EDIT: give it a while and the pages do load eventually… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewmaster/921218/5 "2020-09-22T10:28:32Z")
Some Auto manufacturers used to create specialty View-Master disks of their car models, for dealerships. Cool idea, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewmaster/921218/6 "2020-09-22T13:11:53Z")
If you had a 3D camera, I had a Realist, you could get [blank disks](http://www.fresavolante.com/Reel_Mounts.html) and a punch to create your own content. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewmaster/921218/7 "2020-09-23T07:26:23Z")
> [@View-Master Wiki as quoted by Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > It was originally manufactured and sold by Sawyer’s. I had several disks featuring seven-frame adventure “episodes” of a child’s cartoon character Sam Sawyer. I think he travels to the moon in one. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewmaster/921218/8 "2020-09-23T12:04:00Z")
When I was a kid I got a talking Viewmaster for Christmas, from my Grandma. I was really excited to get it, but the sound didn’t work. My dad took it apart and it turned out a little plastic arm that had a record player needle at the end of it had broken, so he tried to glue it together. But it didn’t hold. 😫 ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewmaster/921218/9 "2020-09-23T15:52:43Z")
A fun song about Viewmasters (and other toys remembered by those of us of a certain age) > **[View Master - Ookla The Mok](http://www.songlyrics.com/ookla-the-mok/view-master-lyrics/)** > > Ookla The Mok - View Master Lyrics. I turned on the TV set To check up on Battle of the Planets At seven am on Saturday But G-Force and Mr. Magoo Went the way of the New Zoo Re > I’m gonna cry if I can’t find my View Master > > Etch-a-Sketch me a pretty picture > > Go Speed Racer go a little faster > > I could hear the voices of my childhood > When I traded in my Close and Play for a second-hand guitar > > I was straining to hear, I was straining to reach them > But Stretch Armstrong couldn’t stretch that far