Spied these old second handers on a trip to Selby.
A really old viewmaster with a .... Light! New to me that! You?
Pinky? Perky? One of three little pigs?
Magic Painting Books! I remember them! You? Just add water!
An elderly Sooty glove puppet. Do you like Sooty, Sweep or Sue?
Laserdiscs! Not seen any for years!
All sorts of movies on here. I assume they're trailers
Anyone got any laserdiscs?
A friend of mine had one of the lighted View-Masters in the 1990s, I think they dated from the 1970s or so ? There was also a Talking View-Master at one time.
ReplyDeleteI remember those Magic Painting books, The colours were always very pale. Did the colours remain, or did they fade again as the water dried ? I can not remember.
I have never seen a Laser Disc, I do not even know if these were sold in New Zealand.
I remember seeing the lighted View-Masrers in 1960s catalogues. Never saw one in the flesh, they were rather expensive.
DeleteI once passed on the laser disc version of Star Wars in a local thrift store. It had a lot of great pictures from the movie on the cover. I didn't have a player so I didn't buy it.
ReplyDeleteWhat a treasure it would have been!
DeleteAh Laserdiscs. Roughly 10 years back I sold my original Star Wars LDs for a nice sum to a Star Wars collector. I have an ancient LD player that top loads and the remote is wired. I have a huge amount of LDs. Several Douglas Fairbanks Sr movies, a great copy of Student Bodies. My best ones though are the LDs from 2 arcade games, Space Ace and Cliff Hanger. My roommate at the time got the original Dragon's Lair LD from the same seller.
ReplyDeleteAmazing Lance, it must be a rare collection that! Ive never met anyone that collects Laserdiscs. I imagine the film quality to be pin sharp. Are they?
DeleteCan you play the game LDs without the arcade cabinet?
ReplyDeleteIf you mean control the actions and such, no. A LD player by itself pretty much just played it thru each section, which usually consisted of the segment played proper, followed by all the deaths for that segment then the next segment.
DeleteCliff Hanger is interesting. I have never heard of it before, as an old school video game fan and a fan of Lupin lll I would have loved to play it.
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