Australian TV Week Stereoscope
Australia, 1960s
This plastic 3D viewer is based on the plastic, folding Vistascreen viewer. The stereoviews were given away free inside TV Week magazine in late 1962 and early 1963. As one might expect from paper stereoviews printed in a 1960s TV guide, the quality of the images is not very good.
Primary Material: Plastic
Media Format: Printed paper
Light Source: Natural light
Focus: Fixed
Interocular: Fixed
November 17, 1962 TV Week
This issue had the very first stereoviews for the TV Week viewer. It featured stereo images from 2 television shows popular in Melbourne at the time: Happy Show and Daly at Night. The lead in for the new feature reads:
TV Week Goes 3D
This week TV Week presents the first 3-D — or stereo— photographs ever published in an Australian magazine.
November 24, 1962 TV Week
3D scenes from the Commonwealth Games and a TV station.
December 1, 1962 TV Week
This issue, with a surprised-looking Don Knotts, on the cover featured 3D photos from behind the scenes of TV show Take the Hint with Frank Wilson.
December 8, 1962 TV Week
Singer Bryan Davies, Johnny Reb, Johnny Deblin, Noleen Batley, the cast of the Mobil-Limb show, and Bob & Dolly Dyer are all featured in 3D in this issue.
March 2, 1963 TV Week
This issue had the first of the 1963 series of stereoviews for the TV Week viewer. The views, photographed at GTV9 studios in Melbourne, show ballet dancers Laurel Babb & Carolyn Pearce rehearsing for a TV show with choreographer Gladys Raynor.
March 9, 1963 TV Week
The stars of the TV show “Video Village,” Danny Webb, Elizabeth Harris, and Chris Christensen are photographed with a stereo camera at Luna Park.
April 6, 1963 TV Week
This April 1963 issue advertised plans for a new series of 3D pictures from their “two-eyed camera” due the popularity of the feature and provided an order form for the viewer.
TV Week Stereo Viewer order form in April 1963 issue.
April 27, 1963 TV Week
Noeleen Batley goes water skiing with instructor Col Joye.
May 4, 1963 TV Week
