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View-Master®
Trivia
(Note: All trivia is copyrighted. Do not reproduce in any way.) |
| To promote their new car line in 1966, Chevrolet produced a
featurette motion picture based on the popular James Bond movie series. An actor has
daydreams he is James Bond and imagines himself driving several new 1966 Chevy cars.
During one sequence, "Bond" picks picks up a woman on the road while
driving a Chevrolet Nova SS II convertible. He opens the glove compartment and a
hand emerges holding what looks like a special Blue/Grey Model "F" Focusing
View-Master® viewer. "Bond" hands the viewer to the woman who
holds it up and starts to advance the images, which appear on the screen as the
accessories of the new car. Suddenly, enemy agents appear in a 1966 Chevrolet
Corvette. "Bond" casually narrates that the viewer is made of plastic
explosives. The woman tosses the viewer from the car and it explodes, narrowly
missing the Corvette. |
| In 1999, Universal Music and Video Distribution manufactured
and distributed a music CD featuring unauthorized View-Master® artwork. The
CD featured a View-Master® stereo reel on the cover stylized to look like a CD.
On the back was an image of an adapted View-Master® viewer. The CD,
titled "Headliners II", was given away as an incentive to bring people into Best
Buy stores the day after Thanksgiving.
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An information packet is
available if you are interested in using View-Master® reels and viewers to
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Your custom production starter kit includes the contacts you need to get your custom or
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