Set of 4 Vintage 1939 Golden Gate Exposition Tru-Vue 3D Photo Reels Stereoviews

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Set of 4 Vintage 1939 Golden Gate Exposition Tru-Vue 3D Photos Film Reel Strip View-Master
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I have been collecting 3D media for the last 30 years and finally decided it's time to part ways with some of my favorite things.  This set is taken right from my 40 year collection and is the best 4 boxes and reels I have ever seen.
This is a rare complete set of four vintage Tru-Vue film strip reels of 3D pictures taken of the historic Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco in 1939 and 1940 with all 4 film strips in early matching red & silver boxes. Each film strip reel contains 14 different 3D stereo images for viewing within a Tru-Vue viewer stereoscope (not included). See this historic Expo as it was in these wonderful 3D photos from 75+ years ago! Today these reels are very interesting historic stuff, and all in eye-popping 3D! Complete sets almost never show up leaving collectors to find each film strip one at a time.
In John Waldsmith's excellent Stereoviews Price Guide (1991) the films are listed at - each. Today 25 years later, the reels are even harder to find. On CraigCamera website a complete set in Ex condition is selling for 5.00. These views are all better than EX condition and priced well below their amount.
The 3D views contained within the two strip set include:
Reel 1:
General Views
Reel 2:
Flowers and Aviation
Reel 3:
Gayway
Reel 4:
Street of Nations
Condition:
The film strip reels...
are all in near mint condition and all are in their original red and silver boxes with the original cardboard inserts! I have personally gone through each film strip reel with white gloves on and inspected every frame and every film cog. All are perfect guaranteed! I would suggest when viewing these rare films (and all other Tru-Vue films), to pull them slowly through the viewer rather than using the advance lever. This is how the cogs get torn.
All of the boxes...
are as near mint condition that one could expect for boxes this old, as can be seen in my photos. All flaps are present and there are no tears or crushes anywhere on the boxes. I have tried my best to photograph every aspect of the boxes and film strips. Please check my pictures out and if you have any questions, please email!  Packaging on these will be very secure and shipping will include insurance for full value.
Thanks for looking!
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About the Golden Gate Exposition:
The Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) (1939 and 1940), held at San Francisco's Treasure Island, was a World's Fair
celebrating, among other things, the city's two newly built bridges. The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened in 1936 and
the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937. The exposition opened from February 18, 1939, through October 29, 1939, and from May 25,
1940, through September 29, 1940.
Treasure Island, a flat, geometrically-shaped, artificial island attached to Yerba Buena Island, was built for the Exposition near
where the Oakland span and the San Francisco span of the Bay Bridge join. Built by the federal government, Treasure Island
was to be an airport for Pan American's transpacific flying boats, like the China Clipper. Due to wartime needs, it was turned into
a naval base used by the US Navy from 1941 to 1997.
The theme of the exposition was "Pageant of the Pacific", as it showcased the goods of nations bordering the Pacific Ocean.
The theme was physically symbolized by "The Tower of the Sun" and a giant, 80-foot statue of Pacifica, goddess of the Pacific
ocean.
As the boundaries of human intercourse are widened by giant strides of trade and travel, it is of vital import that the bonds of
human understanding be maintained, enlarged and strengthened rapidly. Unity of the Pacific nations is America's concern and
responsibility; their onward progress deserves now a recognition that will be a stimulus as well.
Washington is remote from the Pacific. San Francisco stands at the doorway to the sea that roars upon the shores of all these
nations, and so to the Golden Gate International Exposition I gladly entrust a solemn duty. May this, America's World's Fair on the
Pacific in 1939, truly serve all nations in symbolizing their destinies, one with every other, through the ages to come.
—President Franklin D. Roosevelt, via radio, during the opening ceremonies.
The San Francisco Downtown Association created the 49-Mile Scenic Drive to promote the exposition and the city. The drive
started at San Francisco City Hall and ended on Treasure Island after winding around the picturesque "City by the Bay."
About Tru-Vue from the UK Viewmaster website:
TRU-VUE Inc., Rock Island, Illinois USA manufactured the viewers and over 400 different 3D film reels. The company was
founded in 1931 and after the 1933 "Century of Progress Exposition" in Chicago grew and flourished through the 1930's and
40's. The original viewers used 35mm filmstrips, generally containing 14 stereo views, which were pulled through the viewer using
a lever (visible at the bottom of the left-hand photograph below). In 1949 Tru-Vue sold over a million reels of film!  The quality of
the 3D presented is generally very good, although the films need to be handled carefully. Film-strips and viewers were made
between 1933 and 1952. Ultimately the Tru-Vue company was acquired by Sawyers View-Master in 1952, who wanted the rights
to Disney licences held by the company.
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