All of these Beheim photos are from Tru-View film strips or rolls sold in the 1940s for use in stereoscope viewers. You fed the strip in one end and pulled a lever to advance from one picture to the next. The stereoscope gave a three-dimensional effect. As I recall, there were four different strips about RBBB. Each strip dealt with a different subject – unloading/set up, menagerie, performance, and misc. Most of the views were shot in 1941. I got mine for Christmas 1944. They were very first circus photos I ever had. And there are some terrific shots among them.
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All of these Beheim photos are from Tru-View film strips or rolls sold in the 1940s for use in stereoscope viewers. You fed the strip in one end and pulled a lever to advance from one picture to the next. The stereoscope gave a three-dimensional effect. As I recall, there were four different strips about RBBB. Each strip dealt with a different subject – unloading/set up, menagerie, performance, and misc. Most of the views were shot in 1941. I got mine for Christmas 1944. They were very first circus photos I ever had. And there are some terrific shots among them.
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