The Wonderful World of View-Master: Germany
I haven’t been able to pin down an exact year of release for these reels, but I’m guessing they date from the early 1960s. There’s no date printed on the reels or the booklet but the latter mentions the Berlin Wall, which was built in 1961. Further, these reels were published by Sawyer’s back when they owned the View-Master brand, which was true until they were acquired by the General Aniline & Film (GAF) Corporation in 1966. So there you go.
With that unnecessary preamble out of the way, let’s get going already. Here are all three View-Master reels (B193) depicting Germany, then divided into West and East, as it was in the early ’60s. Willkommen in Deutschland!
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- “Panorama of Hamburg from Across Elbe River”
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- “500-Year-Old Holsten Gate at Lübeck”
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- “Kurfürstendamm Sidewalk Cafe in West Berlin”
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- “Kaiser Wilhelm Church, West Berlin”
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- “Brandenburg Gate, Entrance to East Berlin”
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- “Statue of [Johann Sebastian] Bach at Leipzig”
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- “Old Nuremberg Preserves Medieval Architecture”
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- “Boys’ Band on Parade in Dinkelsbühl Festival”
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- “Old Section of Munich”
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- “St. Bartholomä Church on Beautiful Königssee”
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- “Rottach-Egern on Tegernsee, Bavarian Alps”
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- “Wetterstein Peak from Garmisch”
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- “Munchener House on 9,721-Foot Zugspitze”
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- “Fairy-Tale Castle of Neuschwanstein”
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- “Black Forest Farmhouse Has Stable in Rear”
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- “Heidelberg’s Arched Bridge and Famous Castle”
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- “Cochem Castle Overlooks Moselle Valley”
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- “Rhine River at Scenic Koblenz”
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- “Cologne Cathedral”
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- “Steel Mill in Krupp Plant at Essen”
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- “Municipal Hall at Hanover”
