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Review by C.J. Bunce

If you love history and the idea of time travel, scientists and writers have provided mankind with several options to bridge the two.  Maybe you don’t think of it as time travel, but written history for millennia has allowed humans to see the past through the eyes of our ancestors.  Since the 1840s, early photography has allowed us to literally see the past.  Early cinema came in the subsequent decades, and both photography and cinema made it possible for we future beings to see the past in color.  With Victorian ingenuity, we could see the past in three dimensions.  Almost from the inception of photography, stereoscopic viewers brought three dimensions to audiences by 1840, thanks to Charles Wheatstone.  Cinema followed, thanks to a stereoscope release of George Méliès’ 1902 movie A Trip to the Moon.  By the 1950s anyone could preserve life in the moment for future generations via stereo cameras, and every kid marveled at easy to view View-Master reels documenting life across time and space, even via 3D images taken from the actual Apollo missions to the Moon.  We’ve come a long way from old fashioned stereoscope viewers, but the same awe can be found in the new book 3D Disneyland: Like You’ve Never Seen It Before (available now here at Amazon), a decades past look inside a beloved theme park, including its Tomorrowland and its mid-century modern art movement-inspired world.

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