We've all heard, or maybe even experienced, the agony of being invited over to a friend's or family member's house for the dreaded minute-by-minute pictorial walk through of someone else's vacation. A fancy 35mm slide projector was set up and everyone would gather around as the vacation was described and broadcast in painstaking detail. I was never subjected this torture, but recently I stumbled across a set of 35mm slides produced by the Nippon Bunka Film Co in 1963. These were mass produced and sold as souvenirs to tourists and travelers....so I guess you wouldn't have to take your own pictures and have them processed at the local store saving you a bunch of time. This particular auction lot had 15 different boxes of various Japanese topics including Japanese sumo wrestling. In each of these boxes is 10 35mm slides related to the box topic.
This series was marketed for English-speaking tourists as each box contained an English-language brochure highlighting all the different series (works) you could buy. Additionally, there is a small booklet that describes each of the 10 slides in the box written in both English and Japanese.
Anyone have any crazy slide stories?
And the big question....should these be collectibles in the sports card arena or am I just plain crazy?
Whoa... that sumo wrestler is showing off his goodies in that last slide ;)
ReplyDeleteThese are really cool. I think the only slides I own are the ones that came in Star Wars action figure packages in the 90's.
The last one is definitely an interesting one.
DeleteI have seen the Star Wars ones as well. I believe that there have been several releases...I can't remember if from the United States or Japan...of cards with imbedded film negatives in the card.
My grandfather had bought some "souvenir" slides of the Grand Canyon back in the '60's. I remember looking at them with him sometime in the 80's and they all were tinged red due to the aging of the film. They made the Grand Canyon look like the surface of Mars. From what I can see in your scans/photos, it looks like these might be suffering the same issue.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid you are right...these slides were likely mass produced and the technology to preserve the film probably wasn't as sophisticated as it is today. These are definitely red...I wonder how bad they would look like projected? Also, I wonder if they ever made any Japanese baseball slides to capture certain teams or events?
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