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?
