Revere Stereo 33

The Revere Model 33 was one of the most capable consumer stereo cameras of the postwar era. Produced by the Revere Camera Company of Chicago from the early 1950s, it captured two slightly offset 24×23mm frames simultaneously on standard 35mm film — left eye and right eye, side by side on a single strip of Kodachrome.

Loaded with a pair of 35mm f/3.5 lenses set 65mm apart — roughly the average human inter-ocular distance — the Model 33 produced pairs that, when viewed through a Realist-format viewer or projected with a stereo projector, render the scene in full three-dimensional depth. Larry viewed his slides on a table-top stereoscope viewer, exactly as Revere intended.

Kodachrome's saturation and archival stability means these frames have survived seventy years in near-perfect condition. The colors you see on this site are faithful scans of the original slides — no enhancement, just light through film.