The Talking Viewmaster: Now With Sound!

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NOTE: at 11:49 I state that the close-up attachment was for taking photos at ranges of 30-50 feet; I should have said 25 to 59 inches.

The Talking Viewmaster was introduced by GAF in 1970 and used miniature gramophone records to pair short sound clips with the regular Viewmaster stereo images. Sound quality in early models was poor, but GAF continually improved the technology, with the last iteration of the Talking Viewmaster appearing in 1997.

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