Hungarian Motorcycle Toy

Slide Wheel From TV Viewer

I got my hands on a little tiny TV viewer a several years ago and it shortly flew to flinders after being in the hands of my tiny child. The kind that looks similar to this:



I kept the slide wheel inside and today threw it in the scanner at 4800 ppi and got this, which when clicked, gives a "beefed up" version - still really tough to see.....



I lusted after these things when I was little. The plot goes like this:

A Picnic Story with a Frog a Mouse an Ant and a Lady - Bird

1. All Bound For Picnic
2. Frog Jumping Into Water Says Lets Cross This River
3. The Frog Sarcastically "Why Can't You All Follow"
4. The Others Made A Plan To Cross Because They Couldn't Swim
5. The Chick Brought A Leaf
6. The Mouse A Walnut Shell
7. The Ant A Straw
8. The Lady - Bird A Thread
9. In a Few Minutes A Boat Was Built
10. The Boat Was Launched
11. All On Board Safe Mr. Frog Wet And Angry

FEEL FREE TO SEND ME THE ONE FROM THAT OLD CIGAR BOX IN THE GARAGE!!

Perfect Christmas : The Gout Dung Beetle

The Gout Dung Beetle claims these features:

• Try me, I'll be a good partner of kids
• Happy Mood - Enjoy Everyone
• Lovely About Action
• Interest Cartoon Shape

.............and more!

Click to enlarrrge....

Zorro Goes To Color TV Church

clikk to really enlarge




I want these......

Toy Movie Reconstructed

I bought this years and years ago, and have never seen it, owing to the dearth of 16mm projectors in my life these days. It came in a small orange cardboard box marked Kiddy Toy Safety Film. It was about 5' long (additionally rendering its viewability problematic) and was intended to be viewed in some sort of toy movie viewer/projector.


It's been driving me nuts, wondering all these years what's on the film. The protagonist, named Kitty Cat, bears a striking resemblance to Otto Messmer's Felix the Cat.

I put the film in my scanner, scanned it at 1800dpi or so and dragged each frame through a 720px x 480px window saving each frame and then dropping it all into Movie Maker with properties set at .125 seconds per image. The results are below.

The motivation to experience this stems from years of Kenner Give-a-Show projectors and ViewMasters. There's the insightful bloggish psychological bit.

Lastly, it's a little washed out, because the original is a little washed out.

Looks good? Blow it up & see.
Enhancements did little to improve, but did not really worsen it. I added some music appropriate to the content and voila'. I was urged by my son to not desaturate, and aesthetically, I agree.

In your briefcase lies the fascination of exciting go-kart race

I WANT THIS.
But I also want a lot of other stuff
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The other cool things are:

• The the built-in translation tools on this Google-found autotranslated page.
  
• The wonky autotranslation itself
• The nicely constructed flash "Super Zoom" feature on the enlarged picture pop-up

LINK

Toys for Xmas

butts:



One of two electronic dolls that seem to be everywhere: