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The intimate crowd and the glow of the projector screen created the impression of time-traveling back to a suburban basement rec room, even before Mr. Drysdale finished his history lesson and handed each attendee a box of slides.<\/p>\n
One expected to have a quaint experience not unlike looking through a child\u2019s View-Master. But with the press of a button, you were suddenly plunged into another world and almost overwhelmed by visual detail. <\/p>\n
In a photo of five boys gathered around a dining table for a birthday party, one boy had a comic book opened, and you could see under <\/em>the page fold. Another photo had been taken inside a machine shop, and every tool on every workbench \u2014 even the metal chain hanging from a bare ceiling light bulb \u2014 stood out with amazing, reach-out-and-touch-this clarity.<\/p>\nIda Kreutzer, a professional photographer, was so captivated by one image that she took out her iPhone at one point and tried to capture it through the viewer. Asked later, Ms. Kreutzer said it was a photo of two women in water, one of them sitting on a diving board. Written on the diving board were the words: \u201cNo dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt invited a whole bunch of questions to be asked that will never be answered,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The hyper-reality of these dreamy visual landscapes created sadness in some of the attendees after awhile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cEspecially because a lot of those worlds don\u2019t exist anymore,\u201d said David Frackman, a computer programmer who wrote a master\u2019s thesis on projected 3-D environments and was curious about stereoscopy. \u201cI realized, \u2018Oh, all of these people are probably dead.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, Mr. Frackman said he enjoyed seeing an America filled with home bars, beauty queens and bustling department stores, a country different from the present in ways both obvious and hard to put a finger on. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere was this really weird slide in the road-trip collection of these people, a couple I assume,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re sitting in front of a fire on this little rocky beach, probably eating canned stew or something.\u201d<\/p>\n
Virtually nothing about the scene, he noted, was remarkable. \u201cBut it\u2019s something that just wouldn\u2019t be done now,\u201d he said. \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t pull over by a random shore and happen to have your camping set with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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After looking at thousands of such scenes, Mr. Drysdale well understood the feeling.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s something different about this technology,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not comparable to looking at a vintage photograph. Because it\u2019s so uncanny in capturing a moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before the slides were passed around, Mr. Drysdale had dimmed the lights and cautioned the audience to take breaks because the experience can get tiring on the eyes, if not the soul.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot everybody can handle it,\u201d Mr. Drysdale said. \u201cSome people can\u2019t get enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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