The VistaScreen Co Ltd was a stereographic photography outfit launched in the late 1950s by Jack & Jeff Spring, who, at the time, owned a merchanting paper company called Capital Paper Company, and Stanley Long, a former RAF photographer. Long shot the vast majority of the stereo images, mainly using a 1920s Franke & Heidecke Heidoscop stereo camera with a 6×13 cm plate back. The VistaScreen viewers were manufactured in ivory-coloured plastic and were designed to fold flat to be compactly stored.

Picture cards were supplied in boxed booklets, with each series containing 10 cards. The individual series packets cost 2/6d.

The card packets were marketed at souvenir booths at various locations, photographed, and most were also available through mail order. In some instances, two sets would be taken on a given day – one exclusive to the venue and one marketed to the general public through supply lists included with each new collection. The exact number of series released is unknown, though it is known to be more than 300 10-card sets over the 5-year lifespan of the company.

 

Stanley Long was the in-house photographer.

They included Art Nude (Studies) sets, this is N 2

More information about the viewer in my viewers’ collections: VistaScreen