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Red Raven Records & Magic Mirror Movies
By Scott Currier

Recently someone mentioned Red Raven Records on MMD.  This made me
look through my old stuff, and sure enough I found a Red Raven set in
the original box, with four records and the magic mirror.

These were a neat gimmick using the Zoetrope effect to animate the
images printed on the record label.  The records, record sleeves, and
magic mirror in this set are near mint, and box is in fair condition.
I have decided to sell the set, so I put it on eBay.

If anyone is interested in seeing what the set looked like, I included
pictures on the eBay listing:

    http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=25115284

If you don't want to bother with eBay, the jpegs are:

    http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/4818/rr0.jpg
    http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/4818/rr1.jpg

WAMS has a neat page that shows an actual record animation running.
It can be seen at:

    http://elaine.teleport.com/~rfrederi/wraven1.shtml

My kids (11 and 13) loved watching and listening to the records
last night, more than they like listening to my player pianos ...
Oh well, I guess Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be! <smirk>

Scott Currier
http://www.currierandives.com

 [ Scott,  I am hearing more and more about eBay's on-line auction
 [ service.  When you are "done" with this sale, would you please
 [ let us know how it works and you like and don't like about it ?
 [ Thanks!  --Jody


(Message sent Tue 11 Aug 1998, 17:04:56 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject:  Magic, Mirror, Movies, Raven, Records, Red

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