[Holography]

Image-plane reflection hologram, silver halide emulsion on film (4 x 5 in.), mounted on cardstock with three identifying labels, housed in a printed McDonnell Douglas envelope; minor wear to envelope.  

Ex Frederick C. Durant III 

Holographic Visions: A History of New Science, pp. 161-168, 352. 

Image-plane reflection hologram, silver halide emulsion on film (4 x 5 in.), mounted on cardstock with three identifying labels, housed in a printed McDonnell Douglas envelope; minor wear to envelope.
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AN EARLY HOLOGRAM FROM ONE OF THE PIONEERS IN THE FIELD OF COMMERCIAL HOLOGRAPHY.

A hologram is a photographic recording of a light field, used to display and view a fully three-dimensional image under diffuse ambient light without the aid of any intermediate optics. The hologram on offer here depicts a man pushing a boulder, and is inscribed by a staff-member at McDonnell Douglas — Robert "Bob" Schinella — to Frederick C. Durant III: "To Fred | This is one of the First replicated Holograms ever made - 1970. It is a classical reflection Hologram on photographic emulsion".

McDonnell Douglas was a major aerospace manufacturing and defense contractor that provided air and spacecraft simulators for the Mercury and Gemini manned space programs. Its subsidiary, McDonnell Douglas Electronics Company, housed a pulsed-laser holography laboratory until 1973, when when the corporation decided that the market for holograms was proving too elusive to pursue any further.