A Short History of View-Master’s Woody Woodpecker Packets

A look at the changing nature of children's art and culture between 1951 and 1964 (and again in 1988).

One brief coda to my recent series of posts about the artist Montyne (including a brief bio I wrote about him) is that it made me look at all the View-Master packets I had related to Montyne, of course, but also, accidentally, all the ones I had that related to Woody Woodpecker.

When I looked through my resources, I discovered that the earliest Woody Wo…