43 Years Ago in Time

[P3D Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This may have been mentioned... if so, forgive the duplication...

The June 3 issue of Time Magazine contained the following item under the 
heading of "43 Years Ago in Time"...


"Third-Dementia" 

In the summer of 1953, the big movie special-effect sensation was 3-D: 
"At Paramount...[out] went twelve days of production on Sangaree, a 
costume epic starring Fernando Lamas, and the whole thing was shot again 
in 3-D...'Whaddya mean [the audience] won't wear glasses?' demanded 
Producer Bill Thomas. 'They'll wear toilet seats around their necks if 
you give 'em what they want to see!'...At Warners, Brother Jack [rushed] 
production on a [3-D] remake of that ancient horror about murder in a 
wax museum [with] the only director on the lot who cannot properly 
perceive depth: one-eyed Andre de Toth. [Said De Toth]: 'Beethoven 
couldn't hear music either, could he?'" --June 8, 1953


The rest, as they say, is history.

(Anyone care to rise to the challange that a one-eyed director cannot 
"properly" perceive depth?)

For those with access to the world wid web, this issue can be accessed 
at the following url: 

http://pathfinder.com/@@iu3MBgUAQuamiPue/time/magazine/domestic/1996/960
603/notebook.html


Eric G.
egoldste@xxxxxx


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