50s 3D movies

[P3D Michael Kaplan <mkaplan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Jones' excellent post on this subject was, as far as I know,
completely accurate. Memory of r/g glasses from the 50s probably comes
from their availability with widely distributed comic books, or their
recent popularity.

I should add here that many theatres only had two projectors. Most, if not
all, 3D movies that I saw had 10-minute intermissions, required for reel
changing and eye resting.

To be sure, many of the b/w 3D movies of the 50s were later re-released in
r/g. The classic text on 3-D films, James Limbacher's "Four Aspects of the
Film," lists only three r/g films produced between 1952 and 1966: 13
Ghosts (1960), The Mask (1961) and Paradisio (1962).

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Michael Kaplan
Professor of Architecture
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
mkaplan@xxxxxxx


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