More 3-D Movie Stuff

[P3D <DavidH8083@xxxxxxx>]

 >The remaining 3-D films were released 'flat', and the
>industry breathed a sigh of relief.  So did the critics, who had >wondered
whether they would ever again see a film which did >not involve frequent
violent action.  The Russians did claim at >the time that they were inventing
a 3-D process which would >not require the use of glasses, but we are still
waiting for >that.
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Halliwell's is not a very good source for info about American releases and
practices; it tends to be strong on how things were done in Britain and
assume that's the way things happened in the states.  But all sources have
their inaccuracies (I've certainly published a few over the years ... on slip
and you spend a decade trying to mop up the mess by running them done and
issuing corrections, but that's another story), but Halliwell's has more than
many.

Contrary to to what the book states Hitchcock's Dial M and a number other
late 3-D films of the 50s played in 3-D,  but not very widely -- you probably
wouldn't need the figures of one hand to count the theaters.

The Russian autostereoscopic theaters survived for a couple of decades, but
eventually died because of a lack of 3-D films to show.  The late
stereographer Mel Lawson visited the one in Leningrad (well, that's what the
city was called then) many years ago and watched a nature film in 3-D.  The
details about the design and operation of theaters are not a state secret and
have been published in various books.  It's all a well known technology.


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