Re: Russian 3D Movies

[P3D Marvin Jones <72657.3276@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm not ashamed to confess my ignorace of this "well known technology".
> The mention in Halliwell's was the first I'd heard of it.  I don't recall
> Russian autostereographic theatres being mentioned on this list since
> I've been reading it.
> 
There was a lengthy discussion of the Russian 3D movie system on this list
several months back (quite a few months, maybe--time flies, etc.), possibly
before you joined. It's also discussed in Hayes (3-D Movies) and just about
every detailed article on 3D movies I've read. After all that, however, I'm
afraid I still don't understand the system very well. It involved a screen
filled with slats that apparently acted like a giant lenticular photo on which a
3D movie image could be seen without glasses, albeit from a severely restricted
seating area. A few films were made in the 1940s for the system, notably a
feature based on Robinson Crusoe, and as I understand it, one theater ran for
decades using this small repertoire of films.


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