Re: The Mask

[P3D Marvin Jones <72657.3276@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Alright I know that this is going back a ways, but last month we were all 
> arguing over the whole Polarised/Anaglyph movie topic, and some one said 
> that THE MASK was one of the few movies shot as an aaglyph.  I guess i 
> only have one question.  HOW??? (i keep getting lost on the 
> red/whit, and bluue/ white images one the same piece of film) 
> 
It wasn't SHOT as an anaglyph, it was RELEASED as an anaglyph. I would have to
walk across the room to the reference shelf to look up the details, but I'm sure
it was shot in some two-strip process and converted to anaglyph in the
post-production stage. In the same way, a few of the B&W '50s movies were
converted to anaglyph in the '70s, mostly for non-theatrical distribution on
Super-8 and 16mm. Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Came From Outer Space, The
Maze, Mad Magician, and the two Three Stooges shorts received this treatment
(the questionable concept of color anaglyph is fairly recent, and to my
knowledge has never been done on film--only in video conversions).

Although I've seen a couple of experimenters try it, it's not really very
feasible to actually SHOOT in anaglyph, because the effect of filtering the
lenses isn't the same as printing the shot in the proper color. Blacks, in an
anaglyph print, are rendered in the respective red and blue colors. When you
just shoot a scene through filters, the blacks are still rendered black--it's
the WHITES that are colored--and this defeats the effect of the anaglyph
glasses.


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