Pseudo-stereo

[P3D Marvin Jones <Campfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've seen it and it happens all the time.  Whenever I see anaglyph and it
> does not work well, my first reaction is to reverse the glasses.  BUT I
> have seen people who just stare at the anaglyph (picture, film) with the
> wrong glasses and many of them would bet that they are seeing stereo!!!
> Heck, I have seen people reverse mount prints and slides and pretending
> to be enjoying the (totally confusing and totally WRONG) stereo effect!
> 
This reminds me of a disastrous screening of one of those single-strip 3D
movies in the early '80s. Since the pictures were one atop the other in the
film frame, it was very easy (and common) for a disinterested projectionist
to splice the film wrong and have the picture suddenly go out of synch,
with the left eye of one frame being projected for the right eye of the
audience, and the right eye of an adjoining frame being projected to the
left eye of the audience. So this happened at the screening I was at, and
the whole picture went pseudo-stereo and just a tick out of synch. The
audience was howling. Being in the film industry and a 3D nut, I knew
precisely what was wrong and went back and patiently explained it, with
sketched illustrations and extensive technical detail, to the manager /
projectionist / popcorn dispenser in the lobby. After a lengthy explanation
from me, he patiently replied "Oh, no, sir. There's nothing wrong. It's in
3D. This is how it's supposed to look."


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