Tribune Article on Movie Milestones

[P3D Ronald W Doerfler <doerfler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As a note of interest, the Chicago Tribune devoted a special section
last Sunday to a Summer Movie Preview.  Since some high-tech special
effects movies are coming, the cover featured a full-page spread of
the films in movie history that broke technological ground as true
milestones.  Included were 15 movies, with accompanying stills, with
such films as "The Great Train Robbery," "King Kong," "Gone With the
Wind," "The Ten Commandments," "2001," "Star Wars," and "Jurassic Park."
They were displayed by year of release.

AND, right there in the middle, was "House of Wax"!  They showed a
picture of the movie poster and said:

    The great leap forward for 3-D.  Two projectors simultaneously
    screened images for the left and right eye, and viewers wore grey,
    polarized lenses to separate and thus process them in three
    dimensions.  The new technology, which discarded those red-and-green
    glasses, allowed 3-D movies to be shot in color, although it didn't
    improve the scripts.


Seems correct to me, particularly since the writer knew that the older
anaglyphic glasses were red-green, not red-blue (or cyan).  At the
bottom of the spread it says: "Photos from the Everett Collection and
Tribune files; Source: "The ASC Treasury of Visual Effects."

With the Tribune's extensive coverage of the 3D IMAX in town, the
not-bad coverage of the 3D heyday in it's long article on the movie
schlockmeisters of old, the ABC and NBC 3D shows (with a Dan Symmes'
interview interspersed), and so on, it is a quite refreshing read.

Ron Doerfler
(who has never seen the movie--"Hey, I saw Spacehunter, does that count??")

mailto:rdoerfler@xxxxxxxxxx


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