P3D Re: Polaroid didn't catch on?!?

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

|Not just in stereo clubs. Anyone who has ever seen a 3D motion picture in
|the last half-century has PROBABLY seen it in polaroid. The tiny handful of

I caught an interesting thing on PBS last evening on the illustrator who
did many of the movie posters of the 40's and 50's (he died in '91 I think).
They specifically mentioned 3D movies, showed the usual audience reaction
shot while wearing the poloroid specs, and specifically mentioned
"Charge at Feather River", "House of Wax", and one other I forget ("Sadie
Thompson") by name.

Question: I seem to recall on someone's web site some 3D movie posters, but
am unclear as to whether this is a modern anaglyph or if they were actually
issued that way? Can someone enlighten? 

THANKS

               Bob Wier
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  11:58 AM  Friday, December 5, 1997
     Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
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