P3D Re: The Robe.....

[gecko <gecko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>Message text written by INTERNET:photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>In the early fifties it was not uncommon to shoot two versions of the
>>1st Cinemascope films, due to the lack of widescreen theateres and
>>for safty if the ultra-wide 2.55:1 Cinemascope format did not catch
>>on. For safty, the 1st 'Scope film "The Robe" was shot in standard
>>1.33:1, Cinemascope 2.55:1, *and* in 3-D!<
>>
>Whoops! Here we go again! "The Robe" WAS shot in 'scope and
"square-screen"
>versions, but it was NOT shot in 3D! This rumor got started a couple of

>years ago when someone in a Usenet group made a wildly garbled
>misinterpretation of a memo which had been reprinted somewhere and
>announced his "discovery" that there was a 3D version of "The Robe." It

>ain't so.

Funny!  On the Internet Movie Database site, the slogan for the movie,
The Robe, is
"The Modern Miracle You See Without Glasses!"

http://us.imdb.com/cache/title-exact/99415

Maybe it was originally planned for 3D??


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