P3D Re: Robe Mania

[norml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Belton's book (which I value greatly) is known to contain a few errors.
The Robe/3D thing is one of them.

Norm Lehfeldt

>>> Allow me to direct you to the memo in question. A few years back
>>> researcher/author John Belton (Author of Widescreen Cinema) noted
>>> a March 5th 1953 letter from from Fox's Darryl Zanuck to Jack Warner:
>>> "I am looking each night at the flat rushes, 3-D polaroid rushes
>>> and finally the Cinemascope rushes on The Robe"
>>>  -Twentieth Century-Fox folder, Warner Brothers Archive.
>
>> That's the one. To me it says clearly that he was watching the rushes
>> from several films -- flat films, 3D films and also the Cinemascope
>> rushes from "The Robe." But like trying to put the toothpaste back in
>> the tube, there will no longer be any way to convince the eager ones
>> that he was not looking at flat, 3D and Cinemascope rushes, all of
>> "The Robe".
>
>I see your point, but would like to see the letter in it's entirety
>untill saying a definate "yea" or "nay". ..Given the time period, 
>(spring '53) a 3-D "back-up" would fit. Even if one did (partially)
>exist, it would almost be sure to now be now long, long gone.
>
>Did I mention George Lucas shot his first Star-Wars film in 3-D?
>...Just kidding!!
>
>    -Greg-
>
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