P3D Re: The Robe

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 1:28 AM -0700 on 12/11/97, Marvin Jones wrote:


|No, that ad line refers to the Cinemascope process, which was first used on
|The Robe. The film was released when 3D movies were very popular, and the
|publicists were trying to denigrate the competition. Cinerama made a
|similar claim about not needing glasses to see it.

I kind of remember that - it may have been done on "How the West was
Won?" - or was that too late? I also remember that the theater where
I saw it had the same problem as in 3D - they couldn't keep the 3
projectors synchronized...

               Bob Wier
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  01:31 AM  Thursday, December 11, 1997
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