P3D Re: RHINO HOME 3-D VIDEOS

[aifxtony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tony Alderson)]

>Ralph Johnston wrote (digest 2801):
I have three of these and so for cannot find a single scene that is in 3-d.
There are brief scenes with double images in red and blue, but it seems to
have been done by double printing the same image with a horizontal offset.
Can anyone direct me to a scene that is truly in 3-d?

The titles are: Cat Women on the Moon 3-d, Robot Monster, & The Mask.

This appears to me to be a rip-off.<

Well, I wouldn't recommend them, except perhaps for "collector value."
That's how I rationalize my assortment of 2 1/2 D junk, anyway.

Actually, all of these movies were shot stereoscopically. The Mask, of
course, alternates between flat and 3D sections. (For those of you who
don't know, it's a plot point: at certain points you put on the mask to see
through another's eyes...) But there is some pretty good 3-D, if you can
see it in a medium that allows stereo transmission. The remains of Cat
Women are in poor shape. One or the other eye has been lost from place to
place; these sections have been replaced with dupes of the remaining eye
(resulting in a flat picture.) Other parts are out of sync, or completely
missing. I saw CWOTM projected twin strip polarized some years ago. The
movie is so cheesy it's hard to comment on the stereo, but it's there. I
recall John Rupkalvis had to do a lot of adjusting when he transferred
Robot Monster for 3D Video Corp. (now defunct) in the mid 80's. RM is
difficult to sit through, even in 3-D. Even when you're being paid to do
so...

As I noted in another thread, it is just about impossible to get anything
but a double image in a VHS video anaglyph. The color space is horrible;
the reds and blues are mixed, and they can't be cancelled by any filters
I've seen. The double images get imprinted in the underlying luminance
channel. (Recall that NTSC lays a color image over a grayscale image.) I
can only see stereo in these home videos by closing my eyes and remembering
the times I saw them before. Any anaglyph home video is definitely *caveat
emptor*. Hopefully DVD will be better.  Maybe these films are available in
alternating-field 3D?

Tony Alderson
aifxtony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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