P3D Re: RHINO HOME 3-D VIDEOS

[ROLANDROLA@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 6/23/98 10:18:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< >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
  >>


They were available in alternating-field 3D years ago at 3DTV Corporation but,
he only sells a few 3D movies now.  I have copies of many movies in field
sequential 3-D and the 3-D effect is very good to excellent on them.  All
other 3-D systems look pretty bad compared to field sequential.

Roland Lataille


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