P3D Re: full color anaglyphs

["William J. Carter, Ph.D." <wc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:41 PM 8/18/98 -0600, Ray Zone wrote:

>If I go on here at some length, it is because I love the anaglyph display
>form for stereography.  Despite its limitations it continues to be the most
>widely reproduced form of stereographic display ...

Ray, you and others might be interested in this web site Allan just sent me:

http://www.simplecom.net/widefilm/oldcolor/technicolor1.html

It's all about Technicolor systems. Of particular interest to
anaglyph-o-philes (did I get that right, Dr. T?), and Tom with his generous
offer, are the photos and descriptions of the earliest 2-Color systems, e.g.;

              Technicolor System 1 - Additive Color 1917-1922

          The company's first color process was a two color additive
          system similar to Kinemacolor but with two major differences.
          The Technicolor camera recorded the red and blue-green
          images simultaneously through a single lens using a beam
          splitter and color filters to record the images stacked one on
          top of the other. 

And later, after several technical and audience evolutions:

          The largest user of the system was
          Warner Bros.-First National which produced more than 15
          Technicolor features in 1930 alone, with 11 of them being full
          color rather than merely color sequences. 

In 1933, Warner Bros. produced the last, and most agree, the best
Technicolor two-color film, Mystery of the Wax Museum [they show a still on
the web page]. The color was substantially better than the illustration
would have you believe. 

Mystery of the Wax Museum, was long thought to be lost forever; like most of
the nitrate based films produced up until 1950. A good quality print was
discovered in Jack L. Warner's home following his death. Today substantial
numbers of these early color efforts survive in the film libraries of Warner
Bros, MGM, Universal and Paramount. 

There were two problems that these early pioneers hadn't completely resolved
by the end of 1933. And, they were: lack of having any reasonable pan-ortho
type film to record with. And, a lack of understanding of any practical
color theory with which to expand on their limitations.

Dr. Bill sez, "check-it-out".


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