P3D Re: PHOTO-3D digest 3003

["Norm in S.F." <normlehf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If this is supposed to be the answer to why 3-D movies were invented, I
say it's balderdash.

There were sequential and anaglyph 3-D movies as early as the '20s (and
probably earlier).
If the teacher who asked this question really thinks that 3-D movies
were only invented as
a competitive answer to TV, he/she has provided further evidence of how
inadequate current
teachers are.

Norm Lehfeldt

Tom Whitley wrote:
> 
> Why were 3D movies invented?
> 
> The impact of TV when it got going, on movies was tremendous.   Theater owners wanted to give their patrons something more.
> Color was more, for a while.   Stereo sound and surround sound was more, for quite a while.   Wide screen was more, and 3D was more.
> But as fascinating as 3D was, people didn't like the glasses.   They didn't like the headaches.   Nevertheless 3D was part of the
> "more than TV has to offer" that the movie people came up with to get audiences back in the theaters.


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