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> Sent:         Thursday, October 01, 1998 4:01 PM
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> Subject:      PHOTO-3D digest 3003
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>  The instructor asked the class a bonus question on
> the
> test, "Why were 3D movies originally invented?" I was wondering if you
> knew
> this answer, or know where would be a good place to look. Thank you
> for
> your
> time, corporation and quick response. 
> 
> Sounds like a letter to the New York Sun in 1897, answered in a famous
> editorial. Is this question for real?
> Bill Cosby said that in a college philosophy course they were asked to
> answer the question "Why is there air". In gym classes he learned the
> answer was to blow up volleyballs and footballs. I'd say that 3D
> movies were originally invented for fun.     Ray S 
> 


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