P3D Comin' at ya

[WADE Howard <hwade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a message dated 3/31/99 7:00:08 PM, Charlie Hotchiss most elegantly
wrote:

>You won't sophisticate me, I'm not too much of a jejune sophisticate to
>admit that I love the stuff flying out of the screen.
>Hamlet cries out to be done in 3D.  The ghost could float over the heads
>of the audience, there are lots of good sword swinging scenes, Yorick's
>head could be floating inches from your nose.  Perhaps Hamlet could
>>regain his mirth.
"Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished."

Thank you, Charlie.
In 1953, when I walked with my popcorn down the theatre aisle to see my
first 3-D movie, It Came From Outer Space, there was a Louis Armstrong short
subject playing and I wondered why it looked so fuzzy. I thought, Oh, that
must be what the glasses are for. I put my glasses on just as Satchmo swung
around and pushed his trombone slide out into the audience. At the moment I
ducked and spilled my popcorn I was hooked forever. I saw every 3-D movie I
could, and while I enjoyed every use of depth in those films I never got
tired of through the window effects. I love everything about 3-D!  But now I
find out I'm (gasp) unsophisticated!!! Ah, well. Small price to pay for so
much enjoyment.

Images that poke through the window shouldn't touch the frame or it causes
the rational mind to go wonky. But images that fly through the middle of the
window into our faces, causing us to duck, flinch, or spill our popcorn,
well, that's entertainment.

Howard D ( I'm not a real Doctor but I played one as a child) Wade
hwade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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