P3D Re: 3D on Polish Television

[Marvin Jones <Campfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>> I don't know original titles. In free translation
>> they are:
>> - Mad Magician (or 'M... like murder' after other source)
>>    B&W, very old with very poor 3D effect. Colors where
>> almost grey giving bad ghosting.
>
>>There is a 3D movie called "Dial M for Murder" (by Alfred Hitchcock) but
I doubt this is the one to which you refer.<<

Actually, he's probably referring to "The Mad Magician," the original
translation he gave. It was Columbia's attempt to remake "House of Wax"
without really doing so, right down to using Vincent Price as the villain.
It was one of the films converted to anaglyph in the late '70s/early '80s,
so a faded print was probably available for this telecast.

>>Unfortunately, anaglyph 3d doesn't work terribly well with video - 
it is basically due to inherent limitations of the way colour is encoded
onto the video signal.<<

I'm always heard that anaglyph works SLIGHTLY better in PAL, which he would
have been watching in Poland, than in NTSC. Generally, though, anaglyph on
television is the absolute bargain basement way of viewing 3D.