[photo-3d] Re: digest 383, fifties 3D cinema

[Olivier Cahen <o_cahen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    My memory is not so long, I did not see 3d films in the fifties, but I
watched the projection of "Dial M for Murder" and "House of Wax"  at the ISU
Congress at Atlanta in 1995. It was polarised. I also saw "Dial M..." in Paris,
long time ago (in the seventies?), it was also polarised.

photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote :

>    Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:24:34 +0000
>    From: jack.colbran@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Fifties 3D Cinemas
> I've got a question for any 3D'ers with long memories.
> The cinemas of the fifties where films like "House of Wax", "Kiss Me Kate",
> "The Creature... " etc. were originally shown  -  was the projection method
> polarised or anaglyphic?
> Surely they used polarised method, not anaglyphic. ...but I've come accross
> evidence to suggest that audience wore red/green glasses. (or red/blue)
> I once saw a picture of the interior of a cinema, and the entire audience
> were wearing red/green glasses. The picture was a black and white
> photograph originally, and the lenses of all the glasses had been coloured
> in. This must be wrong!
> I've heard some people, (perhaps to young to remember accurately)
> describing the coloured glasses they wore in the cinema, but I reckon they
> were thinking of comics and magazines, not cinemas.
> I realise it's not of earth-shattering importance, but I'd like to know
> about this thing that's been puzzling me.
> Jack