[photo-3d] Re: House of Wax in Richmond

[Greg Kintz <gkintz@xxxxxxxx>]

Regarding the conversations on if some older films were
better in 3-D, ..technicalities aside, I would have to vote
yes, as many 3-D classics "Creature From the Black
Lagoon", "It Came From Outer Space", "House of Wax"
and so forth seemed to realize the story was the most
important factor and 3-D was a second. But almost all of
the 1980's batch of 3-D films fall flat (pardon the pun) if
you watch them in 2-D. Those films seem like they're
completely tailored around 3-D as a gimmick.

But back to a technical aspect of 3-D. John Rupkalvis
brought up an excellent rare highlight in 3-D projection-
the 70mm single projector format. It had almost all of the
benefits of dual strip projection, (Good light output, no
real drop in resolution) while having the pluses of single
strip (Working on keeping two projectors in sync, plus
the often required intermission.) ..Sadly with the advent
of Dolby & DTS digital sound, most theater owners
have deemed 70mm unnecessary, so the 70mm format
has basically been abandoned in first run theaters, with
the exception of museums, theme parks and special
venue/revival houses. ..Perhaps a future restored 3-D
print could be converted from the original twin prints
to the IMAX (sideways 70mm) format and distributed
through that chain? Now *that* would look excellent!

   Greg K