3-D Restoration and Consulting

Thank you, Donald!

 

We've just uploaded the first 3-D footage to our YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/3DFILMARCHIVE/videos

First, be sure to use our handy YT3D tutorial to optimize your viewing experience.

Once you've got everything looking its very best, RETURN TO BRONSON CANYON with Bob Burns in the miracle of third-dimension.

Who knows, maybe even Ro-man will make an appearance...

Enjoy!

Bob

 

Fascinating. I never knew the old 3d films weren't in red/blue glasses. Spent an hr on your site, loved it. Thanks for all your work preserving this stuff!

 

Thank you very much, I appreciate that.

The only anaglyph releases in 1953 are covered on this page: http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/home/top-10-3-d-myths/1953-anaglyph-films

 

60 years ago today on Wednesday, June 18 1952, filming commenced in the Malibu Hills on Arch Oboler’s THE LIONS OF GULU. It was the first feature film produced in Natural Vision Three-Dimension. Released as BWANA DEVIL on November 26 1952, its tremendous success jump started the short-lived 3-D revolution in Hollywood.

Here's a stereo image taken on location in the Malibu Hills. Pictured behind the Natural Vision camera is its designer Lothrop Worth. In front is Director of Photography Joe Biroc. Robert Stack and Barbara Britton look happy next to the Nash Rambler.



Bob Furmanek
http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/

 

I wished they could do the Real 3D stuff on the web. I don't know many people with a pair of RED/GREEN glasses at home, but just about everyone I know has 'forgotten' to return a pair of Read 3D glasses at the movies!

 

They can. My LG TV uses the style of glasses used by RealD systems. It can also surf the web and view 3-D videos on Youtube.

 

I hope Dial M for murder is in widescreen not 4/3. Can't wait for old 3D films to get the Blu-ray treatment.

 

Don't tell this guy, and for God's sake, don't try and confuse him with facts:

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2012/04/dial_m_mauled_b.php



Poor Bob. I'd like to think Mr. Wells was just yanking your chain, but who knows.

 

Oh, that's okay, I'm not thin-skinned. In other posts about ON THE WATERFRONT, he called me a Meat Cleaver Fascist!

He found that topics about aspect ratios got a FAR bigger response than his usual ramblings so that became the hot topic for a while. He's a typical clueless blogger who wouldn't know accurate research if it hit him in the nose.

 

Our website has just been updated with an article on what really killed 3-D movies in the 1950's.

http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/what-killed-3D

I hope that you find it interesting!

Bob

 

Someone here can surely, enlighten me of a puzzling thought I have about a 3-D film that was released. It was called Metroscopix (if I have the name right). It was shown in what was then MGM (Pre Sherman) owned theatres. Was it is a actual film or a 3-D first- up bags of sample tricks 'promotion' vehicle : like This is Cinerama was- for that particular screening medium?

 

What did the Tim Burton produced Lincoln vampire film cost I wonder, great 3D.

 

That was a quickly assembled compilation of the three Pete Smith shorts: Audioscopics, New Audioscopics and Third-Dimensional Murder. So far as I know, it was done for the foreign markets only in 1953. I've seen paper from the UK and Mexico.

Yes, that's one part of the Polaroid sync unit. Where'd you find it?

 

Very cool!

Here are some photos from my set-up. They're not the best, I've got to take some new ones.

 

Here's a new page on the site for those interested in the Polaroid synchronization unit: http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/smpte-report

 

Bob, was this unit, or something like it, used at the 3-D Fests in Hollywood?

 

No, they had some kind of electronic interlock which made it unnecessary. But I wish every theater running 3-D revivals had this unit. New York's Film Forum is constantly running 3-D out of phase. So much so that I've stopped attending.

I've used mine for years and have never had a bad show.

 

We've added some comic book covers to Myth #1 which may explain why nearly 60 years later, some people confuse anaglyph comics with the movies.

http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/home/top-10-3-d-myths

 

From www.thedigitalbits.com:

On our own Blu-ray Producers panel, George Feltenstein revealed that Warner Home Video has now officially green-lit the Blu-ray 3D release of House of Wax (1953). The original negative was damaged, so the "separation" film elements are being scanned at 4K for all three color strips, plus the left and right eye for each - essentially like scanning and restoring six films at once.