![]() Worse still is that the silver screen has a poor viewing angle meaning that big films premiering in large theatres had to do so in 2D. ![]() Worn copies of the film are difficult to repair with the two reels having to stay identical and often two projectionists are needed to play them. Audiences complain of eye strain and headaches when the projections are not aligned correctly. The impracticalities of the medium become apparent. releases House of Wax which becomes the first 3D film to come in stereo sound, but by the beginning of the following year 3D cinema's popularity begins to dwindle. ![]() The tagline is: "The Miracle of the Age!!! A LION in your lap! A LOVER in your arms!" The critics pan it but the crowds flock and so 3D finally arrives in all its glory. The plot centres around the hunt for two man-eating lions on the loose in East Africa and typified the action/thriller/horror genre that worked so well with 3D. The film is shown in colour using the Land's two-print method with audiences wearing polarised light filter glasses and not the red/cyan anaglyph type mistakenly associated with this era. With ticket sales plummeting from 90 million in 1948 to 40 million in 1951, the industry looks for a new way to draw audiences back to the movies and Bwana Devil, as written and directed by Arch Oboler, is released heralding the new age. The images are then separated by polarised glasses as worn by each audience member.Īfter a second lull in 3D film production, this time because of World War II, 3D films finally find their golden era as the cinema comes under threat from the invention of the television. Two prints are projected in synchrony onto a silver screen through polarising filters. Late 20s - early 30s Developments in cinema and 3D invention go into a lull with the onset of the Great Depressionġ935 MGM hires filmmakers Jacob Leventhal and John Norling to produce the Audioscopic series of shorts in 3D which go on to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Subject, Novelty in the same year.ġ936 Edwin H Land, co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation, demonstrates 3D imaging using polarised light at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. It's the first example of the alternate frame system of 3D. Only one cinema in New York ever installs it, running a series of 3D shorts and one feature - The Man from M.A.R.S. Audience members look through viewing machines resting on the arms of each seat in the house, which alternately open and close shutters in front of each eye in time with the corresponding frames appearing on the screen. A single strip of film is projected at a screen with the the images for the left and right eyes rolling past one frame after the other. ![]() Cassidy and Laurens Hammond (inventor of the Hammond Organ) come up with an alternative method of 3D film viewing, called Teleview. The 3D images are produced by using two film strips projected on top of one another - one using reds, the other greens - which are then viewed using the the anaglyph colour filter glasses. The tests come to nothing in the way of further production.ġ922 The Power of Love, the first feature film in 3D, is screened at the Ambassador Hotel Theatre in Los Angeles. The footage is of oriental dancing girls and Niagara Falls amongst other performances and presented using the red/green glasses to decipher it. Waddelland and screened to an audience at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York. The invention is successful but ignored for mass market because of being impractical for large scale theatre use.ġ915 The first 3D test reels for the cinema are produced by Edwin S. His idea is for a stereoscope machine that rushes two strips of film through in synchronisation. The idea is popularised by a famous 3D image of Queen Victoria on display at the Great Exhibition of 1851.ġ890 British 3D pioneer William Friese-Greene files a patent for the first 3D motion pictures. The effect is usually produced by placing two images of the same subject inside a viewing box or Stereoscope - as introduced by David Brewster - which uses lenses to converge the images onto one another and allow the illusion to work. Beginningsġ840 Stereoscopy (3D imaging) is invented by Charles Wheatstone and used to view stills and make them seem to pop out at the viewer. For a better understanding of the science behind, watch out for our "How does 3D work" feature later today but for now take a ride with us from when another dimension jumped out of the silver screen. 3D has been around in one form another for over 150 years, from early stereoscopes to the golden era of the 50s and the boom we're seeing today. (Pocket-lint) - We kick off our 3D week extravaganza at Pocket-lint with a look at how it all began.
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