Word: ansco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Photographed in Ansco color with the Natural Vision process (special polarized glasses for viewers), Bwana Devil gives a blurry illusion of depth. Producer-Writer-Director Arch Oboler, onetime radio scriptwriter, uses three-dimension as a trick rather than a creative tool. The moviegoer seems to see a lion leaping into his lap, a native throwing a spear from the screen. But even in 3-D, Bwana Devil is a singularly flat adventure yarn...
...dimension to movies is almost as old as movies themselves. But to moviegoers, the illusion of depth is a perennial novelty. Off & on, through the years, it has always drawn interested crowds. Last week, at two Paramount theaters in Los Angeles, record audiences were queueing up to see an Ansco color movie called Bwana Devil, the first feature picture ever made in "three dimensions...
...intoxicating background of a 200-proof, Ansco-color Paris, some superior acting, and a thrilling interpretation of George Simenon's inscrutable Inspector Maigret, place "The Man on the Eiffel Tower" among Hollywood's best all-time mysteries...
Captured in the full colors of Ansco film, the narcotic spell of Paris nicely complements Tone's interpretation of Radek's manic-depressive states. The photography, under actor-director Meredith's sensitive eye, is responsive to the moods of both the man and the city...