Word: bwanas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...which achieves the depth illusion by nearly surrounding the viewer with the picture, Natural Vision was developed by Milton Gunzburg, an ex-screen writer, and his brother Julian, an eye surgeon. The process was licensed by radio's veteran Producer-Writer-Director Arch Oboler, who turned out Bwana Devil, a jungle yarn starring Robert Stack, Barbara Britton and some man-eating lions that almost halt the building of an African railroad...
...reason: "If we're kind to the Kukes [short for Kikuyus], what more can they want? They've only been down from the trees for 50 years ..." One helpful farmer lined up his Kukes and told them to speak to me freely. The farmer is a good bwana, they said, but that isn't the point. The land was always ours; now we are hired laborers who can never earn enough to buy a farm. We are caught in a trap...