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Despite advertising posters showing a lion leaping from a screen, and Barbara Britton extending entreating arms to passers-by, the action in Bwana Devil, the first full length three dimensional motion picture, stays safely within the screen. Not that the picture is a fraud, it has the same three dimensional effect as does a steriopticon viewer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bwana Devil | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...stereopticon viewer knows that the effect of viewing a flat film from a different angle with each eye produces a false sense of overly pronounced depth. The individual figures seem to have depth as does the seem, but all figures are isolated in stages. So it is with Bwana Devil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bwana Devil | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...group of men climbing an embankment on top of which sits the camera, a lion moving toward the camera through a field of tall grass these scenes utilize three dimension in a way to make it more than another fad, but until the industry can control this new technique, Bwana Devil will be mercy the first in a cervices of audience sensations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bwana Devil | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Lion in Your Lap! | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Lion in Your Lap! | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

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