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Fourth Dimension. In Manhattan, John Reynolds sat in a theater engrossed in the realism of a three-dimensional movie showing sea lions splashing in their London Zoo pool, felt a light spray on his face, saw beads of water fog his polarized glasses, got out of his seat and found two boys in a front row shooting water pistols at the audience...
¶M-G-M's Production Boss Dore Schary sees 3-D as a novelty and a limited technique which will not enhance or improve all pictures. Said Schary, cautiously: "Third dimension provides the industry with a wonderful . . . opportunity to tell stories in new ways, but I believe that...
¶Hollywood Columnist Sidney Skolsky, currently producing a two-dimension screen biography of Eddie Cantor, concluded: "The movie industry, like a man running to a quack doctor, tried to find a quick cureall: a hypo of 3-D and wide screen (e.g., Cinerama). Both . . . have been around for some time...
Bwana Devil (Arch Oboler; United Artists) is the first feature-length picture to be filmed in three-dimension, Hollywood's hottest new trend. The story is strictly onedimensional: an intrepid engineer triumphantly helps build a railroad line in British East Africa in spite of the opposition of a couple...
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...