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...entire production output will be converted to 3-D color pictures. Unlike the 3-D method used by the Natural Vision Corp. in Bwana Devil (TIME, Dec. 15), the new process, called Cinemascope, gets its effect with only slight changes on the ordinary one-camera-and-one-projector system. Moreover, audiences will not be required to wear special polarized glasses. A curved screen, about 2½ times bigger than the usual screen, will allow moviegoers to see Cinemascopepics without distortion from any seat in the house...
Cinemascope uses a distortion and rectification principle: a wide-angle distortion lens fitted to a regular 35-mm. movie camera produces distorted images on the film; a compensation lens, fitted on a " regular out the 35-mm. images movie on the projector, screen. "straightens" out the images on the screen. The picture is synchronized to loudspeakers placed around the theater. The system is much less expensive than Cinerama (TIME, Oct. 13), which uses three cameras, three projectors and a larger curved screen. Cinemascope, said Fox, will be made available to other film companies...
Then Menzel pointed a slender round beam of light from a projector at the underside of the invisible interface between the two liquids. Instead of passing through, the beam curved downward. When he looked directly into the downward slanting beam, he did not see a round spot of light. He saw an elliptical object, i.e., a perfect "flying saucer...
Photographic technique, with clever use of black and white contrast, keeps up one's interest in the drama, even though the conclusion is obvious. Transitions between scenes are poor, however, and the projector is often ouf of focus. These were the only flaws...
...Roebuck went on to develop the Woodstock typewriter, and later started his own movie projector company, sold out for $150,000 but lost his money in Florida real estate. He returned to Sears in 1933, at $5,000 a year, and toured the nation as a glorified publicity man until 1940, when he retired to California. He died, eight years later...