Word: stereopticons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tony touch in Ecstasy, 49 years ago, when the heroine's string of pearls burst and scattered to symbolize her surrender to passion. When the same visual genteelness is employed in a modern film, it is a little like getting a set of stereopticon slides instead of a VTR for your birthday; more nostalgic good taste than you really need. The subject now is not mere infidelity but incest no less, between an uncle (Sean Connery) and his niece (Betsy Brantley), who are on a climbing holiday in the Swiss Alps in the 1930s. Their guide (Lambert Wilson) restores...
Another bumper crop of question marks sprouts in the backcourt going into tonight's opener. Nate Archibald, who made his debut on stereopticon slides, not bubblegum cards, will try to go another season on his patented collapsible legs, great for summer storage but of questionable value for 48 minutes of pounding up and down the Garden floor. On the other hand, Archibald ranks among the greatest players of the last decade, knows more routes to the hoop than an Eastern pilot does to New York, and passes well enough to have led the unselfish Celts in assists last season...
...Irish and the Italians fighting it out for the Nostalgia Cup as they once vied for control of city councils. The Governor, the latest Irish entry, is a genial updating of the late Edwin O'Connor's Boston. All it lacks is O'Connor's stereopticon skill at making two-dimensional characters seem solid...
...stunt, the result of 13 years' research, constitutes the latest effort to translate the real world of three dimensions into the picture world of two. Artists have employed trompe I'oeil three-dimensional techniques for centuries. But true success for photographers awaited the invention of the stereopticon camera in the 19th century, which took two pictures of the same subject through lenses that were separated like a pair of human eyes. When the viewer saw each picture separately, through separate lenses, his brain automatically supplied the missing dimension of depth...
There has not been anything quite like it since the stereopticon delighted the nation's tasseled parlors with its "magic" ability to make the two-dimensional seem three-dimensional. After a sluggish start in 1958, stereophonic music has finally begun to catch the ear and the purse strings of the U.S. This year's sales of stereo phonographs are nearly double last year's (1,423,179 for 1960 to date; 757,710 for 1959) and stand at more than three times those of standard players (438,011 for the year of date). Fresh labels are flowing...