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...York City audience, who viewed the short documentaries through anaglyph (red-green) glasses. In the 1920s, many 3-D shorts appeared on programs at theaters such as New York's Roxy. MGM presented three 3-D talkie shorts from 1936 to 1941, the last one in Technicolor. The Polaroid filters created by Edwin Land were used for a short shown at the Chrysler Pavilion of the 1939 New York World's Fair...
...theaters, does not remove barriers to the appreciation of movies (as director Peter Jackson insists); it is a barrier. Imagine the popular resistance to the first talkies if audiences had to don headsets to hear Al Jolson sing "Swanee." What would the odds on the success of three-strip Technicolor have been if people had to wear specs to see Gone With the Wind or The Wizard of Oz, or the 99% of movies now shown in color? The history of mass entertainment is to make consumption easier, not harder. Until we're in the post-goggles stage...
...success of BAPE STA, Nigo's line of technicolor sneakers, which arose just as a global passion for collectible footwear took off: "Launched just at the moment Japan's sneaker boom went into overdrive, the old-school appeal of BAPE STA distinguished themselves from the techy, streamlined look that characterized athletic footwear of the mid- to late-1990s. ... For BAPE addicts outside Japan, the existence of STAs soon passed from rumor to legend. The Beastie Boys, N.E.R.D., Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, Usher, Kanye West, and a host of other hip-hop V.I.P.'s began rocking them not only in private...
...mixing and matching of bright colors around me. “A duckling leading other ducklings,” my friend remarked after seeing me guiding the group of girls around campus. Well, in that case, I was feeling very much like the ugly duckling in a flock of Technicolor birds. Even their electronic dictionaries were of pearl pinks and sky blues. Though their pocket dictionaries largely mediated our communication, the girls were able to translate the popular fashions in Japan to me: “lace,” “sporty,” American casual (pronounced...
...circles, which limited his movement. Moore - who later animated Fantasia's Sorcerer's Apprentice segment - gave him a pear-shaped body, pupils, white gloves and a shortened nose, to make him cuter. Mickey also appeared in color for the first time that year; The Band Concert's use of Technicolor was so innovative that critics still consider it to be a masterpiece. (Click here for a list of the All-TIME 100 Movies...