Word: three-dimensional
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...Three-Dimension, "the four-eyed revolution," had hit the land hard. Quite by accident, as it walked around in a daze of depression, Hollywood had tripped over a firing cord and shot off a telling reply to television. "Third-dementia," the newest entertainment craze, was luring crowds back to the...
Hollywood's three-dimension fever was still running high last week. But amidst all the 3-D gags ("We'll have to hire opticians instead of lawyers"), epithets ("third dementia"), and a rash of planned 3-D productions (15 feature movies in 1953), a few industry veterans began...
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...
The problem is how to serve up the new product. The public will ultimately decide the issue by deciding whether to buy tickets to see a 3-D film with Polaroid glasses, or to see, without glasses, a three-dimension "illusion." The ideal solution may come from some hard-working...