Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaping from a screen, and Barbara Britton extending entreating arms to passers-by, the action in Bwana Devil, the first full length three dimensional motion picture, stays safely within the screen. Not that the picture is a fraud, it has the same three dimensional effect as does a steriopticon viewer...
...type violence: a flogging or a torture scene or a near-lynching. His heroines are outright symbols of purity, his villains 'are double-dyed, his heroes are properly heroic. A TV producer describes the typical Wilber melodrama as "a handling of clichés that somehow keeps the viewer from realizing he's watching clichés." Wilber's favorite author is Jack London but, he admits, "I've never read much of London or anyone else." He has seen only one stage play in his life (The Male Animal). He is so innocent...
...reel "depthies." Two projectors throw separate images on the screen. The light of each image is polarized, i.e., filtered so that it "vibrates" in only one plane, at a right angle to the other image. Wearing glasses fitted with polarizing lenses (furnished by the theater management), the viewer sees a different picture with each eye; his brain combines the images into a three-dimensional picture...
...Cinerama (TIME, Oct. 13), which achieves the depth illusion by nearly surrounding the viewer with the picture, Natural Vision was developed by Milton Gunzburg, an ex-screen writer, and his brother Julian, an eye surgeon. The process was licensed by radio's veteran Producer-Writer-Director Arch Oboler, who turned out Bwana Devil, a jungle yarn starring Robert Stack, Barbara Britton and some man-eating lions that almost halt the building of an African railroad...
...process, says that Cinerama can do anything regular movies can do, and do it better. "The basis of drama doesn't change at all, but the method of presenting it changes radically," he says. Instead of moving the camera's eye, Cooper plans to direct the viewer's eye to the most dramatic spot. With panning made unnecessary, the scope of Cinerama's screen will increase the effectiveness of straight-on shots. Other techniques will have to be developed through experience...