Golden Age 3-D Features

[Tns49]

Panamint in the UK is about to announce It Came from Outer Space(listed on currently hidden page). Apparently will be region B locked. Hopefully they might change that as they did with their second release of Inferno.


http://panamint.co.uk/it-came-from-o...ray-9455-p.asp

[shill66]

Hey everyone, Jaws 3-D is up for pre-order.

[bavanut]

Originally Posted by shill66

Hey everyone, Jaws 3-D is up for pre-order.

Thank you for mentioning that, Shill66. There is already a lot of excitement about Jaws 3-D elsewhere on the Forum, but yours is a good reminder.

It looks like you are new to the Forum. I think you'll find we have a friendly group and many lively discussions. Let me be one of the first to say welcome!

[cinerama]

So, by the end of this year, we will probably have the following 1950's 3D features and shorts released on Blu-ray in 3D:

Creature from the Black Lagoon
Dial M for Murder
Dragonfly Squardron
Gog
House of Wax
Inferno
It Came From Outer Space
Kiss Me Kate
Mad Magician
Man in the Dark
Miss Sadie Thompson

Shorts:
Around Is Around
Bolex Stereo
Boo Moon
Doom Town
I'll Sell My Shirt
Marciano-Walcott Fight
M.L. Gunzburg Presents Natural Vision Three-Dimension
Motor Rhythm aka New Dimensions
Now Is The Time
O Canada
Space Attack aka The Adventures of Sam Space
Stardust in Your Eyes
Twirligig
Working for Peanuts

[Interdimensional]

Originally Posted by cinerama

So, by the end of this year, we will probably have the following 1950's 3D features and shorts released on Blu-ray in 3D:

Creature from the Black Lagoon
Dial M for Murder
Dragonfly Squardron
Gog
House of Wax
Inferno
It Came From Outer Space
Kiss Me Kate
Mad Magician
Man in the Dark
Miss Sadie Thompson

Shorts:
Around Is Around
Bolex Stereo
Boo Moon
Doom Town
I'll Sell My Shirt
Marciano-Walcott Fight
M.L. Gunzburg Presents Natural Vision Three-Dimension
Motor Rhythm aka New Dimensions
Now Is The Time
O Canada
Space Attack aka The Adventures of Sam Space
Stardust in Your Eyes
Twirligig
Working for Peanuts

Hopefully these are all out by the end of the year. We still don't know how far back It Came from Outer Space is delayed, and Mad Magician doesn't have a date yet (perhaps it will depend on how fast Miss Sadie T sells). But it's an exciting time for fans of this era.

Either one or other of them should mark the tenth Golden Age film to make it to 3D Blu-ray, which means we'll finally be 1/5th of the way through.

I don't expect we'll get to 100%, but this recent progress is certainly very encouraging.

[Zivouhr]

Will be nice as more of the unavailable ones become available in 2016 hopefully.

Originally Posted by BleedOrange11

Your restored version of The Bubble is easily in my Top 5 best 3D presentations I've ever seen. The 3D makes that strange little film oddly captivating. I'd love a chance to see Arch Oboler's other two 3D movies as well.

I agree, the Bubble looks very strong in 3D much of the time. I enjoyed that movie also as a Twilight Zone/

[Show spoiler]Sci Fi Experiment on a Town story also. It had some very interesting social commentary also about the repetition of daily chores in life.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Interdimensional

Hopefully these are all out by the end of the year. We still don't know how far back It Came from Outer Space is delayed, and Mad Magician doesn't have a date yet (perhaps it will depend on how fast Miss Sadie T sells). But it's an exciting time for fans of this era.

Either one or other of them should mark the tenth Golden Age film to make it to 3D Blu-ray, which means we'll finally be 1/5th of the way through.

I don't expect we'll get to 100%, but this recent progress is certainly very encouraging.

It's great, but many of us are worried that we won't have the equipment to carry on enjoying these in the future. That's what is holding me back anyway. By holding back, I mean just buying a handful of must haves rather than experimenting with other titles also.

[Biss Skyler Bluray]

this really amazes me that we really get to see vintage 3d movies on blu ray 3d in it's 3d glory.

[Interdimensional]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

It's great, but many of us are worried that we won't have the equipment to carry on enjoying these in the future. That's what is holding me back anyway. By holding back, I mean just buying a handful of must haves rather than experimenting with other titles also.

If you're into vintage 3-D or just curious, I think they're worth buying and supporting future releases. Be as selective as you like and don't spend more than you're comfortable with. But don't withhold purchases you wanted to make because of uncertainty.

I wouldn't worry about having equipment fail and being unable to enjoy 3-D in the future. I can go on ebay right now and buy laserdisc players, 8 trackplayers, CRT televisons. But they haven't stopped making 3-D hardware yet, and I'm convinced there's more than enough residual demand to justify that continuing. It's this kind of negativity that holds 3-D back everytime someone tries to convince us that 3-D is doooomed (for the millionth time). If people took that seriously, it can cause studios to question whether they should invest in new movies and in remastering catalog titles, and that's the kind of thinking that creates self-fulfilling prophecies based on nonsense.

So long as we're enjoying 3-D, we should look at it the other way, and enjoy it while it lasts. Which I expect will be for many years to come.

[br3ttD]

This is why I've spent the past 4 years stocking up on current
3D tech. If my active projector craps out, I still have my passive
tv and computer monitor to watch 3D content on. I plan to buy
more hardware down the road as funds permit.
I love 3D and don't mind spending the money to keep it going as
long as I can have fun with it.

[bavanut]

I stand with Interdimensional and others who see that 3-D is far from dead. I remember when there were zero 3-D movies in theaters, when I had to cobble together my own homebrew equipment to shoot and view stereo, when I had to buy certain items (like a field-sequential VHS device) by mail from unfamiliar vendors in distant cities. That was when 3-D could well and truly be called dead.

But today is different. Oculus Rift and Samsung VR are grabbing lots of attention. Google Cardboard is very inexpensive and accessible, a great potential medium for viewing classic and modern 3-D films. Our friends the gamers seem to love 3-D-- many of them, anyway. Important movies are presented in 3-D in theaters on a regular basis. Our great friends Bob and Greg are as busy as one-legged jitterbug dancers, and the small trickle of vintage 3-D Blu-Ray releases is at last widening into something more like a stream. Surely those of us who truly love stereo cinema will be able to enjoy our collections in one way or another for a long time. The doom and gloom crowd should go find a different parade to rain on.

[Robert Furmanek]

the doom and gloom crowd should go find a different parade to rain on.

Amen to that!!!

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by bavanut

I stand with Interdimensional and others who see that 3-D is far from dead. I remember when there were zero 3-D movies in theaters, when I had to cobble together my own homebrew equipment to shoot and view stereo, when I had to buy certain items (like a field-sequential VHS device) by mail from unfamiliar vendors in distant cities. That was when 3-D could well and truly be called dead.

But today is different. Oculus Rift and Samsung VR are grabbing lots of attention. Google Cardboard is very inexpensive and accessible, a great potential medium for viewing classic and modern 3-D films. Our friends the gamers seem to love 3-D-- many of them, anyway. Important movies are presented in 3-D in theaters on a regular basis. Our great friends Bob and Greg are as busy as one-legged jitterbug dancers, and the small trickle of vintage 3-D Blu-Ray releases is at last widening into something more like a stream. Surely those of us who truly love stereo cinema will be able to enjoy our collections in one way or another for a long time. The doom and gloom crowd should go find a different parade to rain on.

I hope you are not referring to me with that statement. I have invested in 3D big style up until now. I truly love and appreciate the classics as well as modern. It surely can't have escaped everyone's notice though, that the tv manufacturers are dropping 3D from a large selection of their sets this year. Some are not offering the option at all.

[bavanut]

I’m glad you spoke up, Steedeel. No, you strike me as a reasonable person with justifiable concerns about how things might play out going forward. I hope you will consider me your friend, and I hope some of my prior remarks reassure you about the future of this hobby. My ire is directed toward those persons who positively gloat when they repeat predictions of the demise of stereoscopic media. They hate 3-D, which is their right, but they love to provoke distress among those of us who appreciate 3-D, which group includes both you and me. Those are the people I come against.

[Zivouhr]

Thankfully Sony and LG are still offering 3D sets. Plus most of these sets will last for many years into the future as others suggested and now that the stereo 3D TV technology is established, manufacturers can build more if the demand increases due to future interest in 3D cinema.

I watched an interview from 2014 about the CES (consumer electronic show) that suggested 3D was possibly fading out but here we are in 2016 and it's still going strong in theaters with a solid library of 3D blu ray titles to enjoy.

On topic, there are still a lot more 3D titles from that past that could use blu ray 3D releases. One of my top picks would be Star Chaser 3D.

For vintage 3D, It Came from Outer Space looks like it has strong 3D.

[Biss Skyler Bluray]

I gonna agree with guys 100% 3d is definitely far from dead, count me as one of these people who love 3d.

[bavanut]

Originally Posted by Zivouhr

On topic, there are still a lot more 3D titles from that past that could use blu ray 3D releases. One of my top picks would be Star Chaser 3D.

For vintage 3D, It Came from Outer Space looks like it has strong 3D.

I sat through Starchaser: The Legend of Orin twice in one day back in November of '85. Me personally, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I too would dearly love to see that title on Blu-Ray.

(When it came out, I convinced the manager of our local United Artists Theater to give me 50 free pairs of glasses to use in my Super 8 3-D experiments. God bless him, that was a big help to me at the time. I was 14 years old and had no idea how else to obtain a large number of polarized glasses.)

As for It Came from Outer Space, just you wait. That flick is going to knock your socks off. Great story, fine cast, slick production values, and the 3-D is really some of the very best ever. There are very few vintage 3-D movies I dislike, but that one belongs on my top shelf. I love it.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by bavanut

I’m glad you spoke up, Steedeel. No, you strike me as a reasonable person with justifiable concerns about how things might play out going forward. I hope you will consider me your friend, and I hope some of my prior remarks reassure you about the future of this hobby. My ire is directed toward those persons who positively gloat when they repeat predictions of the demise of stereoscopic media. They hate 3-D, which is their right, but they love to provoke distress among those of us who appreciate 3-D, which group includes both you and me. Those are the people I come against.

Thanks for that. I guess my inner child still sees the magic in cinema (I'm sure most of us do) and 3D is a big part of that. Being able to see some of the classics like House Of Wax in stunning 3D has been some experience, both projected and on TV. 3D Rarities only increased my desire to buy any future releases of old classics.
Finally, I would absolutely consider you a friend, especially after such a courteous post.

[Richard--W]

3-D imaging began in the 1850s and has never really stopped. For awhile it was the sole property of opthamologists and aerial mapmakers. Film buffs only judge by how many blu-rays are offered, what they don't see is that behind the scenes every facet of the production industry has retooled or is retooling for stereoscopic capture while trying to keep up with the changes in digital technology. Stereoscopic films will be refined and improved, but will never die out.

It is discouraging, however, that there are so many conversions which make poor use of 3-D instead of natively shot that make sophisticated use of it. It is also discouraging that the studios have been so slow to release classic 3-D films and allow convergence mistakes to compromise the quality of those few they do release.

[Interdimensional]

Originally Posted by br3ttD

This is why I've spent the past 4 years stocking up on current
3D tech. If my active projector craps out, I still have my passive
tv and computer monitor to watch 3D content on. I plan to buy
more hardware down the road as funds permit.
I love 3D and don't mind spending the money to keep it going as
long as I can have fun with it.

While I hope that kind of purchasing is unnecessary, I applaud your zeal. If I come knocking on your 3-D bunker after the 3-D apocalypse, don't turn me away!