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Originally Posted by EricJ
It depended on the screen:
Polarized needed a special reflective overlay for the screen, so it could only be shown if the movie was going to stay in that theater for a week without being interrupted by other movies...Which, back in '83, they could.
Anaglyph could be shown on any screen, if your theater switched their titles around, or for some overseas markets where they couldn't do anything as fancy.
And drive-in theaters just had to show the 2-D version.
And the rumors of polarized pop-out in '83? Absolutely untrue. 
Never saw it once. (Except for the ping-pong ball in House of Wax, that s ort of came close.)
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I saw Jaws 3D and Friday the 13th 3D in the theater with polarized glasses in the 80s. Both movies had awesome pop-out effects.