Lady in Dream (1968) [No 3D Blu-ray]

[BleedOrange11]

Thank you for your expertise, Mike, and for looking at the photos.

Pardon my ignorance, but I don't want to make too many assumptions. That is a 3D rig in the photos I've posted from the trailer, right? No possible way it's a 2D rig for some other movie of the same protagonist with that trailer assigned to the wrong film online? There seems to be a mirror in there, given the reflection of the foliage in the second photo.

And those credits shots of the negative are actually single-strip over/under? Any way it's just two 2.35:1 frames next to each other in sequence, like Techniscope (or dual-strip Panscope)? I tried opening these in Stereo Photo Maker and auto-aligning and manually adjusting the distortions. I'm not very experienced, but I am not getting much offset when I line them up. To be honest, these photos are just miserable.

I believe it is entirely possible that these men do not know what they are holding and need help from 3D experts. I say they have the negative of only one eye because I'm repeating what I'm reading in Engrish interviews through Google translate, and I am posting these photos because I believe it is appropriate to challenge that information.

Jeong Seong-il: So, what kind of movies are in the archive after that?

Jang Gwang-heon: "Hong Gil-dong". But this "Hong Gil-dong", I checked this morning, and until now, I only have your film, but there was a problem with the film, so I did not move it to print. So I didn't even know it was 3D. The original negative is correct, but there is only one 2D image, so obviously we only have one of the left and right, and there is not one image. Because only you exist and there is no record, until now, all of our employees did not know that this was a 3D movie. Now, it is classified as a 3D movie, but it is only to the extent of confirming that is one of the left and right.

https://www.kmdb.or.kr/story/5/1328

(This interview is 9 years old BTW, but nothing on their website indicates any further progress on this film since.)

They discuss Hong Kil-dong more, but it is giving me a hard time copying and pasting, and I don't feel like typing it all. They say they didn't know it was a 3D movie until recently, and that they only have the negative for one eye, and that they cannot confirm how it was shot or projected. They haven't even seen the film because there is currently no media of it available for viewing.

Apparently, the trailer introduces the film as "the world's first three-dimensional film based on spectral shooting developed in Korea". Whatever that means. Interviewer suggests it may indicate a different system than Panscope. Interviewer says that "according to the records, it is said that Hong Gil-dong was helped by the technology of the Japanese production team." Archive man says there is no way to confirm any of this because they do not have positive prints and they only have one eye of the negative.

Based on the low-quality trailer and photos they've posted, I think we may be able to answer some of those questions, but I'm not confident in my ability to assess film strips or camera rigs. Looks like single-strip 35mm over/under 3D camera and negative? If so, this 3D film is not lost at all but right under their noses, waiting to be restored from the OCN.