CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH: 3-D COMES TO HOLLYWOOD New Book for 2024

[petergee]

Thank you Mike. This is destined to be a fact-filled tome and I for one cannot wait for the KS to begin. How are you tracking for release this year?

[bavanut]

Originally Posted by petergee

Thank you Mike. This is destined to be a fact-filled tome and I for one cannot wait for the KS to begin. How are you tracking for release this year?

Thank you for the kind words, PeterGee!

One very significant Los Angeles-based archive just reopened in January, so I'm really only beginning my research in that specific place. They happen to hold production, budget, and distribution records for a number of important 3-D films. I hope to visit a number of times in the coming months to gather as much data as possible.

Later this month, if all goes well, I will pay follow-up visits to two other local archives. One archive has production records for one very well-loved 3-D movie from 1953. These records only recently became available! The other archive has a number of photographs and a ton of records, many of which I've already seen, some of which I have not. One key mission for me at that archive is to read a certain unproduced screenplay very pertinent to the story of 3-D.

My manuscript already has somewhere north of 1500 footnotes, which I think is a good indication of how much research I've poured in. Most of the industry people I've reached out to for interviews or for comments have not only been cooperative but enthusiastic. I'm hoping my luck in this regard holds out-- I just learned that a very famous filmmaker who never made a 3-D film was actually involved as a young man behind the scenes on a stereoscopic film in the late 1960s. You can believe I want to find out the story there if there is one!

I say all this to say, if publication is delayed until 2024, it will only be because more and more and more information keeps piling in. Even in the last few weeks, I have learned important facts about three Warner Bros. 3-D films no one seems to have known--details never mentioned anywhere else.

[Deciazulado]

As long as you don't become the Mark Lewisohn of 3-D

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[bavanut]

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

As long as you don't become the Mark Lewinsohn of 3-D

Are you kidding? You just gave me a new goal in life!