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[AmrlKJaneway]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Ohh, yeah--Despite the fact that no 50's movies ever showed in red/blue anaglyph, get a hater to joke about the current movies just because he doesn't want to pay the surcharge, and he'll think The Hobbit's "colors were all off".

(One would have to have actually USED the glasses to make the "They look funny and give me a headache!" complaint.)



I remember the days when you had to worry about what exact center of the theater you were sitting, just so that the dual-projection polarized would actually work when viewed straight on and at the right distance. (Maybe it had no effect, I just remember never being in the right place, and rarely ever seeing a "popout moment" outside of the theme parks.)
From what I'm led to believe, I understand there's a similar concern when watching the current crop of glasses-free sets. Uh-uh, pal. I ain't goin' back there.
My active glasses not only helpfully darken the room/screen, they give each eye exactly what they should be seeing, and I can sit wherever I darn well please. To my experience, that's progress.

Lol, you're so old, Eric!

Thanks for sharing your memories, my mental files always had the fact listed that 50's 3D screenings were anaglyph. I know 80's one's were, because when I got my anaglyph tattoo the tattooist (who was a Kiwi, so I dunno if they were screened differently throughout the world) got all nostalgic over the glasses.

It's great finding out you were wrong, and erasing that fact. It stems from that classic picture, you've seen it (I bet you're in it!), of all those fifties folk in the cinema wearing their 3D glasses. The picture is B&W and I always "saw" anaglyph glasses. Now, they are cardboard right? Using polarized lenses, and projected using two 35mm projectors, onto a silver screen?

I bet there was some 3D hate back then that stemmed from two other sources;
1. Bad 3D in the film source, from lazy directors who didn't notice a misalignment until the dailies screening, and gave up on re-shooting the scene.
2. Bad 3D in the cinema, from lazy projectionists who misaligned the PJs and didn't adjust the image when he/she realized it was wrong.

And I know you weren't a cinema going dude in the fifties (at least, I think... where's my calculator?), but you seem to know more about this stuff than I, the guy who judged 50's cinema from the B&W photo on the wall at McDonalds...