The Bubble 3D Blu-ray (1966) [Region Free] Roadshow Cut coming: Kickstarter

[JMK]

The Bubble Blu-ray Review

[jono3000]

My order from Amazon.com is 'Shipping Now'

[omahajon]

I need to get this asap. Probably next week or so. Can't wait.

[Jbug]

Got mine in the mail yesterday. I watched till the plane landed and they attempted to talk to the taxi driver. I was impressed with the 3D and was not put off by the acting or dialogue. This along with the EE of Desolation of Smaug will be watched on Thanksgiving Day. Keep up the good work 3D Film Archive.

[Richard--W]

I'm really with amazon for the length of time it's taking to ship this item.

[jono3000]

Arrived in the UK from Amazon.com yesterday, just finished watching it. The 3D is just wow probably the best live action pop outs I've seen. The beer tray, the spider, the hands... Loved the space vision introduction at the start. I didn't have any audio sync issues. This is a must own for any 3D fan. Aside from the 3D it's a good little sci-fi film too.

Thanks to 3-D Film Archive for their work on this!

[bavanut]

About a year and a half ago, Maria and I visited the grave of Col. Robert V. Bernier. Here is a photograph I've meant to post ever since that time.

It is sobering to think that only a few of us remember Col. Bernier and his unique contribution to motion pictures. He saw a way to make the world just a little richer, and against great odds he and Arch Oboler made it happen. Maria and I said a little prayer that day, thanking God for Col. Bernier and his entrepreneurial spirit.

On another occasion, we also visited the final resting place of 3-D film pioneer Harry K. Fairall (The Power of Love, 1922) at a different cemetery. Sadly, Mr. Fairall has no headstone. This seems to me a terrible shame.


BernierGrave.jpg

[Zivouhr]

Very nice picture of his memorial stone. Thanks.
I see he promoted 3D with Space Vision 3D. The Bubble's 3D is awesome. One of the best I've seen in a 3D movie.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0076895/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

That is something the other 3D film pioneer, Harry K. Fairall, doesn't have a marker for his name. His work will be remembered in its place.

[xplorar]

'Bubble 3D' had strong 3D with good depths and pop-outs. Filmmakers weren't shy to include gimmicky 3D shots to push things to viewers even though those shots don't gel with bleak "serious" sci-fi that movie was trying to be.
My 3D experience was rather strange - Most of the pop-outs were stopping at a larger distance than what I was hoping for. Just a "meter" short of being really awesome.
The premise of the movie surprisingly turned out to be same as Stephen King's 'Under the Dome' (That is what 'Bubble' in the title means). Stephen King ripped it off and (to my knowledge) never acknowledged it.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by xplorar

'Bubble 3D' had strong 3D with good depths and pop-outs. Filmmakers weren't shy to include gimmicky 3D shots to push things to viewers even though those shots don't gel with bleak "serious" sci-fi that movie was trying to be.
My 3D experience was rather strange - Most of the pop-outs were stopping at a larger distance than what I was hoping for. Just a "meter" short of being really awesome.
The premise of the movie surprisingly turned out to be same as Stephen King's 'Under the Dome' (That is what 'Bubble' in the title means). Stephen King ripped it off and (to my knowledge) never acknowledged it.

I wasn’t getting that. The 3D was floating out of my screen and touching my nose. Odd.

[Damon1281]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

I wasn’t getting that. The 3D was floating out of my screen and touching my nose. Odd.

Zivouhr recently gave R.I.P.D. an 8 of 10 for pop-outs, where the Bubble has 3 times the number and nearly all of them stronger. Since he wrote about the Bubble in 2016 and R.I.P.D. just the other day, I think it may illustrate our lowering expectations in a sea of mediocre offerings. The Bubble had insanely strong pop-outs!

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Damon1281

Zivouhr recently gave R.I.P.D. an 8 of 10 for pop-outs, where the Bubble has 3 times the number and nearly all of them stronger. Since he wrote about the Bubble in 2016 and R.I.P.D. just the other day, I think it may illustrate our lowering expectations in a sea of mediocre offerings. The Bubble had insanely strong pop-outs!

I agree, excellent depth and pop out, amongst the best I have ever seen.

Zivouhr is a excellent source normally for me though, so the odd differing opinion I’m not going to worry about.

[fatboy1111]

on sale $15.00

[br3ttD]

Just have a few questions for the 3-D Film Archive...
I've seen The Bubble with an alternate opening which (I presume)
depicts the alien(s) traveling through the cosmos to earth.
First it shows a large explosion with sparks flying towards the
camera. Then you see a surface level shot from one of Jupiter's
moons with Jupiter rising from behind a mountain range. Finally
there's a shot of Earth from outer space. As the camera pushes in
on Earth, a satellite zooms (left to right) through the frame before
cutting to Tony's plane with the wing jutting out of the screen.

Was this sequence created for the film's 1976 re-release?
Does the footage still exist?
Will be included in the upcoming roadshow disc?
And lastly, where and how did you find the extended version?
I thought it was lost. Thanks for reading this.

[Robert Furmanek]

Originally Posted by br3ttD

Just have a few questions for the 3-D Film Archive...
I've seen The Bubble with an alternate opening which (I presume)
depicts the alien(s) traveling through the cosmos to earth.
First it shows a large explosion with sparks flying towards the
camera. Then you see a surface level shot from one of Jupiter's
moons with Jupiter rising from behind a mountain range. Finally
there's a shot of Earth from outer space. As the camera pushes in
on Earth, a satellite zooms (left to right) through the frame before
cutting to Tony's plane with the wing jutting out of the screen.

Was this sequence created for the film's 1976 re-release?
Does the footage still exist?
Will be included in the upcoming roadshow disc?
And lastly, where and how did you find the extended version?
I thought it was lost. Thanks for reading this.

That flat alternate opening was done for some unauthorized home video release in the 80's or 90's without Arch Oboler's participation, it was never on theatrical prints. I think that's when someone bootlegged the film and called it "The Zoo."

It doesn't exist in good quality and is so poorly done, we wouldn't use it.

The 21 minutes of cut 35mm camera negative were discovered mislabeled and unidentified in Arch Oboler's collection at the Library of Congress.

[MattmanAlpha]

Originally Posted by br3ttD

Will be included in the upcoming roadshow disc?

Upcoming roadshow disc?!? Did I miss something?

[pixote]

Originally Posted by MattmanAlpha

Upcoming roadshow disc?!? Did I miss something?

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=1606

[cinerama]

Originally Posted by MattmanAlpha

Upcoming roadshow disc?!? Did I miss something?

The complete film as it premiered will be released on Blu-ray 3D... I'm guessing 2019.

[bavanut]

The longest 3-D film of the 1950s (to my knowledge) was Kiss Me Kate, clocking in at 109 minutes. The original roadshow version of The Bubble was 112 minutes. My theory is that Oboler wanted to demonstrate that single-strip Space-Vision was in every way better than two-strip, one key strength being practically limitless run time without intermission.

I dearly love The Bubble and watch it quite often. And I am very, very keen to see the full-length roadshow edition on Blu-ray. But I do get the sense that Oboler was stretching his story to fill his run time. The man was demonstrably in love with long philosophical pontifications in the dialogue. He was not in love with fistfights, fireballs, or running escapes from immediate danger.

[Show spoiler]Despite the fact that Tony, the other new mother, and the flaming remnants of a commandeered truck and a dead showgirl are at different times hauled into the sky by the mysterious architects of the dome, these scenes are frankly clumsy and ineffective, and do not lend any urgency to the slow, creeping threat. The real peril for Oboler is apathetic indifference, the slow surrender of one's own volition and desires, not sudden death from above. But the unhurried pace of the resultant story will likely alienate the impatient viewer.

I never sat down and watched much of Under the Dome, but given the participation of Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, and several veteran television writers and producers, I can only imagine the overall story is quite a bit stronger than the one we get from Oboler.

As far as I can tell, the only connection between the two is the idea of a mysterious dome coming down. In King's story, it seems to trap a particular small town in situ; in Oboler's story, the entities responsible for the dome toss in a hodgepodge assortment of buildings, cultural relics, and hypnotized people who evidently come from all sorts of different places (witness for instance the man peddling Baltimore newspapers).

Most respectfully, if we wish to charge King with lifting Oboler's premise without credit, we may do well to consider what debt Oboler may owe to storytellers working before 1966. I myself do not carry around a mental catalog of mysterious dome stories, but I think everyone here has heard of items like "Stopover In a Quiet Town" and "A Feasibility Study," tales that are at least cousins to Oboler's brainchild.

[petergee]

Just reading through the very interesting 3DFA page here http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/home/The-Bubble and spotted this comment

Bookings continued throughout 1968 and after some November playdates in Canada, Oboler cut the film from 112 minutes to 91. The camera negative was physically edited and the footage is not known to survive.

Has that 'lost' footage now been discovered? I guess it must've been to create the Roadshow edition mentioned above?