Over the past year we have had a glut of 3-D films thrown at the consumer. Avatar was by far the best 3-D film of the bunch. Unfortunately, there have been many films that have been outright bad and that hinders that adoption of 3-D. This is not the first time that 3-D has been tried. I unfortunately remember going to see Jaws 3-D at the movie theater. However, long before that, photographers and film makers were experimenting and showing 3-D pictures and films. Serge Bromberg is a film preservationist who is showing movies that were in 3-D as early as 1900. My favorite quote is this:
In the 1980s, engineers discovered a way to do stereoscopic 3-D with one projector. “Basically the idea was that you would cut the normal frame in two, the right eye would be up and the left eye down. Basically you could use a standard projector. Then you had such films as ‘Friday the 13th, Part 265.’ After a while, the novelty wore off and the films were stupid.”
via Screening of rare 3-D films at AMPAS’ Linwood Dunn Theater – latimes.com.
