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FROM: Mark Marshall
DATE: Oct. 18, 2006 6:32 pm gmt
SUBJECT: A New Dimension for ''Nightmare Before Christmas''
The 3D movies in the 50s did NOT use anaglyphic (red/blue or red/green) glasses. That method and those glasses came way later, and it was only used on a couple of the 50 or so feature films from that era. Originally, they used polarized glasses, very similar to the polarized glasses being used today by IMAX and this new digital 3D method. The difference between the 50s polarized glasses and the new digital polarized glasses is that the old glasses were linearly polarized, and the new glasses are circularly polarized.
So, Mr Hahn, you watched Dial M For Murder at your studio and got a headache? Was it being presented correctly with two 35mm prints (left eye and right eye) running through two projectors simultaneously? Were you wearing polarized glasses? If you were, it's strange that you got a headache. I saw it that way three years ago with a sold out crowd at the Egyptian theater in LA and I didn't hear one complaint of a headache. In fact, we watched (sometimes) FIVE movies a day in dual projection 35mm 3D, and ... nope, no headaches.
As to the comments of there being no flicker in the digital 3D method... I'm wondering if you're watching the image projected with TWO digital projectors putting both eyes on the screen simultaneously for each frame, or with ONE digital projector that alternates the eye images on the screen for each frame. If the latter, there absolutely IS flicker especially in scenes where there is a lot of motion going on. I'm not sure how so many people don't see it. There is NO flicker what so ever on a proper presentation with dual strip 35mm 3D, and I suspect there isn't any with dual projection digital 3D either. But the sad fact is that only high profile theaters like the El Capitan can afford to have two DLP projectors. Most people will see a flickering image on one DLP projector. But most probably won't realize that it's not supposed to look that way.
One thing Mr. Hahn is correct on. Turning a 2D image into 3D is a lot of work. And the results of the first attempt at this (Superman Returns) were a bit mixed in my opinion. Some shots looked awesome, and some looked way off. Most were in between. If Hollywood is looking to present things in 3D, then Hollywood needs to start shooting things in 3D to begin with, and then presenting them correctly - with both images on the screen simultaneously, not alternating the way digital does now.
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- A New Dimension for ''Nightmare Before Christmas'' by DMN Editorial at Oct. 02, 2006 7:00 am gmt (Rec'd 4)
- Re: A New Dimension for ''Nightmare Before Christmas'' by Mark Marshall at Oct. 18, 2006 6:32 pm gmt (Rec'd 2)
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