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beamjockey) wrote2009-10-22 06:25 pm
beamjockey) wrote2009-10-22 06:25 pm
Fidgeters from Another Dimension
I was thinking about 3-D movies today. Suddenly I recalled that I had seen a batch of photos in the Google Life archive that included one of the most famous of all Life's pictures: patrons in a movie theatre wearing 3-D glasses.
It was shot by the appropriately-named J. R. Eyerman (1906-1985), at the Paramount Theater in Hollywood on 26 November 1952, during a showing of Bwana Devil.
Since there were multiple pictures from the shoot in the collection, I began to wonder whether one could find two of them, shot from slightly different points of vew, that might permit the construction of a 3-D image of the audience itself. Wouldn't that be cool?
Unfortunately, it turned out that there aren't very many images. Some of them are duplicate images printed at different exposures. And Eyerman apparently used a tripod, so the camera doesn't move much with respect to the audience.
Nevertheless, I found a couple of images that allowed me to animate the audience. Here's a quick-and-dirty GIF. It's copyrighted, as always, by Time, Incorporated.
One could do this trick with many of the Life shoots. If one needed a new hobby for some reason.
It was shot by the appropriately-named J. R. Eyerman (1906-1985), at the Paramount Theater in Hollywood on 26 November 1952, during a showing of Bwana Devil.
Since there were multiple pictures from the shoot in the collection, I began to wonder whether one could find two of them, shot from slightly different points of vew, that might permit the construction of a 3-D image of the audience itself. Wouldn't that be cool?
Unfortunately, it turned out that there aren't very many images. Some of them are duplicate images printed at different exposures. And Eyerman apparently used a tripod, so the camera doesn't move much with respect to the audience.
Nevertheless, I found a couple of images that allowed me to animate the audience. Here's a quick-and-dirty GIF. It's copyrighted, as always, by Time, Incorporated.
One could do this trick with many of the Life shoots. If one needed a new hobby for some reason.
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There are intense 3-D buffs lurking on the Web, so I bet we could find out a lot about Bwana Devil's process from them if we looked.
I have tried anaglyphic glasses, various kinds of polarizers, flickering shutters, the lenticular pseudomoving 3-D of ArtN, and the awesomely kluged revolving color wheel of the Vectrex 3-D Color Visualizer. I have experimented with the Pulfrich Effect, too, though it is impractical to make a movie out if it.
The director was the very same Arch Oboler who was responsible for "Chicken Heart"!
In a production of which, you have actually acted. Spooky.
Perhaps all of our blog postings are interconnected, sooner or later .
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(And that the other famous case of anomalously hardy cells, the encysted bacteria that supposedly lived on the Moon for a couple of years aboard a Surveyor probe, was probably also simple contamination after the fact.)
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