![]() ![]() It would soon go on to become an iconic image in American culture and the defining image of Eyerman’s career. The DecemLIFE magazine issue in which this quote appeared dedicated a full page to the photograph above. But members of the audience reported that the glasses were uncomfortable, the film itself - dealing with two scholarly looking lions who ate up quantities of humans in Africa - was dull, and it was generally agreed that the audience itself looked more startling than anything on the screen. Bwana Devil is done in a three-dimensional process called Natural Vision and Hollywood could talk, think or read about nothing but Three-D. The only red/blue 3-D releases in the 1950s were some shorts. The movie at the premiere, called Bwana Devil, did achieve some striking three-dimensional sequences. Bob Furmanek Forum Resident Thread Starter Location: Clifton, New Jersey, USA Some of the vintage titles were badly converted to anaglyphic for TV broadcast in the 1980s and a few were reissued theatrically in anaglyph, such as Creature from the Black Lagoon in 1972. This process gets a three-dimensional effect by using two projectors with Polaroid filters and giving the spectators Polaroid spectacles to wear. While several first class 3-Dimensional movies emerged in its wake, Bwana Devil has tended to unfairly color the public perception of 3-D since it received a critical drubbing even as it earned a fortune at the box office. Eyerman famously captured this photo of a formally-attired audience sporting 3-D glasses during opening night screening of movie 'Bwana Devil'-1st full length color 3-D (aka 'Natural Vision') motion picture, at Paramount Theater, Hollywood, CA. Left and right release prints from the lab had to be matched not only for synchronism but also for color balance, brightness, sharpness, and contrast. These megalopic creatures are the first paying audience for the latest cinematic novelty, Natural Vision. Bwana Devil 3D Blu-ray (1952) Region A Locked TBC coming soon 3D Blu-ray and 3D Movies. Kino Lorber have revealed that they are preparing a 3D Blu-ray release of Arch Obolers film Bwana Devil (1952. Here’s what LIFE magazine said about the Paramount audience at the time: Bwana Devil 3D Blu-ray, News and Updates. Two interesting facts regarding the image: (1) Polaroid played a role in what the moviegoers were watching and what they were wearing, and (2) the people in the photo didn’t actually enjoy the film. Shot at the Paramount Theater in Hollywood in 1952, the image shows the opening-night screening of the first ever full-length, color 3D movie, titled Bwana Devil. This iconic photograph by LIFE magazine photojournalist J. Iconic Photo: Watching Bwana Devil in 3D at the Paramount Theater What: Arch Oboler’s Bwana Devil in spectacular Natural Vision 3D When: Tuesday, July 14, 1953, commencing sometime around sunset at 9:03 PM under a Waxing Crescent Moon Where: River-View Drive-In, Mary Ingles Highway (Route 8) in Dayton, Kentuckyon the banks of the Ohio River, across from Cincinnati How: Two interlocked projectors with boosted. A Lover in Your Arms' So heralded the publicity posters for Bwana Devil, the first full-color three-dimensional feature film to be released in the United States and the film that was instrumental in launching the 3-D craze of the 1950s. ![]()
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