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* * * BrainEmail Daily Triva * * * ================================== Remember the 3-D movie craze of the early 1950s? TV was killing the movie houses and the movie industry was looking for a technical gimmick that TV could not reproduce. When was the first 3-D movie produced? Before we go to the movies, here is the history of 3-D still pictures, which predated the motion pictures. The 3-D effect requires each eye to see a slightly different image, usually taken by two lenses separated at about the distance the avg. pair of eyes. The brain recomposes the two slightly separated images into one and creates the illusion of depth . In 1832, the English scientist Charles Wheatstone built a device that made a 3-D image from a paired set of specially configured drawings. In 1850 Sir David Brewster created a box with lenses that let people view a pair of photographs that created a 3-D image. It was called a lenticular stereoscope and caused a sensation at the Crystal Palace exhibition in 1851. In 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes (Yes, the poet!) invented the handheld stereoscope. This used 2 picture cards, allowing you to view scenes in 3-D. This became a big hit with 19th century American families . . families that had disposable income. This device lingered around for almost 100 years and evolved into the plastic toy known as the View- Master of the early 50s (I had one in the 50s.). As for motion pictures . . . . In the 1850s there were machines that flipped multiple 3-D drawings on cards that created moving 3-D images. The first true 3-D film was introduced in England in 1893 by a fellow named William Friese-Greene. However, people could not view it on a screen. There is some evidence that the Luminere brothers� film called �L�Arrivee du Train� was projected on a screen for an audience wearing two-color glasses (this is called the anaglyphic method of 3-D). Historians are not absolutely sure it was in 3-D. This was in 1903. Several 3-D shorts were released in 1915 by Famous Players (later known as Paramount) When it was shown, the audience thought it detracted from the plot. There was a small 3-D craze in the early 1920s. In 1922, a science fiction movie called �Radio Mania� used one film with alternate frames. The audience had to view the film through a machine that used film synchronized shutters so only one eye could see the proper alternating frame at a time. In the 1930s, Edwin Land (of Polaroid camera fame) used his plastic Polaroid polarizer to create a 3-D movie. The Russian�s invented a 3-D system in the early 1940�s that did not need glasses. It utilized a special screen surface. The only 1950s 3-D motion picture of any renowned was the 1954 flick called �The Creature from the Black Lagoon�. It was originally filmed in 3-D but later showings dropped the 3-D effect. In some trivial side notes . . . . Universal built a special underwater 3-D camera to make the Creature movie. Also, they used two actors to play the creature. One was used on dry land and the other was used for underwater scenes. ============================================================ As for TV . . . . There were 3-D lab experiments in the 1950s. There was an attempt to transmit some 3-D TV shows in the late 1970s and early 1980s, originally on a LA cable system. ============================================================= _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/E-MAIL_TRIVIA/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
