Los Angeles 3-D Club (SCSC)
Th This article is only possible due to the extensive research by film historian Robert Furmanek. Thank you Bob for all the research and restorations by you and the 3-D Film Archive. It’s long been known that “Top Banana” (1954) was a lost 3D film. At the World 3-D Film Expo II, it was announced… [Continue Reading]
Over the years, I have been privileged to have met and interacted with many great movie directors. Among them, Mervyn LeRoy, Raoul Walsh, William Wyler, George Pal, Sydney Pollack, Alan J. Pakula, Arthur Penn, Lamont Johnson, Michael Ritchie, Brian De Palma, Melvin Frank, Frank Perry, Joan Micklin Silver, William Castle, Graeme Ferguson, Greg MacGillivray, James… [Continue Reading]
Julie Adams (10/17/1926 – 2/3/2019) won not only the Creature’s heart, but the hearts of all of her fans not only in over fifty feature films and hundreds of television episodes, but also live theater and book signing appearances over the years. Not to surprising, but certainly just as sad, Julie Adams, the beauty from… [Continue Reading]
3D had a wild ride all through 1953. As 1953 began, 3D and Bwana Devil was all the talk. Every movie studio rushed to cash in as soon as possible. Of The 16,000 movie theaters, many hundred paid for the upgrades necessary to project 3D, other theaters waited and others would soon upgrade for wide… [Continue Reading]
The new Simple Carnival album ‘Smitten’ was anything but simple. The critically acclaimed power pop project The Simple Carnival releases its third and unfortunately final album ‘Smitten’ on February 14, 2017 through Sundrift Productions. Seven years in the making, Smitten is eleven tracks of meticulously-crafted power pop bliss. It’s as if Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac,… [Continue Reading]
EXTENDED FOR A 5th WEEK!!! See The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet in 3-D! The 2013 Jean-Pierre Jeunet film The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet is finally getting a limited U.S. release. It is showing in 3-D for one week at the Downtown Independent starting Friday, July 31st! This film is not to be missed! Shot… [Continue Reading]
A “review” overheard between two attendees of Godard’s 3-D film, “Goodbye to Language 3D.” It went something like this: It was like “Goodbye to 3D.” Now why do you say it was “Goodbye to 3-D?” Because it was like having someone stick their thumb in my eye for 70 minutes. No one could handle 120… [Continue Reading]
Immersive 3-D: The Secrets of Beautiful Stereo Cinematography Director of Photography Franz Pagot http://www.franzpagot.com/ has written his latest book entitled “Immersive 3-D” the secrets of beautiful stereo cinematography with all the proceeds going to the Great Ormond Street Children Hospital in London and the Meyer Hospital for Children with Rare Diseases in Florence. There is… [Continue Reading]
Review of LG 50LA6970 Passive 3-D TV (Applies to similar LG LCD “Smart” Passive 3-D TVs) I have had this TV now for over 6 months. At the time I bought it from Sam’s Club, it cost well under $700, and I paid under $100 for a Sony Bluray player, capable of playing 3-D Bluray movies, to… [Continue Reading]
I had the pleasure recently of attending two 3-D movies on the same day, with about an hour and a half between them to digest the first before becoming absorbed in the second. Both were commendable, but entirely different in practically every way imaginable, dramatically illustrating the huge palette of writing and production tools available… [Continue Reading]