3D News

There’s one Abbott and Costello item listed now; our essential book, Abbott and Costello In Hollywood. Watch for many more Bud and Lou rarities in the months ahead! https://www.ebay.com/usr/3d.film.archive

Here’s your opportunity to acquire an original artifact from the 3-D Film Archive collection! www.ebay.com/usr/3d.film.archive

Here’s an update on our painstaking restoration of MONEY FROM HOME from the original 35mm Technicolor Dynoptic 3-D camera negatives; 72 reels totaling 54,000 feet of film! Jack Theakston finished shot by shot recombining the red/green/blue left, right negatives. Yesterday, Dave Northrop at FilmMedia finished color grading. 3DFA Technical Director Greg Kintz is currently working on reel 4 (of 12) on 3-D alignment and panel matching. Once finished, the files will go to Charlotte Barker at the Paramount Pictures Archive for digital cleanup of dirt and damage. Charlotte has finished scanning and restoration of the original 35mm mono optical track negative. We are not quite in the home stretch but are making significant progress every week on this VERY tedious and complex Six-Strip Technicolor restoration!

Pre-orders for our next 3-D Blu-ray release are coming soon from our good friends at @kinolorber

We can now confirm that we are in preliminary discussions with 88 Films about a possible collaboration on Magnificent Bodyguards. That said, we will not have any comment unless and until any formal announcement can be made. Anything else in the meantime is mere speculation. But, as always, we thank everybody for their interest in our ongoing work generally.

Premiering flat in New York City on this date 71 years ago, 3-D Film Archive is thrilled to announce that we are working with Film Masters to fully restore CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON in widescreen 3-D from the original left/right 35mm master elements. You can learn more about this rare stereoscopic feature in our 70th Anniversary post from one year ago. Look for a 3-D Blu-ray release of this exciting new restoration in 2026!

While we are doing our painstaking shot by shot image restoration of MONEY FROM HOME, Charlotte Barker, Director of Film Preservation and Restoration at Paramount Pictures, has been working with Blake Teuscher at Deluxe Audio on the sound restoration. Utilizing the original 1953 mono optical track 35mm negative, the audio will sound better than ever before. Look for a 3-D Blu-ray release of this incredible restoration from our good friends at Kino Lorber Studio Classics later this year!

3-D movie joy in 1953.