3D News

More news about Robot Monster and other projects in this interview! We have some big things coming that everyone on the 3D Film Archive team is very excited about! Definitely something you won’t want to miss, so come give it a watch!

Coming Soon on 3-D Blu-ray!
Brand New HD Master – From 4K Scans of the 35mm Camera Original YCM Technicolor Negatives!
3-D Restoration by 3-D Film Archive!
Money from Home (1953) Starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marjie Millar, Pat Crowley & Robert Strauss – Shot by Daniel L. Fapp (The Great Escape) – Directed by George Marshall (The Ghost Breakers, Scared Stiff).

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The incredibly talented Carl Scheckel is on the te

The incredibly talented Carl Scheckel is on the team for our Robot Monster graphic novel. CarlsComix.com has donated over 70,000 comic books to charity and is doing absolutely wonderful work. Please help make this dream for Carl a reality!
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We are delighted to announce the gala Midwest Prem

We are delighted to announce the gala Midwest Premiere of our new BWANA DEVIL restoration at the beautiful Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH. This special presentation will kick-off the annual Columbus Moving Picture Show weekend.

In addition to the feature, acclaimed animation expert Jerry Beck will join 3-D Film Archive Founder Bob Furmanek for a discussion and screening of two restored Golden Age 3-D cartoons: THE HYPNOTIC HICK and BOO MOON. Advance tickets are now on sale.

Don’t miss this very special evening of restored 3-D treasures on the big screen! https://wexarts.org/film-video/bwana-devil

Look for a pre-order announcement for BWANA DEVIL on 3-D Blu-ray from Kino Lorber very soon!

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Seventy years ago on April 22, 1954, United Artist

Seventy years ago on April 22, 1954, United Artists SOUTHWEST PASSAGE had its gala world premiere at the 833 seat Rialto Theatre in Atlanta, GA. Available to exhibitors in either 3-D or flat versions, most theatres presented the flat version.

This rare feature was lost stereoscopically for many years. The missing reels of the right side camera negative were discovered in March 2018 at an abandoned film laboratory in Italy by Darren Gross at M-G-M Studios. Kino Lorber has secured the license and we will be restoring this lost Natural Vision gem in the near future.

Please keep an eye on the News page of our website for updates and more information on this exciting restoration!

https://3dfilmarchive.com/3d-news/

Are you a MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 fan? Did yo

Are you a MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 fan? Did you know that one of the writers and executive producers of the show is part of our ROBOT MONSTER COMICS IN 3-D project?!

Yes, Harold Buchholz is bringing the fun of fumetti to the party. What's fumetti you ask? It's taking live action images from a film or photo and adding comics captions, dialogue, and thought balloons to it. From FAMOUS MONSTERS IN FILMLAND to TWISTED MEGO THEATER, this timeless art form never fails to inspire laughter!

Here's just one example of the fun that's ahead from Harold. Want to enjoy the rest of it? Click on the Kickstarter link in our bio to find out how you can take part in this project today!

#ProjectsWeLove #mst3k #mst3 #projectwelove #mysterysciencetheater3000

Wow! We received the news a short while ago that K

Wow! We received the news a short while ago that Kickstarter has declared our ROBOT MONSTER COMICS IN 3-D campaign a #projectwelove!

To which we say, what's not to love?

Climb aboard the love train and find out what fun is in store for you if you choose to take part. (LINK IN BIO)
Thank you!

Please help us make the ROBOT MONSTER Graphic Nove

Please help us make the ROBOT MONSTER Graphic Novel a reality! (link in bio)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/3dfilmarchive/robot-monster-comics-in-3-d-64-page-graphic-novel

Seventy-one years ago on March 20, 1953, Lippert’s first 3-D short A DAY IN THE COUNTRY had its first known showing at the 800 seat Capitol Theatre in Olympia, WA.

From 3-D expert Mike Ballew: "The work of boxing short impresario Jack Rieger, it was filmed near Sussex, New Jersey. Its original title was Stereo Laffs, and the prevailing hunch is that it was meant to beat M-G-M's Third Dimensional Murder into theaters. That latter short, which began production on November 30, 1939, was missing in action more than a year later.

On February 17, 1941, syndicated columnist Leonard Lyons predicted that "Jack Rieger… will beat M-G-M to the showing of a third-dimension stereoscopic picture." On February 22, Boxoffice, reporting production costs of about $20,000 for Stereo Laffs, anticipated a theatrical release in two weeks' time. Third Dimensional Murder finally reached the nation's screens on March 1, 1941, but Stereo Laffs sat out World War II on a shelf.

Stereo Laffs was licensed for exhibition in the state of New York in 1945, but never found wide distribution until independent producer Robert L. Lippert, acquiring the film from Rieger, made single-strip anaglyphic prints. Paired with a 2-D Western, The Tall Texan starring Lloyd Bridges, the short reached the public in March 1953.

It disappeared for over 50 years, until a mysterious East Coast dealer sold the only surviving copy to collector Jeff Joseph for $500—and then promptly vanished, along with the film. When Joseph tracked him down a year later, the man confessed the print had been left abandoned in the back of his pickup truck, now in the clutches of a local towing company. Joseph put through a long-distance phone call, and a friendly clerk took a quick look. Yes, there was a pickup truck, and there was a can of film, and the label read A Day in the Country.

Preservation scans were made of this faded 1953 Pathé Color release print and the film had its first public presentation in many years at World 3-D film Expo II, in September 2006. In the years since, Greg Kintz has worked his own digital alchemy on the film."

It is now available on our 3-D Blu-ray release of 3-D RARITIES II from Flicker Alley.

Seventy years ago on March 19, 1954, Astor Picture

Seventy years ago on March 19, 1954, Astor Pictures second 3-D release CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON opened flat at the 594 seat Rialto Theatre in New York City.

Astor’s original promotional plans called for an opening at the Holiday Theatre on Times Square with star Sonny Tufts appearing in person but those plans were dropped. Also canceled was a tour with four of the Hollywood Cover Girls in full Cat-Women regalia appearing in San Francisco, Chicago, and key openings in Pennsylvania.

The widespread identification of Cat-Women as a 1953 release is inaccurate. IMDb and Wikipedia currently have a release date of September 3, 1953, at which point in time the movie had not even finished shooting. There was a press screening in 3-D at Samuel Goldwyn studios in Hollywood on December 7, 1953. Reviewed in Variety the next day, it mentions that the feature currently had ‘no release’ lined up. The December 14 issue of Broadcasting magazine, and the December 21 daily edition of Variety, likewise stressed that negotiations for the picture’s release remained ongoing. Variety confirmed a distribution deal with Astor Pictures on March 24, 1954.

Variety’s review of the press screening in December 1953 had concluded with the pronouncement: “William Whitley’s 3-D photography provides the proper eerie quality.” By May 1954, however, demand for 3-D pictures had all but disappeared. Astor’s pressbook now promoted Cat-Women as a 2-D feature, with all the movie paper targeted at a ‘flat’ release. A slug on the front cover assuring theater-owners that the title was ‘Also available in 3-D and wide-screen!’ met with interest in Detroit, where the picture was afforded a three-venue 3-D opening on May 16.

Just five other 3-D engagements could be found nationwide, including a heavily promoted midnight screening at the 800-seat Fox Theatre in Beatrice, Nebraska, on June 26.

Because of the VERY limited 3-D release, the 35mm camera negatives were separated and sent to different film labs in 1954. I am delighted to report that we have just recently located both the left/right negatives. We are trying to secure a license so that we can fully restore this rare three-dimensional feature!

DOMO ARIGATO has a very unique distinction; it had

DOMO ARIGATO has a very unique distinction; it had two separate "World Premiere" engagements. The first "invitational preview" place in Seattle, WA at the 440 seat Broadway Theatre on June 26, 1973. The second "American Premiere" was held in Los Angeles, CA at the 198 seat Vagabond Theatre on August 31, 1990.

The same version of the film was premiered twice. In fact, it was very likely the same 35mm Space-Vision print that was shown at both theatres!

Only 17 days remain to pre-order our new restoration and be part of the DOMO ARIGATO excitement! www.kickstarter.com/projects/3dfilmarchive/pre-order-arch-obolers-domo-arigato-on-3-d-blu-ray

I have just added this unique item to our Kickstar

I have just added this unique item to our Kickstarter campaign for DOMO ARIGATO. This update will tell you more about this original 35mm Space-Vision frame.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/3dfilmarchive/pre-order-arch-obolers-domo-arigato-on-3-d-blu-ray/posts/4050824

We're just a few discs away from making stretch go

We're just a few discs away from making stretch goal #3 a reality. Please share the information about this lost 3-D comedy short!

Here's more information on Jack Mann. This article was written five months before the filming of SKID ROW HOLDUP.
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Stretch goal #3 on our Kickstarter campaign for DO

Stretch goal #3 on our Kickstarter campaign for DOMO ARIGATO has been announced. Please share and help us to preserve SKID ROW HOLDUP, an incredibly rare and previously lost 3-D comedy short from 1953! (Campaign link in bio)

Stretch goal #1 on DOMO ARIGATO has been announced

Stretch goal #1 on DOMO ARIGATO has been announced!
CLEOPATRA FOLLIES aka FLAME OF ISLAM was the first of five burlesque shorts presented in “Gorgeous Multi-Color” anaglyphic 3-D by Oakland and San Francisco burlesque theater magnate, Harry A. Farros. CLEOPATRA FOLLIES starred popular dancers Paula French and Shirley Hayes, aka The Pussy Cat Girl.
Newly discovered data has confirmed that while working with George Weiss at Screen Classics, Edward D. Wood Jr wrote the script for this 3-D film under the title FLAME OF ISLAM. There are no production credits listed on-screen, but Wood lists it in a resume that he circulated around that time.
In true Ed Wood fashion, the "writer" credit is somewhat padded as it amounts to three brief voiceover introductions to the dance segments. Nevertheless, it is a credit and that's what matters most on the resume of an aspiring filmmaker.
Photographed in Los Angeles circa May 1953, the title was changed just before release on August 8, 1953. The short was popular and usually played at drive-ins with bookings found as late as September 1955.
I discovered the original left/right 35mm elements for CLEOPATRA FOLLIES at the shuttered Movielab in Hollywood circa 1985. Despite my best efforts, I was not able to acquire the material and it’s likely they were junked with other orphaned film elements.
Fortunately, 3-D Film Archive has recently acquired a faded but pristine 35mm anaglyphic print and we will be restoring this rare Edward D. Wood film. Thanks to advanced digital techniques developed by 3DFA Technical Director Greg Kintz, we can now dig deep into the emulsion and extract the original left/right data on this faded anaglyphic print. In short, thanks to our complex and highly specialized digital arsenal, it will truly look better now than it did in 1953.
We are currently at $12,527 on the campaign. If we can secure another fifty orders totaling $1500 for the DOMO ARIGATO 3-D Blu-ray release and bring our total to $14,027, we can add our new restoration of CLEOPATRA FOLLIES as a bonus extra.
Please share the news about this remarkable Ed Wood discovery and help us to secure another fifty backers. (Campaign link in bio.)
Thank you

Pre-order Arch Oboler's DOMO ARIGATO on Compatible

Pre-order Arch Oboler's DOMO ARIGATO on Compatible 3-D Blu-ray!

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Our next Kickstarter campaign goes live at 3:00 PM

Our next Kickstarter campaign goes live at 3:00 PM EST on March 5. Have no fear, your eyes will not get crossed with this absolutely stunning new 3-D Film Archive restoration!

Standby for the next exciting 3DFA Kickstarter cam

Standby for the next exciting 3DFA Kickstarter campaign, scheduled to go live VERY soon!

Seventy years ago on February 25, 1954, RKO Radio

Seventy years ago on February 25, 1954, RKO Radio Pictures fifth 3-D feature DANGEROUS MISSION had its gala world premiere at the 1,823 seat Utah Theatre in Salt Lake City, UT. The next day, a second world premiere was held at the 1,785 seat Civic Center in Great Falls, MT. Piper Laurie took part in both premiere events.

RKO offered the film in both formats and most exhibitors opted to play it flat. DANGEROUS MISSION is a prime example of a movie that truly comes to life when seen as intended in widescreen third-dimension.

The Archive once held a stunning dual-35mm Technicolor 3-D print and it never failed to entertain. When it was screened in 2003 at the World 3-D Film Expo in Hollywood, Leonard Maltin commented that it was much better than his dismissive review in his TV Movies book. Even star Piper Laurie reappraised the movie when seeing it again in widescreen, Technicolor 3-D.

To the best of our knowledge, Warner Bros has done archival preservation from the original 35mm left/right color elements. Unfortunately, they have not yet created a restored digital 3-D master which would allow both 3-D Blu-ray release and DCP availability for theatrical bookings.

Let's hope that changes very soon so that we can once again enjoy this “Avalanche of Action in 3D” as it was meant to be seen!

Seventy years ago on February 24, 1954, Warner Bro

Seventy years ago on February 24, 1954, Warner Bros’ sixth 3-D feature PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE opened in a mass saturation booking in 250 theatres throughout Ohio and Indiana, including Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis.

PHANTOM was the final Golden Age 3-D feature release that had to be shown in 3-D before exhibitors could book the standard flat version.

To the best of our knowledge, Warner Bros has done archival preservation from the original 35mm left/right elements. Unfortunately, they have not yet created a restored digital 3-D master which would allow both 3-D Blu-ray release and DCP availability for theatrical bookings.

Let's hope that changes very soon so that we can once again enjoy this 3-D horror classic as it was meant to be seen!

EL CORAZÓN Y LA ESPADA was available for release

EL CORAZÓN Y LA ESPADA was available for release to theaters in Mexico and Central America starting January 1, 1954. However, the earliest documented engagement was at the Cine Plaza in Ciudad Juárez during the week of January 24, 1954.

The earliest opening in the U.S. took place seventy years ago on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1954, at the 800-seat Azteca Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona. Billed as ‘The First Mexican Movie Filmed in 3-D’ – a tagline that was employed for all its U.S. 3-D engagements – ticket prices were raised to eighty-five cents, a figure that would have been legally untenable in Mexico.

The following day, February 15, it opened for a week-long run at two big Los Angeles theaters. At the historic 1600-seat California Theatre, the film played as a standalone. Meanwhile, at the 2000-seat Million Dollar Theatre – which was, at the time, the foremost Spanish-language theater in downtown Los Angeles – it played on a double bill with director Luis Buñuel’s 1949 comedy smash EL GRAN CALAVERA.

Thanks to a very successful campaign on Kickstarter with our friends at 3-D Space, this Golden Age stereoscopic rarity has been preserved and restored from 4K scans of the original left/right 35mm camera negatives. It is currently available on our 3-D RARITIES II Blu-ray from Flicker Alley. https://flickeralley.com/products/170617337-3d-rarities-volume-ii?_pos=2&_sid=63d75bffc&_ss=r

Seventy years ago on February 12, 1954, Universal-

Seventy years ago on February 12, 1954, Universal-International’s fifth 3-D release CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON had its first engagements at the 3.500 Broadway-Capitol Theatre in Detroit and the 1,500 seat Lucon Theatre in Lansing, MI.

The first sneak preview was held on January 7, 1954, at the United Artists Theater in Los Angeles. 134 viewers filled out comment cards and 96 liked the use of 3-D in the film. The nationwide public got their first view of the Creature on February 21, 1954, in a live broadcast of the Colgate Comedy Hour on NBC with Abbott and Costello. While searching in the Universal prop department, Lou meets the Frankenstein Monster. At the end of the sketch, the Creature crashes out of a wooden crate, giving viewers their first glimpse of Universal’s newest monster creation.

We have restored this iconic footage and it is available on our Blu-ray and DVD release of JACK AND THE BEANSTALK from ClassicFlix. https://www.classicflix.com/products/copy-of-jack-and-the-beanstalk-70th-anniversary-limited-edition

By the spring of 1954, interest in 3-D movies had greatly diminished. CREATURE was offered to exhibitors in both 2-D and 3-D versions and its 3-D distribution was mixed. Many of the large downtown theaters played it stereoscopically, while the neighborhood and second-run theaters played it flat. As an example, it opened in New York City in 3-D at the 3,664 seat Paramount Theater on Times Square on April 30, 1954. However, when it opened citywide on May 20 on the RKO circuit as the supporting feature with the 3-D PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE, it was shown flat.

CREATURE did very well at the boxoffice and was the only stereoscopic feature to have a 3-D sequel: REVENGE OF THE CREATURE began production on June 25, 1954.

Truly one of the most celebrated and iconic stereoscopic features of the Golden Age, it is currently available on 3-D Blu-ray from Universal.

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