The recent picture Avatar has been exciting audiences around the planet with amazing 3D film technology and glorious CGI and special effects. For most the tale line of the film is secondary to the visible banquet provided found in the 3D movie. 3D technology is clearly beginning to become popular and during the previous ten years or so , a considerable number of favored animated films using 3D processes and CGI technology have been made. And, while the film Avatar may be history making in its use of advanced filmmaking processes, it certainly isn't the 1st live action 3D film and if box office bills are any indication, it will not be the last.
The history of 3D film actually goes back as far as the history of flicks themselves.
As far back as 1856, a leading edge inventor named J.C. D'Almeida gave a fascinating demonstration to the Academie des Sciences. Essentially, he demonstrated how 2 photos of the same scene could be filmed from slightly different perspectives ( about 2 and half inches apart - to simulate two eyes ) and then be projected swiftly through red and green lantern slides. The spectators viewed the projector screen thru glasses fitted with red and green lenses because the red image could only be seen through the green lens and vice versa, so that the two marginally different pictures mixed to form a three dimensional image.
Almost forty years passed by before Ducos du Hauron developed a refinement of the anaglyph or two-color film system. In this system, two transparent stereoscopic ( 2 slightly different views of the same image ) perspectives, one red and one blue were superimposed on top of one another and projected onto a screen. Again, thru the use of glasses with different colored lenses, this time a blue and red one, the viewer saw a three dimensional scene.
He then used 2 projectors, one with a red lens and the other with a blue one, to project the images onto the screen. Audiences viewed the moving picture through special glasses with a red and blue lens and not only saw a moving picture, but a 3-D one. The way forward for 3D film had arrived. Of course, it was still a long way off from the outstanding achievements of James Cameron and the flick Avatar.
Intriguingly enough, it wasn't until 1922 that the planet's first feature length 3D film would be screened at the envoy Hotel Theatre in L. A. . Again, this process needed the onlookers to view the pictures through glasses, this time with cellophane red and green lenses, so as to get the 3-D effect.
There would be many experiments with film in 3D in the years ahead, some successful, some not. However , without the attempts of these early film front-runners, the blockbuster films of today might never have been made.
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The history of 3D film actually goes back as far as the history of flicks themselves.
As far back as 1856, a leading edge inventor named J.C. D'Almeida gave a fascinating demonstration to the Academie des Sciences. Essentially, he demonstrated how 2 photos of the same scene could be filmed from slightly different perspectives ( about 2 and half inches apart - to simulate two eyes ) and then be projected swiftly through red and green lantern slides. The spectators viewed the projector screen thru glasses fitted with red and green lenses because the red image could only be seen through the green lens and vice versa, so that the two marginally different pictures mixed to form a three dimensional image.
Almost forty years passed by before Ducos du Hauron developed a refinement of the anaglyph or two-color film system. In this system, two transparent stereoscopic ( 2 slightly different views of the same image ) perspectives, one red and one blue were superimposed on top of one another and projected onto a screen. Again, thru the use of glasses with different colored lenses, this time a blue and red one, the viewer saw a three dimensional scene.
He then used 2 projectors, one with a red lens and the other with a blue one, to project the images onto the screen. Audiences viewed the moving picture through special glasses with a red and blue lens and not only saw a moving picture, but a 3-D one. The way forward for 3D film had arrived. Of course, it was still a long way off from the outstanding achievements of James Cameron and the flick Avatar.
Intriguingly enough, it wasn't until 1922 that the planet's first feature length 3D film would be screened at the envoy Hotel Theatre in L. A. . Again, this process needed the onlookers to view the pictures through glasses, this time with cellophane red and green lenses, so as to get the 3-D effect.
There would be many experiments with film in 3D in the years ahead, some successful, some not. However , without the attempts of these early film front-runners, the blockbuster films of today might never have been made.
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