
#Bwana devil color movie#
It started the 3-D movie craze and was also the setting for the iconic LIFE.
#Bwana devil color full#
We all remember the soap-bubbles floating around for sure. Eyerman famously captured this photo of a formally-attired audience sporting 3-D glasses during opening night screening of movie 'Bwana Devil'-1st full length color 3-D (aka 'Natural Vision') motion picture, at Paramount Theater, Hollywood, CA. The audience was required to wear special Polaroid viewers. Robot Monster 3D is surprisingly good, not so much "pop-outs" as just effective stuff, pleasing to watch, nothing excessive, just good, realistic looking 3D scenery. Cardboard glasses with earpieces and larger filters were used to watch Bwana Devil, the feature-length color 3-D film that premiered on 26 November 1952 and. Overall like many of the 50's titles: not the greatest A-movies but also not the 3D-effects galore of the Silver Age. Probably quite wide parallax, at times too much, could perhaps have the z budget re-adjusted today during the restoration. And if youre a real movie trivia buff, you might remember that 1952s Bwana Devil was the first color 3-D feature but even here were drifting into. The film is notable for sparking the first 3D film craze in the motion picture industry, as well as for being the first feature-length 3D film in color and the first 3D sound feature in English. I remember several times the 3D didn't work for me, probably too much parallax, but when it did the 3D was strong. A Lover in Your Arms' So heralded the publicity posters for Bwana Devil, the first full-color three-dimensional feature film to be released in the United States and the film that was instrumental in launching the 3-D craze of the 1950s. Bwana Devil is based on the true story of the Tsavo maneaters and filmed with the Natural Vision 3D system. Actually, don't even recall a single one, though pbbly had a couple of not particularly effective ones.

I haven't re-watched Bwana in a long time, but the 3D I recall is on par with most of the 50's features, very few pop-outs. Shot at the Paramount Theater in Hollywood in 1952, the image shows the opening-night screening of the first ever full-length, color 3D movie, titled Bwana Devil.

Is BD a bit of a 3D classic.? If I was excited for Robot Monster, I'm very excited for this one.

I've never seen Bwana Devil in any dimension, but had always assumed that it was the "Comin At Ya!" of it's time, i.e.
