I'm curious what the perceived "first ever" 3D film is. I know the answer, but I'd like to know what everyone else thinks. Please don't google it, just give me your honest impression. It's not a test, it's a poll.

Wow, thats a good one.. I have no clue so I am not going to vote. I have only heard of one - maybe two of them. Guess I can't call myself a movie guy, huh?

Interesting idea. Can't wait to see the amount of responses....
~Gabriel

I have no idea but I'll bet it starts with "Attack of the"

Over 130 views and only 2 votes? I think one of those votes was by me!

I guess my experiment isn't working, yet. I will eventually reveal my intentions for the poll.

BTW, I threw Bwana Devil in as a red herring because it was marketed as the first feature length 3D film. However, it was released decades after the first stereoscopic film(s).

http://www.stereoscopy.com/database/movies/bwana-devil.jpg

House of Wax was marketed as the "first feature produced by a major studio in 3D," and was the start of the first 'Golden Age' of 3D. If you watch the trailer (http://www.sabucattrailers.com/expo2/House_Of_Wax_h.wmv) you'll see that it was also marketed as "The first picture to bring you the phenomenal merger of 3D-ACTION and 3D-SOUND."
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House of Wax Trailer (http://www.sabucattrailers.com/expo2/House_Of_Wax_h.wmv)

We likely will NEVER know the first 3D film projected to someone.

But, to a paying audience, in a theater:

http://www.3dmovingpictures.com/landf01.html

BWANA DEVIL was the first feature film in NATURAL VISION 3Dimension but not the first feature in 3D. BWANA'S writer/producer/director Arch Oboler believed it was the first. But 3D history is jam-packed with with mis-dis-information, error, ignorance, MYTH.

...as much as WAX is my favorite 3D, it wasn't the first of the Golden Era - by one day, Columbia's MAN IN THE DARK was the first to open to a regular paying audience.

Of course, the "major studio" line was a deliberate slap in the face of Columbia's Harry Cohn.

As a matter of fact, the Lumiere brothers, the fathers of cinema, shot the arrival of the train at Ciotat in 3-D as well as in 'normal' film.

The first feature length 3-D film would be The Power of Love of 1922 (shorter, one-reel 3-D films have been produced and displayed before and after this), followed 30 years later by the first feature with sound in 3-D "Bwana Devil" of 1952. The latter started the 3-D craze of 1953 - otherwise known as 1953-D. The most famous films produced in these two years were Creature from the Black Lagoon, House of Wax and Dial M for Murder.
Lots and lots of 3-D C-quality movies were made alongside these B-movies (although Dial M is A-quality Hitchcock material), which gave a B-movie name to the 3-D film process. But almost all of the 3-D movies of 1953 were released in polarized format, not anaglyphically (red-blue 3-D) like journalists and film critics write in their reviews of 3-D films nowadays. (http://www.the3drevolution.com/3d2005.html)

The Louis Lumiére (Auguste died years earlier) demo footage was seen in 1934 and is the ONLY stereoscopic work under the Lumiére name, contrary to a mythical 1903 reference.

And POWER OF LOVE is covered in detail in the aforementioned reference.

The rest covered in many references, including my old AMAZING 3-D (1982, Little Brown & Co.) and the various American Cinematographer articles.

WOW!
Real3Daniel L. Symmes "a wizard of stereoscopy" (Andre de Toth (director of HOUSE OF WAX)


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