Stereo D history

Brewster claimed that by 1856 over 500,000 viewers had been sold.

For the 1951 Festival of Britain, McLaren created two imaginative 35mm dual-band 3-D animation films withAround Is AroundandNow Is the Time.

3-D Revolution: The History of Modern Stereoscopic Cinema traces the rise of modern 3-D technology from Arch Oboler's Bwana Devil (1952), which launched the 50s 3-D boom in Hollywood, to the rapidly-modernizing 3-D industry today.

“3-D Day Hits Hollywood in Blinding Flash” was the head line for a story in the February 16, 1953, issue ofLifemagazine.

For the third installment in his popular Spy Kids series, titledSpy Kids 3-D: Game Over,which opened on 3,300 screens July 25, 2003, Rodriguez made extensive use of polychromatic anaglyph, introducing a fuller palette of color into the two-color stereographic process.

The groundbreaking IMAX 3-D film, set against the popular American spectator sport and opening in spring 2004, was distributed exclusively to IMAX theaters by Warner Bros.

November 4, 2005, was a historic day for stereoscopic motion pictures.

Shot during the band’s Vertigo tour in 2006 in South America, the stereoscopic technology was assembled by 3ality Entertainment under CEO Steve Schklair and utilized nine different pairs of Sony HDW-950 cameras in a variety of configurations.

Coraline,the stop-frame puppet-animated 3-D feature film from Laika Studio and directed by Henry Selick, expressed a new philosophy of stereoscopic storytelling for motion pictures. Based on the darkly fantastic children’s book by Neil Gaiman,Coralineopened on February 13, 2009, in both 2-D and 3-D and grossed $16 million on its first weekend, with 3-D theaters out-grossing the 2-D theaters by a factor of 3 to 1.