The Last Great Innovation: The Stereoscopic Cinema

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 116, No. 11-12, pp. 518–523
Abstract: In February 2007, a sea change in perception took place. A full-page article in Variety magazine extolled the virtues of 3-D movies, and a few days later, an editorial in the L.A. Times stated that 3-D had to be taken seriously by the studios. Since then, a number of articles in the trades have discussed the stereoscopic cinema in positive terms. It has become the great hope of the industry after languishing for a century, primarily because recent 3-D movies are producing about three times the revenue of the simultaneously released 2-D version of films such as Chicken Little, Monster House, and Meet the Robinsons. In addition, Disney's The Nightmare Before Christmas, a 14-year-old film that had been in home release, was converted to 3-D and profitably theatrically re-released. Before February, in the trades and the popular press, the stereoscopic cinema was referred to with derision; it was a joke, to be dismissed. That is no longer the case. What has changed in addition to the better box office? In this article, I will attempt to provide a historical perspective with regard to technology introductions to the cinema, and explore the reasons for this recent change in attitude, with regard to the stereoscopic cinema.
Publication Date: 2007-11-01
DOI: 10.5594/J16034
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J16034
Author(s): Lenny Lipton
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Lenny Lipton. the father of the electronic stereoscopic display industry, has been granted more than 30 patents in the field. He received an award from the Smithsonian for this invention of CrystalEyes, the dominant product for desktop stereoscopic displays for 20 years. He invented the ZScreen, which is the basis of the Real D cinema system deployed in 14 countries. Lipton is currently the CTO of Real D. He has written four books, including Independent Filmmaking and Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema He wrote the words of the song “Puff the Magic Dragon;” the picture book version is the number one selling children's book in the U.S. Lipton has traveled on behalf of the U.S. Department of State as a cultural liaison His film work has been exhibited at the Tate Liverpool Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art and is collected in the Pacific Film Archive of the University of California. Lipton resides in Los Angeles with his family.
Copyright: © 2007 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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