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Prison Girls 3D, directed by Tom DeSimone, who goes by more aliases than most witness protection candidates, would seem to have a couple of potential uses.
1. As a window to 1972 San Francisco, and hair styles and clothing of the period - think bell bottoms and muttonchops
2. For collectors of 3D in any form - good, bad or indifferent
As a film, Prison Girls falls into the bad category. Shot poorly on 16mm with a 3D rig, and distributed as a 35mm dupe via over/under 3D. Lots of post-sync dialogue.
The imagery is soft, even by 16mm standards, the film is poorly shot, with only sparing use of more important 3D attributes. It seems to be all practical locations - offices, homes, a shower room, with bars placed in the foreground.
Released in November of 1972, there was a wonderful article in Esquire, which I always presumed had a satirical bent - but possibly not:
"Prison Girls, a new 3D release from AIP, the home of Roger Corman, has little going for it, but it does have a way with audiences. Interviewing those exiting gave us some interesting information. Attendees were mostly male, with a few of couples mixed in.
Exit polls showed two disparate takes on the film. While all of those attending felt that it was a waste of their price of admission, there seemed to be two very different positions as to content, and it seemed to come down those who were bottle fed, as opposed to breast fed.
Results showed that while those bottle fed found occasional titilating aspects, those breast fed were either repulsed by giant mammaries projecting from the screen in 3D, or felt a need to visit the concession stand."
3D films run the gamut of quality. Some are superbly crafted with stellar 3D, while others simply exist. This is one of the latter.
On the positive side, while the images have an overall slightly faded appearance, 3-D Film Archive has eked out every bit of quality that exists in the elements, and have done a superb job of registering the eyes.
3D fans should be pleased to tick one more silver era film off their list, thanks to Kino and 3-D Film Archive. Note that the image quality rated here as 2 does not reference the work put into the project, but merely the quality of the extant elements.
For fans, it's still receiving a passing grade based upon the attempt at quality. This is a case of "it is what it is." I doubt that the image contains DVD quality resolution. Those who may feel that I'm against 3D films in general would be incorrect, as (I'll repeat) there are some wonderful productions. What I'm against is bad films. Think all large format films are worth viewing?
Think again!
Love to see this followed up with Hondo!
Image – 2
Audio – 4 (Monaural)
Pass / Fail – Pass
Plays nicely with projectors - No - best to view on a flat panel
Worth your attention - 1
Slipcover rating - 1
RAH
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1. As a window to 1972 San Francisco, and hair styles and clothing of the period - think bell bottoms and muttonchops
2. For collectors of 3D in any form - good, bad or indifferent
As a film, Prison Girls falls into the bad category. Shot poorly on 16mm with a 3D rig, and distributed as a 35mm dupe via over/under 3D. Lots of post-sync dialogue.
The imagery is soft, even by 16mm standards, the film is poorly shot, with only sparing use of more important 3D attributes. It seems to be all practical locations - offices, homes, a shower room, with bars placed in the foreground.
Released in November of 1972, there was a wonderful article in Esquire, which I always presumed had a satirical bent - but possibly not:
"Prison Girls, a new 3D release from AIP, the home of Roger Corman, has little going for it, but it does have a way with audiences. Interviewing those exiting gave us some interesting information. Attendees were mostly male, with a few of couples mixed in.
Exit polls showed two disparate takes on the film. While all of those attending felt that it was a waste of their price of admission, there seemed to be two very different positions as to content, and it seemed to come down those who were bottle fed, as opposed to breast fed.
Results showed that while those bottle fed found occasional titilating aspects, those breast fed were either repulsed by giant mammaries projecting from the screen in 3D, or felt a need to visit the concession stand."
3D films run the gamut of quality. Some are superbly crafted with stellar 3D, while others simply exist. This is one of the latter.
On the positive side, while the images have an overall slightly faded appearance, 3-D Film Archive has eked out every bit of quality that exists in the elements, and have done a superb job of registering the eyes.
3D fans should be pleased to tick one more silver era film off their list, thanks to Kino and 3-D Film Archive. Note that the image quality rated here as 2 does not reference the work put into the project, but merely the quality of the extant elements.
For fans, it's still receiving a passing grade based upon the attempt at quality. This is a case of "it is what it is." I doubt that the image contains DVD quality resolution. Those who may feel that I'm against 3D films in general would be incorrect, as (I'll repeat) there are some wonderful productions. What I'm against is bad films. Think all large format films are worth viewing?
Think again!
Love to see this followed up with Hondo!
Image – 2
Audio – 4 (Monaural)
Pass / Fail – Pass
Plays nicely with projectors - No - best to view on a flat panel
Worth your attention - 1
Slipcover rating - 1
RAH
Thank you for supporting HTF when you preorder using the link below. As an Amazon Associate, HTF earns from qualifying purchases. If you are using an adblocker you will not see link.
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