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Bob Furmanek

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At long last and after many requests, we have our Silver Age 1966-1997 page on our website. I hope that you enjoy seeing these great posters again!


http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/silver-age-1966---1986


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These are fantastic, thanks for sharing. So many of these I'd love to own on Blu-Ray...did anyone see APE in that format?
 

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Bob Cashill, one of my most cherished moviegoing memories dates to 2002, when they held a retrospective of single-strip 3-D films at a theater here in Los Angeles.


After one particular screening, I was walking out an exit door at the back of the auditorium. Just then, 3-D aficionado and all-time great human being Ray Zone emerged from the opposing exit doors across the lobby, caught my eye, and announced to the whole world:


"Man, that A*P*E is a piece of work!"


Maybe you just had to be there, and maybe you had to know Ray Zone, but trust me, it was hilarious. And even though he said it in good humor, I could tell it was meant as the lowest pejorative. Indeed, A*P*E is a piece of work. But, having said that, SpaceVision is SpaceVision, in my view the finest over-and-under 3-D system out there. Dan Symmes supervised the stereography on that flick, and the 3-D is actually pretty decent, if you can ignore every other aspect of the film.


Oh, one final thought comes to mind: In the print we saw, the opening credits had a kind of "zooming at you" effect that was completely undermined by the fact that they appeared in only one eye and not the other!
 

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For the record, it is my understanding that Wildcat Women is Black Lolita with porn inserts. M! 3-D: The Movie (aka Scoring) is Lollipop Girls In Hard Candy with some new footage, and Blonde Emmanuele is a recut version of Disco Dolls in Hot Skin. All of them done by Steve Gibson. The Creeps got a Field Sequential 3D DVD release. There were also some early-mid 90s Direct to DVD Field Sequential horror films that, I believe, Image had out at one point: Camp Blood, Hunting Season, Eyes of the Werewolf, and another one whose name I have mercifully forgotten. I believe they were all Pre-1999, if I'm not mistaken, with Camp Blood even getting a 3D sequel. I've seen the Asylum of the Insane footage, which if Something Weird was right was cut into a reissue of She Freak. Anyhow, that footage is beyond awful. Ya know, I'm almost ashamed of myself for knowing as much about these films as I do.


Never heard of Rock and Roll Hotel. I'm not even certain that's listed in the Hayes book.


Has anyone figured out where the Pulfrich segments in I, Monster are supposed to be? Because technically, since it is Pulfrich, it can be viewed in 3D if you have the appropriate glasses (which I actually do).
 

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Regarding A*P*E:
David M. Ballew said:
Oh, one final thought comes to mind: In the print we saw, the opening credits had a kind of "zooming at you" effect that was completely undermined by the fact that they appeared in only one eye and not the other!

Those single eye credits had always left a lasting memory with me as well. Adding that, while fighting off some jets the APE decides it's a good time to flip them all the middle finger.
 

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GregK, thanks for mentioning that! You jogged loose another memory: During that same screening in 2002, the audience came in primed and ready to laugh, either with the movie or at it.


But then that scene began where the ape "fights" the fake rubber shark, which goes on... and on... and on. The audience fell absolutely quiet. It was the weirdest thing. I did not sense hostility. I did not sense boredom or indifference. It was like we were all gobsmacked into silence by how overwhelmingly awful the whole thing was turning out to be.


Now, the laughter came back, big time, during that scene where those martial arts practitioners basically sacrifice their lives to ram the ape in the ankle with that big log. Oh, and again when the ape stoops down to pick up that clockwork cow.


Incidentally, I remember a night years and years ago when Joanna Kerns was a guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. (I think Johnny was hosting that night, but I can't be absolutely sure.) What I remember very clearly is that they surprised Ms. Kerns with a short clip from A*P*E, which got one of the biggest laughs of the night. She was a really good sport about it, too. I can only hope they had warned her beforehand.
 

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That was filmed with a 65mm rig and is pretty good quality. Try watching SURFER GIRLS or BLACK LOLITA! :D


David, I went to see A*P*E when it opened on Times Square at the Forum Theatre in November 1976. I was a 3-D starved teenager and my friends and I went several times.


I became interested in 3-D movies in the mid-70's. Look at what I had to endure to satisfy my stereo cravings!


Todd, I gave up trying to keep track of how many times Chris Condon and Stephen Gibson re-cut and re-titled their movies.


There's more information on I, MONSTER and Pulfrich 3-D here: http://blackholereviews.blogspot.com/2011/05/i-monster-1971-cushing-and-lee-do.html
 

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The only memories I have of "Love in 3D" are of telling the manager it was out of focus and a scene where someone cracks an egg which, filmed from below, sent the yolk hurtling out of the screen causing panic in the front row.

"Emanuelle IV" is a piece of crap and best avoided. It caused a weird strobing effect in my vision after watching it.
 

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In my experience - more often than not - the single-strip titles were BADLY presented in theaters.


The lenses and DP's had their own issues and the presentation quality was usually very poor.
 

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StephenDH said:
The only memories I have of "Love in 3D" are of telling the manager it was out of focus and a scene where someone cracks an egg which, filmed from below, sent the yolk hurtling out of the screen causing panic in the front row.

"Emanuelle IV" is a piece of crap and best avoided. It caused a weird strobing effect in my vision after watching it.

Emmanuelle 4 was one of the better 3D transfers when all you could get was field-sequential 3D DVD's. I had over 30 3D field_sequential titles and the PQ on A*P*E was one of the worst.
 

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You probably know that most of those field-sequential versions were not official releases from good elements.


Despite it's budget, the 3-D work on A*P*E is pretty good.


You can't really assess the 3-D quality from a bootleg version.
 

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Bob Furmanek said:
You probably know that most of those field-sequential versions were not official releases from good elements.


Despite it's budget, the 3-D work on A*P*E is pretty good.


You can't really assess the 3-D quality from a bootleg version.

Bob, do you know what the source was for those titles? I know Michael Starks claimed he had the 35mm elements for his titles. Later I learned that many of his titles were from the Japanese VHD format. There couldn't have been 30 to 40 3D titles from VHD so they had to come from other sources.
 

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So, of all these titles, we've got the following released in the US on Blu-ray 3D:


Amityville 3-D (1983) (Shout Factory)

The Bubble (1966) (Kino)

The Flesh and Blood Show (1972) (Redemption) ~10 minute 3D ending sequence presented as a bonus feature

Into the Deep (1994) (Image) (Samsung Sampler Exclusive)



We've also got Toy Story (1995) (Disney), which since it was animated via computer is a more "after the fact" true 3D than other converted titles from this era (such as The Nightmare Before Christmas, Predator, Jurassic Park, etc.)


Setting aside the skin flicks and the theme park attractions films, is there any realistic chance of getting more of these?


Universal seems indifferent to Jaws 3-D; same goes for Paramount and Friday the 13th Part 3-D (especially since they simply re-issued the anaglyph version in the box set). And we know the trouble with Warhol's Frankenstein.
 

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Starks didn't have elements. He had 35mm prints and those were released "off the radar" so to speak.
 

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oh great, now I kinda want to see A*P*E.


For those that've seen the film in 3-D... did they adjust the convergencence or anything like that to make the man-in-suit scenes look larger than life? You sometimes hear about how 3-D can have a miniaturising effect, so I presume if you're shooting miniatures you would do what you can to keep them from looking like toys.


... although watching the trailer, it doesn't look like believability was a major concern.
 

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Dan Symmes worked on it and he was extremely knowledgeable but I can't say for sure.


The film was done VERY quickly to cash in on the upcoming Dino De laurentiis film. They even added a shark scene to capitalize on Jaws!
 

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