This filmography attempts to list every 3-D movie screened to paying customers in a commercial venue (theatrical or video) since the 1890’s, including feature films, shorts, Large Format items and selected high-profile theme park attractions. TV and direct-to-video programs are also included, but restrictions apply within these categories: For example, DTV items are only included if they’re comprised of a scripted (dramatic) narrative and have been made available through regular retail outlets, which excludes those films - invariably amateur in nature - offered for sale via one or two specialist websites. These ‘rules’ may be broken if an item is felt to have made a significant contribution to the development of 3-D cinema, but such decisions are entirely subjective and taken on a case-by-case basis.

The list does not include museum exhibits, commercials, industrial videos, computer games and experimental films (including those screened in specially-designed projection venues at numerous Expo’s and trade fairs). Amateur films are also excluded, except for those which have received some kind of commercial distribution (either theatrically or on home video). Such material is worthy of further investigation, but falls outside the scope of this particular filmography.

Given the recent resurgence of interest in 3-D filmmaking - with an even greater surge from 2009 onwards, when the digital infrastructure will be secure enough to accommodate widespread 3-D exhibition in multiplexes across the world - this filmography will attempt to keep up with the influx of new titles, and will also seek to update older entries when - and if - new info comes to light. Research is an ongoing process, and there’s still much to learn about the history of 3-D cinema!

For our purposes, the phrase ‘feature-length’ refers to movies running 50 minutes or longer, while ‘short film’ applies to anything known (or assumed) to run less than 50 minutes. Hopefully, I’ve managed to unearth the vast majority of relevant titles (many of which have never been listed together in the same index, if at all), though too many entries remain frustratingly incomplete. The list probably contains its fair share of errors (I'm at the mercy of my sources), though I hope readers with access to some of the more obscure items will point out mistakes and help fill in some of the gaps. For now, however, this is the filmography as it currently stands. Enjoy!


Titles are configured in alphabetical order on a letter-by-letter basis (ie. IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE before I, THE JURY, etc.). The rest of the layout is fairly self-explanatory:

• Original title. Titles in italics represent foreign language films whose original titles are unknown. An asterisk (*) denotes an entry which is believed to be incomplete, requiring further investigation.
• Alternative English-language titles, where relevant. These are cross-referenced alphabetically throughout the filmography.
• Country of origin - Copyright year - Running time (in minutes) - Color (col), black and white (bw) or sepia notation.
• Director [D:].
• 3-D process. Full technical details for each process can be found in the Technical Glossary.
• Dual-strip, single-strip or CGI origination / Film gauge (35mm, 65mm, Video, etc.).
• Left-right image configuration (over-under, side by side, etc.).
• Release print configuration (where it differs from the original on-set format, eg. a movie photographed in 16mm and blown-up to 35mm).
• Sound format(s).
• Primary aspect ratio.
• Notes and/or plot synopses are provided in brackets at the end of each entry.

The ‘Stereokino’ process used on various Russian films in this list is rendered as ‘Stereofilm’ in some English-language sources. Both terms are accurate in their own way, though I’ve opted for the one which more closely resembles the original Russian configuration.

Also, various 3-D processes credited as ‘Stereovision’ were used throughout the 1950’s and 60’s, though these shouldn’t be confused with the single-strip StereoVision process (note the capital ‘V’) established by Chris J. Condon in 1969.

1070 = 10-perf 65mm film gauge (70mm release print)
1570 = 15-perf 65mm film gauge (70mm release print)
570 = 5-perf 65mm film gauge (70mm release print)
870 = 8-perf 65mm film gauge (70mm release print)
bw = Black and white
col = Color
D-Cinema = Digital Cinema
DTS = Digital Theater Systems (digital sound format)
fps = Frames per second
HD = High Definition
SAFE 3-D = Smart Anaglyphic Fatigue Eliminator 3-D
SDDS = Sony Dynamic Digital Sound
SDDS-8 = 8 channel Sony Dynamic Digital Sound
Sonics-DDP = Sonics Digital Disc Playback (sound format)
(SV) = Special venue item
(TV)  = Made for TV
(V) = Produced for (and released directly to) home video
VHD = Video High Density (disc-based video format)

[Additions and corrections are not only welcomed, but positively encouraged!! E-mails regarding this filmography should be addressed to libretio [at] hotmail.com]


LATEST UPDATES


NEW ENTRIES:

• FRIENDS FOR LIFE
• THE GUARDIANS
• HAPPY FEET 2
• MADAGASCAR 3
• MARS NEEDS MOMS!
• PARTLY CLOUDY
• PHYSICS OF SURFING
• RIO
• SENRITSU MEIKYU 3-D / The Shock Labyrinth
• THE SHOCK LABYRINTH (see: Senritsu Meikyu 3-D)
• STREET DANCE
• YOSEMITE: LIVE IT IN 3D
• Z-BÄW


UPDATED ENTRIES:

• AVATAR
• THE BLOODY RAGE OF BIGFOOT
• THE CROODS (formerly Crood Awakening)
• THE FINAL DESTINATION (formerly Final Destination: Death Trip 3-D)
• KUNG FU PANDA: THE KABOOM OF DOOM (formerly Pandamonium)
• MAGIC JOURNEY TO AFRICA (formerly The Magic Tale)
• OCCHO KOCHOÏ
• OCEANWORLD 3D (formerly Oceans 3-D: Into the Deep)
• OOBERMIND (formerly Master Mind)
• PLANET 51
• SHREK FOREVER AFTER (formerly Shrek Goes Fourth)
• STEP UP 3-D
• TR2N
• UP


ANNOUNCED / IN DEVELOPMENT:

Instead of cluttering up the filmography with 'Announced' and 'In Development' titles (with no guarantee they'll be shot in 3-D during principal photography, despite various Internet rumours), we've opted to suspend the following entries pending confirmation they've actually gone into production.

• AIR GUITAR 3-D
• THE ALLEY OF DREAMS / Callejón de los Sueños
• AMPHIBIOUS
• APHRODITE IX
• BAIT
• BASEBALL 3-D
• BATTLE ANGEL
• BAYWATCH
• BEYOND THE GREAT WALL
• THE BIRDS
• BLACK FRIDAY 2
• BLUE MAN GROUP 3-D
• BODY ODYSSEY 3-D: HEART
• BOOTY
• CALLEJÓN DE LOS SUEÑOS / The Alley of Dreams
• CELL WARS
• CLEO
• COLD BLOODED
• CONDITION DEAD
• CRANK 3
• DEAD BY DAWN
• DEAD STILL
• THE DIVE
• DRAGON ON!
• DRAGONS
• DUMBASS 3-D
• EVERGLADES 3-D: NATURE'S MAGICAL KINGDOM
• EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL
• FIRED
• FIREWORKS 3-D
• THE FOREVER WAR
• FRANKENWEENIE
• THE GATE: 20 YEARS LATER (formerly The Gate)
• GEORGE CLINTON'S FUNKADELIC MOTHERSHIP
• GHOST IN THE SHELL
• GINA D's PRE-SCHOOL MUSICAL (formerly Gina-D and the Transistor Sisters: In Search of the Golden Record)
• GINA D's HAPPINESS-LAND ADVENTURE
• HIDDEN UNIVERSE 3-D
• THE HOBBIT I
• THE HOBBIT II
• HOOTERS 3DD
• HORROR TOUR
• HUMPTY DUMPTY
• INTERWORLD
• IRON MAN 2
• JACK, TEXAS
• JOURNEY 3-D: MYSTERIOUS TRAVELS
• KUNG FU U
• THE LAST HEAD HUNTER
• LOCOMOTIVE
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (dimensionalized)
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (dimensionalized)
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (dimensionalized)
• LOVE LIKE BLOOD
• THE MORTICIAN
• NECRONAUTS
• OUTBACK
• OWN3D
• PAPAGIORNO LA GRAN / Papagiorno the Great
• PAPAGIORNO THE GREAT / Papagiorno la Gran
• PARADISE LOST
• PINA
• PIRANHAS (formerly Aubrey Blaze Piranhas)
• PUNK FARM
• PUPPETMASTER
• RE-ANIMATOR
• SANCTUM
• THE STEWARDESSES (remake)
• SURFARI
• TERROR IN PARADISE
• THOROUGHBRED: THE RARIFIED ROAD TO THE DUBAI WORLD CUP
• THRILLER
• TRUCKERS
• SUPER SECRET GHOST PROJECT
• THE USHERS





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1.8 DAYS*
USA - 2009 - feature - col
D: Chuck Fallaw
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
2.39:1
[Action-horror in which various criminals, all intent on killing each other for a number of reasons, are forced to band together when they find themselves under attack by something which the filmmakers don’t want us to know about just yet...]

13 EROTIC GHOSTS
USA (V) - 2002 - 70m - col
D: Nicholas Medina [Fred Olen Ray]
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/Video
Stereo
1.78:1
[Softcore video item. Members of a reality TV show take their cameras to an abandoned school for girls, where they’re haunted by the ghosts of former students who died in tragic circumstances many years earlier. Most of the film is 2-D, except for the plentiful sex scenes, which is all the discerning voyeur could possibly ask for!]

13 GHOSTS
USA - 1960 - 88m - bw and col
D: William Castle
[Presented in Illusion-O, sometimes credited as a 3-D process, though the format involves nothing more than glasses with colored filters, through which patrons can view ghostly figures on-screen at strategic points in the narrative]

13 GOLDEN NUNS
[Shi Shan Nu Ni]
(aka: Revenge of the Shogun Women)
(aka: Revenge of the 13)
(aka: Shogun Women)
Taiwan - 1977 - 98m - col
D: Chang Mei-chung
Optimax III
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[18th century China: After being assaulted and raped by opportunistic bandits, a group of nuns retreat to an isolated convent where they study various martial arts techniques before taking revenge on their erstwhile persecutors]

13 NUNS
[see: 13 Golden Nuns]

THE 3-D ARMY
[Li Ti Qi Bing]
Taiwan - 1989 - 90m - col
D: Chan Jun-leung
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Period martial arts drama, set during the annual Flower Ball Celebration in Canton province, China. Junior members of opposing teams use underhand tactics to win the tournament, leading to conflict and assorted punch-ups]

THE 3-D FOLLIES
USA - 1953 - feature - col
[This compilation feature began filming in dual-35mm Stereo-Cine, though production appears to have been abandoned before completion. One of the segments intended for inclusion was later released under the title Carmenesque (qv); Other segments included Fun in the Sun (directed by William Cameron Menzies) and Acrobatiks]

3-DIMENSION
USA - 1953 - 47m - col and bw
D: Raymond Spottiswoode
Stereo Techniques
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Compilation of 3-D short films: Around is Around, The Black Swan, Royal River (original title The Distant Thames), Now is the Time (To Put on Your Glasses), A Solid Explanation and Vintage ’28 (all qv). The 3-D format was promoted - erroneously - as ‘Tri-Optican’]

3 DIMENSIONS OF GRETA
(see: Four Dimensions of Greta)

3-D JAMBOREE
USA (SV) - 1956 - 26m - col
D: William Beaudine
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Compilation film, introduced by the world-famous Mouseketeers. Intended as a special Disneyland attraction, it opened at the Fantasyland Theatre in 1957, where it ran for three years. Includes the short films Adventures in Music: Melody and Working for Peanuts (both qv)]

3-D MANIA*
France - 1982 - 30m - col
[Technical details for this obscure hardcore short have yet to be determined]

3-D MANIA: ENCOUNTER IN THE THIRD DIMENSION
(see: Encounter in the Third Dimension)

THE 3-D MOVIE
USA/Japan - 1983 - col and bw
[Leonard Schrader’s ambitious documentary was planned as a wide-ranging exploration of 3-D cinema, from turn of the 20th century experiments to the latest dimensional technology, but funding fell through and the project was abandoned before completion]

THE III-D OLYMPIAD
USA - 1986 - 6m - col
D: Alan D. Williams
Elgeet Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
0.67:1
[Amateur film, produced by the Stereo Club of Southern California, which spoofs various Olympic sports events. Commercially exhibited in some professional venues]

3-D ROCKS*
USA - 2005 - 90m - col and bw
D: Chris Columbus
Dual-HD Video
[Documentary feature, covering the 2004 International Underground Garage Festival on Randall Island, New York. This doesn’t appear to have been released anywhere, and may not have been completed]

3-D SAFARI*
France (SV) - 1991 - 22m - col
D: Marc Sator
Verifilm 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1?
[A young man (Johan Rougeul) realises a long-standing ambition to study lions at a Kenyan nature reserve. Special venue item, screened at Futuroscope in France]

3D SUN
USA - 2007 - 20m - col
D: Melissa Butts, Barry Kimm
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D and dual-1570 (IMAX) release prints
5.1 Digital Sound (Digital) / Sonics-DDP (IMAX)
1.85:1 (Digital 3-D)
1.44:1 (IMAX)
[Large Format documentary, incorporating footage taken during a historic NASA expedition in 2006 to photograph the very first stereoscopic images of the sun]

6 GIRLS GET THE WEEKEND UNDERWAY: A SPATIAL FILM STUDY FOR ZEISS IKON
(see: 6 Mädel Rollen ins Wochenend: Eine Raumfilm-Studie von Zeiss-Ikon)

6 MÄDEL ROLLEN INS WOCHENEND: EINE RAUMFILM-STUDIE VON ZEISS-IKON
(aka: Six Girls Drive Into the Weekend)
(aka: 6 Girls Get the Weekend Underway: A Spatial Film Study for Zeiss-Ikon)
W.Germany - 1939 - 12m - bw
D: [uncredited]
Raumfilm-System
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.37:1
[Comedy short, intended to showcase the Raumfilm-System 3-D format, in which a group of girls enjoy a camping holiday. Hold me back while I just die of excitement...]

7 DOORS OF DEATH
(see: Aldilà, L’)

99 DONNE
(see: 99 Mujeres)

99 MUJERES
(aka: 99 Donne)
(aka: 99 Women)
(aka: Der Heiße Tod)
(aka: The Hot Death)
(aka: Island of Despair)
(aka: Isle of Lost Women)
(aka: Prostitutes in Prison)
Spain/W.Germany/Italy - 1968 - 89m - col
D: Jesùs Franco
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D movie, though this grim Women-in-Prison shocker wasn’t photographed or exhibited in a dimensional process. At the time of its original UK release, ‘Monthly Film Bulletin’ magazine alleged it was shot in Superscope, though subsequent DVD versions were correctly framed at 1.66:1]

99 WOMEN
(see: 99 Mujeres)



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AABRA KA DABRA: THE SCHOOL OF MAGIC
India - 2004 - 128m - col
D: Dheeraj Kumar
HD Widescreen
3D Plus
Single-strip/HD Video
Anaglyphic camera attachment
Dolby Digital/DTS
2.35:1
[Children’s film, inspired by the Harry Potter series. A young boy (Athit Naik) enrols at a school of wizardry in order to find his father (Krrishna Sonie), who ‘disappeared’ whilst performing an extraordinary magic trick. The first - and, to date, only - film to utilize the 3D Plus process. The film’s title is rendered ‘Abbra Ka Dabra’ in some sources]

ABBRA KA DABRA
[see: Aabra Ka Dabra: The School of Magic]

ABNORMAL SEX CRIMES
(see: Kyôfu no Sadi Suto: Ijô Sei Hanzai)

ABOUT SIBERIA WITH LOVE
(see: Sibiru s Lyubovyu, O)

ABOUT STRANGE THINGS CONCERNING LOVE
(see: Strannostyakh Lyubvi, O)

ABRA CADABRA
Australia - 1984 - 84m - col
D: Alex Stitt
Triangle 3-D
Single-strip/35mm
Anaglyphic camera attachment
Dolby Stereo
2.35:1
[Animated children’s film, set in outer space, in which the son of an intergalactic wizard battles villains who have stolen a magical artefact. Loosely based on ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’]

ABRAHAM LINCOLN
USA - 1930 - 97m - bw
D: D.W. Griffith
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

ACROBATIKS
(see: 3-D Follies, The)

ACROBAT’S EXAMINATION
(see: Artista Vizska)

ACROSS THE EMPTY QUARTER*
USA - 2010? - 50m - col
Dual-HD Video
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format drama, in which a 13 year old boy comes of age whilst crossing the Empty Quarter in the Arabian Desert]

ACROSS THE SEA OF TIME
USA/Canada - 1995 - 52m - col
D: Stephen Low
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Dual-1570 and -870 release prints
IMAX Digital Sound
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
[A young Russian boy (Peter Reznick) travels to New York in search of absent relatives, using old 3-D photographs of the bustling metropolis as a guide. A Large Format exploration of one of the world’s most vibrant cities]

ADAM AND SIX EVES
USA - 1960 - 60m - col
D: John Wallis
Natural Vision 3-Dimension (partly)
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[Nudie item, in which an unlucky gold prospector (Randy Brent) gets lost in the desert and is rescued by six gorgeous girls. No doubt he feels a right boob. And a couple of left ones, too. The film went unreleased until 1962, when it was screened in 2-D format only]

ADOLPH ZUKOR INTRODUCES VISTAVISION
[see: Untitled Paravision Film]

ADVENTURE PLANET
(see: Alien Adventure)

ADVENTURES IN ANIMATION 3-D
(aka: Virtual Actors)
Canada - 2004 - 40m - col
D: Pierre Lachapelle
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570 and stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570 and -870 release prints
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
[An exploration of stereoscopic computer-generated imagery, attending the development of a CGI character from conception to execution. The character’s versatility is demonstrated by his involvement in a separate narrative, at which point the film segues to an earlier Large Format item, The Boxer (qv), produced in  2000]

ADVENTURES IN MUSIC: MELODY
USA - 1953 - 9m - col
D: Charles A. Nichols, Ward Kimball
Disney 3-D
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Dual-35mm release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Animated short, first in the Adventures of Music series, in which Professor Owl goes in search of the perfect symphonic presentation. The film was later included in the special venue item 3-D Jamboree (qv)]

ADVENTURES IN 3-D
(see: Encounter in the Third Dimension)

THE ADVENTURES OF JUSTINE
USA/France/Netherlands (TV) - 1996 - 7 episodes - col
D: David Cove, Kevin Alber, L.L. Shapira [Lev L. Spiro]
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/Video (3-D sequences)
Single-strip/16mm (2-D sequences)
Stereo
1.33:1
Softcore cable TV series, starring Daneen Boone as a teenage student who embarks on a series of archeological adventures with a handsome professor (Timothy Di Pri), leading to a variety of erotic exploits. Each episode contains a number of Pulfrich 3-D sex scenes. Later re-edited into seven feature-length entries, released separately on home video under the ‘Justine’ banner:
•  In the Heat of Passion
•  A Midsummer Night’s Dream
•  Wild Nights / Justine: Object of Desire
•  Exotic Liaisons
•  Crazy Love
•  A Private Affair
•  Justine: Seduction of Innocence / Seduction of Innocence

THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPACE
(aka: Space Attack)
USA - 1954 - 10m - col
D: Arthur C. Pierce, Paul G. Sprunk
Stereoscopic puppet animation (35mm)
Dual-35mm release print
Mono
1.85:1
[Puppet animation, set in the far-distant future of 2001 (!), when all that stands between Earth and a gang of intergalactic pirates is a kindly professor and his two young companions! Voices are provided by the inimitable Paul Frees. The film went unreleased until 1960 when it was converted to widescreen format (2.35:1) via the Superscope 235 process and retitled Space Attack (it went out as support for the 3-D feature September Storm, qv). The original version - with correct 1.85:1 aspect ratio - doesn’t appear to have been screened anywhere until 2003, when a dual-35mm print unspooled at the World 3-D Expo in Hollywood, California. The 3-D format was promoted on 1960 ad-mats as ‘Stereo-Vision’]

THE ADVENTURES OF SHARKBOY AND LAVAGIRL
USA - 2005 - 93m - col
D: Robert Rodriguez
Reality Camera System (partly)
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) and SAFE 3-D (35mm and D-Cinema) release prints
Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS
1.85:1
[Bullied by unsympathetic classmates, a young boy (Cayden Boyd) finds solace by retreating into an imaginary world. But fantasy becomes reality when two of Boyd’s creations - Sharkboy (Taylor Lautner) and Lavagirl (Taylor Dooley) - materialize on Earth and recruit him in the ongoing battle against an alien enemy which is consuming the boy’s beloved dreamworld. Most theatrical prints (35mm and D-Cinema) were released in the SAFE 3-D (anaglyphic) format, though a Digital 3-D print was utilized for the film’s Texas premiere]

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: SECRET OF THE UNICORN*
USA/New Zealand/Belgium - 2009 - feature - col
D: Steven Spielberg
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[The first of three ‘motion capture’ 3-D films based on the famous Belgian comic-strip character]

AELITA
Russia - 1924 - 110m - bw
D: Yakov Protazanov
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

AFRICAN ADVENTURE 3-D: SAFARI IN THE OKAVANGO
USA - 2007 - 40m - col
D: Ben Stassen
nWave 3-D
Dual-1570
Dual-1570, -870 and Digital 3-D release prints
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
[Large Format documentary. Zoologist Liesl Eichenberger and wildlife filmmaker Tim Liversedge explore the length and breadth of the Okavango Delta, from Angola to the Kalahari Desert]

LES AILES DU COURAGE
(see: Wings of Courage)

AIR JUNCTION
UK - 1953 - 4m - bw
D: Leonard Reeve
Stereo Techniques
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary exploration of a London airport]

AKAKAGE: 3-D ADVENTURE MOVIE
(see: Tobidasu Bôken Eiga: Akakage)

EL ALCANCE DE LA MANO
(see: Festival de la Tercera Dimensión, El)

L’ALDILÀ
(aka: The Beyond)
(aka: 7 Doors of Death)
Italy - 1981 - 87m - col
D: Louis Fuller [Lucio Fulci]
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D (Techniscope), but reconfigured on US DVD in field sequential format, under the title 7 Doors of Death. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

ALEKO
(aka: Gypsies)
USSR - 1948 - 61m - col
D: Grigori Roshal, Sergei Sidelyov
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Melodrama based on Rachmaninov’s opera, in which a haughty nobleman surrenders himself to the love of a wild gypsy woman, only to suffer the consequences of his greed and arrogance]

ALICE IN WONDERLAND*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Tim Burton
Spherical/35mm and CGI animation
Dimensionalized 3-D (partly)
Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) and dual-1570 (IMAX) release prints
[New version of Lewis Carroll’s much-loved story, apparently shot in 2-D using a combination of live-action and ‘motion-capture’ techniques first used on The Polar Express and Beowulf (both qv), before huge stretches of the film were rendered in stereoscopic format during post-production]

ALIEN ADVENTURE
USA/Belgium - 1999 - 37m - col
D: Ben Stassen
Iwerks 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570 and -870 release prints
Iwerks Digital Audio
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
Compilation of CGI (dimensionalized) theme park ride films with newly-created linking footage:
•  Adventure Planet (USA/Belg - 1999)
•  Aquadventure (USA - 1999)
•  Glacier Run/ Arctic Adventure (USA/Belg - 1998)
•  Kid Coaster (USA - 1998)
•  Magic Carpet Ride (USA - 1999)

ALIENS OF THE DEEP
USA - 2005 - 47m/99m - col
D: James Cameron, Steven Quale
Reality Camera System
Dual-HD Video
Dual-70mm (1570 and 870) and single-strip/anaglyphic (35mm and D-Cinema) release prints
Sonics-DDP / DTS-70 (70mm)
Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS (35mm and D-Cinema)
1.78:1
[Filmmaker James Cameron explores the strange life-forms of the Mid-Ocean Ridge, while CGI is used to portray the kind of creatures which may exist in other oceans, on planets beyond our own. An extended edition was subsequently released on home video]

ÁLLATKERTI SÉTA
(aka: Walk in the Zoo)
(aka: A Walk in the Zoological Garden)
Hungary - 1952 - 14m - col
D: Félix Bodrossy, József Gyorffy
Plasztikus Film
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Stereo
2.00:1
[Two children marvel at the animals in their local zoo. See also Artista Vizska (qv)]

V ALLEYAKH PARKA
(aka: Pathways in the Park)
USSR - 1952 - 9m - col
D: Andrei G. Boltyanskiy
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short, exploring the sights and sounds of Moscow’s Luna Park]

ALPHA AND OMEGA*
USA/India - 2010 - feature - col
D: Anthony Bell, Ben Gluck
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated feature with the voices of Christina Ricci, Justin Long and Dennis Hopper, amongst others, in which two bickering wolves must set aside their differences after they’re captured by hunters and taken thousands of miles from their homeland]

AMATEUR PORN STAR KILLER: INSIDE THE HEAD*
USA (V) - 2008 - 82m - col
D: Shane Ryan
Single-strip/anaglyph release print
1.78:1
[3-D parody of Shane Ryan’s Amateur Porn Star Killer trilogy (initiated in 2007), mock-documentaries which record the torture and killing of various starlets by a deranged killer, played by Ryan himself]

AMERICAN BEAUTIES
USA - 1953 - 8m - bw
D: [uncredited]
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Shot on the same set as Persian Slave Market (qv), this burlesque short features a scantily-clad beauty fencing with her lecherous tutor]

AMERICAN LIFE*
USA - 1953 - short - col
D: Ernst Wildi
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
0.67:1
[Documentary exploring various all-American pastimes, such as baseball and beach sports, with an emphasis on ‘off-screen’ effects. The film was later included in the compilation short Triorama (qv)]

L’AMI DE MONSIEUR
(aka: The Gentleman’s Friend)
France - 1935 - 32m - bw
D: Pierre de Cuvier
Stéréoscopic Lumière
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.37:1
[Comedy short, designed to showcase Louis Lumière’s short-lived 3-D process]

AMITYVILLE 3-D
(aka: Amityville 3 - The Demon)
USA - 1983 - 93m - col
D: Richard Fleischer
ArriVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Dolby Stereo
2.35:1
[A skeptical journalist (Tony Roberts) takes up residence in the infamous ‘haunted house’ at Amityville, only to stir up a hornets’ nest of supernatural horrors. Not a sequel to either The Amityville Horror (1979) or Amityville II: The Possession (1982), this superior shocker features a fair combination of plot and 3-D effects, with excellent use of ‘off-screen’ gags. Director Richard Fleischer also directed Arena (qv) in 1953, making him the only director to helm a stereoscopic film during both major 3-D booms of the 20th century. Followed by a number of DTV sequels, none of which were in 3-D, more’s the pity]

AMITYVILLE 3 - THE DEMON
(see: Amityville 3-D)

AMONGST THE WILD ANIMALS
(see: Sredi Sverei)

AMOR, AMORES*
(aka: Love, Loves)
Spain - 2002 - 6m - col
D: Pedro Prada Blanco
Dual-HD Video / Stereoscopic CGI animation
1.78:1
[Two mosquitoes fall in love in this jolly short film, a combination of live-action and CGI 3-D]

ANAL AUDITIONS
USA (V) - 1995 - 88m - col
D: Michael Talon
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX video feature. Various young lovelies with a penchant for rear-entry sex are invited onto the casting couch, where eager studs fulfil their carnal desires. A profound meditation on the rigours of human existence? Or a jaw-dropping celebration of man-on-woman posterior-pounding? You be the judge!]

ANDY WARHOL’S FRANKENSTEIN
[see: Mostro è in Tavola... Barone Frankenstein, Il]

ANIMAL INSTINCTS
Australia - 2007/2008 - 5m - col
D: Cameron Edser, Michael Richards
Puppet animation (digital still photography)
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-video, single-strip/side by side (HD and SD video) release prints
Stereo
1.78:1
[Puppet animation, originally released in 2-D and ‘dimensionalized’ in 2008 for stereoscopic presentations. A cow and a sheep battle for supremacy within their farmyard environment]

ANIMALOPOLIS
USA (SV) - 2008/2009 - 32m - col
D: Tim Huntley
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format item for children, employing editing techniques and sound effects to transform footage of individual animals (twelve in all) into a humorous collage. The film was released in 2-D in 2008, then ‘dimensionalized’ for 3-D release in 2009]

ANIMAL PLAY
(see: Igry Zhivotnykh)

ANIMALVISION 3-D
(see: SOS Planet)

ANIME BIJON (Vol. 7)*
(aka: Anime Vision [Vol. 7])
Japan (V) - 1987 - short - col
D: [various]
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm) (partly)
Single-strip/field sequential video print
1.33:1
[Compilation of anime shorts, most in 2-D, except for the field sequential entry Kasei no Senshi: Taiyô no Kiba Daguramu (qv)]

ANIME VISION (Vol. 7)
(see: Anime Bijon [Vol. 7])

ANÎ NO 3-D ADOBENCHÂ: FUN FUN FUN*
(aka: Daydream)
(aka: Fun Fun Fun 3-D Adventure)
Japan - 1987 - 28m - col
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Stereo
2.35:1
[Live-action short, following the adventures of a little girl during her visit to an amusement park. The film was retitled Daydream for its US video debut, where it was featured in the compilation item World of 3-D Vol. 3 (1990)]

ANNAI BHOOMI*
India - 1985 - feature - col
D: R. Thyagaraajan
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Notable as the first Tamil language 3-D movie, one of several stereoscopic features produced in India during the mid-1980’s]

THE ANT BULLY
USA - 2006 - 89m - col
D: John A. Davis
IMAX DMR 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.85:1
[A young boy falls victim to school bullies and takes out his frustrations on a defenceless ant colony. However, the insects fight back by shrinking him down to their size and forcing him to help rebuild their world, teaching him valuable life lessons along the way. The film was released too early to capitalize on the 21st century craze for stereoscopic digital projection, so only the IMAX version was screened theatrically in 3-D. The 35mm and D-Cinema editions were configured in 2-D format with Dolby Digital, DTS and SDDS soundtracks]

APE
(aka: Hideous Mutant)
(aka: King Kongui Daeyeokseub)
USA/S.Korea - 1976 - 87m - col
D: Paul Leder
Spacevision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Dragged from its island paradise by greedy humans, a giant ape escapes from captivity and rampages through the Korean city of Seoul, taking an American actress (Joanna Kerns, billed as ‘Joanna DeVarona’) hostage along the way. King Kong, anyone? Though released domestically with a mono soundtrack, some foreign prints were enhanced via MegaSound encoding, an ultra-low-frequency bass rumble similar to the Sensurround format designed by Universal for Earthquake (1974)]

APE: BIG FAT MOVIE SHOW*
USA (V) - 2007 - 87m - col
Field sequential (partly)
Mono
1.33:1
[2-D version of the film APE (qv), intercut with 3-D footage involving a puppet duo who comment on the action]

APT. 51: DEVIL BAT*
USA (V) - 2004 - 35m - col and bw
Field sequential
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[Condensed version of the 2-D feature film The Devil Bat (1941), with interactive 3-D footage of characters commenting on the narrative]

APT. 51: ROBOT MONSTER*
USA (V) - 2004 - 50m - col and bw
Field sequential
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[Condensed version of Robot Monster (qv), with interactive 3-D footage of characters commenting on the narrative. Though originally photographed in dual-35mm Tru-Stereo, the footage from Robot Monster used here is in 2-D]

AQUADVENTURE
(see: Alien Adventure)

AQUARIDE
(see: Alien Adventure)

THE ARAB CONNECTION
(see: Capital Hill Girls, The)

ARABIA 3-D
USA - 2010 - 40m - col
D: Greg MacGillivray
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary which follows a young film student (Hamzah Jamjoom) as he attempts to photograph the beauty and wonder of the Arabian world]

ARCTIC ADVENTURE
[see: Alien Adventure]

ARCTIC ODYSSEY: JOURNEY TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD*
Canada - 2010 - short? - col
D: David Lickley
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format film which explores the vast beauty of the Arctic landscape and the effects of global warming on the area’s wildlife and geology]

ARENA
USA - 1953 - 83m - col
D: Richard Fleischer
Metrovision Tri-Dee
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Gig Young toplines this middling drama as a rodeo rider whose marriage to Polly Bergen is threatened by his devotion to the sport, not to mention his devotion to busty (it says here) Barbara Lawrence. Cue barrage of off-screen effects! Though photographed with 1.37:1 aspect ratio in mind, the film was exhibited at 1.75:1 in some venues]

AROUND AND ABOUT
UK - 1952 - 10m - bw
D: Danny Carter
Stereo Techniques
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short in which a dance troupe puts on a show]

AROUND IS AROUND
Canada/UK - 1951 - 10m - col
D: Norman MacLaren
Stereo Techniques
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Dual-35mm release print
Stereosound
1.37:1
[Cartoon short, featuring abstract imagery in stereoscopic motion. Later incorporated into the compilation item 3-Dimension (qv)]

AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 YEARS*
USA/Belgium - 2009 - feature? - col
D: Ben Stassen
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570 and Digital 3-D release print
1.44:1 (1570)
1.85:1 (D-Cinema)
[Large Format item which follows the life of a sea turtle from 1959 to the present day, bearing witness to a series of environmental changes wrought by global warming]

THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT
(see: Arrivée d’un Train en Gare de la Ciotat, L’)

L’ARRIVÉE D’UN TRAIN EN GARE DE LA CIOTAT
(aka: The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat)
France - 1934 - 1m - bw
D: Louis Lumière
Stéréoscopic Lumière
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.33:1
[First screened at the French Académie des Sciences in 1935. This test film - the first to utilize Lumière’s 3-D format - is a remake of the 1896 2-D original, and shows a train pulling into the eponymous rail station. Er, not a blockbuster, then?]

ARTISTA VIZSKA
(aka: Acrobat’s Examination)
Hungary - 1952 - 41m - bw
D: Félix Bodrossy
Plasztikus Film
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Stereo
2.00:1
[A circus performance in glorious 3-D! This was one of the first films in Bodrossy’s forward-thinking Plasztikus format, developed years before the introduction of over-under 3-D in America (cf. The Bubble). It opened in Budapest in 1952, on the same bill with two other short films, also shot by Bodrossy: Állatkerti Séta and the newsreel Stereo Hiradó Egy (both qv)]

THE ART OF TOUCH II: A TAOIST EROTIC MASSAGE
(see: Sexual Feeling)

ASS BUSTERS
USA (V) - 1995 - 87m - col
D: Michael Talon
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX video feature, in which director Talon takes his cameras onto the streets of Hollywood, looking for gorgeous girls who like to, er... take it up the rear (there goes our ‘family friendly’ tag!). What can I tell you? They make the movies, I just write about ‘em!]

ASSIGNMENT A-BOMB
(see: Doom Town)

ASS POPPERS
USA (V) - 1995 - 80m - col
D: Michael Talon
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX video feature, with an emphasis on rear-entry sex. Several young beauties are filmed whilst auditioning for a role in the director’s latest movie and end up ‘getting it on’ (as they say), not only with the guys, but with the gals, too! Honestly, how anyone is supposed to watch this stuff through steamed-up 3-D glasses is beyond me!]

ASYLUM OF THE INSANE
USA - 1972 - 90m - col
D: Donald E. Davidson [and Byron Mabe]
HorrorScope (partly)
Single-strip/35mm
Anaglyphic camera attachment
Mono
1.85:1
[Re-edited version of Byron Mabe’s 2-D feature She Freak (1967), with newly-created 3-D footage (promoted in some sources as ‘MiracleVision’ - it was a miracle if viewers could see any depth at all!). Basically an exploitation remake of Freaks (1932), this grimy little number features Claire Brennen as a greasy-spoon waitress who escapes her humdrum existence by joining a travelling carnival. However, she doesn’t take kindly to the so-called ‘freaks’ and ‘oddities’ who make up its numbers, leading to a grotesque resolution. The 3-D inserts have literally nothing to do with the rest of the movie! The film’s title is often given as an AKA for another 3-D feature, The Flesh and Blood Show (qv), thereby confusing the two films as a single production in many listings. However, TFABS doesn’t appear to have been screened anywhere under this particular title. See also Monsters Crash the Pajama Party: Spook Show Spectacular]

AUDIOSCOPIKS
USA - 1936 - 8m - col
D: John A. Norling
Norling-Leventhal 3-Dimensions (partly)
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.33:1
[Demonstration of ‘off-the-screen’ effects, compiled from footage shot by 3-D pioneers John A. Norling and Jacob F. Leventhal, and narrated with tongue firmly in cheek by novelty specialist Pete Smith. The film was later included in the compilation item Metroscopix (qv)]

AVATAR*
USA - 2009 - feature - col
D: James Cameron
Fusion 3-D
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) and dual-1570 (IMAX) release prints
Sonics-DDP (IMAX)
1.85:1
[Blockbuster science fiction adventure, set in the distant future, in which humankind attempts to colonize an alien planet, only to face violent opposition from some of the indigenous population. The film's primary aspect ratio is 1.85:1, though a 2.39:1 version was also prepared for 2-D (and some 3-D) prints]

AWAKENING FROM A DREAM
[Mi Meng Chu Xing]
China - 1987 - 70m - col
D: Zhang Shichun, Zhang Zucheng
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[In rural China, a greedy entrepeneur stirs up feudal rivalry and ancient superstitions with the stories he prints in his grubby newspaper. Any resemblance to the life and works of a certain Mr. Murdoch are entirely unintentional, I’m sure...]



B


BABY ANIMALS
(see: Igry Zhivotnykh)

BAD LOLITA
(see: Black Lolita)

BAIKAL, OH THE BEAUTY
(see: Baykal, Krasota to Kakaya)

BAILE ESPAÑOL
(see: Festival de la Tercera Dimensión, El)

BANDIT ISLAND
USA - 1953 - 25m - bw
D: Arthur Hilton
Stereovision
Dual-35mm
Dual-35mm and single-strip/anaglyphic release prints
Mono
1.37:1
[Crime drama, in which a Korean war veteran (Glenn Langan) returns home to LA and becomes a beat cop, only to fall foul of payroll thieves. This short item is comprised of stereoscopic footage shot for the otherwise 2-D feature The Big Chase (qv). Apparently, the short version was released first, to capitalize on contemporary interest in 3-D material, followed a year later by its ‘flat’ feature-length counterpart]

A BANDY-LEGGED FRIEND
(see: Kosolapiy Drug)

BARBIE AND THE MAGIC OF PEGASUS
USA (V) - 2005 - 85m - col
D: Greg Richardson
Stereoscopic CGI animation (partly)
Single-strip/anaglyphic video print
Dolby Digital
1.78:1
[One of a series of animated DTV films featuring the Barbie character, this one distinguished (if that’s the word) by a number of 3-D interludes. Here, our heroine ‘portrays’ a beautiful princess who teams up with a magical horse to defeat the wizard who has enslaved her entire family. Aww, bless]

BARE 3-D*
USA (V) - 19?? - 4 volumes - col
D: [various]
Field sequential
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[Series of videos featuring 3-D ‘nudie’ footage from around the world]

BARGE DWELLERS
(aka: Uncle Bill and the Dredge Dwellers)
USA - 1978 - 25m - col
D: Lenny Lipton
Lipton Three-Dimensional Filmmaking System
Dual-Super 8
Mono
1.37:1
[Amateur documentary, commercially exhibited in some professional venues, which explores daily life in Dredgetown, California. No, I’ve never heard of it, either...]

BAR STUDS*
USA (V) - 1995 - feature - col
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX gay feature. A series of vignettes set around a surprisingly open-minded bar, where lonely staff-members and hunky customers relieve their frustrations by banging each other’s brains out. Not so lonely now, eh?]

BASTARD VEGA: THE GOLD OF HANZ HAGEN
(see: Hágenovo Zlato 3-D)

BATTLE FOR TERRA
USA - 2009 - 85m - col
D: Aristomenis Tsirbas
Digital Widescreen
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
2.39:1
[Animated sci-fi adventure, in which a peaceful alien planet is ‘invaded’ by ruthless humans seeking a new home after exhausting Earth’s resources. Featuring the voices of Evan Rachel Wood, Brian Cox, James Garner, Chris Evans, Danny Glover, Justin Long, Luke Wilson and Dennis Quaid, amongst many others]

A BATTLE IN AN OLD CITY*
[Zhan Gu Cheng]
Hong Kong - 1953 - short - col
D: Ho Pik-kin, Tsang Mung-wan
Zhongguo 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Cantonese opera. Notable as Hong Kong’s first 3-D short film]

BAYKAL, KRASOTA TO KAKAYA
(aka: Baikal, Oh the Beauty)
USSR - 1982 - 38m - col
D: Eugeniy Legat
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[70mm documentary exploring the history and wildlife of beautiful Lake Baikal, located in the Siberian heartland]

THE BEAR AND THE BOW*
USA - 2011 - feature - col
D: Brenda Chapman
Disney Digital 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated fantasy. The headstrong princess of an ancient Scottish kingdom takes a stand against dark forces which imperil her beloved homeland]

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST*
USA - 1991/2010 - 85m - col
D: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Spherical/35mm
Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
1.85:1
[Disney’s animated feature, a retelling of the classic fairytale, was originally released in 2-D format (standard 35mm, 70mm blow-up and extended IMAX print), though the film will be ‘dimensionalized’ for stereoscopic presentations in 2010]

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST*
USA - 2011 - short - col
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary, exploring the world of the whale shark]

BEAUTY GIRLS
(see: Supergirls for Love)

BEAUTY TO MEASURE
[see: Femmina]

BEDROOM CRIES*
USA (V) - 1995 - feature - col
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX video feature. Plotless romp set in a strip club where some of the dancers and clientele decide to get to know each other better. Cue the usual minge-munching and knob-twiddling]

BEGGAR’S WEDDING
(see: Nozze Vagabonde)

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
(see: Capital Hill Girls, The)

BELLA STARR
[see: In the Dressing Room of Bella Starr]

BELLA SU MISURA
[see: Femmina]

THE BELLBOY AND THE PLAYGIRLS
(aka: The Playgirls and the Bellboy)
USA/W.Germany - 1962 - 84m - bw and col
D: Francis Ford Coppola [and Fritz Umgelter and Alexander Rabal]
Optovision (partly)
Dual-16mm
Single-strip/35mm release print
Left-right images side by side
Mono
1.66:1
[Re-edited US version of the 2-D feature Mit Eva Fing die Sünde an (1958), with new footage shot in 3-D by future Hollywood big shot Coppola. A naive bellboy dreams of becoming a private eye and practices by spying on ‘suspicious’ characters in the hotel where he works, especially the beautiful young women (representatives of a famous lingerie firm) who parade around their rooms in various states of undress. Guess which scenes are in 3-D?! Also screened in single-strip/anaglyphic format]

BELLS
(see: Kolokola)

BELYJ  PUDEL
(aka: The White Poodle)
USSR - 1955 - 70m - col
D: Marianna Roshal, Vladimir Shredel
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Children’s feature, in which travelling entertainers rescue their beloved poodle from a heartless thief]

BEOWULF
USA - 2007 - 114m - col
D: Robert Zemeckis
Digital Widescreen
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) and dual-1570 (IMAX) release print
Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS (D-Cinema)
Sonics-DDP (IMAX)
2.39:1
[In ancient times, a brave warrior (Ray Winstone) slays the demon Grendel, only to face the wrath of its seductive, deadly mother (Angelina Jolie). Combination of live-action and CGI, using ‘motion capture’ techniques first pioneered in The Polar Express (qv). The 35mm version was released in 2-D]

BERMUDA: ISLAND OF DREAMS*
USA - 1953 - short - col
D: Ernst Wildi
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
0.67:1
[Promotional short, produced on behalf of the Bermuda Tourist Board]

THE BEST LITTLE HOUSE ON CAPITOL HILL
(see: Capital Hill Girls, The)

THE BEST OF CITY GIRLS*
USA (V) - 2003 - 115m - col
Field sequential
Single-strip/Video
Stereo
1.33:1
[Nudie item, in which six beautiful girls (from six beautiful cities) pose in six beautiful swimming costumes before stripping down to the bare essentials (ie. naked). Honestly, who needs Gone With the Wind when there’s stuff like this on the video shelves?...]

BEST OF ELECTRIC BLUE: SPECIAL 3-D CENTREFOLD
[see: Electric Blue 008]

A BETTER MOUSETRAP
(aka: Mousetrapped)
USA - 1997/2004 - 1m - col
D: Ron Labbe
CGI animation
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-1570 (IMAX) release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format animation which visualizes the world from a mouse’s point of view. The film was produced in 1997 (in 2-D) under the title Mousetrapped and reworked for IMAX 3-D presentation in 2004]

THE BEYOND
(see: Aldilà, L’)

THE BIG CHASE
USA - 1954 - 60m - bw
D: Arthur Hilton
[Crime drama. The climactic chase sequence was shot in dual-35mm Stereovision, with a view to releasing that section as a separate item (see Bandit Island), though the feature-length version was released in 2-D format only]

BIZARRE NIGHT STORY OF SEXUAL DESIRE
(see: Ryôki Shikijô Yawa)

BLACK BEAUTIES*
USA (V) - 19?? - 2 volumes - col
D: [various]
Field sequential
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[X-rated compilation of 3-D sauciness, with an emphasis on ethnic beauty. No plot, just boobs]

BLACK FRIDAY*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Ethan Terra
Dual-HD Video (partly)
Digital 3-D release print
[Horror-thriller with a 3-D climax. A group of teens hike into the woods searching for the maniac who attacked their friends, only to stumble on a remote lodge where they’re hunted by psychopath Tyler Hillburg (Kane Hodder)> Director Terra plans to shoot a sequel back-to-back with the first film]

BLACK GLOVES*
[Hei Shou Tao]
Hong Kong - 1953 - feature - bw
D: Wong Diu
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Early Shaw Brothers production (their first in 3-D), in which a young bride (Lucilla Yu Ming) is conned by her greedy husband (Zhang Yang), who plots to murder her father and claim the family fortune]

BLACK LOLITA
(aka: Bad Lolita)
(aka: Wildcat Women)
USA - 1974 - 85m - col
Stephen Gibson
DeepVision
Single-strip/35mm
Anaglyphic camera attachment
Mono
1.37:1
[Combination of nudie fluff and blaxploitation epic, in which a gang of gorgeous (aren’t they always?) girls take a stand against local gangsters]

THE BLACK SWAN
UK - 1952 - 13m - bw
D: Leonard Reeve
Stereo Techniques
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Ballet performance. The film was later included in the compilation short 3-Dimension (qv)]

BLOND EMMANUELLE IN 3-D
(see: Hot Skin)

THE BLONDE SLAVE’S REVENGE
USA - 1953 - 4m - bw
D: Klaytan W. Kirby
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Obscure burlesque short, one of several released in the early 1950’s, featuring tame footage of contemporary strippers]

BLOOD GRUDGE
(see: Jorng Wien)

BLOOD SISTERS
USA (V) - 2003 - 80m - col
D: Joe Castro
Nu-View (partly)
Single-strip/Video
Field sequential
Mono
1.33:1
[Ultra low-budget video item, in which a bunch of sexy sorority sisters turn out to be (gasp!) blood-sucking vampires. Timid stuff, with 3-D inserts]

THE BLOODY RAGE OF BIGFOOT
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: James Baack
Digital 3-D release print
1.85:1
[Exploitation ahoy! A rabid Bigfoot massacres some Ku Klux Klan lowlifes before confronting a monstrous demon raised by a bunch of clueless Goth girls!]

BLOODY TEASE
USA (V) - 2002 - 80m - col
D: Brad Sykes
Nu-View
Single-strip/Video
Field sequential
Mono
1.33:1
[Two horny college students (Dan Wells and Steve Beaumont Jones) stumble across a fabulous strip club where the girls turn out to be, er... vampires. Not quite so ‘fabulous’ after all, then! Amateurish stuff, shot on video, from the same stable as Camp Blood (qv) et al, so you know what to expect]

BLUE BEARD
(see: Sinyaya Boroda)

BLUE MAGIC
(see: Ocean Wonderland)

BOLT
USA - 2008 - 103m - col
D: Chris Williams, Byron Howard
Disney Digital 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital Surround EX / DTS-ES / SDDS
1.85:1
[Animated feature. A pampered pooch, famous for his heroism in a weekly TV show, is accidentally shipped from Hollywood to New York and is forced to confront everyday reality whilst struggling to find his way home]

BOO MOON
USA - 1954 - 8m - col
D: Seymour Kneitel
Stereotoon
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Dual-35mm release print
Mono
1.85:1
[Animated short. Casper the Friendly Ghost travels to the moon and helps the resident Moon Men fight off an army of invading tree monsters]

BOUDOIR BABE
USA (V) - 1995 - 85m - col
D: Michael Talon
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX video feature. Smut starlet Amber Woods takes on all-comers (ahem!) in this plotless raunch-fest]

THE BOUNTY HUNTER
USA - 1954 - 79m - col
D: André de Toth
WarnerVision
Dual-video
Mono
1.85:1
[Western drama, with Randolph Scott as a bounty hunter charged with finding the merciless outlaws involved in a violent train robbery. Armed with nothing more than a vague description of those involved, he tracks them to an unwelcoming border town where danger lurks on every street corner. Originally released in 2-D format only]

THE BOXER
Canada - 2000 - 22m - col
D: Pierre Lachapelle
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570 (IMAX) release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[CGI animated short, in which a luckless boxer is tricked into sparring with a huge, formidable opponent. Later incorporated into the Large Format item Adventures in Animation 3-D (qv)]

BOY, GIRL, BOOM!
(see: Chico, Chica, ¡Boom!)

BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA
USA - 1992 - 123m - col
D: Francis Ford Coppola
[Coppola originally planned to include a number of 3-D sequences in this overwrought Gothic drama, though the idea was dropped during pre-production. Shame!]

BREAKING THROUGH*
Canada (SV) - 1993 - short - col
D: [uncredited]
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
IMAX Digital Sound
1.44:1
[Early Large Format film, produced for Expo ’93 in Taejon, S.Korea]

BREAST OF 3-D*
USA (V) - 19?? - feature? - col
Field sequential
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[Three guesses what this X-rated video compilation is all about?! Anyone who gets it wrong will feel a complete tit!!]

BROOM AND BLACK HAT
(see: Ona s Metloy, On v Chyornoy Shlyape)

BROWN SUGAR
USA (V) - 1990 - 2 x 60m - col
D: Michael Starks
Field sequential
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[Amateur X-rated video series, commercially available via Internet sources, featuring an emphasis on interracial rumpy-pumpy]

THE BUBBLE
(aka: Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth)
(aka: The Zoo)
USA - 1966 - 112m/91m - col   
D: Arch Oboler
Spacevision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[The film which introduced single-strip/over-under 3-D to American cinema with Robert Bernier’s Spacevision format (promoted here as ‘Space-Vision Tri-Optiscope 4-D’). Michael Cole and Deborah Walley play a married couple whose plane is forced down over an isolated town whose inhabitants seem strangely muted and zombified, until our heroes discover they’re trapped in an alien-controlled bubble. Originally released at 112 minutes, then re-released at 91 minutes under the title Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth]

BUGS!
UK/Canada - 2003 - 40m - col
D: Mike Slee
IMAX 3-D
Dual-870
Dual-1570 and -HD Video release prints
Sonics-DDP/DTS-70
1.44:1
[Judi Dench narrates this Large Format exploration of the world of insects. Entomophobes beware!]

BULLFIGHTING IN SPAIN
[see: Festival de la Tercera Dimensión, El]

BUNGALOW*
Japan - 1982? - feature - col
[Nothing more is known about this obscure feature, apparently shot in ‘Ultravision’. This may be the same Ultra Vision used on Magnificent Bodyguards (qv), a dual-Techniscope process configured in single-strip/over-under format for theatrical release]

THE BUTLER’S IN LOVE*
USA - 2008 - 12m - col
D: David Arquette
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
1.85:1
[Period romantic drama, based on a painting by Mark Stock, in which the butler (Thomas Jane) at a swank society bash falls in love with a beautiful partygoer (Elizabeth Berkley)]

BUTT ALLEY*
USA (V) - 1995 - feature - col
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX video feature, toplined by rampant sexpots Nicole London and Nikki Sinn, with an emphasis on the joys of rear-entry rudeness]

BUTTERSCOTCH
USA/Canada (TV) - 1997 - 7 episodes - col
D: Rolfe Kanefsky, Hamilton Lewiston, Cotte, Antonia Keeler
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/Video (3-D sequences)
Single-strip/16mm (2-D sequences)
Stereo
1.33:1
Softcore cable TV series, based on the graphic novels by Milo Manara, featuring Scott Coppola as a hapless actor exposed to a mad scientist’s ‘invisibility formula’ who uses his newfound powers to seduce women. Each episode contains several Pulfrich 3-D sequences. Later re-edited into seven feature-length entries, released separately on home video under the ‘Butterscotch’ banner:
•  Lost But Found / The Erotic Misadventures of the Invisible Man
•  Power Flower
•  Butterscotch Over Berlin
•  Butterscotch Sunday
•  I’m Not a Ghost
•  Mission Invisible
•  How Sweet It Is

BUTTERSCOTCH: HOW SWEET IT IS
[see: Butterscotch]

BUTTERSCOTCH: I’M NOT A GHOST
[see: Butterscotch]

BUTTERSCOTCH: LOST BUT FOUND
[see: Butterscotch]

BUTTERSCOTCH: MISSION INVISIBLE
[see: Butterscotch]

BUTTERSCOTCH OVER BERLIN
[see: Butterscotch]

BUTTERSCOTCH: POWER FLOWER
[see: Butterscotch]

BUTTERSCOTCH SUNDAY
[see: Butterscotch]

BWANA DEVIL
USA - 1952 - 79m - col
D: Arch Oboler
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[The film which kickstarted the 1950’s 3-D boom, trashed by critics but embraced by audiences worldwide. Robert Stack stars as chief engineer of a Kenyan railway project terrorized by man-eating lions. Nigel Bruce and Barbara Britton take up the supporting roles. Director Oboler believed 3-D represented the future of cinema, and he went on to direct other stereoscopic projects (The Bubble and Domo Arigato, both qv), though he died in 1987, before 21st century digital projection techniques began to render his dream a reality. Bwana Devil was remade (in 2-D) as The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)]

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
USA - 2007/2008 - 20m - col
D: John Faust
Super 16
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-video, single-strip/side by side (HD and SD video) release prints
Stereo
2.39:1
[Horror-thriller, originally released in 2-D and ‘dimensionalized’ in 2008 for stereoscopic presentations. A young woman (Belen Greene) is targeted by a psychopathic killer (Matt Ryan) after her car breaks down in an isolated village. But help is at hand from a decidedly unexpected source...]



C


CALL OF THE WILD
USA - 2008 - 86m - col
D: Richard Gabai
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
Stereo
1.85:1
[A modern-day interpretation of Jack London’s classic tale, featuring Christopher Lloyd as an ageing widower whose life in an isolated country home is changed forever when his feisty young granddaughter (Ariel Gade) takes charge of an injured wolf, hoping to transform the animal into a champion sled-racer]

CAMELS WEST
(see: Southwest Passage)

LA CAMERIERA SEDUCE I VILLEGGIANTI*
(aka: The Hostess)
(aka: Porno Hostess in 3-D)
Italy - 1980 - 102m - col
D: Aldo Grimaldi
[Though listed in some sources as a single-strip/over-under 3-D production (2.35:1 aspect ratio), I could find no evidence to corroborate such a finding. Online and published sources make no mention of a dimensional process, and the film appears to have been exhibited exclusively in 2-D. As such, Porno Hostess in 3-D may not be a legitimate AKA for this particular entry. In fact, there may be some confusion with Le Porno Hostess in Super 3-D, the Italian release title for the bona fide dimensional film The Stewardesses (qv)]

CAMP BLOOD
USA (V) - 1999 - 73m - col
D: Brad Sykes
Nu-View
Single-strip/Video
Field sequential
Mono
1.33:1
[Painfully amateurish stuff, shot on video. Whilst hiking in woodland near the deserted Camp Blackwood - site of an unsolved murder ten years earlier - four young city-dwellers are targeted by a masked psychopath who kills their guide (Courtney Harris) and stalks them through the woods with murderous intent. Followed by the equally dire Camp Blood 2 (qv)]

CAMP BLOOD 2
USA (V) - 2000 - 75m - col
D: Brad Sykes
Nu-View
Single-strip/Video
Field sequential
Mono
1.33:1
[The sole survivor of Camp Blood (Jennifer Ritchkoff) joins forces with a small-time filmmaker (Garrett Clancy) to make a movie about her ‘terrifying’ experiences, but the cast and crew is terrorized by yet another deranged psycho. More shot-on-video rubbish, no better than the first one - you’ve been warned!]

CAMPUS CAPERS
(see: College Capers)

CAMPUS PANTY RAIDS
(see: College Capers)

CANE TOADS 2*
Australia - 2009 - feature - col
D: Mark Lewis
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Sequel to the 2-D documentary Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988), describing the impact - ecological and otherwise - of cane toads on the Australian heartland]

CAPITAL HILL
(see: Capital Hill Girls, The)

THE CAPITAL HILL GIRLS
(aka: The Arab Connection)
(aka: Behind Closed Doors)
(aka: The Best Little House on Capitol Hill)
(aka: Capital Hill)
(aka: Political Pleasures)
USA - 1976 - 80m - col
D: William Condon
LazerVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic)
Mono
1.37:1
[X-rated comedy, using StereoVision lenses under the LazerVision tag. This one concerns a private club in Washington DC, where politicians unwind by bouncing up and down on a variety of bosomy beauties. Blackmail and ‘hilarity’ ensue]

CAPTAIN EO
USA (SV) - 1986 - 17m - col
D: Francis Ford Coppola
Disney 3-D
Dual-570
6-track Dolby Stereo
2.20:1
[One of the most expensive special venue films ever made, featuring Michael Jackson as the captain of a ramshackle spaceship which lands on a desolate planet ruled by an evil dictator (Anjelica Huston)]

CAPTAIN MILKSHAKE
USA - 1970 - 100m  - col and bw
D: Richard Crawford
Cinedepth (partly)
Dual-Techniscope/35mm
Mono
2.35:1
[Freewheeling ‘youth’ drama in which a hapless Marine (Geoff Gage) arrives home from Vietnam and becomes involved with a group of hippies who challenge his belief in the ongoing conflict. The bulk of the film was shot in black and white 2-D, with Vietnam footage in colour and 3-D, intended for single-strip/over-under theatrical presentation. However, the stereoscopic footage was printed in 2-D only, and the filmmakers were unable to strike any 3-D prints]

THE CAR AND ITS FACTORY
(see: Wagen und Sein Werk, Der)

CARMENESQUE*
USA - 1953 - short - col
D: Sol Lesser
Stereo-Cine
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Burlesque short featuring stripper Lili St. Cyr. Originally intended for inclusion in The 3-D Follies (qv), but released independently - in 2-D format only - when that film was abandoned during production]

CARNAVAL 3-D: THE MAGIC & THE MUSIC*
USA/Brazil - 2010 - feature - col
D: Brett Ratner
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Documentary feature, co-produced by music maestro Quincy Jones, which explores the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro’s annual street party]

CARNIVAL IN APRIL
USA - 1953 - 18m - bw
D: Will Cowan
Universal 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[Eddie Sammons describes this as a ‘music and specialty acts revue’, featuring Carlos Molino and His Orchestra, The Robinsons and Toni Arden]

CARNIVAL OF SOULS
USA - 1962 - 83m - bw
D: Herk Harvey
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US DVD in single-strip/anaglyphic format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

CARNIVAL STORY
W.Germany/USA - 1954 - 95m - col
D: Kurt Neumann
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn’t filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process. This is the English-language version of Rummelplatz der Liebe (qv), filmed separately from its German counterpart and featuring much the same cast, but with English-speaking leads]

THE CARRIAGE
(see: Thanga Mama)

CARSTOONS: TOKYO MATER
[see: Tokyo Mater]

CARS 2*
USA - 2011 - feature - col
D: Brad Lewis
Disney Digital 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated sequel to the original Cars (2006), following that film’s cast of much-loved (it says here) characters as they pursue new adventures, this time on a global scale!]

CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON
USA - 1954 - 64m - bw
D: Arthur Hilton
Tru-Stereo
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[Whilst exploring the dark side of the moon, a group of astronauts stumble across an ancient civilisation of leotard-wearing ‘cat-women’ who plan to steal their spaceship. Based on true events that actually happened! Can you prove they didn’t?! Infamous as one of the ‘worst’ stereoscopic movies of the 1950’s, though reports suggest it contains some pretty good 3-D photography. Oh, and Elmer Bernstein wrote the music!]

CAVALIERI DELL’ILLUSIONE
[see: Femmina]

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
(aka: Fatal Desire)
(aka: Rustic Chivalry)
Italy - 1953 - 84m - col
D: Carmine Gallone
Richardson 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Anthony Quinn stars in this overheated melodrama, an adaptation of Pietro Mascagni’s opera, in which a soldier (Quinn) returns home from the war to reclaim his former love (May Britt), only to find she’s gotten married to someone else in his absence, leading to betrayal and murder]

CEASE FIRE
USA - 1953 - 76m - bw  
D: Owen Crump
Paravision
Dual-35mm
3-track magnetic stereo
1.85:1
[As the Korean war draws to a close, an unlucky platoon goes on one final mission into enemy territory, leading to a fateful confrontation. This ambitious low-budget drama incorporates 3-D footage shot on Korean battlefields during the actual conflict itself! Gawd knows how the operators managed to set up the cameras without getting their heads blown off!]

CEREAL HEROES!*
France/Vietnam - 2010 - feature - col
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated fantasy in which a group of ‘cereal-box mascots’ are accidentally brought to life and must save the planet from a fate worse than death. Or something...]

CHAIN GANG
USA - 1983 - 93m - col
D: Worth Keeter
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Exploitation drama, featuring Earl Owensby as an innocent man thrown into a corrupt prison where he’s abused and humiliated until a riot breaks out, allowing him an opportunity to settle old scores with the villain who sent him to jail in the first place]

THE CHAMBER-MADES
(aka: Pastries)
(aka: A Touch of Sweden)
USA - 1971 - 70m - col
D: Joseph F. Robertson
Triarama
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic)
Mono
1.37:1
[Much-loved X-rated starlet Uschi Digart toplines this Adult trifle, in which she returns home to Sweden from a US vacation and recounts the erotic adventures she enjoyed during her Stateside excursion. Released in three separate versions: A softcore 3-D print entitled The Chamber-Mades, a 2-D softcore feature entitled A Taste of Sweden, and a 2-D hardcore edition entitled Pastries (though Digart is not involved in the hardcore footage)]

CHAMPAGNEGALOPP
(aka: The Groove Room)
(aka: Man With a Maid)
(aka: My Favorite Butler)
(aka: Teenage Tickle Girls)
(aka: Tickled Pink)
(aka: Victorian Passions)
(aka: What the Swedish Butler Saw)
Sweden/USA - 1973 - 92m - col
D: Vernon P. Becker
Wondavision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.66:1
[Unusual softcore farce, starring Ole Søltoft as a Victorian aristocrat who tries to impress his headstrong girlfriend (Sue Longhurst) by turning his late uncle’s estate into a secret love nest. Unfortunately, Jack the Ripper (Martin Ljung) is lurking somewhere on the premises! Diana Dors co-stars as the madame of a local brothel. The 3-D format was promoted on some advertising materials as ‘Deep Throw 3-D’]

CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD*
USA - 2011 - 45m - col
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Extreme sports documentary, presented in Large Format, ‘employing highly specialized cinematographic techniques and advanced scientific animations [to] journey through the physiological to the psychological, from the depths of personal solitude to the ecstatic arenas of team victory’]

CHARGE AT FEATHER RIVER
USA - 1953 - 96m - col
D: Gordon Douglas
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
WarnerPhonic Sound
1.37:1
[Western drama which throws everything - but everything! - into the audience’s lap. A cavalry squad travels into Cheyenne territory to rescue two white women who have been forced into slavery by dangerous Indian renegades. Guy Madison is the hero, while Vera Miles plays one of the ‘victims’, strangely unwilling to surrender the favours bestowed on her by the Cheyenne warriors. Though shot in 1.37:1 aspect ratio, the film was exhibited at 1.66:1 in some venues]

CHARMING AUGUSTINE
USA - 2006 - 40m - bw
D: Zoe Beloff
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
0.67:1
[Experimental film, based on a series of 19th century photographs. A disturbed young girl is admitted to a Parisian asylum after suffering a series of monstrous fits which manifest themselves in theatrical splendour, making her a ‘star’ amongst the inmates. Director Beloff asserts she shot the film in 3-D “to conjure up a time just prior to the invention of cinema... to suggest a different direction that cinema might have taken had it been invented in the 1880’s”]

CHEATY GHOST
[see: Phee Jao Leh]

CHELOVEK V ZELENOY PERCHATKE
(aka: Man With a Green Glove)
USSR - 1968 - 74m - col
D: Nikolai Ekk
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Circus drama in which an acrobat loses his hand in wartime and develops a new act which circumvents his disability]

CHHOTA CHETAN
(aka: My Dear Kuttichathan)
India - 1983 - 103m - col
D: Jijo
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[India’s first 3-D film is a children’s fantasy in which three kids (Sonia, Suresh and Mukesh) release a magical spirit from captivity in a haunted house, only to be pursued by a villain (Kottarakkara) who wants to use the spirit’s powers for his own malicious purposes]

CHHOTA JADUGAR
(aka: Little Magician)
(aka: Magic Magic)
India - 2003 - 103m - col
D: Jose Punnoosse
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Dolby Digital
2.35:1
[Children’s film. Shortly after moving to New York, an unhappy Indian boy (Sooraj Balaji) runs away from his family and is befriended by three American street kids (Julia Rusatsky, Julian Carey and Justin Melvin), all of whom band together to rescue some dogs from a local criminal gang]

CHICAGO FILMMAKERS ON THE CHICAGO RIVER
USA - 1998/2003 - 80m - col
D: D.P. Carlson
Pulfrich 3-D
Single-strip/Video
Stereo
1.33:1
[22 film directors (mainstream and independent) are interviewed on the Chicago river, describing how the city has influenced their work. Those interviewed include Michael Mann, John McNaughton, Haskell Wexler and John Landis. The film was released theatrically in 1998 (in 2-D), then re-edited for home video in 2003 and distributed with Pulfrich 3-D glasses, given that most of the footage loans itself to that particular format]

CHICKEN LITTLE
USA - 2005 - 81m - col
D: Mark Dindal
Disney Digital 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS
1.85:1
[Children’s animation. A brave chicken (voiced by Zach Braff) is ostracized by the local community when he raises a false alarm which causes mass panic. But when the town is threatened by a real calamity, our hero must overcome his pariah status and save the day. The film was designed as a 2-D feature, but new digital projection technologies prompted a last-minute switch to 3-D, created in post-production. It shows. The 35mm version was screened in 2-D only]

CHICO, CHICA, ¡BOOM!
(aka: Boy, Girl, Boom!)
Spain - 1969 - 95m - col
D: Juan Bosch
[Listed as a Stereo 70 3-D film in Eddie Sammons' book ‘The World of 3-D Movies’ (1992), based on information received from a "sole, reliable source". Contemporary Spanish ad-mats indeed credit a ‘70mm Stereo’ release print, but given that this was a musical comedy, it’s likely the ‘stereo’ notation referred instead to a multichannel audio configuration]

THE CHILD’S EYE*
Hong Kong/Thailand - 2010 - feature - col
D: The Pang Brothers [Danny Pang Fat, Oxide Pang Shut]
Digital 3-D release print
[3-D sequel to the 2-D horror-chiller The Eye (2002), in which a group of Hong Kong travellers encounter supernatural phenomena after becoming stranded at Bangkok airport during the 2008 anti-government demonstrations]

THE CHINESE CONNECTION
(see: Fist of Fury)

CHLUPÁCI
(aka: Shaggies)
Czech Republic - 2001 - 3m - col
D: Michal Žabka
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Stereo
1.37:1
[CGI animation. Two small furry creatures (‘shaggies’) play with the toys they find in a child’s bedroom]

A CHRISTMAS CAROL*
USA - 2009 - feature - col
D: Robert Zemeckis
Disney Digital 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) and dual-1570 (IMAX) release prints
[CGI animated version of the Dickens’ classic, complete with all-star voice cast]

CIRCUS OF LOVE
(see: Rummelplatz der Liebe)

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: JOURNEY OF MAN
Canada/USA - 1999 - 39m - col
D: Keith Melton
IMAX Solido 3-D
Dual-1570
Dual-1570 and -870 release prints
IMAX Digital Sound (1570) / DTS-70 (870)
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
[A performance by acrobats of the Cirque du Soleil, representing the human life-cycle, designed for projection on huge dome-like screens in IMAX Solido format]

CLICK
USA (TV) - 1997 - 7 episodes - col
D: Rafael Glenn [Rolfe Kanefsky], Brian Rudnick, Scott Kennedy, Hamilton Lewiston
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/Video (3-D sequences)
Single-strip/16mm (2-D sequences)
Stereo
1.33:1
Softcore cable TV series, based on the graphic novels by Milo Manara, revolving around a ‘sex-clicker’ device which drives women wild with lust. Each episode contains several Pulfrich 3-D sequences. Later re-edited into seven feature-length entries, released separately on home video under the ‘Click’ banner:
•  The Body Beautiful / The Ultimate Attraction
•  Sexual Dependence Day / Sex, Lies & Politics
•  For the Love of the Click
•  Erotic Curse of Cairo / Legally Exposed
•  Balls of Thunder / Rod Steele 0014: You Only Live Until You Die
•  In the Heat of the Click
•  Secrets Revealed

CLICK: BALLS OF THUNDER
[see: Click]

CLICK: EROTIC CURSE OF CAIRO
[see: Click]

CLICK: FOR THE LOVE OF THE CLICK
[see: Click]

CLICK: IN THE HEAT OF THE CLICK
[see: Click]

CLICK: SECRETS REVEALED
[see: Click]

CLICK: SEXUAL DEPENDENCE DAY
[see: Click]

CLICK: THE BODY BEAUTIFUL
[see: Click]

CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH
(see: Zum Greifen Nah)

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS*
USA - 2009 - feature - col
D: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Digital Widescreen
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
2.39:1
[Animated fantasy, based on the bestselling children’s book by Judi Barrett. Whilst attempting to solve the problem of world hunger, a scientist accidentally unleashes a ‘food storm’ which rains all manner of foodstuffs down upon the earth’s populace. Havoc ensues]

COCKTAIL AT SLOPPY JOE’S
USA - 1953 - 9m - bw
D: [uncredited]
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Jack Mann headlines this obscure burlesque short, following the comic exploits of various workers at a downmarket restaurant. The film does not appear to have been released in 3-D anywhere]

COLLEGE CAPERS
(aka: Campus Capers)
(aka: Campus Panty Raids)
USA - 1953 - 15m - bw
D: Will Cowan
Stereovision
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Risqué short film, in which a couple of horny college students steal underwear from their hapless female colleagues. This is what passed for ‘filth’ in 1953, apparently]

COLORED HOMESPUN*
Hungary - 1954 - short - col?
[Apparently in production as a 3-D short in 1954, though it may not have been completed (Hungarian sources make no mention of any such film from this period). Details are impossible to confirm without access to the original title]

THE COLOR OF GOLD
USA (V) - 1998 - 45m - col
D: Jan Welt
Dual-HD Video
Single-strip/field sequential video print
Stereo
1.78:1
[Five years in the making, this ambitious documentary tells the story of the 1898 Klondike gold rush, using nothing more than a series of contemporary stereoscopic photographs (of which thousands were taken at the time)]

COME CLOSER
USA - 1952 - 6m - col
D: Hy Hirsh
Stereoscopic cel animation (16mm)
Dual-16mm release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Abstract animation short, set to an easygoing musical soundtrack]

COMIN’ AT YA!
(aka: The Devil Rider)
Italy - 1981 - 101m - col
D: Ferdinando Baldi
Optimax III
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Dolby Stereo
2.35:1
[An unexpected box-office success, this harsh spaghetti western was largely responsible for kickstarting the 1980’s 3-D boom (consolidated the following year with the release of Friday the 13th Part III). Co-writer Tony Anthony plays a reformed gunslinger who pursues the no-good varmints responsible for kidnapping his beautiful wife (future Almodóvar favourite Victoria Abril). The 3-D format is exploited to the hilt, and was promoted on some contemporary ad-mats as ‘Dimensionscope’]

THE COMMAND
USA - 1954 - 88m - col
D: David Butler
WarnerVision
Dual-35mm
WarnerPhonic Sound
1.85:1
[Western drama, featuring Guy Madison as an army doctor forced by circumstances beyond his control to assume responsibility for a wagon train passing through dangerous Indian territory. Two versions of this film were produced simultaneously, one in dual-35mm 3-D, the other in a prototype anamorphic format known as WarnerSuperscope (this trade-name was subsequently scrapped and the process credited on-screen as ‘CinemaScope’). Only the ‘scope version was ever released, though the 3-D elements still exist]

CONCERT CONCEPT
(see: Plastische Vorstellung)

CONCERTO
(see: Kontsert)

CON LA MORTE ALLA SPALLE
(see: Con la Muerte a la Espalda)

CON LA MUERTE A LA ESPALDA
(aka: Con la Morte alla Spalle)
(aka: Electra 1)
(aka: Operation Taifun)
(aka: Operation Typhoon)
(aka: Typhon sur Hambourg)
(aka: With Death at Your Back)
Spain/Italy/France/W.Germany - 1967 - 86m/99m - col
D: Alfonso Balcazár
Stereovision 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic)
570 release print
4-track magnetic stereo
2.21:1
[Famed technician Jan Jacobsen (1916-1998) designed the impressive 3-D format used on this otherwise routine Euro spy thriller, toplining George (Jorge) Martin and Rosalba Neri. The Stereovision 70 process was also used on La Marca del Hombre Lobo and Liebe in 3 Dimensionen (both qv), credited as ‘Hi Fi Stereo 70’ on the former and ‘Triarama’ on the latter]

CORALINE
USA - 2009 - 101m - col
D: Henry Selick, Mike Cachuela
Stereoscopic puppet animation (digital still photography)
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital / DTS
1.85:1
[Puppet animation, based on the children’s novel by Neil Gaiman, in which a lonely little girl (voiced by Dakota Fanning) discovers a wild and wonderful ‘reinvention’ of her own world behind a secret door, only to learn - too late! - that this alternate universe demands a terrible price...]

EL CORAZÓN Y LA ESPADA
(aka: The Heart and the Sword)
(aka: The Naked Sword)
(aka: Sword of Granada)
Mexico/USA - 1953 - 80m - bw
D: Edward Dein, Carlos Vejár Jr.
Tercera Dimensión Bríceno
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Second in a short-lived series of Mexican 3-D movies produced alongside the 1950's Hollywood boom, this adventure film - starring  Cesar Romero and Katy Jurado - doesn’t appear to have been released in 3-D in its home country, though some contemporary ad-mats contain explicit references to the film’s stereoscopic process]

THE CORONATION OF THE QUEEN
UK - 1953 - 22m - col
D: Danny Carter
Dudley 3-D
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.66:1
[Documentary short, covering the enthronement of Queen Elizabeth II in glorious 3-D]

THE COURAGE TO LIVE
(see: Valor de Vivir, El)

THE COVEN
USA (V) - 2002 - 85m - col
D: Brad Sykes
Nu-View
Single-strip/Video
Field sequential
Mono
1.33:1
[Low-grade rubbish, shot on video, in which a naive college student (Tanya Dempsey) becomes involved with a witches’ coven and must fight a villainous rival (Brittany James) for the fate of her boyfriend (Brannon Gould). Sounds much, much better than it actually is - beware!!]

CREATIVE LOVING: THE ART OF LOVE*
USA? (V) - 1993 - 60m - col
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[Sex education video, featuring a number of episodes in quasi-dimensional Pulfrich 3-D]

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
USA - 1954 - 79m - bw   
D: Jack Arnold
Universal 3-D
Dual-35mm
Pola-Lite and dual-35mm release prints
Mono
1.85:1
[Iconic 1950’s creature feature in which a scientific research team travels to a strange lagoon deep within the Amazon jungle in search of an ancient fossil which could provide evidence of a ‘missing link’. However, their investigations disturb a humanoid beastie which retaliates against their intrusion. Followed by Revenge of the Creature (qv)]

THE CREEPS
USA - 1997 - 75m - col
D: Charles Band
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Gothic horror with a comic twist, in which crazy scientist Bill Moynihan makes a mistake whilst reviving Dracula (Phil Fondacaro), Frankenstein’s monster (Thomas Wellington), the Mummy (Joe Smith) and the Wolfman (Jon Simanton), and they end up being only three feet tall! Much tastelessness ensues...]

CRIMINALS
(see: Prison Girls)

THE CROODS*
USA - 2012 - feature - col
D: Chris Sanders
Tru 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Funnyman John Cleese co-wrote the script for this animated comedy, set amongst the inhabitants of a Stone Age tribe whose leader finds himself in comic competition with a brilliant newcomer. Currently in production]

CRYSTALS
(see: Krustally)

CUENTO DE NATIVIDAD*
(aka: X-mas Tale)
Spain - 2001 - 12m - col
D: Xosé Lois Lopez
Dual-video / Stereoscopic CGI animation
[Jako the space cop crash-lands on Earth during the festive season and falls in love with the star on top of a Christmas tree! Combination of live-action and CGI animation. Jako also featured in a 2003 follow-up, Jako y el Ladrón de Mascotas (qv)]

CUMMIN’ AT YOU!*
USA (V) - 2009 - feature - col
D: Tommy Gunn
Dual-HD Video
Field sequential and anaglyph release prints
Dolby Digital
1.78:1
[Interactive hardcore porn, starring Sindee Jennings, Tony Desergio and Riley Evans (alongside director Gunn), which allows home video viewers to view the ‘action’ from a male or female perspective]

THE CURSE OF SKULL ROCK
UK (SV) - 2007 - 10m - col
D: Benjamin Smith
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.78:1
[A young cabin girl battles the evil Captain Scabb whilst searching for hidden treasure on the mysterious island of Skull Rock. Animated short, intended for special venue release with ‘4-D’ physical effects, but also screened as a ‘regular’ item in selected cinemas]

CYBERWORLD
Canada/USA - 2000 - 48m - col
D: Brummbaer, Colin Davies, Elaine Despins
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570 (IMAX) release print
IMAX Digital Sound
1.44:1
Compilation of short films, all produced in 35mm 2-D format and reworked for dual-1570 exhibition:
•  Flipbook / Waterfall City(Jpn - 1998)
•  Joe Fly and Sanchez: Mostly Sports (Ger - 2000)
•  Krakken: Adventure of Future Ocean (Fr - 1996)
•  Liberation (UK - 1994)
•  Monkey Brain Sushi (USA - 1995)
•  The Simpsons: Homer3 (USA - 1995)
•  Tonight’s Performance (USA - 2000)



D


DAIKYAJÛ GAPPA
(aka: Gappa the Triphibian Monster)
(aka: Monster from a Prehistoric Planet)
Japan - 1963 - 90m - col
D: Haruyasu Noguchi
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D (Nikkatsuscope), but reconfigured on US DVD in field sequential format, under the title Monster from a Prehistoric Planet. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

DANGEROUS MISSION
(aka: Rangers of the North)
USA - 1954 - 75m - col
D: Louis King
Future Dimension
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.75:1
[Victor Mature and Vincent Price headline this action-thriller, playing characters on opposite sides of the law. Price is a suave hitman assigned to kill a young woman (Piper Laurie) who witnessed a mob killing and has fled into hiding at the Glacier National Park, while Mature is the handsome (it says here) cop assigned to protect her. An early credit for producer Irwin Allen]

DARK COUNTRY*
USA - 2009 - feature - col
D: Thomas Jane
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
1.85:1
[The directorial debut of actor Thomas Jane, starring alongside Lauren German as a newlywed couple en route from Las Vegas who stumble across a corpse in the desert, leading to a nightmarish encounter with those responsible for the killing]

DARK DIMENSION*
USA (V) - 2003 - feature - col
D: Cash Markman
Pulfrich 3-D
Single-strip/Video
Stereo
1.33:1
[Hardcore smut, featuring the likes of Allisyn Chaynes, John West, Jessica Jaymes and Velvet Rose. The 3-D is pretty fake, but at least it doesn’t get in the way of the action!]

DAWN OF THE DEAD*
(aka: Zombies)
USA - 1978/2009 - 126m - col
D: George A. Romero
In-Three Dimensionalization
Digital 3-D release print
1.85:1
[’Dimensionalized’ version of Romero's 2-D shocker (scheduled for 3-D release in 2009), in which a group of disparate characters barricade themselves inside a shopping mall where they’re besieged by hordes of flesh-eating zombies]

A DAY AT THE DEL MAR FAIR*
USA - 1978 - short - col
D: Owen C. (Wes) Western
Western 3-D
Single-strip/Super-8
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.66:1
[Amateur short, documenting various attractions at the titular establishment. The film has been commercially exhibited in some professional venues]

DAYDREAM
(see: Anî no 3-D Adobenchâ: Fun Fun Fun)

A DAY IN THE COUNTRY
(aka: Stereo-Laffs)
USA - 1941 - 13m - bw
D: Jack Rieger
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic and dual-35mm release prints
Mono
1.37:1
[Comedy short, in which a family of country bumpkins go on an outing. Though touted for distribution in 1941 as Stereo-Laffs, this film appears to have gone unscreened until 1953, when it was released in single-strip/anaglyphic format under the title A Day in the Country. A restored dual-35mm version (with left-right elements derived from an anaglyph print) was first screened in 2006 at the World 3-D Film Expo II in Hollywood, California. Info on this film's history (including the original title) was unearthed by 3-D historian Jeff Joseph of SabuCat Productions]

DAY OFF IN MOSCOW
(see: Vikhodnoy Deni v Moskve)

DAY OF THE LIVING
(see: Vault of Darkness)

A DAY OF WONDERFUL IMPRESSIONS
(see: Deni Chudeshikh Vpechatleniy)

DEAD HEAT
(see: Deddo Hîto)

DEADLY TANTRUM*
UK - 2006/2008 - 5m - col
D: Mike Mort
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-video, single-strip/side by side (HD and SD video) release prints
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[High-octane short film, originally released in 2-D and ‘dimensionalized’ in 2008 for stereoscopic presentations. A reckless cop (Simon Prichard) risks everything to save a beautiful girl (Bethan Witcomb) from the clutches of a psychotic mutant (Robert Pearce)]

DEADLY THIEF
[see: Shalimar]

DEAR FATTY*
USA - 2008 - 7m - col
D: Hsin-I Tseng
CGI animation
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-video, single-strip/side by side (HD and SD video) release prints
1.85:1
[Animated short, originally released in 2-D and ‘dimensionalized’ in 2008 for stereoscopic presentations. A little girl writes a heartfelt letter to her hamster, which has embarked on a journey far away from home]

DEATH FATHER
(see: Vault of Darkness)

DEDDO HÎTO
(aka: Dead Heat)
(aka: Racer)
Japan (V) - 1987 - 37m - col
D: Toshifumi Kawase, Hayami Go
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Single-strip/field sequential video print
Dolby Surround
1.33:1
[Promoted as “Japan’s first 3-D anime” (it wasn’t), this racing drama premiered on the short-lived VHD platform, taking advantage of that format’s capacity for high quality field sequential storage and playback. It was later released in the US as part of the DTV compilation World of 3-D Vol. 3 (1990), where it was retitled Racer]

DEEP EARTH MISSION*
USA - 2010 - 40m - col
D: Stephen Low
Dual-1570
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format journey into the depths of the earth]

DEEP SEA 3-D
USA/Canada - 2006 - 41m - col
D: Howard Hall
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format exploration of the various life forms which exist in the deepest parts of the world’s oceans. Followed by Under the Sea (qv)]

DE LA CHAIR POUR FRANKENSTEIN
(see: Mostro è in Tavola... Barone Frankenstein, Il)

DEMENTIA 13
USA - 1963 - 81m - bw
D: Francis Ford Coppola
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US DVD in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

DENI CHUDESHIKH VPECHATLENIY*
(aka: A Day of Wonderful Impressions)
USSR - 1949 - short - col
D: Aleksandr Rou
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Not much is known about this obscure item, which may - or may not - be a travelogue short]

DENMARK LIVE*
Denmark? - 1974 - short - col
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic)
Mono
1.37:1
[Another long-standing 3-D mystery, this ‘travelogue short’ has appeared on many listings over the years, though no one has ever identified the film’s original source, or even its most basic credits]

DESDE LA BARRERA
(see: Festival de la Tercera Dimensión, El)

DESTINATION ANCARES
(see: Destino Ancares)

DESTINO ANCARES*
(aka: Destination Ancares)
Spain - 2006 - 6m - col
D: Xosé Lois Lopez
Dual-HD Video / Stereoscopic CGI animation
[Combination of live-action and CGI animation, exploring the natural beauty of the Ancares mountain range, situated in north-west Spain]

DETECTIVE CONAN: CONAN VS. KID - JEWEL & SHARK
(see: Mei Tantei Konan: Konan vs. Kiddo - Shark & Jewel)

THE DEVIL RIDER
(see: Comin’ at Ya!)

DEVIL’S CANYON
USA - 1953 - 92m - col
D: Alfred Werker
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
3-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Western drama. Convicted for killing two men in self-defence, former lawman Dale Robertson winds up in the same prison as his victims’ thuggish brother (Stephen McNally), who plots revenge. Though photographed with 1.37:1 aspect ratio in mind, the film was exhibited at 1.66:1 in some venues]

THE DEVIL’S COMMANDOS*
USA - 2011 - feature - col
D: Thomas Jane
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Action-horror, set during World War II, in which a group of commandos are sent on a rescue mission, only to find themselves under attack by satanic forces]

DIAL M FOR MURDER
USA - 1954 - 105m - col
D: Alfred Hitchcock
WarnerVision
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[A cuckolded husband (Ray Milland) hatches a plot to murder his beautiful wife (Grace Kelly), but his plan unravels when Kelly kills the man hired to strangle her. Not the most demonstrative use of 3-D (Hitchcock was basically forced to use the WarnerVision format), but a fine film in its own right, and proof positive that dimensional photography can enhance even the unlikeliest scenario]

THE DIAMOND
(aka: The Diamond Wizard)
UK - 1954 - 83m - bw   
D: Montgomery Tully, Dennis O’Keefe
Spacemaster 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.66:1
[Crime drama. Co-director O’Keefe plays a US Treasury official who pursues a gang of criminals to London where he stumbles on a multi-million dollar scheme to flood the market with fake diamonds. Originally released in 2-D format only, though a dual-35mm print was screened in 2006 at World 3-D Expo II in Hollywood, California]

THE DIAMOND WIZARD
(see: Diamond, The)

DICK ISLAND
(see: Sukupazu)

DIGGER*
USA - 2009 - feature - col
D: John A. Gallagher
Fusion 3-D
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Horror-thriller. An emotionally crippled young woman (Heidi Kristoffer) living on an isolated campus during Spring Break finds herself at the mercy of a monstrous killer who lives in the surrounding woodlands]

THE DIMENSIONS OF OLDSMOBILE QUALITY
USA - 1981 - 12m - col
D: David Seago
Future Dimensions
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Extended commercial for General Motors, promoting the 1982 Oldsmobile]

DINOSAURS ALIVE!
USA - 2007 - 40m - col
D: David Clark
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570 and stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570 and -870 release prints
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
[Large Format documentary, following paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History as they explore some of the world’s most significant dinosaur excavations, augmented by CGI recreations of the animals in their natural environment, millions of years before the dawn of Man]

DINOSAURS: GIANTS OF PATAGONIA
Canada - 2007 - 41m - col
D: Marc Fafard
IMAX Solido 3-D
Dual-1570
Dual-1570 and -870 release prints
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
[Donald Sutherland narrates this Large Format documentary, recounting the history of the dinosaurs, from their humble beginnings to their ultimate extinction]

DISCO DOLLS
(see: Hot Skin)

THE DISCO DOLLS IN HOT SKIN
[see: Hot Skin]

THE DISTANT THAMES
(aka: Royal River)
UK - 1951 - 9m - col
D: Brian Smith
Stereo Techniques
Dual-35mm
Stereosound
1.37:1
[A leisurely boat ride on the Thames, featuring eye-popping three-dimensional views of the English countryside. Later included in the compilation item 3-Dimension (qv)]

DIXIANA
USA - 1930 - 98m - bw and col
D: Luther Reed
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

THE DOCTOR’S PUPIL
(see: Uchenik Lekarya)

DOGS OF HELL
(see: Rottweiler)

DOLPHINS AND WHALES 3-D: TRIBES OF THE OCEAN
USA - 2007 - 42m - col
D: Jean-Jacques Mantello
Dual-HD Video
Dual-1570 (IMAX) release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary exploring the lives of the title creatures in their natural habitat]

DOLPHINS 3-D*
USA - 2012 - short - col
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Self-explanatory Large Format documentary]

DOMO ARIGATO
USA - 1972 - 90m - col
D: Arch Oboler
Spacevision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Two like-minded souls (Jason Ledger and Bonnie Sher) fall in love whilst exploring the natural beauty of modern Japan]

DOOM TOWN
(aka: Assignment A-Bomb)
USA - 1953 - 13m - bw and col
D: [uncredited]
Todd-Dunning 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short, recording a nuclear test explosion carried out by American military authorities in March 1953. Originally designed as a support item for The Maze (qv)]

DOUGRAM VS. ROUND-FACER
(see: Kasei no Senshi: Taiyô no Kiba Daguramu)

DOWN THE HATCH
USA - 1953 - 17m - bw
D: Jules White
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[Comedy short, toplining Harry Mimmo as a hapless tourist targeted by jewel thieves who plant a stolen ruby amongst his belongings on the way home from Italy, only to have trouble getting it back again! Originally designed as a support item for Drums of Tahiti (qv)]

DRAGONFLY SQUADRON
USA - 1954 - 82m - bw  
D: Lesley Selander
Monogram 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[B-movie shenanigans, set on a US Air Force base during the Korean War, in which a pilot-turned-instructor (John Hodiak) gets mixed up with old flame Barbara Britton whilst her husband (Bruce Bennett) lurks on the periphery. Tragedy ensues...]

DRAGON SLAYER
USA - 2004/2008 - 9m - col
D: Robert Kuczera
CGI animation
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-video, single-strip/side by side (HD and SD video) release prints
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[CG animation, originally released in 2-D and ‘dimensionalized’ in 2008 for stereoscopic presentations. An unlikely warrior takes up arms against the dragons which are threatening mankind]

DRAGOTSENNIY PODAROK
(aka: A Precious Gift)
USSR - 1956 - 80m - col
D: Aleksandr Rou
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Comedy, in which a young man enters a fishing contest to impress his elderly uncle. Some sources list the film as having been produced in 1950. Director Rou also directed the 3-D fantasy Maiskaya Noch, Ili Utoplennitsa (qv)]

DREAM BUTT
USA (V) - 1995 - 85m - col
D: Michael Talon
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[Plotless XXX video feature, starring the likes of Tedra, Sahara Sands, Rick Masters and Dave Hardman, with an emphasis on rear-entry shagging]

DRÖMSEX I 3-D*
Sweden - 1972 - 14m - bw
D: Torgny Wickman
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Adult short film, containing a car chase, a rollercoaster ride and an orgy - not necessarily in that order! Produced by a company known as Arbetsgruppen för 3-D Pornografi, though this appears to be their only venture into stereoscopic smut! I was unable to confirm the film’s technical details, though one reference claims it was exhibited in single-strip/anaglyph format, with the audience wearing ‘red-green’ glasses. If true, the film was either shot dual-35mm for a single-strip release print, or photographed with an anaglyphic camera attachment]

DRUMS OF TAHITI
USA - 1953 - 73m - col
D: William Castle
Columbia 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[Everything-but-the-kitchen-sink melodrama, set in 19th century Tahiti, in which a square-jawed American adventurer (Dennis O’Keefe) helps the locals in their battle against French colonial rule, whilst a hurricane brews at sea and a volcano threatens to belch over everything in sight! The soundtrack is listed as magnetic stereo in contemporary pressbooks, though the film appears to have been released in optical mono only]

DRUZOK
(aka: Little Friend)
(aka: Pal)
USSR - 1958 - 67m - col
D: Viktor Eisymont
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Family drama concerning the adventures of an orphaned dog. Altogether now - awww!!]

DUEL
(see: Kettô)

DUE NOTTI CON CLEOPATRA*
(aka: Two Nights With Cleopatra)
Italy - 1954 - 80m - col
D: Mario Mattoli
[In his 1992 book ‘The World of 3-D Movies’, author Eddie Sammons makes a compelling case for this film as a stereoscopic production, filmed in the Richardson 3-D format. However, the movie appears to have been released theatrically in 2-D only, and I could find no other evidence to confirm - or deny - Sammons’ claim. In a brief interview with the cinematographer Karl Struss, published online at <http://www.3dgear.com/scsc/karl_struss.htm>, Struss discusses the other 3-D films he photographed in Italy during this period (Cavalleria Rusticana, Il Più Comico Spettacolo del Mondo and Un Turco Napoletano, all qv) but makes no mention of a dimensional process in relation to Due Notti con Cleopatra. Given the confusion which surrounds the film, I’ve included it here for the sake of completeness, until its photographic status can be ascertained one way or another]

DYNASTY
[Qian Dao Wan Li Zhu]
(aka: Super Dragon)
(aka: Warlord)
Taiwan/Hong Kong - 1977 - 93m - col
D: Chang Mei-chung
Super Touch 3-D
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Quadrophonic Sound
2.35:1
[Towards the end of the Ming dynasty, an evil warlord (Pai Ying) uses violence to usurp the rulers of an otherwise peaceful province, but is opposed by a young monk (Dorian Tan Tao-liang, billed on US prints as ‘Bobby Ming’) with amazing martial arts prowess. Excellent kung fu, vibrant staging, and terrific use of off-screen gags. The 3-D format was promoted variously as ‘Real-a-Rama’, ‘Super 3D’ and ‘Ultra-Cubic 3-D’]



E


ECHOES OF THE SUN
(aka: Yunibâsu 2: Taiyô no Hibiki)
Canada/Japan - 1990 - 20m - col
D: Roman Kroitor, Nelson Max
IMAX Solido 3-D
Dual-1570
IMAX Digital Sound
1.44:1
[Documentary, produced for Expo ’90 in Japan, which explores the ways in which life on earth is sustained by the power of the sun. Notable as the first film in the IMAX Solido format]

ECSTASY ’72*
(aka: Secrets of Ecstasy ‘72)
USA - 1971 - 98m - bw and col
Optovision (partly)
Dual-16mm
Single-strip/35mm release print
Left-right images side by side
Mono
1.37:1
[Sex education film with hardcore 3-D inserts (there’s a double entendre in there somewhere!)]

EGYPT 3-D: SECRETS OF THE MUMMIES
(see: Mummies 3-D: Secrets of the Pharaohs)

EINFACH CONTINENTAL*
(aka: Simply Continental)
W.Germany - 1953 - 13m - col
Raumfilm-System
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short, in which host Rudolf Platte explores Lake Garda in north-east Italy’]

ELECTRA 1
(see: Con la Muerte a la Espalda)

ELECTRIC BLUE 008
UK (V) - 1982 - 58m - col
D: Adam Cole
Dual-video
Single-strip/anaglyphic video print
Mono
1.33:1
[Compilation of X-rated items, one of which involves three lovelies (it says here) doing a striptease for the 3-D camera. This segment was filmed in the US and later turned up in the compilation video Best of Electric Blue: Special 3-D Centrefold (1992)]

THE ELECTRONIC MONSTER
(see: Escapement)

EMMANUELLE: A LESSON IN LOVE
[see: Emmanuelle in Space]

EMMANUELLE: A TIME TO DREAM
[see: Emmanuelle in Space]

EMMANUELLE: A WORLD OF DESIRE
[see: Emmanuelle in Space]

EMMANUELLE: CONCEALED FANTASY
[see: Emmanuelle in Space]

EMMANUELLE: FIRST CONTACT
[see: Emmanuelle in Space]

EMMANUELLE IV
France - 1984 - 92m - col
D: Francis Giacobetti
ArriVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Trying to escape her past, Emmanuelle (Sylvia Kristel) undergoes radical cosmetic surgery and emerges completely transformed (now played by Mia Nygren). Naturally, the ‘new’ Emmanuelle is obliged to explore her revitalized sexuality, leading to various softcore encounters with men and women alike. The re-edited US version contains new material, shot in over-under StereoVision and composited into the final release print]

EMMANUELLE IN SPACE
USA/France (TV) - 1994 - 7 episodes - col
D: L.L. Shapira [Lev L. Spiro], David Cove, Kevin Alber, Jean-Jacques Lamore, Brody Hooper
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/Video (3-D sequences)
Single-strip/16mm (2-D sequences)
Stereo
1.33:1
Softcore cable TV series which relocates Emmanuelle (Krista Allen) in the outer galaxies, aboard a spaceship (captained by hunky Paul Michael Robinson) where she teaches alien students about human sexuality. Each episode contains several Pulfrich 3-D sequences. Later re-edited into seven feature-length entries, released separately on home video under the ‘Emmanuelle’ banner:
•  Emmanuelle: Queen of the Galaxy / Emmanuelle: First Contact / Emmanuelle in Space
•  A World of Desire
•  A Lesson in Love / Scandalous Behaviour
•  Concealed Fantasy
•  A Time to Dream
•  One Final Fling / Naked Obsession
•  The Meaning of Love / Just Insatiable

EMMANUELLE: ONE FINAL FLING
[see: Emmanuelle in Space]

EMMANUELLE: QUEEN OF THE GALAXY
[see: Emmanuelle in Space]

EMMANUELLE: THE MEANING OF LOVE
[see: Emmanuelle in Space]

EMPIRE
(see: Lucky 13)

ENCOUNTER IN THE THIRD DIMENSION
(aka: 3-D Mania: Encounter in the Third Dimension)
(aka: Adventures in 3-D)
USA/Belgium - 1998 - 40m - col
D: Ben Stassen
Iwerks 3-D
Dual-870
Dual-1570, -870, -570 and ColorCode release prints
Iwerks Digital Audio
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
2.20:1 (570)
[A Large Format journey through the history of 3-D cinema, from early stereoscopes to contemporary formats, featuring a guest appearance by Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Cassandra Peterson). A shortened 12-minute version, Adventures in 3-D, was later distributed in Large Format theaters. Followed by Misadventures in 3-D (qv)]

EROTEK DIMENSIONS
USA (V) - 2001 - 29m - col
D: Nicholas Scot [Nick Constable]
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Stereo
1.33:1
[XXX video short. A sexy scientist (Doria) uses her computer to generate a series of erotic holograms]

THE EROTIC MISADVENTURES OF THE INVISIBLE MAN
[see: Butterscotch]

ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH*
Canada - 2009 - feature - col
D: Tony Leech
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated adventure, in which a group of aliens plot their escape from captivity in Area 51...]

ESCAPEMENT
(aka: The Electronic Monster)
UK - 1957 - 72m - bw
D: Montgomery Tully, David Paltenghi
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format under the title The Electronic Monster. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

L’ETERNA FEMMINA
[see: Femmina]

EVENING IN MOSCOW
(see: Vecher v Moskve)

EVIL UNLEASHED: THE MUMMY
USA (V) - 2003 - 80m - col
D: Joe Castro
Nu-View
Single-strip/Video
Field sequential
Mono
1.33:1
[Four college friends are hunted by an ancient Egyptian goddess (Perrine Moore) who wants their souls for her evil master. Shot-on-video combination of horror and softcore (Moore ensnares her male victims by flashing her boobs and dancing seductively!)]

EXPERIMENTS IN LOVE
USA - 1976 - 28m - col
D: Daniel L. Symmes
Quadravision 4-D
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic)
Mono
1.37:1
[Softcore sex comedy, released as a support item for the 3-D feature The Starlets (qv)]

EXTRAORDINARY STUDIES
(see: Neobiknovenniy Etyudy)

EXTREME RESCUE*
USA - 2010 - short - col
D: Stephen Low
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary which depicts the everyday heroism of those who provide relief in the wake of natural and man-made disasters]

EYE OF THE DRAGON
(see: Magnificent Bodyguards)

EYES OF HELL
(see: Mask, The [1961])

EYES OF THE WEREWOLF
USA (V) - 1999 - 80m - col
D: Jeff Leroy, Tim Sullivan
Nu-View
Single-strip/Video
Field sequential
Mono
1.33:1
[Apparently the best of several barrel-scraping home movies (shot on video) which escaped onto DVD between 1999 and 2003. This one features Mark Sawyer as a young scientist who is blinded in a lab accident. An unscrupulous doctor (co-drirector Sullivan) transplants the eyes of a murdered werewolf into our hero’s wounded sockets, causing him to sprout fangs and facial hair during the next full moon...]



F


FACE OF FIRE
(see: Mask, The [1961])

FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN
Canada - 2003 - 2m - col
D: Munro Ferguson
IMAX SANDDE
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Animated comedy, set to Marlene Dietrich’s haunting rendition of the title song, in which Boy meets Girl during a traffic accident which propels them both into outer space!]

FALL MAGIC OF CRIMEA (PENSINSULA)
(see: Osennie Etyudy Kryma)

FANTASTIC INVASION OF PLANET EARTH
(see: Bubble, The)

FATAL DESIRE
(see: Cavalleria Rusticana)

FAUST
France - 1922 - feature - bw
D: Gérard Bourgeois
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn’t filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process]

FAVORITE DUMMY
(see: Vanka-Vstanka)

FEI DU JUAN YUN SHAN
(see: Magnificent Bodyguards)

FEI FENG YOU LONG
(see: Happy Lovers)

FEMMINA*
Italy - 1953 - 90m - col
[In his 1992 book ‘The World of 3-D Movies’, author Eddie Sammons raises the very real possibility that this film and ‘Bella su Misura’ (an extremely obscure title, listed in many 3-D filmographies over the years) are actually one and the same. Judging by its absence from every published and online reference guide, ‘Bella su Misura’ seems to be a non-existent film, announced for 3-D production at the same time as Marc Allégret’s ill-fated Femmina, also announced as a 3-D movie and featuring a plot which fits the various translations offered for ‘Bella su Misura’, such as ‘Beauty to Measure’ and ‘Tailor-Made Beauties’. It’s highly likely Femmina is the final release title of the film announced as ‘Bella su Misura’. However, it’s not certain how much - if any - of Allégret’s film was photographed in Tridimensionale Christiani 3-D, as planned. Noted for the record. Also known as Cavalieri dell’Illusion, L’Eterna Femmina and Femmina: I Cavalieri dell’Illusione]

FEMMINA: I CAVALIERI DELL’ILLUSIONE
[see: Femmina]

EL FESTIVAL DE LA TERCERA DIMENSIÓN
(aka: Festival in 3-D)
Spain - 1953 - 30m - bw
D: Luis Torreblanca
Stereo Techniques
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Three short documentary films, produced especially for this compilation: Al Alcance de la Mano, Baile Español and Desde la Barrera. The latter title has often been listed - erroneously - as a separate production in its own right, under the titles Bullfighting in Spain and Spanish Bullfighting]

FESTIVAL IN 3-D
(see: Festival de la Tercera Dimensión, El)

FESTIVAL OF HORROR*
[Gongpoui Chukje]
S.Korea - 1986 - 95m - col
D: Kim In-soo
Mono
[Obscure horror feature, about which nothing more is known. The original title is rendered Gongpo-ui Chugje in some sources, while the English title has been rendered as Festival of Terror]

FESTIVAL OF TERROR
[see: Festival of Horror]

FESTIVAL OF 3-D MOVIE TRAILERS
USA (V) - 2005 - 95m - col and bw
D: Jeff Joseph
Anaglyphic (partly)
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[Compilation of trailers for 1950’s 3-D movies, produced for World 3-D Film Expo II in Hollywood, California. Most of the previews are 2-D, except for It Came from Outer Space, The Maze and Top Banana, rendered in anaglyph format from material shot in dual-35mm. The film also contains German footage from the 1930’s (shot in Raumfilm-System 3-D) and the French short L’Arrivée d’un Train en Gare de la Ciotat (qv)]

FILM #6
USA - 1951 - 20m - bw
D: Harry Smith
Stereoscopic cel animation (16mm)
Dual-16mm release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Experimental animated short, not widely exhibited, if at all]

THE FINAL DESTINATION*
USA - 2009 - feature - col
D: David R. Ellis
Digital Widescreen
Fusion 3-D
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
2.39:1
[Fourth in the supernatural horror franchise (begun in 2000 by the original Final Destination), in which survivors of a terrible calamity (in this case, a racing car which ploughs into a grandstand full of spectators!) are stalked and killed by Death itself]

FIST
(see: Tiger Man)

FIST OF FURY
[Jing Wu Men]
(aka: The Chinese Connection)
Hong Kong - 1972 - 106m - col
D: Lo Wei
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D (Dyaliscope), but reconfigured on US DVD in field sequential format, under the title The Chinese Connection. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

FIVE DEADLY VENOMS
(see: Five Venoms, The)

THE FIVE VENOMS
[Wu Du]
(aka: Five Deadly Venoms)
Hong Kong - 1978 - 102m - col
D: Chang Cheh
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D (Shawscope), but reconfigured on US DVD in field sequential format, under the title Five Deadly Venoms. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE
USA - 1940 - 12 chapters - bw
D: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US DVD in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

THE FLESH AND BLOOD SHOW
UK - 1972 - 96m - col
D: Pete Walker
Spacemaster 3-D (partly)
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.75:1
[Whilst rehearsing their latest production at an abandoned seaside theatre, members of an acting troupe are targeted by a psychopathic killer. A key film in director Walker’s career, though the 3-D insert serves no real purpose other than marketing gimmickry. Some listings claim the movie was also released under the title Asylum of the Insane, thereby confusing it with another 3-D movie of the same name (see qv). However, TFABS doesn’t appear to have been released in English-language territories under any other title, either theatrically or on home video]

FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN
(see: Mostro è in Tavola... Barone Frankenstein, Il)

FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES
UK/Canada - 2010 - 40m - col
D: Mike Slee
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary following millions of Monarch butterflies on their annual journey southward from Canada to Mexico. The same subject was covered in the 1990 film Flowers in the Sky (qv), rendered in IMAX Magic Carpet format]

FLIGHT TO TANGIER
USA - 1953 - 90m - col
D: Charles Marquis Warren
Dynoptic 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.66:1
[Joan Fontaine and Jack Palance star in this B-list melodrama, set in Tangiers where the downing of a plane en route from Russia sets in motion the hunt for a $3 million fortune. The soundtrack is listed as magnetic stereo in contemporary trade ads, though the film appears to have been released in optical mono only]

FLIPBOOK / WATERFALL CITY
[see: Cyberworld]

DAS FLOß
(aka: The Raft)
Germany - 2004/2008 - 9m - col
D: Jan Thüring
Puppet animation (digital still photography)
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-video, single-strip/side by side (HD and SD video) release prints
Dolby Digital
2.39:1
[Puppet animation, originally released in 2-D and ‘dimensionalized’ in 2008 for stereoscopic presentations. “Two castaways float helplessly at sea until a seagull changes their lives forever”. A 2-D version of the film was also included in the DVD compilation Shocking Shorts 3: 13 Neue Gefährlich Gute Kurzfilme (2006)]

THE FLOWER OF PELOPONES
(see: Tsvetok Peloponessa)

FLOWERS IN THE SKY
Canada - 1990 - 15m - col
D: Michael Scott
IMAX Magic Carpet
Dual-1570 x 2
IMAX Digital Sound
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary following millions of Monarch butterflies on their annual journey southward from Canada to Mexico. See also Flight of the Butterflies (qv)]

FLYING AT YA’: ANDROID KIKAIDER
(see: Tobidasu Jinzô Ningen Kikaidâ)

FLYING FROM THE MOVIE SCREEN: INAZUMAN
(see: Tobidasu Rittai Eiga: Inazuman)

FLYING THE FRONTIERS*
Canada - 2012 - short - col
Dual-65mm?
Dual-1570 (IMAX) release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary which places audiences in the cockpit of a bush-plane as it flies over some of the most awe-inspiring landscapes on earth]

FLY ME TO THE MOON
USA - 2008 - 84m/50m - col
D: Ben Stassen
nWave 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570, -870 (IMAX) and Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) release prints
Sonics-DDP (IMAX)
Dolby Digital (D-Cinema)
1.44:1 (1570) / 1.35:1 (870)
1.85:1 (D-Cinema)
[Animated feature. In 1969, three young houseflies become trapped aboard Apollo 11 as it travels to the moon and back. Two versions of the Large Format edition went into general release: A feature-length print and an abbreviated 50-minute presentation]

FOREST*
USA - 1978 - short - col
D: Larry Cuba
Lipton Three-Dimensional Filmmaking System
Stereoscopic cel animation (Super-8)
Dual Super-8 release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Experimental animation short, featuring abstract dimensional images. This amateur production was commercially exhibited in some professional venues]

FORT TI
USA - 1953 - 73m - col
D: William Castle
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
3-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[The story of Rogers Rangers and the English soldiers who battled French colonial forces at Fort Ticonderoga in pre-Revolutionary America. Though photographed with 1.37:1 aspect ratio in mind, the film was exhibited at 1.85:1 in some venues]

THE FORTUNE HUNTERS
(see: Gold Hunt, The)

FOTOS
Spain - 1996 - 93m - col
D: Elio Quiroga
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn’t filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process]

THE FOUNTAIN*
USA - 2001/2008 - 15m - col
D: Joel Moser, Thomas D. Moser
Spherical/35mm
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-video, single-strip/side by side (HD and SD video) release prints
1.85:1
[Short drama, originally released in 2-D and ‘dimensionalized’ in 2008 for stereoscopic presentations. Robert Reich and Doreen Chalmers play a couple whose lives are transformed - not always for the best - after they discover a magical fountain in their greenhouse]

FOUR-D
USA - 1953 - 4m - col
D: H.G. Hawes
Nord 3-D
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
0.67:1
[Promotional documentary, designed to spotlight the work of Maine Dairy Council]

FOUR DIMENSIONS OF GRETA
(aka: 3 Dimensions of Greta)
UK - 1972 - 89m - col
D: Pete Walker
Spacemaster 3-D (partly)
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.75:1
[A young German reporter (Tristan Rogers) is assigned to search ‘swinging’ London for his boss’s daughter (Swedish starlet Leena Skoog) who has gone missing under mysterious circumstances. Rogers hears four stories about Skoog’s erotic adventures, all presented in 3-D. Tepid sexploiter from maverick director Walker, his first to use 3-D inserts (see also The Flesh and Blood Show, qv)]

FOXY BOXING
USA (V) - 1982 - 50m - col
D: Jack Gennaro
Dual-video
Single-strip/anaglyphic video print
Mono
1.33:1
[X-rated item, featuring various porn starlets sparring with one another in front of an appreciative (ie. whoopin’ and a-hollerin’) male audience. Truly the end of civilisation as we know it...]

FRANKENSTEIN
(see: Mostro è in Tavola... Barone Frankenstein, Il)

FRANKENSTEIN’S BLOODY TERROR
(see: Marca del Hombre Lobo, La)

FRANKENWEENIE*
USA - 2011 - feature - col
D: Tim Burton
Disney Digital 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated puppet feature, an expanded version of Burton’s 1984 short film, in which a young boy reanimates his beloved pet dog after it’s killed in a traffic accident. Announced for production in due course, following the release of another Burton-helmed 3-D project, Alice in Wonderland (qv)]

FREAK CLUB
USA (V) - 1994 - 90m - col
D: Jerry Blake
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX video feature in which Sahara Sands and her busty friends enjoy a series of encounters with some (ahem!) well-endowed young men (and when I say ‘well-endowed’, I mean absolutely E-N-O-R-M-O-U-S!). Seriously, anyone who sits too close to the screen during this little epic deserves everything they get!!...]

FREAKS
(see: Asylum of the Insane)

FREDDY’S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE
USA - 1991 - 90m - col
D: Rachel Talalay
Freddy Vision (partly)
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Dolby Stereo SR
1.85:1
[Sixth in the series initiated by A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) sees monstrous child-killer Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) resurrected once again, this time plotting to extend his influence beyond Elm Street until he’s challenged by his own daughter (Lisa Zane) during a colourful 3-D finale]

THE FRENCH LINE
USA - 1953 - 102m - col
D: Lloyd Bacon
Future Dimension
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[This mild comedy caused a stir on release, thanks to a ‘risqué’ dance performed by leading lady Jane Russell (“JR in 3-D - it’ll knock both your eyes out!” shrieked the ad-mats). She plays a Texan millionairess whose wealth frightens off potential suitors, so she swaps identities with close friend Joyce Mackenzie and embarks on a sea cruise in the hopes of snaring a man the old-fashioned way, leading to various comic complications. Though shot in 1.37:1 aspect ratio, the film was projected at 1.66:1 in some venues]

FRENCH QUEEN OF KUNG FU
[Yang Niu Xun Shi]
China - 1987 - 74m - col
D: Zhang Rongren, Wang Wei
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Kung fu melodrama, in which a young Frenchwoman travels to China and struggles to overcome various obstacles whilst training to become a top-ranked martial artist]

FRIDAY THE 13th PART III
USA - 1982 - 96m - col
D: Steve Miner
3-Depix
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Third in the series initiated by Friday the 13th (1980). Filmed in 3-D to capitalize on the unexpected success of Ferdinando Baldi’s Comin’ at Ya! (qv), this one opened in over a thousand US theaters and was responsible for kicking the 1980’s 3-D boom into high gear. Having survived the ending of Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981), monstrous Jason Voorhees (Richard Brooker) targets another group of hapless teens who’ve set up camp in the area surrounding Crystal Lake. The 3-D effects are great (watch out for those opening titles!), and the film itself is competent, though uninspired]

FRIENDS FOR LIFE
USA - 2008/2009 - 90m - col
D: Michael Spence
Spherical/35mm
Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[Whilst grieving for his recently deceased wife, a lonely widower (Michael Flynn) finds salvation after stumbling across a quartet of orphaned wolf cubs. Family drama, filmed in 2-D and dimensionalized for 3-D presentations in 2009]

FRONTIER ANTARCTICA*
USA - 2010 - 40m - col
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary, in which scientists seek to determine how humankind has affected the Antarctic landscape and how it can be preserved for future generations]

FUN FUN FUN 3-D ADVENTURE
(see: Anî no 3-D Adobenchâ: Fun Fun Fun)

FUN IN THE SUN
(see: 3-D Follies, The)

FUNK*
USA - 1976 - feature - col
D: Julian Marsh [Michael Findlay]
Super Touch 3-D
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Compilation of hardcore 3-D shorts, shot in the Super Touch 3-D format developed by maverick sexploitation filmmaker Findlay]

THE FUNNIEST SHOW ON EARTH
(see: Più Comico Spettacolo del Mondo, Il)



G


GALAPAGOS: THE ENCHANTED VOYAGE
Canada/USA - 1999 - 39m - col
D: Al Giddings, David Clark
Iwerks 3-D
Dual-870
Dual-1570 and -870 release prints
Iwerks Digital Audio/DTS-70
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
[Large Format documentary, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, which explores the geography and wildlife of the Galapagos archipelago, situated in the Pacific Ocean. Also available in 35mm single-strip/over-under format]

GALATEA
(see: Vault of Darkness)

GAMES OF ANIMALS
(see: Igry Zhivotnykh)

GAPPA THE TRIPHIBIAN MONSTER
[see: Daikyajû Gappa]

GARTENSCHAU IN DRESDEN*
Germany - 1937 - short - col
Raumfilm-System
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.37:1
[Test film, featuring documentary footage of a flower show in Dresden, Germany]

THE GENE KRUPA STORY
USA - 1959 - 101m - bw
D: Don Weis
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

THE GENERAL
USA - 1927 - 74m - bw
D: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

THE GENTLEMAN’S FRIEND
(see: Ami de Monsieur, L’)

G-FORCE*
USA - 2009 - feature - col
D: Hoyt Yeatman
Spherical/35mm and CGI animation
In-Three Dimensionalization (35mm footage)
Stereoscopic CGI animation (animated footage)
Digital 3-D release print
2.39:1
[Family film, combining live-action and CGI animation, in which a group of militaristic guinea pigs defend the Earth from a wicked tyrant!]

GHOST DORMITORY
(see: Ho Pii)

GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS
USA - 2003 - 61m/91m - col
D: James Cameron
Reality Camera System
Dual-HD Video
Dual-1570 release print (IMAX)
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print (35mm and D-Cinema)
Sonics-DDP (IMAX prints)
Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS (35mm and D-Cinema prints)
1.78:1
[Filmmaker James Cameron explores the wreck of the Titanic using state-of-the-art (it says here) 3-D technology, providing a Large Format overview of this unique maritime phenomenon. An extended version was subsequently released on home video]

GHOST TRICK
(see: Phee Jao Leh)

GIRL IN 3D
USA - 2004 - 97m - col
D: Luis Aira
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn’t filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process]

GIRLS: WET & WILD*
UK (V) - 1993 - 79m - col
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[Softcore glamour video featuring several ‘Page 3’ girls (ie, models who appear topless in UK tabloid newspapers) who pout and pose in various exotic locations]

GLACIER RUN
(see: Alien Adventure)

THE GLASS WEB
USA - 1953 - 81m - bw  
D: Jack Arnold
Universal 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[A-list actor Edward G. Robinson stars in this B-list crime thriller (based on a novel by Max Simon Ehrlich) as the researcher for a weekly TV crime show whose dalliance with trampy Kathleeen Hughes leads to blackmail and murder]

GODSPEED*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Dustin Voigt
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Action-drama, currently in production]

GODZILLA: 3-D TO THE MAX*
(aka: Godzilla vs. Deathla)
(aka: Gojira 3-D)
Canada/Japan - 2011 - 40m - col
D: Yoshimitsu Banno, Keith Melton
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Dual-1570 (IMAX) and Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) release prints
Sonics-DDP (IMAX version)
1.44:1
[Large Format monster movie, currently in development, though the on-again/off-again production schedule (and constant changes in key technical personnel) means the film may not be produced anytime soon, if at all]

GODZILLA VS. DEATHLA
(see: Godzilla: 3-D to the Max)

GOG
USA - 1954 - 85m - col
D: Herbert B. Strock
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
Pola-Lite and dual-35mm release prints
Mono
1.85:1
[Science fiction thriller in which sabotage at a space research laboratory is traced back to an all-powerful ‘super computer’ which has developed a murderous mind of its own]

GOJIRA 3-D
(see: Godzilla: 3-D to the Max)

THE GOLD HUNT*
[Tao Jin Ji]
(aka: The Fortune Hunters)
Hong Kong - 1953 - feature - bw
D: Kuang Guang
Kwong Tzan 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Cantonese comedy in which sibling bumpkins travel to the big city in search of wealth and prosperity, only to suffer a catalogue of comical disasters]

GOLEOR*
Spain - 2010 - feature - col
D: Manuel Sicilia
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated adventure, set in medieval Europe, in which a young boy dreams of becoming a proud warrior knight]

GOLIATH AND THE VAMPIRES
(see: Maciste contro il Vampiro)

GONGPO-UI CHUGJE
[see: Festival of Horror]

GONGPOUI CHUKJE
(see: Festival of Horror)

THE GOOD, THE BED AND THE SNUGGLY
(aka: Legend of the Magic Bed 2)
USA (V) - 1993 - 77m - col
D: Mitchell Spinelli
Pulfrich 3-D
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX video feature, in which a magical bed forms the centrepiece of several erotic vignettes. Great title, shame about the film!]

GO, QTARO! WAR AT 100th SIZE
(see: Obake no Q Tarô Susume! 1/100 Daisakusen)

GORILLA AT LARGE
USA - 1954 - 84m - col
D: Harmon Jones
Clear-Vision
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.66:1
[Lee J. Cobb toplines this 3-D thriller as a detective investigating murder and mayhem at a sinister travelling carnival where the main attraction is a monstrous gorilla. Co-stars include Cameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft, Raymond Burr and Lee Marvin]

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN*
Philippines - 1972 - feature - col
[Described in a review at Australian website Trash Video as “the only biblical movie ever to be filmed in 3D”, though I was unable to verify this information. The film is otherwise notable for starring Weng Weng (dwarf star of cult item For Y’ur Height Only, 1981) and future Filippino president Joseph Estrada]

GRAND CANYON*
USA - 1923 - 1 reel - bw
D: Devel Walter Parkes
Parkes 3-D
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Silent
1.33:1
[Documentary travelogue featuring dimensional views of the Grand Canyon. Most listings to date have described the Parkes 3-D process as dual-35mm in origin, though some confusion is generated by author Ray Zone in his 2007 book Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film 1838-1952. He writes: “[Edward] Connor noted that a May 1923 screening on a single strip of film that required no glasses for 3-D viewing was made by the American Releasing Corporation in a rented projection room in New York City. Walter Parkes of Oakland, California, shot the scenes of the Grand Canyon that were projected”. It’s possible this autostereoscopic version was merely a test, derived from the original dual-35mm negative, and that the release version was single-strip/anaglyphic (as noted in most sources), but Zone makes no mention of any other configuration]

GRAND CANYON ADVENTURE: RIVER AT RISK
USA - 2008 - 43m - col
D: Greg MacGillivray
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Dual-1570 and -870 release prints
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
[Large Format documentary, set amongst the splendours of the Colorado River, which explores the delicate balance between Man and Nature in a world where water is fast becoming an elusive commodity. Narrated by Robert Redford]

GRAND CANYON: THE HIDDEN SECRETS
USA - 1984/2009 - 36m - col
D: Kieth Merrill
IMAX DMR 3-D
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[’Dimensionalized’ version of a popular Large Format film (originally released in 2-D) which explores the history and geology of the Grand Canyon. Though made available to IMAX theaters worldwide, a copy of the film will be housed on a permanent basis at the Grand Canyon IMAX Theater at the National Geographic Visitors Center in Arizona, USA]

THE GREAT BALLOON CHASE
(see: Hot Heir)

GREAT WHITE 3-D
Canada - 2012 - 40m - col
D: Bob Talbot
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Dual-1570 and -870 release prints
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
[Large Format documentary which seeks to debunk the prevailing view of great white sharks (propagated by the likes of Jaws, book and film) as little more than man-eating predators]

THE GREECE
(see: Tsvetok Peloponnesa)

GREMLOIDS
(see: Hyperspace)

THE GROOVE ROOM
(see: Champagnegalopp)

THE GUARDIANS*
USA - 2011 - feature - col
D: Jeff Lynch
Tru 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated fantasy, based on books by children’s author William Joyce, in which Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Jack Frost and the Sandman are forced into battle against a fiendish villain]

GUARDIANS OF GA’HOOLE*
USA/Australia - 2010 - feature - col
D: Zack Snyder
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[CGI animated fantasy based on the books by Kathryn Lasky, in which a young barn owl escapes from a totalitarian regime and joins forces with benevolent owls on a remote island, where they’re forced to take up arms against their erstwhile aggressors]

GUN FURY
USA - 1953 - 83m - col
D: Raoul Walsh
Columbia 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[Western drama in which heroic Rock Hudson pursues the vicious outlaws who have kidnapped his beautiful fiancée (Donna Reed). The soundtrack is listed as magnetic stereo in contemporary pressbooks, though the film appears to have been released in optical mono only]

GYPSIES
(see: Aleko)



H


HÁGENOVO ZLATO 3-D
(aka: Agent Vega: The Gold of Hanz Hagen)
(aka: Bastard Vega: The Gold of Hanz Hagen)
Czech Republic (V) - 2003 - 11m - col
D: Jaroslav Kasal
Nu-View
Single-strip/Video
Field sequential
Single-strip/over-under release print
Stereo
1.33:1
[One of several semi-professional films featuring ‘Secret Agent Vega’, here battling an ‘undead’ magician whilst searching for lost Nazi gold]

HANDSHAKE WITH A BEAR
(see: Vashu Lapu, Medved!)

HANNAH LEE: AN AMERICAN PRIMITIVE
(aka: Outlaw Territory)
USA - 1953 - 79m - col
D: John Ireland, Lee Garmes
Stereo-Cine
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Western drama starring Macdonald Carey as a violent outlaw responsible for several murders; John Ireland is the US marshal on his trail, while Joanne Dru is Carey’s beautiful girlfriend, increasingly disturbed by his escalating mania]

HANNAH MONTANA / MILEY CYRUS: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT TOUR
USA - 2008 - 75m - col
D: Bruce Hendricks
Fusion 3-D (partly)
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS
1.85:1
[Concert film, spotlighting the 2007 tour of actress/singer Miley Cyrus, playing the character ‘Hannah Montana’ from the TV show of the same name. The backstage footage is 2-D]

HAPPY FEET
USA/Australia - 2006 - 109m - col
D: George Miller, Warren Coleman, Judy Morris
[Animated film, originally planned as an IMAX DMR 3-D conversion, released alongside the 35mm 2-D print, though plans for the former were abandoned prior to release]

HAPPY FEET 2*
USA - 2011 - feature - col
D: George Miller
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Sequel to the hugely popular 2-D feature Happy Feet (qv)]

HAPPY LOVERS*
[Fei Feng You Long]
Hong Kong - 1953 - feature - bw
D: Gu Wenzong
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Cantonese melodrama in which a failing acrobatic troupe requests financial assistance from a villainous businessman who covets one of the female members for himself, and he plots to destroy her relationship with a fellow acrobat]

HAPPY YOUTH*
[Huan Le De Tong Nian]
China - 1960 - short - col
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[One of the first 3-D movies shot in mainland China, this documentary short premiered in Shanghai alongside two other similar items, Huangpu River Bank and Melody of Youth (both qv)]

HAPPY ZOO
[Kuai Le De Dong Wu Yuan]
China - 1983 - 60m - col
D: Yang Qitian
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Obscure children’s film, in which two young tykes enjoy an afternoon at the local zoo with their elderly teacher]

HARD CANDY
(aka: M-3D The Movie)
(aka: Scoring!)
USA - 1976 - 75m - col
D: Norm de Plume [Stephen Gibson]
Todd-AO 35
DeepVision
Single-strip/35mm
Anaglyphic camera attachment
Mono
2.35:1
[X-rated hokum, released in varying degrees of explicitness, in which a candy factory is saved from closure by the invention of a lollipop which turns consumers into sex fiends! Promoted in some ad-mats as ‘Wide Screen Color 3-Dimension Super 70mm Stereo’, though this was nothing more than promotional ballyhoo. There is no record of the movie having been screened in anything other than 35mm with an optical mono soundtrack]

HARD CANDY 2*
[Nothing more is known about this film, possibly an alternate title for a movie directed by Stephen Gibson (responsible for the various DeepVision movies in this filmography), or a promotional title for one of Gibson’s later films which was changed to something else before theatrical release. It could also be an AKA for another Adult title produced by one of Gibson’s competitors during the same period (late 1970’s-early 80’s)]

HARDWOOD*
USA - 2007/2008 - 9m - col
D: Christopher Frascino
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-video, single-strip/side by side (HD and SD video) release prints
[Horror-thriller, originally released in 2-D and ‘dimensionalized’ in 2008 for stereoscopic presentations. An escaped convict (Kris Eivers) stumbles into dense woodland where he faces an unexpected threat from the trees and foliage around him]

HARMONY LANE
UK - 1954 - 24m - bw
D: Byron Gill
[Announced as a 3-D movie, and listed that way in several sources, but there’s no evidence it went into production utilizing a stereoscopic process, and it doesn’t appear to have been screened anywhere in 3-D]

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE*
UK/USA - 2009 - 153m - col
D: David Yates
Super 35
Dimensionalized 3-D (partly)
Dual-1570 (IMAX) and Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) release prints
Sonics-DDP (IMAX version)
2.39:1
[Sixth in the Harry Potter series, initiated by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001). Boy wizard Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) stumbles across an ancient book which once belonged to someone described as the ‘Half-Blood Prince’, which warns of dire consequences should Lord Voldemort return to Hogwarts School. Certain scenes were rendered in 3-D during post-production, for IMAX and D-Cinema release. The 35mm version was printed in 2-D only]

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
USA/UK - 2007 - 137m - col
D: David Yates
Super 35
IMAX DMR 3-D (partly)
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
2.39:1
[Fifth in the Harry Potter series, initiated by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001). In this entry, boy wizard Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is rebuffed by teachers and pupils alike when he claims the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) has returned to Hogwarts, and his attempts to protect the school are met with magical resistance at every turn. The entire movie was shot in 2-D, though the climactic sequence was ‘dimensionalized’ in post-production. This stereoscopic segment was used exclusively for IMAX presentations, whereas the 35mm version was screened in 2-D only, with Dolby Digital, DTS and SDDS soundtracks]

HAUNTED CASTLE
USA/Belgium - 2000 - 38m - col
D: Ben Stassen
nWave 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation (animated footage)
Dual-35mm / ArriVision / Dual-Video (live-action footage)
Dual-1570 and -870 release prints
6-track digital sound
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
[CGI animation, intended for Large Format venues, in which a rock star inherits his late mother’s gloomy old castle, where he’s offered wealth and immortality by a satanic stranger. Some of the scarier images prompted a PG rating from the MPAA (a first for LF moviemaking) and generated complaints from the IMAX company, which objected publicly to the film’s content]

HAUNTED GRAVEYARD
(see: Mon Pii Bog)

HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE
USA (SV) - 2003 - 22m - col
D: Joe Dante
Dual-570
DTS-70
2.20:1
[3-D special venue film (with ‘4-D’ effects), based on a story by children’s author R.L. Stine. Sara Paxton and Matt Weinberg play vacationing schoolkids who become caught up in various adventures at a spooky old lighthouse]

HAUNTS OF THE OLDE COUNTRY
USA (SV) - 1992 - 17m - col
D: Keith Melton
Iwerks 3-D
Dual-870
Iwerks Digital Audio
1.35:1
[Large Format spook-show in which an American schoolboy vacationing in the UK is terrorized by an old witch. Featuring spectacular views of ‘haunted’ locations, such as Glamis Castle and the Tower of London. Also available in 35mm single-strip/over-under format]

HAWAIIAN NIGHTS
USA - 1954 - 17m - bw
D: Will Cowan
Universal 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Travelogue short, featuring Mamie Van Doren and a group of Miss Universe contestants (!), set against a backdrop of Hawaiian splendour. Apparently unreleased in 3-D until 2006, when it was screened at World 3-D Film Expo II in Hollywood, California]

HEAD HUNTER
(see: Khon Tud Hua)

THE HEART AND THE SWORD
(see: Corazón y la Espada, El)

HEARTBOUND
USA - 1925 - 54m - bw   
D: Glen Lambert
Stereoscopic
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Silent
1.33:1
[Silent western, one of the earliest 3-D feature films, sadly presumed lost]

HEAVY EQUIPMENT
USA - 1977 - 98m - col
D: Lancer Brooks [Tom De Simone]
3-Dimensions
Single-strip/16mm
Anaglyphic camera attachment
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX gay feature. A lonely shop assistant (Steve Tracy) is given a ‘magical’ book which transforms him into studly Jack Wrangler, allowing him to enjoy a series of blistering sexual encounters]

HEI SHOU TAO
(see: Black Gloves)

DER HEIßE TOD
(see: 99 Mujeres)

HELLO, SOCHI
[see: Zdravstvuy, Sochi]

HELL’S CREATURES
(see: Marca del Hombre Lobo, La)

HENTAIMA*
(aka: Perverted Criminal)
Japan - 1967 - feature - bw and col
D: Kôji Seki
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
2.35:1
[Grim thriller, starring Setsu Shimizu as the victim of a monstrous serial killer (Shuhei Muto) who escapes from her attacker and joins forces with detective Kohei Tsuzaki to find Shuhei before he can strike again. The film was released in single-strip/anaglyphic format, though I was unable to determine whether separate left-right images were captured during principal photography, or whether the filmmakers used an anaglyphic camera attachment]

HERCULES AND THE PRINCESS OF TROY
(aka: Hercules vs. the Sea Monster)
USA/Italy (TV) - 1965 - 47m - col
D: Albert Band
[TV movie, filmed and broadcast in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

HERCULES VS. THE SEA MONSTER
[see: Hercules and the Princess of Troy]

HERE COMES DR. TRAN
USA - 2003 - 8m - col
D: Breehn Burns, Jason Johnson
[Not a 3-D movie at all, despite the fact anaglyph glasses are provided for theatrical screenings and home video versions. A short animated comedy, the film primes viewers to expect a major 3-D sequence that turns out to be nothing more than a brief shot containing misaligned colors, lasting two or three seconds in total! Also included in the DVD compilation Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Caught in the Act (2005)]

HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS
(see: J’Ai Rencontré le Père Noël)

THE HIDDEN DIMENSION
Canada/USA - 1997 - 39m - col
D: Paul Cox
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
IMAX Digital Sound
1.44:1
[Large Format film, in which a young girl (Charlotte Sullivan) uses her grandfather’s magic to explore the microscopic creatures which surround humankind on a daily basis. Insects, microbes and various other tiny wonders are blown-up to colossal dimensions for the audience’s perusal]

HIDEOUS MUTANT
(see: APE)

HIT THE ROAD RUNNING
USA - 1983 - 92m - col
D: Worth Keeter
Future Dimensions
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[One of several 3-D films produced by Deep South filmmaker Earl Owensby during the 1980’s boom, this one ‘inspired’ by The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985) TV series. Young deputy Jim Gribble declares war on wealthy tyrant Rudy Thompson, who has bought up much of Gribble’s home town and uses fear and intimidation to enforce his business interests. A battle of wills erupts between the two men, leading to a series of increasingly spectacular confrontations]

THE HOLE*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Joe Dante
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
1.85:1
[Horror in which two brothers (Chris Massoglia, Nathan Gamble) and their doting mom (Teri Polo) take up residence in a new house, only to stumble across a hole in the basement which leads them into a terrifying confrontation with the unknown]

HOLLYWOOD CONFIDENTIAL
(see: Virgin in Hollywood, A)

HOLY NIGHT!
(see: Noche de Paz)

HONDO
USA - 1953 - 84m - col
D: John Farrow
WarnerVision
Dual-35mm
Dual-35mm and Digital 3-D release prints
Mono
1.85:1
[John Wayne in 3-D! The Duke plays an army despatch rider who stumbles across a woman (debuting Geraldine Page) living in dangerous Apache territory with her young son (Lee Aaker), and is forced to protect them from a series of encroaching dangers. Originally released in dual-35mm. The Digital 3-D print was first screened at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, featuring a newly-remixed 5.1 digital soundtrack]

HONG KONG CORONATION PARADE*
[Wu Long Da Hui]
Hong Kong - 1953 - short - bw
D: Chiu Shu-sun
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Newsreel item, celebrating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, originally screened alongside the 3-D feature A Woman’s Revenge (qv)]

HOOKER HOOKER*
USA (V) -1997 - 88m - col
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[Plotless XXX video feature, with Cori Gates and Shawna Edwards in a series of hardcore encounters]

HO PII
(aka: Ghost Dormitory)
Thailand (TV) - 2004 - 83m - col
D: P’Jun
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/HD Video
Dolby Digital
1.78:1
[Low-budget horror, produced for TV and released on DVD with Pulfrich 3-D glasses. A group of teenagers break into an abandoned school, haunted by the ghost of a student who committed suicide several years earlier. The film’s title is rendered Hor Pee in some sources]

HOR PEE
[see: Ho Pii]

HORROR TOUR*
USA - 2010? - feature - col
D: Ben Stassen
[Recently announced 3-D feature, about which nothing more is known]

HORRORVISION
USA (V) - 2001 - 75m - col
D: Danny Draven
[Director Danny Draven confirms this film was originally mooted as a 3-D feature, though the idea was abandoned long before the movie went into production. It was filmed and released in 2-D format only]

HORRORWEEN*
USA - 2009 - feature - col
D: Joe Estevez
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Comedy-horror, in which two high-school students (Hunter Myer and Ivy Iacono) become dot.com millionaires and use their newfound wealth to build a haunted house attraction where some of the ‘exhibits’ turn out to be very real indeed...]

THE HORSE-CHILD IN APPLES
[see: Zherebenok y Jablokakh]

THE HOSTESS
(see: Cameriera Seduce i Villeggianti, La)

HOT BLADES*
USA (V) - 1995 - 92m - col
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX gay feature, in which a studly hockey player (Casey Jordan) pines for his lost love, an equally studly figure skater (Rex Baldwin). Will they find comfort in each other’s arms? Will they live happily ever after? Will they end up in the hockey team’s locker-room, banging each other senseless? You figure it out...]

THE HOT DEATH
(see: 99 Mujeres)

HOT HEIR
(aka: The Great Balloon Chase)
USA - 1983 - 90m - col
D: Worth Keeter
Future Dimensions
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Comedy in which a spoiled young man is threatened with the loss of his inheritance if he doesn’t compete in a spectacular balloon race. Reports suggest this film contains some of the best 3-D photography of the 1980’s]

HOT SKIN
(aka: Blond Emmanuelle in 3-D)
(aka: Disco Dolls)
USA - 1978 - 80m - col
D: Norm de Plume [Stephen Gibson]
Todd-AO 35
DeepVision
Single-strip/35mm
Anaglyphic camera attachment
Mono
2.35:1
[X-rated take-off of Casablanca (1942), released in varying degrees of explicitness. Several dramas reach a climax (ahem!) at an outrageous nightclub owned by impotent hunk Mike Ranger whose ex-girlfriend (Serena) turns up unexpectedly, trailing trouble in her wake. Co-starring Swedish sexpot Uschi Digart, who appeared in quite a few dimensional Adult films of the period (Prison Girls, The Chamber-Mades, etc.). The 3-D process was promoted in various advertising materials as ‘Widevision 3-D’. In some prints, the director is credited under the pseudonym ‘Giorgio Ferrari’. The original title is often given as ‘The Disco Dolls in Hot Skin’, but this seems to have arisen from wording on several ad-mats, in which the phrase ‘The Disco Dolls in’ was given equal prominence to the actual title Hot Skin]

HOUSE OF WAX
USA - 1953 - 88m - col
D: André de Toth
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
WarnerPhonic Sound
1.37:1
[Vincent Price toplines this sensational remake of Michael Curtiz’ Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), playing an insane sculptor in turn of the century New York who uses fresh cadavers as the human framework for his gruesome wax exhibits. Hoping to capitalize on the success of Bwana Devil (qv) the previous year, House was beaten into theaters by crime drama Man in the Dark (also qv), though its combination of period gloss, spooky visuals and dimensional cinematography paid dividends at the box-office and kicked the 1950’s 3-D boom into high gear. Watch out for that paddle-ball! The 2-D version was screened at 1.66:1 in some venues. Reissue versions were reconfigured in StereoVision and released in two separate 3-D formats: Single-strip/side by side/35mm anamorphic, and single strip/side by side/70mm spherical]

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL
USA - 1958 - 75m - bw and col
D: William Castle
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US DVD in single-strip/anaglyphic format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Tru 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) and dual-1570 (IMAX) release prints
[Animated film, based on the children’s novel by Cressida Cowell, in which a Viking boy trains his cowardly dragon to be a hero]

HUANG PU JIANG PAN*
(see: Huangpu River Bank)

HUANGPU RIVER BANK*
[Huang Pu Jiang Pan]
China - 1960 - short - col
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[One of the first 3-D movies shot in mainland China, this documentary short premiered in Shanghai alongside two other similar items, Happy Youth and Melody of Youth (both qv)]

HUAN HUAN XIAO XIAO
(see: Laughing Laughing)

HUAN LE DE TONG NIAN
(see: Happy Youth)

HUBBLE 3-D*
Canada/USA - 2010 - short - col
D: Toni Myers
3D30
Single-strip/65mm (30-perf)
Left-right images side by side
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Spectacular Large Format documentary, filmed aboard the Hubble Space Telescope]

HUMPBACK WHALES 3-D*
USA - 2013 - 40m - col
Dual-1570
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Self-explanatory Large Format documentary]

HUNKS IN 3-D
USA (V) - 1997 - 30m - col
D: Marvin Jones
Field sequential
Single-strip/Video
Stereo
1.33:1
[Compilation of short amateur films, shot separately over a period of several years and compiled into a single video release. Basically a showcase for several bronzed studs who pose and pout for the camera, nude and semi-nude. Also available in single-strip/anaglyphic format]

HUNTING SEASON
USA (V) - 2000 - 77m - col  
D: Jeff Leroy
Nu-View
Single-strip/Video
Field sequential
Mono
1.33:1
[A vengeful woman (Cindy Pena) arms herself with an arsenal of lethal weapons and heads into the woods to terrorize four masked hunters who beat her boyfriend (Michael Walker) to a bloody pulp and subjected her to a brutal sexual assault. Home movie, shot on video, marginally better than Camp Blood (qv) et al, but not by much]

HURRICANE ON THE BAYOU
USA - 2006 - 40m - col
D: Greg MacGillivray
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format exploration of the Louisiana bayou, before and after the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005]

HYPERSPACE
(aka: Gremloids)
USA - 1984 - 90m - col
D: Todd Durham
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Science fiction spoof. Whilst pursuing an errant princess, galactic tyrant Lord Buckethead (Robert Bloodworth) crash-lands on Earth and terrorizes a small American town in search of his prey]

HYPNOTIC HICK
USA - 1953 - 6m - col
D: Don Patterson
Lantz 3-D
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Dual-35mm release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Animated short in which Woody Woodpecker’s attempts to serve a court summons on ‘Buzz Buzzard’ lead to a variety of comic complications]



I


I AM MARKED
[see: Watashi Wa Nerawarete Iru]

THE ICE AGE*
USA - 2010 - 40m - col
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary which recreates the sights and sounds of the Ice Age]

ICE AGE 3: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS*
USA - 2009 - 94m - col
D: Carlos Saldanha
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
1.85:1
[Animated sequel to the original Ice Age (2002), and the first of the series to be produced in 3-D]

ICELAND*
USA - 2011 - short - col
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary which explores the beautiful Icelandic landscape]

IE NAKI KO
(aka: Nobody’s Boy)
Japan/France - 1980 - 96m - col
D: Osami Dezaki
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.85:1
[A young foundling is sold to a group of travellers by his adoptive father, and the boy endures a series of crises and adventures whilst searching for his real parents. Anime feature comprised of footage from the TV show Rittai Anime: Ie Naki Ko (3-D Animation: Homeless Remi, 1977), based on the novel Sans Famille by Hector Malot. Approximately half the episodes of the TV series were created in 3-D and broadcast in anaglyph format]

IGRY ZHIVOTNYKH
(aka: Animal Play)
(aka: Baby Animals)
(aka: Games of Animals)
USSR - 1980 - 38m - col
D: Nelya Gulchuck
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Documentary short, exploring the ways in which newborn animals learn various life-skills from their parents]

IMAGINE
Canada - 1994 - 22m - col
D: John Weiley
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
IMAX Digital Sound
1.44:1
[Large Format film which uses the audiovisual overload of 3-D (high-speed boat race, underwater ballet, etc.) to explore the frontiers of human consciousness. Or something...]

THE IMAX NUTCRACKER
USA/Canada - 1997 - 40m - col
D: Christine Edzard
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
IMAX Digital Sound
1.44:1
[Fantasy drama, based on Tchaikovsky’s ballet, in which a group of toys spring to life on Christmas Eve and spirit their young owner (Lotte Johnson) away to an enchanted kingdom]

I, MONSTER
UK - 1970 - 74m - col
D: Stephen Weeks
[As confirmed by director Weeks in 'Video Watchdog’ magazine issue 123 (published in 2006), this reworking of the Jekyll & Hyde story (starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee) began production utilizing the quasi-dimensional Pulfrich 3-D effect. However, Weeks encountered various technical difficulties arising from the 3-D process and was forced to abandon it during production - the movie was completed and released in standard 2-D format. Reports of a 3-D print playing at the UK’s Festival of Fantastic Films in the late 1990’s are most likely true, given that virtually *any* film will display an illusion of depth during rapid camera movement when viewed through appropriate Pulfrich eyewear]

INAZUMAN
(see: Tobidasu Rittai Eiga: Inazuman)

INAZUMAN THE MOVIE
(see: Tobidasu Rittai Eiga: Inazuman)

THE INCREDIBLE INVASION OF THE 20,000 GIANT ROBOTS FROM OUTER SPACE
Netherlands - 2000 - 8m - col
D: Elmer Kaan, Alexander Lentjes
Dual-video / Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-video, single-strip/field sequential and single-strip/anaglyphic release prints
Stereo
1.85:1
[A spoof of 1950’s science fiction B-movies, this puppet animation - the first 3-D short film to combine stop motion with CGI animation - features a lone scientist who is forced to take action when an army of robots controlled by the evil Dr. Morbidus launch an all-out assault on the earth]

INDIAN SUMMER
USA - 1953 - 3m - col
D: Ernst Wildi
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
0.67:1
[Travelogue short, exploring the natural beauty of the Dakota wilderness. The film was later included in the compilation item Triorama (qv)]

INFERNO
USA - 1953 - 107m - col
D: Roy Baker
Clear-Vision
Dual-35mm
3-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Revenge thriller, featuring Robert Ryan as a tyrannical millionaire who breaks his leg in the desert and is left to die by his greedy wife (Rhonda Fleming) and her equally greedy boyfriend (William Lundigan). Naturally, Ryan isn’t inclined to let them get away with it... Though photographed with 1.37:1 aspect ratio in mind, the film was exhibited at 1.66:1 in some venues]

IN OLD CALIFORNIA
USA - 1942 - 88m - bw
D: William McGann
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

IN SEARCH OF A ‘10’: THE CO-EDS*
USA (V) - 2003 - 55m - col
Field sequential
Single-strip/Video
Stereo
1.33:1
[Softcore titillation in which ’Playboy’ model Tina New searches co-ed campuses for hot young wannabe models who preen and pose for the 3-D camera]

INTERCEPTION
(see: Perekhvat)

INTERNATIONAL STEWARDESSES
(aka: Jet Set)
(aka: The Stewardesses Part II)
(aka: Supersonic Supergirls)
USA - 1974 - 92m - col
D: Al Silliman Jr.
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic)
Single-strip/over-under (spherical) release print
Mono
1.75:1
[Softcore (though still X-rated) follow-up to The Stewardesses (qv), featuring more bosomy beauties and their sexual exploits, on land and in the air! See also: The Stewardesses Part III]

IN THE CRACK
USA (V) - 1995 - 86m - col
D: Michael Talon
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX-rated audition video, in which various young beauties are tested in the ‘art’ of rear-entry sex. An otherwise plotless minge-binge]

IN THE DRESSING ROOM OF BELLA STARR
USA - 1953 - 6m - bw
D: [uncredited]
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Burlesque short, in which stripper Bella Starr struts her stuff for the camera, on-stage and off. Most listings shorten this film’s title to ‘Bella Starr’]

INTO THE DEEP
Canada/Japan/USA/France - 1994 - 35m - col
D: Howard Hall
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
IMAX Digital Sound
1.44:1
[Large Format exploration of the underwater kelp forest, home to a variety of weird and wonderful creatures]

IN TUNE WITH TOMORROW
[Not a film per se, this was actually the name of the Chrysler exhibit at the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair, during which the 3-D films Motor Rhythm and New Dimensions (both qv) were first screened]

INVADERS FROM MARS
USA - 1953 - 78m - col
D: William Cameron Menzies
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn’t filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process]

ISLAND OF DESPAIR
(see: 99 Mujeres)

ISLE OF LOST WOMEN
(see: 99 Mujeres)

IT CAME FROM INNER SPACE
USA - 1985 - col
[Horror film, directed by Stephen Gibson and and slated for production in his trademark DeepVision process, though the project was abandoned during the planning stages]

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
USA - 1953 - 81m - bw
D: Jack Arnold
Universal 3-D
Dual-35mm
3-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[A small-town astronomer (Richard Carlson) sees an alien spacecraft fall to earth in the Mojave desert, though no one believes his story, even when its otherworldly occupants steal the identities of several townsfolk. Though promoted as a sepia presentation in pre-release ad-mats, the film was printed and distributed in black and white only. Projected at 1.85:1 aspect ratio in some venues]

I, THE JURY
USA - 1953 - 87m - bw  
D: Harry Essex
Todd-Dunning 3-D
Dual-35mm
3-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Mickey Spillane’s two-fisted crime novel reaches the big screen with Biff Elliot as private eye Mike Hammer, scouring New York for the murderous scum who offed his oldest pal. Moodily photographed (by noir specialist John Alton) at 1.37:1 aspect ratio, though the film was exhibited at 1.75:1 in some venues]

IT’S TOUGH TO BE A BUG
USA - 1998 - 9m - col
D: Chris Bailey
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
2.20:1
[Animated Large Format film, utilizing characters from the 2-D feature A Bug’s Life (1998) to portray the world from an insect’s point of view]

IVAN GROZNYI I
(aka: Ivan the Terrible [Part 1])
Russia - 1943 - 96m - col
D: Sergei Eisenstein
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format, under the title Ivan the Terrible (Part 1). The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

IVAN THE TERRIBLE (PART 1)
(see: Ivan Groznyi I)

I WAS A BURLESQUE QUEEN
USA - 1953 - 68m - bw
D: Frank McDonald, Sidney Pink
Dual-35mm (partly)
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Re-edited version of the 2-D feature Linda Be Good (1948), in which naive young beauty Elyse Knox goes undercover at a burlesque club to gather information for a novel she’s writing. The ‘revised’ version contains newly-shot 3-D footage of strippers at work (hubba! hubba!)]



J


JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
USA - 1952 - 78m - sepia and col
D: Jean Yarbrough
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

JAI BADALLA*
(aka: Victory for Allah)
India - 1985 - feature - col
[Though listed in some sources as an over-under StereoVision production, there is some doubt as to whether this film actually exists]

J’AI RENCONTRÉ LE PÈRE NOËL
(aka: Here Comes Santa Claus)
France - 1985 - 78m - col
D: Christian Gion
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Dolby Stereo
2.35:1
[Children’s fantasy, with musical intrerludes, in which a little boy (Emeric Chapuis) escapes his humdrum life by travelling to the North Pole for an adventure with none other than Santa Claus himself!]

JAI VETHLAM*
India - 1985 - feature - col
D: B. Vitalacharya
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Obscure item, about which little is known. Apparently re-released in 2003 under the title Vedhalam]

JAKO AND THE PET THIEF
(see: Jako y el Ladrón de Mascotas)

JAKO Y EL LADRÓN DE MASCOTAS*
(aka: Jako and the Pet Thief)
Spain - 2002 - 5m - col
D: Yanco Epesteguia
Stereoscopic CGI animation
[Animated short. Intrepid space cop Jako (first seen in Cuento de Natividad, qv) goes in pursuit of a villainous alien who travels the galaxy stealing pets from their distraught owners]

JAPANESE LADIES*
USA (V) - 19?? - short? - col
Field sequential
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[X-rated compilation of 3-D footage taken from several Japanese videos featuring young ladies in states of undress. Nurse, the screens!]

JAWS III
(see: Jaws 3-D)

JAWS 3-D
(aka: Jaws III)
USA - 1983 - 97m - col
D: Joe Alves
ArriVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Dolby Stereo
2.35:1
[Not nearly as bad as most critics would have you believe, this ranks alongside Friday the 13th Part III (qv) as a key title in the 1980’s 3-D boom. Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale and Louis Gossett Jr. star in the Gorgo-esque tale of a 35-foot shark which terrorizes a newly-opened Sea World theme park whilst searching for its infant offspring, trapped somewhere on the premises]

JESSE JAMES VS. THE DALTONS
USA - 1953 - 65m - col
D: William Castle
Columbia 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[Western drama. Believing himself to be the son of Jesse James, a young cowboy (Brett King) goes in search of his family heritage and stumbles into a confrontation with the notorious Dalton gang. The soundtrack is listed as magnetic stereo in contemporary pressbooks, though the film appears to have been released in optical mono only]

JET SET
(see: International Stewardesses)

JIM THE PENMAN
[see: Untitled Porter-Waddell Demonstration Film]

EL JINETE
(aka: The Rider)
Mexico - 1954 - 100m - bw
D: Vicente Orona
Stereo Base
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Romantic melodrama. Diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, a beautiful heiress (Martha Roth) retires to her family’s isolated hacienda where she falls in love with a lowly ranch-hand (Dagoberto Rodríguez), leading to heartbreak and tragedy]

JING NU A PING
(see: Pretty Girl Ah Ping)

JING WU MEN
[see: Fist of Fury]

JIVARO
(aka: Lost Treasure of the Amazon)
USA - 1954 - 91m - col
D: Edward Ludwig
Paravision
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[The lovely Rhonda Fleming travels to an isolated Brazilian trading post in search of her errant fiancé (Richard Denning), only to get caught up in various jungle adventures with dashing Fernando Lamas. Co-starring erstwhile horror stalwart Lon Chaney Jr. Originally released in 2-D only]

JOE FLY AND SANCHEZ: MOSTLY SPORTS
[see: Cyberworld]

JO KITSUNE KAIKI DENSETSU: YÔJU MERON*
(aka: Legend of Vixen: Monster Melon)
Japan (V) - 1987 - 45m - col
D: Masayuki Hisazumi
Single-strip/field sequential VHD release
Dolby Surround
1.33:1
[Whilst rehearsing in a creepy old mansion, members of a Japanese rock band stumble across a sealed box containing the spirit of a beautiful young woman, who is promptly released and embarks on a murderous rampage. The 3-D version was released exclusively on the VHD format]

JONAS BROTHERS: THE 3-D CONCERT EXPERIENCE
USA - 2009 - 76m - col
D: Bruce Hendricks
Fusion 3-D (partly)
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) and dual-1570 (IMAX) release prints
Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS (D-Cinema)
Sonics-DDP (IMAX)
1.85:1
[Following their guest appearance in Hannah Montana / Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour (qv), this concert movie toplines the Jonas Brothers - a wholesome US pop-rock band, aimed specifically at teenagers - recorded during their 2008 ‘Burning Up’ tour]

JONG WEN
[see: Jorng Wien]

JORNG WIEN*
(aka: Blood Grudge)
(aka: Revenge)
Thailand (TV) - 2004 - 72m - col
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/HD Video
Dolby Digital
1.78:1
[Low-budget horror, produced for TV and released on DVD with Pulfrich 3-D glasses. A frightened woman kills herself and her newborn child to escape the attentions of her bullying husband, but her ghost returns to the hotel where she died, seeking vengeance. The film’s title is rendered Jong Wen in some sources]

JOURNEY TO A BLACK HOLE*
USA - 2012 - 40m - col
D: Adolf Schaller, Donna Tracy
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary which explores the beauty and wonder of black holes, along with the cosmic forces which shape them into existence]

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
USA - 2008 - 92m - col
D: Eric Brevig
Fusion 3-D
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS
1.85:1
[Updated version of Jules Verne’s novel, featuring Brendan Fraser as a daring scientist who charters an expedition to locate his missing brother, only to stumble on a fantastic world deep within the earth]

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF TIME
USA - 1967 - 82m - col
D: David L. Hewitt
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US DVD in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

JUMPING OUT SUNDAY
[see: Tobidashita Nichi Yôbi]

JUMP, QTARO! BAKEBAKE’S GRAND STRATAGEM
(see: Shin Rittai Anime Obake no Q Tarô Tobidase! Bakebake Daisakusen)

JUNE
USA - 2003 - 7m - col
D: Munro Ferguson
IMAX SANDDE
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format short, produced in memory of the late Canadian filmmaker Joyce June Wieland, which uses abstract animation to depict Wieland’s life, death and creative spark]

JUSTINE: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
[see: Adventures of Justine, The]

JUSTINE: A PRIVATE AFFAIR
[see: Adventures of Justine, The]

JUSTINE: CRAZY LOVE
[see: Adventures of Justine, The]

JUSTINE: EXOTIC LIAISONS
[see: Adventures of Justine, The]

JUSTINE: IN THE HEAT OF PASSION
[see: Adventures of Justine, The]

JUSTINE: OBJECT OF DESIRE
[see: Adventures of Justine, The]

JUSTINE: SEDUCTION OF INNOCENCE
[see: Adventures of Justine, The]

JUSTINE: WILD NIGHTS
[see: Adventures of Justine, The]

JUST INSATIABLE
[see: Emmanuelle in Space]



K


KAHUNA
(see: Surfer Girls, The)

KAIJÛ PURANETTO: GOJIRA*
(aka: Monster Planet of Godzilla)
Japan (SV) - 1994 - short - col
D: Koichi Kawakita
Dual-570
6-track magnetic stereo
2.20:1
[Special venue attraction designed for the Sanrio Puroland theme park in Tokyo, Japan. This motion simulator ride features newly-created footage of Godzilla in conflict with arch-rivals Rodan and Mothra]

KAMA-SUTRA: LES SECRETS DE L’ART AMOUREUX
(aka: Kama-Sutra: The Secrets to the Art of Love)
France (V) - 2005 - 75m - col
D: Blaise Casanova
Dual-video
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Stereo
1.33:1
[Sex education video, featuring “The 50 key positions of the Kama Sutra in 3-D”. In other words, an 'educational' barrage of nudity and softcore smut. Hey, who's complaining?!]

KAMA-SUTRA: THE SECRETS TO THE ART OF LOVE
(see: Kama-Sutra: Les Secrets de l’Art Amoureux)

KAMEN NO NINJA AKAKAGE
[see: Tobidasu Bôken Eiga: Akakage]

KARANDASH NA LIDU
(aka: Karandash on Ice)
USSR - 1948 - 23m - col
D: Vladimir V. Nemolyaev
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Comedy short in which crazy Karandash (Mikhail Nikolayevich Rumyantsev) becomes substitute goal-keeper in a women’s hockey team captained by the object of his affections (Ludmilla Tselikovskaya)]

KARANDASH ON ICE
(see: Karandash na Lidu)

KASEI NO SENSHI: TAIYÔ NO KIBA DAGURAMU*
(aka: Dougram vs. Round-Facer)
Japan (V) - 1987 - short - col
D: Kiyoshi Egami
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Single-strip/field sequential video print
Mono
1.33:1
[Anime short, a spin-off from the TV show Taiyô no Kiba Daguramu (Fang of the Sun Dougram, 1981-1983), in which a ragtag group of guerilla fighters battle overlords on a distant planet ruled by fear and intimidation. The film was originally included in the compilation video Anime Bijon (Vol. 7) (qv)]

KATER
(aka: Tomcat)
Germany - 2005/2008 - 14m - col
D: Tine Kluth
Claymation (digital still photography)
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-video, single-strip/side by side (HD and SD video) release prints
Dolby Stereo SR
1.85:1
[Claymation short, originally released in 2-D and ‘dimensionalized’ in 2008 for stereoscopic presentations. An unlucky tomcat uses up most of his nine lives after falling in love]

KETTÔ
(aka: Duel)
Japan - 1953 - 25m - bw
D: Tsuneo Tabata
Shochiku Natural Vision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.37:1
[The first and only film produced in the Shochiku Natural Vision format, this crime drama features Yuji Kawakita as a journalist pursuing a criminal (Tatsuya Mitsuhashi) who turns out to be an old friend]

KHON TUD HUA*
(aka: Head Hunter)
Thailand (TV) - 2004 - 89m - col
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/HD Video
Dolby Digital
1.78:1
[Low-budget horror, produced for TV and released on DVD with Pulfrich 3-D glasses. A monstrous serial killer with a penchant for decapitating his victims is shot dead by a brave police officer. However, the killer’s father - a powerful necromancer - reclaims his son’s body and kidnaps the officer’s brother, whose severed head is subsequently placed on the killer’s body in a ritual designed to bring the monster back to life. The title is rendered Kon Tud Hua in some sources]

KID COASTER
(see: Alien Adventure)

KIDNAPPING OF THE CENTURY
(see: Pokhishchenie Veka)

THE KIKAIDA 3-D MOVIE
(see: Tobidasu Jinzô Ningen Kikaidâ)

KIKAIDER THE MOVIE
(see: Tobidasu Jinzô Ningen Kikaidâ)

KING KONGUI DAEYEOKSEUB
(see: APE)

KING OF THE ELVES*
USA - 2012 - feature - col
D: Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker
Disney Digital 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Based on the short story by Phillip K. Dick, this animated fantasy follows the adventures of a reluctant hero in the Mississippi Delta, whose life is transformed when he helps a group of elves in their battle against an evil troll]

KINO-CONCERT
(see: Kontsert)

KINO-CONCERTO
(see: Kontsert)

KISS ME KATE
USA - 1953 - 109m - col
D: George Sidney
Metrovision Tri-Dee
Dual-35mm
3-track magnetic stereo
1.75:1
[One of the most fondly-remembered films of the 1950’s 3-D boom, this MGM confection (based on the successful stage-musical) features Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel as a showbiz couple who are reunited following an acrimonious divorce when they’re cast as the leads in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew, and their behaviour on-stage matches their explosive real-life relationship. Shakespeare by way of Cole Porter - who’da thunk?!]

KNICK KNACK
USA - 1989 - 4m - col
D: John Lasseter
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-35mm and Digital 3-D release prints
Dolby Stereo
1.85:1
[An early short from future Pixar supremo Lasseter, this animated comedy features a toy Santa who struggles to escape his snow-globe prison and cuddle up with a bikini-clad doll. The original version contained female characters with (ahem!) rather large bosoms, though these were apparently reduced in size for the film’s 2003 re-release, as a supporting item for Finding Nemo! Who says stupidity (and censorship) is a dying art?... The Digital 3-D print was first screened in 2006, as a support item for the 'dimensionalized' version of The Nightmare Before Christmas (qv)]

KNIGHT-ERRANT GIRL
(see: Lucky 13)

KOGDA OZHIVAYUT OSTROVA
(aka: When the Islands Come Alive)
USSR - 1982 - 37m - col
D: Nelli Gultchik
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Documentary short exploring the wildlife and fauna of various Pacific islands]

KOGDA POYUT MUZHCHINY
(aka: When Men Are Singing)
USSR - 1980 - 26m - col
D: Kheyno Pars
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Musical short, featuring the Men’s Academic Chorus of Estonia, set against a range of eye-popping stereoscopic vistas]

KOLMIULOTTEISIA KUVIA
Finland - 1990 - 8m - bw
D: Juho Gartz
Dual-16mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic (16mm and 35mm blow-up) release prints
Mono
1.37:1
[Experimental short film, exploring stereoscopic imagery without recourse to narrative (a train pulling into a station, a majestic harbour view, magic tricks, etc.). The title translates as ‘Three-Dimensional Images’]

KOLOKOLA
(aka: Bells)
(aka: Ten Bells)
USSR - 1988 - 10m - col
D: Nikolai Fomin
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Documentary exploring the history of Christianity in Russia, with an emphasis on churches and bells]

KONTSERT
(aka: Concerto)
(aka: Kino-Concert)
(aka: Kino-Concerto)
(aka: Land of Youth)
(aka: Leningrad Concert Hall)
(aka: Russian Salad)
(aka: World of Youth)
USSR - 1941 - 30m - bw and col
D: Aleksandr N. Andreyevskiy
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (lenticular projection)
Mono
0.67:1
[Documentary celebration of Russian culture, including its wildlife, architecture and landscapes]

KON TUD HUA
[see: Khon Tud Hua]

KOSOLAPIY DRUG
(aka: A Bandy-Legged Friend)
USSR - 1959 - 45m - col
D: Vladimir Sukhobokov
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Comedy short, depicting the adventures of an accident-prone bear]

KRAKKEN: ADVENTURE OF FUTURE OCEAN
[see: Cyberworld]

KRUSTALLY*
(aka: Crystals)
USSR - 1948 - short - col
D: Ya. Kaplunov
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short, exploring the architecture and beauty of naturally-occurring crystals within the caves and mountains of Russia’s heartland]

KUAI LE DE DONG WU YUAN
(see: Happy Zoo)

KUNG FU
USA - 1974 - feature - col
[Though listed in most 3-D filmographies, there is no evidence to suggest that this martial arts potboiler - credited to director John Lawrence, and said to contain sequences in side-by-side StereoVision - was ever completed and/or released]

KUNG FU PANDA: THE KABOOM OF DOOM*
USA - 2011 - feature - col
D: Jennifer Yu Helson
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D and dual-1570 release prints
[Sequel to the 2-D animated spoof Kung Fu Panda (2008)]

KYÔFU NO SADI SUTO: IJÔ SEI HANZAI*
(aka: Abnormal Sex Crimes)
Japan - 1968 - 70m - col
D: Kôji Seki
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.85:1?
[Horror-thriller with an emphasis on sexual violence. Though released in anaglyphic format, I was unable to determine whether the movie was shot dual-image, or whether the filmmakers used an anaglyphic camera attachment]



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EL LAGO DE LOS CISNES
(aka: Swan Lake)
Spain - 1953 - 20m - col
D: Francisco Rovira Beleta
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Condensed version of Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake]

LALIM
[see: Nalim]

LAND OF SUN
(see: Solnechniy Krai)

LAND OF YOUTH
(see: Kontsert)

THE LAST BUFFALO
Canada/USA - 1990 - 27m - col
D: Stephen Low
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
IMAX Digital Sound
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary, produced for Expo 90 in Osaka, Japan. Filmed in ‘the Alberta badlands’, this prescient film focuses on the fragile co-existence of Man and Nature and the consequential threat to various species]

THE LAST MAN ON EARTH
USA/Italy - 1963 - 86m - bw
D: Sidney Salkow
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D (anamorphic widescreen), but reconfigured on US DVD in single-strip/anaglyphic format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

LAUGHING LAUGHING*
[Huan Huan Xiao Xiao]
China - 1981 - feature - col
D: Qin Zhiyu, Liu Qiulin
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Love story set amongst the performers of a daring acrobatic troupe]

THE LEASING GIRLS
(see: Supergirls for Love)

LEGALLY EXPOSED
[see: Click]

THE LEGEND OF SPYRO*
USA - 2009 - feature - col
D: Mark Dippe
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated fantasy, based on the popular video game, in which a young orphan dragon leads the revolt against evil forces which have taken over the world in which he was raised by kind-hearted dragonflies]

LEGEND OF THE MAGIC BED
(see: Princess Orgasma and the Magic Bed)

LEGEND OF THE MAGIC BED 2
(see: Good, the Bed and the Snuggly, The)

LEGEND OF THE WHITE HORSE
S.Korea/USA - 2003 - 18m - col
D: David W. Koh
Iwerks 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-HD Video and dual-1570 release prints
Iwerks Digital Audio
1.78:1
[Animated fantasy, released to special venues and Large Format theaters, in which a young warrior and his trusty steed battle the forces of evil to save his homeland from destruction]

LEGEND OF VIXEN: MONSTER MELON
(see: Jo Kitsune Densetsu: Yôju Meron)

LEGENDS OF FLIGHT
Canada - 2009 - 42m - col
D: Stephen Low
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format history of aviation, from early designs to the sleek new breed of 21st century aircraft]

LEGENDS OF XXX*
USA (V) - 2005? - feature - col
D: [various]
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX video compilation, featuring the likes of Seka, John Holmes, Annette Haven and Desiree Cousteau in sex scenes from Adult movies of the 1970’s and 80’s. The video also contains a Pulfrich 3-D clip from Princess Orgasma and the Magic Bed (qv)]

LENINGRAD CONCERT HALL
(see: Kontsert)

LEONARDO’S DREAM
USA/Italy - 1989 - 26m - col
D: Douglas Trumbull
Showscan 3-D
Dual-570 (60fps)
6-track magnetic stereo
2.20:1
[Widescreen celebration of the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci, photographed by master cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno in one of the best 3-D formats of all time]

L5: FIRST CITY IN SPACE
USA/Canada - 1996 - 35m - col
D: Toni Myers, Allan Kroeker
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
IMAX Digital Sound
1.44:1
[Large Format drama which attempts to predict the ways in which mankind will branch out into areas beyond the Earth. 100 years in the future, a little girl is born into a floating city in space and witnesses the beauty and danger of her cosmic home at first hand]

LIBERATION
[see: Cyberworld]

LIEBE IN 3 DIMENSIONEN
(aka: Love in 3-D)
W.Germany - 1972 - 93m - col
D: Walter Boos
Triarama
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic)
570 release print
4-track magnetic stereo
2.21:1
[Euro starlets Ingrid Steeger, Elisabeth Volkmann and Christina Lindberg star in this X-rated sex comedy, featuring seven different vignettes with an erotic twist. The original version appears to have contained hardcore material, though most extant prints (85 minutes) are defiantly softcore. The US distributor converted the film to 35mm single-strip/over-under format, with a mono soundtrack and 2.00:1 aspect ratio. The Triarama process was also used on Con la Muerte a la Espalda and La Marca del Hombre Lobo (both qv), credited as ‘Stereovision 70’ on the former and ‘Hi Fi Stereo 70’ on the latter]

LIKE WOW!
(see: Mr. Peek-a-Boo's Playmates)

LINDA BE GOOD
[see: I Was a Burlesque Queen]

LIONS 3-D: ROAR OF THE KALAHARI
USA - 2003/2006 - 40m - col
D: Tim Liversedge
IMAX DMR 3-D
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Dimensionalized version of the 2-D IMAX feature Roar: Lions of the Kalahari (2003), in which two male lions fight for supremacy of a pride deep within the Kalahari desert]

THE LION TAMER
[Xun Shi San Lang]
China - 1985 - 56m - col
D: Yu Jie
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Comedy concerning an accident-prone circus performer]

THE LISTENING DEAD
USA - 2005/2008 - 13m - bw
D: Phil Mucci
Super 16
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-video, single-strip/side by side (HD and SD video) release prints
Stereo
1.85:1
[Horror-thriller with a ‘silent movie’ aesthetic, originally released in 2-D and ‘dimensionalized’ in 2008 for stereoscopic presentations. In a creepy Gothic mansion, a frustrated seamstress (Karen Miller) accidentally curses her neglectful husband (Peter Scriba), an ‘obsessed composer’ who is subsequently haunted by a vengeful female ghost (Sarah Hund)]

LI TI QI BING
(see: 3-D Army, The)

LI TI SHI SAN MEI
(see: Lucky 13)

LITTLE FRIEND
(see: Druzok)

LITTLE HERCULES*
USA - 2009 - feature - col
D: Mohamed Khashoggi
Dual-HD Video (partly)
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[Former wrestler Hulk Hogan toplines this children’s fantasy as Zeus, father of the young Hercules (Richard Sandrak) who opts to forego his god-like destiny and live as a mortal in modern-day LA. Various adventures follow, some of which are depicted in 3-D]

LITTLE MAGICIAN
(see: Chhota Jadugar)

THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
USA - 1960 - 70m - bw
D: Roger Corman
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US DVD in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

LOCKED IN GLASS
(see: Zamurovannye v Stekle)

LONDON KNIGHTS 3-D
UK (V) - 1993 - 51m - col
D: Gary Wicks
Pulfrich 3-D
Single-strip/Video
Stereo
1.33:1
[Male strip troupe London Knights - the UK’s answer to the Chippendales - recreate some of their most popular stage routines. Beefcake ahoy!]

LONDON TRIBUTE
UK - 1953 - 3m - bw
D: Robert M. Angell
Stereo Techniques
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short, covering the funeral of Queen Mary in March 1953]

LOST TREASURE OF THE AMAZON
(see: Jivaro)

LOUISIANA TERRITORY
USA - 1953 - 65m - col
D: Harry W. Smith
Future Dimension
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[One of the most obscure features produced during the 1950’s 3-D boom, this drama-documentary was commissioned by RKO studios to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, and depicts the subsequent development of this territory, especially New Orleans]

LOVE FOR SALE
USA - 1953 - 10m - bw
D: [uncredited]
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic and dual-35mm release prints
Mono
1.37:1
[Burlesque short, in which a glamorous stripper performs for an admiring gent, who eventually takes part in her routine! Dual-35mm print first screened in 2003 at the World 3-D Film Expo in Hollywood, USA]

LOVE IN 3-D
(see: Liebe in 3 Dimensionen)

LOVE, LOVES
(see: Amor, Amores)

LUCKY 13
[Li Ti Shi San Mei]
(aka: Empire)
(aka: Knight-Errant Girl)
(aka: Revengence Superlady)
China/Japan - 1986 - 90m - col
D: Yang Qitian, Lin Chuantou
Fuji Vision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Martial arts/swordplay drama, one of several 3-D movies produced in mainland China during the 1980’s boom (cf. The Lion Tamer, Awakening from a Dream, etc.). Here, a young girl escapes from a villainous general who has murdered her entire family and retreats into the forest where she learns various martial arts techniques before seeking revenge on her tormentor. The English export title is often credited as ‘Revenge of Superlady’, though it’s apparently rendered on-screen as Revengence Superlady (sic)]

LUCY PINDER’S 3-D BOOBS*
UK (V) - 2007 - 53m - col
Dual-video (partly)
Single-strip/anaglyphic video print
Stereo
1.33:1
[Special DVD provided free with the April 2007 issue of Loaded magazine, featuring busty model Lucy Pinder and a couple of other equally top-heavy lovelies who perform various peek-a-boo strip routines, either solo or in groups. Some of the footage was shot in 3-D. Kindly wipe the drool off your keyboard...]

LUMBER JACK RABBIT
USA - 1953 - 7m - col
D: Charles M. (Chuck) Jones
Burton 3-D
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Dual-35mm release print
Mono
1.66:1
[The only Warner Bros ‘Looney Tunes’ cartoon filmed in 3-D, this one pitches Bugs Bunny against a gigantic dog protecting a valley of equally enormous carrots. Originally released as a supporting item for The Moonlighter (qv)]

LUNA-CY
USA - 1925 - 1 reel - bw
D: Jacob F. Leventhal
Stereoscopiks
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Silent and sound versions
1.33:1
[3-D demonstration short, using various attractions at Luna Park, Coney Island, to assault the viewer with a series of off-screen gags ‘n’ gimmicks]

LUST IN 3-D*
W.Germany - 1970 - 15m - col
Mono
[Amateur X-rated short film, once available on VHS in single-strip/anaglyphic format. Most likely filmed in dual-strip (16mm or 35mm)]

LUSTY BEDTIME STORY
(see: Ryôki Shikijô Yawa)

THE LYNX STALKS ITS PREY
(see: Rys Idet po Sledu)



M


MACHINE 22-12
(see: Mashina 22-12 [Schastliviy Reys])

MACISTE CONTRO IL VAMPIRO
(aka: Goliath and the Vampires)
Italy - 1961 - 91m - col
D: Sergio Corbucci, Giacomo Gentilomo
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D (Totalscope), but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format, under the title Goliath and the Vampires. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

MADAGASCAR 3*
USA - 2011 - feature - col
D: Eric Darnell
Tru 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Second sequel to the 2-D animation Madagascar (2005), which sees our goofy animal heroes travelling through Europe as members of a travelling circus]

THE MAD MAGICIAN
USA - 1954 - 72m - bw
D: John Brahm
Columbia 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[Clearly designed to replicate the look and feel of House of Wax (qv), released the previous year, this fast-paced thriller toplines Hollywood’s new ‘boogey man’ Vincent Price as a deranged magician who seeks murderous vengeance on the professional rival (Donald Randolph) who betrayed him]

MADONNA AND HER BUBBLES
USA - 1953 - 4m - bw
D: Klaytan W. Kirby
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Burlesque short, featuring stripper Lili St. Cyr]

THE MAGIC BALLOON
USA - 1989 - 42m - col
D: Ronald Neame
Showscan 3-D
Dual-570 (60fps)
6-track magnetic stereo
2.20:1
[Promotional item for the Showscan 3-D format, photographed by ace cinematographer Jack Cardiff (Black Narcissus, The Vikings, etc.)]

MAGIC CARPET RIDE
(see: Alien Adventure)

A MAGICIAN’S ADVENTURES*
[Mo Shu Shi De Qi Yu]
(aka: Wondrous Encounters of a Magician)
China - 1962 - 47m - col
D: Sang Hu
35mm
Mono
2.35:1
[Comedy drama. In modern-day China, an ageing magician goes in search of the son he abandoned as an infant during the Second World War. The film is notable as China’s first long-form 3-D narrative in colour and widescreen, though it’s unclear how the 2.35:1 ratio was achieved in this instance. Some sources indicate the film was shot in single-strip/over-under format, expanding on the principles first employed in 1952 by Hungarian filmmaker Félix Bodrossy, inventor of the Plasztikus Film process (pre-empting the US over-under format Spacevision, not introduced until 1966). Less reliable sources claim the film was shot in anaglyph format, indicating the use of an anaglyphic camera attachment, which seems highly unlikely, though other sources claim the film was projected theatrically in anaglyph, possibly alongside a polarized version. However, it’s also possible the film was shot in dual-35mm and composed for 2.35:1 within the Academy 1.37:1 frame(s), optically extracted during post-production (the same process was used in 1960 for September Storm, qv). Investigations are ongoing]

MAGIC JOURNEYS
USA (SV) - 1982 - 14m - col
D: Murray Lerner
Disney 3-D
Dual-570
14-track Dolby Stereo
2.20:1
[Special venue item, produced for Disney theme parks, in which a group of children experience the wonders of a circus before riding horseback on the beach]

MAGIC JOURNEY TO AFRICA*
Spain - 2009 - 45m - col
D: Jordi Llompart
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D and dual-1570 release prints
[Family film, based on the director’s own novel ('El Corazón Sobre la Arena' - The Heart on the Sand), in which a lonely little girl (Eva Gerretsen) takes an imaginary trip to Africa where she experiences a wide range of magical adventures]

THE MAGIC LAKE
(see: Volshebnoe Ozero)

MAGIC MAGIC
(see: Chhota Jadugar)

MAGIC REEF
USA (SV) - 1989 - 13m - col
D: Siegfried Baldzuhn
Iwerks 3-D
Dual-570
Single-strip (870 and 35mm) release print
Left-right images over-under
Iwerks Digital Audio
2.35:1
[Large Format documentary with an underwater theme. No further details available]

MAGIC SPECTACLES
USA - 1961 - 74m - col
D: Bob Wehling
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn’t filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process]

THE MAGIC WORLD OF NINJAS
[see: Tobidasu Bôken Eiga: Akakage]

MAGNIFICENT BODYGUARDS
[Fei Du Juan Yun Shan]
(aka: Eye of the Dragon)
(aka: Magnificent Guardsmen)
(aka: Master of Death)
Hong Kong - 1978 - 103m - col
D: Lo Wei
Ultra Vision
Dual-Techniscope/35mm
Single-strip release print
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Martial arts drama, featuring Jackie Chan in one of his earliest roles. He plays a brave warrior who’s hired to escort a beautiful heiress across the perilous Stormy Mountains, encountering all manner of dangers along the way]

MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION: WALKING ON THE MOON
Canada/USA - 2005 - 41m - col
D: Mark Cowen
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Sonics-DDP / DTS-70
1.44:1
[Eye-popping Large Format documentary, narrated by Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman and Bill Paxton, amongst others. Using newsreel footage and dramatic reconstructions, the film recounts the story of twelve astronauts who flew to the moon and back between 1969 and 1972]

MAGNIFICENT GUARDSMEN
(see: Magnificent Bodyguards)

MAHASHAKTIMAAN
[see: Maha Shaktiman]

MAHASHAKTIMAN
[see: Maha Shaktiman]

MAHA SHAKTIMAN
India - 1985 - 113m - col
D: V.S.R. Swamy
ArriVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Fantasy drama, in which an evil despot (Danny Denzongpa) takes control of an ancient kingdom and uses supernatural powers to defend himself from a heroic fraternity opposed to his rule. The film’s title is rendered ‘Maha Shaktimaan’ and ‘Mahashaktiman’ in some sources]

MAISKAYA NOCH, ILI UTOPLENNITSA
(aka: May Night)
USSR - 1952 - 67m - col
D: Aleksandr Rou
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Musical comedy, based on Nikolai Gogol’s popular Ukrainian legend, in which a young man (N. Losenko) encounters magical visions whilst romancing a maiden (Tatyana Konukhova) of whom his father - the town mayor - disapproves]

MAMMOTH AND PAPPOTH: A FURRY SHOW
(see: Papanty, Mamanty: Lokhmatoe Shou)

THE MAN FROM MARS
(see: M.A.R.S.)

MANHOLD
(see: Manhole)

MANHOLE*
(aka: Manhold)
USA - 1976 - feature - col
D: Spencer Logan [David E. Durston]
3-Depix
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.00:1
[XXX gay feature, toplined by Jamie Gillis and Wade Nichols. Director Durston (who made a number of sexploitation movies - gay and straight - throughout his career) was most famous for the ultra-gruesome I Drink Your Blood (1970). Manhole was the first film to utilize the 3-Depix format which, for technical reasons, rendered a 2.00:1 aspect ratio. However, the format’s specifications were subsequently altered to accommodate a 2.35:1 image]

MAN IN THE DARK
USA - 1953 - 70m - sepia   
D: Lew Landers
Columbia 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Crime drama, a remake of The Man Who Lived Twice (1939). After undergoing experimental brain surgery to reduce his criminal tendencies, an ex-con (Edmond O’Brien) loses his memory, including the whereabouts of a small fortune coveted by his former ‘colleagues’. Though photographed with 1.37:1 aspect ratio in mind, the film was exhibited at 1.85:1 in some venues]

MAN ON A GOLDEN HORSE
(see: Vsadnik na Zolotom Kone)

THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE
USA - 1983 - 111m - col  
D: Bruce Malmuth
Optimax III
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Steve Guttenberg takes the lead in this sci-fi comedy, playing a Senate employee who stumbles across an ‘invisibility serum’ and is pursued by foreign agencies who want it for their own nefarious purposes. One of the reviews at the Internet Movie Database dismisses the film as “racist, homophobic drivel”]

MAN WITH A GREEN GLOVE
(see: Chelovek v Zelenoy Perchatke)

MAN WITH A MAID
(see: Champagnegalopp)

LA MARCA DEL HOMBRE LOBO
(aka: Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror)
(aka: Hell’s Creatures)
(aka: The Mark of the Wolfman)
(aka: Die Vampire des Dr. Dracula)
Spain/W.Germany - 1967 - 98m - col
D: Enrique L. Eguiluz
Hi Fi Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic)
570 release print
4-track magnetic stereo
2.21:1
[The film which established Paul Naschy (Jacinto Molina Álvarez) as a European horror star, and the first in a long series of movies featuring Naschy’s tormented werewolf ‘Waldemar Daninsky’. Seeking a cure for his murderous affliction, Daninsky enlists the help of two doctors (Aurora de Alba and Julián Ugarte) who turn out to be bloodthirsty vampires! The re-edited US version, Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror, was reconfigured in single-strip/over-under format for 35mm presentations, and released in 1971 with a mono soundtrack and 2.00:1 aspect ratio. The Hi-Fi Stereo 70 process was also used on Con la Muerte a la Espalda and Liebe in 3 Dimensionen (both qv), credited as ‘Stereovision 70’ on the former and ‘Triarama’ on the latter. Confusingly, ‘Hi Fi Stereo 70’ is also the name of a German production company often credited as this film’s co-financier (it was actually co-produced by Alpha Films of Munich and the Spanish company Maxper P.C.), and Hi Fi Stereo 70 used this misleading name for a series of movies  - such as Andrea: Wie ein Blatt auf Nackter Haut (Andrea the Nympho, 1968) and Hexen bis aufs Blut Gequält (Mark of the Devil, 1969) - which weren’t filmed in a dimensional/70mm process]

THE MARK OF THE WOLFMAN
(see: Marca del Hombre Lobo, La)

MARK TWAIN’S AMERICA
USA/Canada - 1998 - 52m - col
D: Stephen Low
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Dual-1570 and -870 release prints
IMAX Digital Sound
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
[Anne Bancroft narrates this Large Format tribute to author Mark Twain (1835-1910), emphasizing the turbulent developments in American history during Twain’s lifetime]

M.A.R.S.
(aka: The Man from Mars)
(aka: Mars Calling)
USA - 1921 - short - bw
D: Roy William Neill
Teleview
Dual-35mm
Silent
1.33:1
[Comical sci-fi short, starring Grant Mitchell as an inventor who makes contact with the inhabitants of Mars via an early prototype TV set. This short film was expanded and re-released in 1922, under the title Radio Mania (qv). See also Teleview]

MARS CALLING
(see: M.A.R.S.)

MARS NEEDS MOMS!*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Simon Wells
Disney Digital 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated fantasy, in which a little boy fights to save his beloved mom from Martian invaders!]

MASHINA 22-12 (SCHASTLIVIY REYS)
(aka: Machine 22-12)
USSR - 1949 - 73m - col
D: Vladimir Nemolyaev
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (lenticular projection)
Mono
0.67:1
[Obscure comedy short, described by author Eddie Sammons as a “story about two chauffeurs”]

THE MASK
(aka: Eyes of Hell)
(aka: Face of Fire)
(aka: The Spooky Movie Show)
Canada - 1961 - 83m - bw
D: Julian Roffman
Depth Dimension (partly)
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.85:1
[Low budget horror with 3-D sequences, in which a skeptical psychiatrist (Paul Stevens) takes possession of a cursed mask which causes the wearer to hallucinate and go insane]

MASTER OF DEATH
(see: Magnificent Bodyguards)

MASTERS OF SPORT
(see: Mastyera Sporta)

MASTYERA SPORTA*
(aka: Masters of Sport)
USSR - 1950 - short - bw
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Sports documentary, little seen outside Russia, about which nothing more is known]

MAY NIGHT
(see: Maiskaya Noch, Ili Utoplennitsa)

THE MAZE
USA - 1953 - 81m - bw
D: William Cameron Menzies
Monogram 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[The heir to a Scottish castle (Richard Carlson) falls prey to an ancient curse which leads to a confrontation with something nasty lurking within a creepy old maze in the gardens. One of the few films directed by production designer Menzies, who makes excellent use of dimensional space. Though photographed with 1.37:1 aspect ratio in mind, the film was exhibited at 1.85:1 in some venues. Also, the soundtrack is listed as magnetic stereo in contemporary trade ads, though the film appears to have been released in optical mono only]

MEET THE ROBINSONS
USA - 2007 - 102m - col
D: Stephen J. Anderson
Disney Digital 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS
1.85:1
[An orphaned boy travels into the future to combat a bowler-hatted villain who plots to enslave mankind. The 35mm prints were screened in 2-D]

MEI REN YU
(see: Mermaid)

MEI TANTEI KONAN: KONAN VS. KIDDO - SHARK & JEWEL
(aka: Detective Conan: Conan vs. Kid - Shark & Jewel)
Japan - 2005 - 15m - col
D: Masato Satô
Stereoscopic cel animation (1570)
Dual-1570 release print
6-track digital sound
1.44:1
[Large Format animation, based on the hugely successful manga and TV anime Mei Tantei Konan (aka Case Closed), created by Gosho Aoyama in 1994. A 17 year old boy with amazing detective skills solves mysteries in the manner of a modern day Sherlock Holmes, even though (for various complicated reasons) he has the physical appearance of a six year old!]

MELODY
[see: Adventures in Music: Melody]

MELODY OF YOUTH*
[Qing Chun De Xuan Lu]
China - 1960 - short - col
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[One of the first 3-D movies shot in mainland China, this documentary short premiered in Shanghai alongside two other similar items, Happy Youth and Huangpu River Bank (both qv)]

MÉNAGE À TROIS
(see: Pensionnat des Petites Salopes, Le)

MERMAID
[Mei Ren Yu]
China - 1986 - 70m - col
D: Zhang Rongren, Er Lin
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Obscure sports drama concerning the travails of an Olympics-grade synchronized swimmer]

THE MERRY COMPETITION
(see: Színes Szottes)

METALSTORM: THE DESTRUCTION OF JARED-SYN
USA - 1983 - 84m - col
D: Charles Band
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Dolby Stereo
2.35:1
[Simplistic sci-fi adventure with excellent 3-D staging, in which a bounty hunter (Jeffrey Byron) helps a beautiful woman (Kelly Preston) take revenge on the evil warlord (Mike Preston) who murdered her father]

METROSCOPIX
USA - 1953 - 24m - bw
D: John A. Norling, Jacob Leventhal, George Sidney
Norling-Leventhal 3-Dimensions / Metroscopix
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Compilation of short films Audioscopiks, The New Audioscopiks and Third Dimensional Murder (all qv)]

THE MILWAUKEE BRAVES VERSUS THE CHICAGO CUBS BASEBALL GAME
USA - 1953 - 3m - bw
D: Bernard Howard
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Silent
0.67:1
[Documentary short, produced for the 1953 Wisconsin State Fair. In terms of subject matter, the film’s title is a dead giveaway...]

MI MENG CHU XING
(see: Awakening from a Dream)

MIRIAMI PIKNIK
(aka: Scarecrow)
Estonia/Russia - 2007 - 5m - col
D: Andres Tenusaar
Stereoscopic puppet animation (digital still photography)
Digital 3-D and dual-1570 release prints
Stereo (Digital 3-D)
Sonics-DDP (1570)
1.44:1
[Animated short, depicting a family’s eventful picnic in the countryside, including their encounter with a scarecrow]

MISADVENTURES IN 3-D
USA/Belgium - 2003 - 40m - col
D: Ben Stassen
nWave 3-D
Dual-1570 and stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570 and -870 release prints
6-track digital stereo
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
[Part-animated sequel to Encounters in the Third Dimension (qv), which uses the same characters to explore (and explain) the world of three-dimensional imagery]

MISS SADIE THOMPSON
USA - 1953 - 91m - col
D: Curtis Bernhardt
Columbia 3-D
Dual-35mm
3-track magnetic stereo
1.85:1
[Drama based on Somerset Maugham’s short story ‘Rain’, featuring Rita Hayworth as a wayward prostitute stranded by quarantine on a Pacific island just after WWII. Her natural sex appeal attracts the attentions of local US marines, along with the fury of a religious zealot (Jose Ferrer) whose protestations mask hidden desires. One of the few ‘serious’ films to utilize 3-D during the 1950’s. Also starring Charles Bronson, billed as ‘Charles Buchinsky’]

MIT EVA FING DIE SÜNDE AN
(see: Bellboy and the Playgirls, The)

M.L. GUNZBURG PRESENTS 3-D
(see: Time for Beany)

THE MODEL WHO FELL IN LOVE
(see: Vlublenniy Maneken)

MONEY FROM HOME
USA - 1954 - 100m - col
D: George Marshall
Dynoptic 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.75:1
[Comedy vehicle for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis as a couple of saps who get involved with a horse-racing scam operated by thieves and gangsters. Much hilarity ensues (it says here). The soundtrack is listed as magnetic stereo in contemporary trade ads, though the film appears to have been released in optical mono only]

MONKEY BRAIN SUSHI
[see: Cyberworld]

MON PII BOG*
(aka: Haunted Graveyard)
Thailand (TV) - 2004 - 94m - col
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/HD Video
Dolby Digital
1.78:1
[Low-budget horror, produced for TV and released on DVD with Pulfrich 3-D glasses. A group of high school students, victimized by bullies, take revenge on their tormentors with soil from a haunted graveyard, unleashing a murderous spirit which embarks on a gory rampage]

MONSTER FROM A PREHISTORIC PLANET
[see: Daikyajû Gappa]

MONSTER HOUSE
USA - 2006 - 90m - col
D: Gil Kenan
Digital Widescreen
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS
2.39:1
[Animated feature. Three kids discover a living, breathing house which plans to eat anyone who knocks at its door on Halloween night! The 3-D version was screened in digital 3-D, while 35mm prints were 2-D only]

A MONSTER IN PARIS
(see: Monstre à Paris, Un)

MONSTER PLANET OF GODZILLA
(see: Kaijû Puranetto: Gojira)

MONSTERS CRASH THE PAJAMA PARTY: SPOOK SHOW SPECTACULAR
USA (V) - 2001 - bw and col
[Compilation DVD, including single-strip/anaglyphic footage from Asylum of the Insane (qv)]

MONSTERS FROM THE MOON
(see: Robot Monster)

MONSTERS VS. ALIENS
USA - 2009 - 94m - col
D: Conrad Vernon, Rob Letterman
Digital Widescreen
Tru 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) and dual-1570 (IMAX) release prints
Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS (D-Cinema)
Sonics-DDP (IMAX)
2.39:1
[Animated action-comedy, a spoof of 1950’s creature features, in which an alien invasion is thwarted by a gang of large - but goofy! - monsters held in captivity by the US government]

UN MONSTRE À PARIS*
(aka: A Monster in Paris)
France - 2009 - 85m - col
D: Bibo Bergeron
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated fantasy. In 1910, Paris comes under attack from a monstrous creature]

THE MOONLIGHTER
USA - 1953 - 75m - bw  
D: Roy Rowland
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Western drama, reuniting the stars of Double Indemnity (1944). Fred MacMurray plays a cattle thief who seeks vengeance on the rabble-rousers who lynched an innocent man in his place, due to mistaken identity. Barbara Stanwyck is his old flame, an independent firebrand who continues his quest for justice following a tragic twist in the tale]

MOON MAN
Canada - 2004 - 4m - col
D: Paul Morstad
IMAX SANDDE
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Animated short, based on the song Moon Man Newfie by Stompin’ Tom Connors, which tells the story of folk legend Coldfish Dan and his fishing trip to the Milky Way]

THE MORTICIAN*
UK - 2009 - feature - col
D: Gareth Maxwell Roberts
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Plot details are somewhat obscure, but Variety describes this as a combination of ”urban noir, contemporary fairy tale and psychological thriller... in which kindness triumphs over cruelty”]

MOSCOW IN HOLIDAYS
(see: Moskovskie Etyudy)

MO SHU SHI DE QI YU
(see: Magician’s Adventures, A)

MOSKOVSKIE ETYUDY
(aka: Moscow in Holidays)
USSR - 2003 - 20m - col
D: Alexander Melkumov
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Documentary feature, celebrating the history of Moscow from the 12th century to the present day]

IL MOSTRO È IN TAVOLA... BARONE FRANKENSTEIN
(aka: De la Chair pour Frankenstein)
(aka: Flesh for Frankenstein)
(aka: Frankenstein)
Italy/France - 1973 - 94m - col
D: Paul Morrissey
Spacevision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Ultra-gory, sexed-up version of the Frankenstein legend, with Udo Kier as a depraved Baron (married to his sister, played by Monique Van Vooren!), who seeks to fashion the ‘perfect’ man and woman from various spare parts, before pairing them off and spawning an entirely new super-race! Ultra-sexy Joe Dallesandro looks bemused throughout and spends much of his screen time in the buff (no slobbering at the back there!). Though often billed as ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein’ (due to Warhol’s commercially-dictated possessory credit on US ad-mats), the film was never projected under that title]

MOTOR RHYTHM
USA - 1939 - 12m - bw
D: John A. Norling
Loucks & Norling 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Stop motion animation, depicting the complete assemblage of a brand new Plymouth. Produced for the Chrysler exhibit (In Tune With Tomorrow) at the 1939 New York World Fair. Footage from this film was later incorporated into the 1953 short Motor Rhythm (qv)]

MOTOR RHYTHM
USA - 1953 - 8m - bw and col
D: John A. Norling
Loucks & Norling 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short, comprised of footage from New Dimensions and the 1939 film Motor Rhythm (both qv)]

MOUSETRAPPED
(see: Better Mousetrap, A)

MOVIES OF THE FUTURE
USA - 1922 - 14m - bw
D: William Van Doren Kelley
Plasticon 3-D
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Silent
1.33:1
[Documentary short exploring the capabilities of 3-D cinematography, possibly the first stereoscopic film screened to a paying audience. Some footage was later incorporated into Thru’ the Trees: Washington, D.C. (qv)]

MOYA MOLDOVA
(aka: My Moldova)
USSR - 1982 - 20m - col
D: A. Bujanov
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Travelogue short, exploring the picturesque beauty of Moldova, situated in Eastern European splendour between Romania and the Ukraine - in glorious 3-D!]

MR. PEEK-A-BOO’S PLAYMATES
(aka: Like Wow!)
USA - 1962 - 58m - bw
D: Ronald V. Ashcroft
[’Nudie-cutie’ item, sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn’t filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process]

M-3D THE MOVIE
(see: Hard Candy)

MULTI-COLORED PEBBLES
(see: Raznotsvetnie Kameshki)

MUMMIES: SECRETS OF THE PHARAOHS
[see: Mummies 3-D: Secrets of the Pharaohs]

MUMMIES 3-D: SECRETS OF THE PHARAOHS
(aka: Egypt 3-D: Secrets of the Mummies)
USA - 2007/2008 - 40m/22m - col
D: Keith Melton
IMAX DMR 3-D
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-1570, over-under/870 and Digital 3-D release prints
Sonics-DDP (1570 and 870) / Dolby Digital (D-Cinema)
1.44:1 (1570 and 870)
1.85:1 (D-Cinema)
[Dimensionalized version of the 2-D Large Format film Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (2007), narrated by Christopher Lee, which explores the wonders of the ancient Egyptian civilizations. A shortened 22-minute version was released in digital 3-D format under the title Egypt 3-D: Secrets of the Mummies, designed as part of National Geographic’s touring exhibition ‘Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs’, launched in October 2008]

MY BLOODY VALENTINE
USA - 2009 - 101m - col
D: Patrick Lussier
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS
1.85:1
[Remake of the 1981 Canadian film, in which a young man (Jensen Ackles) returns to his hometown on the anniversary of a Valentine’s Day massacre in which 22 people were slaughtered by a psychotic killer (boy, when they have a massacre in these kinds of movies, they REALLY have a massacre!!). When the killings begin again, Ackles is the prime suspect... While the bulk of the film was shot with dual-HD cameras, the Lionsgate logo (CGI animated) which opens proceedings was originally generated in 2-D before being subjected to In-Three’s ‘dimensionalization’ process]

MY DEAR KUTTICHATHAN
(see: Chhota Chetan)

MY FAVORITE BUTLER
(see: Champagnegalopp)

MY MOLDOVA
(see: Moya Moldova)

MYSTERIES OF CHINA*
USA - 2010 - 40m - col
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format exploration of the landscape and culture of China, as witnessed by a father and daughter on their journey across the length and breadth of the country]

MYSTERIOUS MONK
(see: Tainstvennyj Monakh)



N


NAKED OBSESSION
[see: Emmanuelle in Space]

THE NAKED SWORD
(see: Corazón y la Espada, El)

THE NAKED TRUTH*
USA (V) - 2003 - feature - col
D: Cash Markman
Pulfrich 3-D
Single-strip/Video
Stereo
1.33:1
[XXX video feature, toplining brazen beauties Aria, Layla Jade and Julie Robbins]

NALIM
USSR - 1948 - 27m - col
D: A. Zolotnitskiy
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short with a fishing theme (the title translates as ‘Burbot’, a freshwater fish)]

NAN BEI SHUANG XIA
(see: North and South Chivalry, The)

NAPOLÉON
France - 1927 - 330m - bw and tinted
D: Abel Gance
Polyvision (widescreen - triptych) sequence
Dual-35mm (partly)
Silent
1.33:1 - 4.00:1
[The life of Napoléon Bonaparte (Albert Dieudonné), from his early childhood through to the beginning of his military career, culminating in the Italian campaign of 1797 (depicted in 3-panel widescreen). Some material was shot in 3-D but excluded from the final print, apparently because it proved too distracting (!), and has never been reinstated. The film was restored in 1980 by movie historian Kevin Brownlow, though Ray Zone reports in his book ‘3-D Filmmakers: Conversations With Creators of Stereoscopic Motion Pictures’ (2005) that Brownlow’s trawl through existing footage yielded no trace of the 3-D segment. As it stands, this material must now be considered lost. The running time quoted above is based on another restoration (also supervised by Brownlow) which premiered in the year 2000]

NASCAR 3-D: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE
Canada/USA - 2004 - 40m - col
D: Simon Wincer
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Sonics-DDP/DTS-70
1.44:1
[The history of NASCAR racing, which places audiences in the cockpit for a 200mph Large Format thrill-ride! And in 3-D, too!!]

NATIVE AMERICA 3-D*
USA - 2012 - short - col
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Native American culture is explored from a historical and aesthetic perspective in this ambitious Large Format documentary]

NAT ‘KING’ COLE AND RUSS MORGAN’S ORCHESTRA
USA - 1953 - 18m - bw
D: Will Cowan
Universal 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Musical short whose contents are self-explanatory, originally designed as a support item for It Came from Outer Space (qv). Though photographed with 1.37:1 aspect ratio in mind, the film was exhibited at 1.85:1 in some venues. The title is sometimes miscredited as Nat ‘King’ Cole Sings “Pretend”]

NAT ‘KING’ COLE SINGS “PRETEND”
[see: Nat ‘King’ Cole and Russ Morgan’s Orchestra]

NATURE TRAIL
USA - 1986 - 4m - col
D: Bill Shepard
Powell 3-D
Single-strip/Super-8
Left-right images side by side
Mono
1.33:1
[Amateur film, commercially exhibited in some professional venues, which satirizes slasher films, most notably Friday the 13th (1980). Watch out for a spoof review of something called 'Nature Trail to Hell' which appears at the Stomp Tokyo website, using frame-grabs from this film to support the description of a non-existent feature based on a song by 'Weird Al' Yankovich!]

NATURE TRAIL TO HELL
[see: Nature Trail]

NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES
USA - 1974 - 102m - col
D: Al Adamson
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn’t filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process]

NA ZLATOM KRYLTSE SIDELI
(aka: Sitting on the Golden Porch)
USSR - 1986 - 70m - col
D: Boris Rytsarev
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Fantasy drama, in which a brave young prince seeks the hand of a beautiful maiden, only to face opposition from his envious brothers, who covet the heroine for themselves]

NEAPOLITAN TURK
(see: Turco Napoletano, Un)

THE NEBRASKAN
USA - 1953 - 68m - col
D: Fred F. Sears
Columbia 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[Nebraska, 1867: Attempts to broker a peace deal with local Indians are scuppered when a Federal scout (Phil Carey) and his Native American sidekick (Maurice Jara) are falsely implicated in the murder of a prominent chief. Lee Van Cleef and Dennis Weaver are featured in supporting roles. The soundtrack is listed as magnetic stereo in contemporary pressbooks, though the film appears to have been released in optical mono only]

NEOBIKNOVENNIY ETYUDY*
(aka: Extraordinary Studies)
USSR - 1963 - feature - col
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Obscure feature, about which nothing more is known]

NEOBIKNOVENNIY GOROD
(aka: An Unusual City)
USSR - 1963 - 69m - col
D: Viktor Eisymont
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Obscure feature, about which nothing more is known]

NET I DA
(aka: No and Yes)
USSR - 1967 - 73m - col
D: Arkadi Koltsatiy
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Another obscure feature, described by author Eddie Sammons as a ‘musical comedy’]

THE NEW AUDIOSCOPIKS
USA - 1938 - 8m - bw
D: John A. Norling, Jacob Leventhal
Norling-Leventhal 3-Dimensions
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Novelty short, narrated by Pete Smith, which demonstrates various 3-D effects by throwing items into the audience’s lap. This was a follow-up to the equally popular Audioscopiks (qv), and was later included in the compilation item Metroscopix (qv)]

NEW DIMENSIONS
USA - 1940 - 15m - col
D: John A. Norling
Loucks & Norling 3-Dimensions
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Produced by the Chrysler corporation as a promotional tool for one of their latest automobiles, featuring a stop-motion sequence of the entire car being assembled from scratch. Footage from this film was later included in the 1953 compilation Motor Rhythm(qv)]

NEWT*
USA - 2011 - feature - col
D: Gary Rydstrom
Disney Digital 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated feature, in which the last remaining male and female blue-footed newts are paired-off in an attempt to revitalize the species. Only trouble is... they can’t stand each other!]

NEW YORK CITY
[see: Thru’ the Trees: Washington, D.C.]

NIAGARA FALLS
[see: Untitled Porter-Waddell Demonstration Film]

NIAGARA WONDERS
USA (SV) - 1986 - 21m - col
D: Douglas Trumbull
Showscan 3-D
Dual-570 (60fps)
6-track digital stereo
2.20:1
[Documentary short, designed for a purposely-built installation at Niagara Falls, New York. The film is a visual celebration of the Falls themselves, in 70mm 3-D]

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
USA - 1993/2006 - 81m - col
D: Henry Selick
Disney Digital 3-D
Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[Puppet animation with dark undertones, in which ‘Pumpkin King’ Jack Skellington (voiced by Chris Sarandon) leaves Halloween Town for pastures new and stumbles across Christmas Town, where he assumes Santa’s duties on Christmas Eve, with alarming consequences. The film was originally released in 1993 (in 2-D) with a 76 minute running time, but was dimensionalized for its 2006 re-release and screened in cinemas equipped for Digital 3-D]

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
USA - 1968 - 96m - bw
D: George A. Romero
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US DVD in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision. Not to be confused with the 2006 remake, which *is* in 3-D (see entry below)!]

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
USA/Germany - 2006 - 80m - col
D: Jeff Broadstreet
Natural Vision (HD)
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) and single-strip/anaglyphic (35mm) release prints
Stereo
1.85:1
[The second remake of George A. Romero’s 1968 classic, and the first in 3-D. The plot is much the same, with a group of disparate characters besieged in a lonely farmhouse by hordes of flesh-eating zombies. Released just before the widespread introduction of digital cinemas, most theatrical prints were configured in 35mm anaglyph format, though a Digital 3-D version was screened during the film’s 2006 premiere at World 3-D Expo II in Hollywood, USA]

NINJA SCOPE: THE MAGIC WORLD OF WATARI
[see: Tobidasu Bôken Eiga: Akakage]

NO AND YES
(see: Net i Da)

NOBODY’S BOY
(see: Ie Naki Ko)

NOCHE DE PAZ!*
(aka: Holy Night!)
Spain - 2009 - feature - col
D: David Rubín, Juan Galiñanes
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Irreverent animated fantasy. Santa and his friends must band together when the sanctity of Christmas is subject to an unexpected threat]

NO MORE JOKES
(see: Shutki v Storonu)

THE NORTH AND SOUTH CHIVALRY*
[Nan Bei Shuang Xia]
Taiwan - 1977 - feature - col
D: Liu Yung-hua
Hi Stereo Vision
Dual-Techniscope/35mm
Single-strip release print
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Obscure martial arts drama, set in ancient China, about which nothing more is known]

NORTHERN TOWERS
UK - 1952 - 4m - bw
D: Roy Harris
Stereo Techniques
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short, produced by Shell’s film unit, to promote the Stanlow Oil Refinery in Manchester, UK. No snoring at the back there!]

O NOTICIERO DO ESPACIAL*
(aka: Space News)
Spain - 2003 - 5m - col
D: Yanco Apesteguia
Stereoscopic CGI animation
1.37:1
[Animated spoof of ‘Reality TV’, complete with commercials and interviews with the various ‘participants’]

NOW IS THE TIME [TO PUT ON YOUR GLASSES]
UK/Canada - 1951 - 3m - col
D: Norman McLaren
Stereo Techniques
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Dual-35mm release print
Stereosound
1.37:1
[Abstract animation. The film was later included in the compilation item 3-Dimension (qv)]

NOZZE VAGABONDE
(aka: Beggar’s Wedding)
Italy - 1936 - 80m - bw
D: Guido Brignone
Sistema Gualtiero Gualterotti
Single-strip/63mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
1.37:1
[Comedy in which a newlywed couple suffer a series of indignities following the loss of their honeymoon allowance. This was the first 3-D ‘talkie’, and was apparently filmed in separate 3-D and 2-D versions]

NUDE 66*
USA?/Japan - 1986? - 25m - col
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic)
Mono
1.37:1
[Obscure X-rated item, once available in Japan on VHD in field sequential format. No other details are available]



O


OBAKE NO Q TARÔ SUSUME! 1/100 DAISAKUSEN*
(aka: Go, Qtaro! War at 100th Size)
Japan - 1987 - 15m - col
D: Shô Tsukada
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
[Children’s anime, a follow-up to Shin Rittai Anime Obake no Q Tarô Tobidase! Bakebake Daisakusen (qv), featuring the further adventures of Qtaro the ghost and his wacky friends]

O CANADA
Canada - 1953 - 2m - col
D: Evelyn Lambart
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Described in the catalogue of the National Film Board of Canada as an “experimental stereoscopic film which uses drawings photographed with overlapping ‘zooms’ to suggest movement across the countryside of Canada”]

OCCHO KOCHOÏ *
France - 2010 - feature - col
D: Antoine Barraud
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated film in which an outcast bird is forced to assume responsibility for leading his flock on their annual migration to Africa]

OCEAN FRENZY: AFRICA’S WILD COAST
[see: Wild Ocean]

OCEAN WONDERLAND
(aka: Blue Magic)
UK/France - 2003 - 44m - col
D: Jean-Jacques Mantello
Dual-HD Video
Dual-1570 release print
6-track digital stereo
1.78:1
[Yet another Large Format film with an underwater theme, this time offering a visual celebration of some of the world’s most outstanding coral reefs]

OCEANWORLD 3D*
USA/France - 2009 - 85m - col
D: Jean-Jacques Mantello
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
1.85:1 [Semi-documentary feature, in which an inquisitive sea turtle embarks on a journey across the world’s oceans, seeking the origins of a mysterious sound which echoes across the earth]

OLIVER TWIST
UK - 1948 - 105m - bw
D: David Lean
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

OLYMPIA 1. TEIL: FEST DER VÖLKER
(aka: Olympia 1936)
Germany - 1936 - 45m - bw
D: Leni Riefenstahl
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US DVD in single-strip/anaglyph format, and promoted under the generic title Olympia 1936. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision. Furthermore, the film was screened theatrically in two parts, and this DVD represents little more than a truncation of the first episode (Olympia 1. Teil: Fest der Völker), originally released with a running time of 126 minutes. The second episode, Olympia 2. Teil: Fest der Schönheit (1938), has yet to receive this faux ‘dimensionalization’]

OLYMPIA 1936
(see: Olympia 1. Teil: Fest der Völker)

ONA S METLOY, ON V CHYORNOY SHLYAPE
(aka: Broom and Black Hat)
USSR - 1987 - 85m - col
D: Vitaliy Makarov
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Musical comedy concerning an unsociable family whose villainy backfires in spectacular fashion]

ON THE BALL
UK - 1952 - 10m - bw
D: Peter Bradford
Stereo Techniques
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Sports documentary]

ON THE HISTORY OF GERMAN ADVERTISING FILMS
(see: Zur Geschichte des Deutschen Werbefilms)

ON THE STEPPES
(see: Stepi, V)

OOBERMIND*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Cameron Hood, Kyle Jefferson
Tru 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated superhero satire in which a major villain becomes despondent after accidentally killing his arch-rival Metro Man]

OPEN SEASON
USA - 2006 - 86m - col
D: Roger Allers, Jill Culton, Anthony Stacchi
IMAX DMR 3-D
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.85:1
[Animated comedy in which a grizzly bear rallies his woodland friends to combat an army of hunters descendfing on the area for Open Season. The film was designed for 2-D but reconfigured for IMAX 3-D in post-production. The 35mm version was screened in 2-D format only, with Dolby Digital, DTS and SDDS-8 soundtracks]

OPERATION TAIFUN
(see: Con la Muerte a la Espalda)

OPERATION TYPHOON
(see: Con la Muerte a la Espalda)

OSENNIE ETYUDY KRYMA*
(aka: Fall Magic of Crimea [Peninsula])
USSR - 1973 - 10m - col
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Travelogue short, featuring stereoscopic views of the Crimean region, awash with autumn colours]

OUCH!
USA - 1925 - 1 reel - bw
D: Jacob Leventhal
Stereoscopiks
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Silent
1.33:1
[Novelty short. No plot, just a succession of stereoscopic ‘gags’ in which various objects are hurled off the screen into the audience’s lap]

OUTLAW TERRITORY
(see: Hannah Lee: An American Primitive)

OUTSIDE THE THIRD DIMENSION*
USA - 1964 - feature - col
D: Jim Freeman
Dual-16mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Experimental documentary feature, one of several surfing films produced and directed by Jim Freeman (Let There Be Surf, The Glass Wall, etc.), though this is the only one he filmed in 3-D. It covers the mid-Sixties Hawaiian surfing scene and features invaluable stereoscopic footage of a bygone time and place. Freeman later co-founded MacGillivray Freeman Films with Greg MacGillivray, pioneering the production and distribution of Large Format movies (2-D and 3-D)]

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT
UK - 1953 - 6m - col
D: John Halas
Stereo Techniques
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Dual-35mm release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Stereoscopic adaptation of the children’s poem, in which the title characters set sail in a beautiful pea-green boat...]



P


PACKAGING... THE THIRD DIMENSION
USA - 1953 - 10m - col
D: Bernard Howard
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
0.67:1
[Promotional item for packaging company Stone Container, produced for the National Packaging Exposition held in Chicago, 1953]

PAINT MISBEHAVIN’
Canada - 1997 - 2m - col
D: Roman Kroitor
IMAX SANDDE
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44::1
[Animated short, designed for Large Format exhibition, emphasizing depth and colour in the brief tale of a painter whose attempts to put the finishing touches on a theatre marquee ends in spectacular disaster]

PAL
(see: Druzok)

PANASONIC ‘GLIDER’*
USA/Japan - 1981 - 5m - col
D: Randy Roberts, Richard Hollander
Stereoscopic CGI animation
1.85:1
[Animated short in which a computer-generated paper plane floats through a stereoscopic landscape. One of the earliest examples of 3-D animation using CGI techniques]

PANDAVISION
USA - 2002 - 13m - col
D: Ben Stassen
nWave 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-870, -570, -35mm and -HD Video release prints
6-track digital stereo
1.35:1 (870)
2.20:1 (570)
1.78:1 (HD)
[Large Format documentary exploring a number of increasingly vital conservation issues, such as deforestation, global warming and depletion of the world’s fishing stocks]

PAPANTY, MAMANTY: LOKHMATOE SHOU
(aka: Mammoth and Pappoth: A Furry Show)
Russia - 1992 - 70m - col
D: Nelya Gulchuk
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Obscure feature, possibly a documentary, featuring a range of circus animals (chimps, pythons, bears, giraffe, kangaroo, etc.) and their delightful offspring]

PARAD ATTRAKTSIONOV
(aka: Parade of Attractions)
USSR - 1970 - 20m - col
D: Aleksandr N. Andreyevskiy
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Documentary short, described by author Eddie Sammons as an “entertainment and sports revue”]

PARADE OF ATTRACTIONS
(see: Parad Attraktsionov)

PARADE OF YOUTH
(see: Parad Molodosti)

PARADISIO
USA - 1962 - 82m - bw and col
D: Henri Haile [Haile Chase]
Tri-Optique (partly)
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.66:1
[Softcore nudie item, in which a professor creates a pair of X-ray specs which allow him to see through women’s clothing. Filmed throughout Europe in 2-D, the resulting footage was later sold to producer Jack H. Harris (Equinox) who added 3-D inserts for even greater exploitation value]

PARAD MOLODOSTI*
(aka: Parade of Youth)
USSR - 1948 - short - col
D: Matvey Volodarskiy
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short, a celebration of Russian youth, about which nothing more is known]

PARASITE
USA - 1982 - 85m - col
D: Charles Band
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Sci-fi thriller, set in 1997 after a nuclear war has devastated the planet. Robert Glaudini plays a scientist whose research leads to the creation of a monstrous parasite which the military hopes to exploit for nefarious purposes. Demi Moore (an early credit for the burgeoning Hollywood superstar) is the love interest, helping Glaudini escape his pursuers]

PARDON MY BACKFIRE
USA - 1953 - 16m - sepia
D: Jules White
Columbia 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[Comedy short, featuring the Three Stooges as garage mechanics who foil a group of escaped convicts. Originally designed as a support item for I, the Jury (qv)]

THE PARK
[Zhou Le Yuan]
Hong Kong - 2003 - 90m - col  
D: Andrew Lau Wai-keung
Dual-HD Video (partly)
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[Horror-thriller with 3-D sequences. Popular HK starlet Bobo Chan Man-woon plays a teenager whose brother (Edwin Siu Ching-nam) has gone missing in a ‘haunted’ fairground. Leading a rag-tag group of youthful associates, Chan breaks into the park to look for Siu, and is besieged by murderous spirits]

PARTLY CLOUDY
USA - 2009 - 6m - col
D: Peter Sohn
Tru 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[Animated short, originally released as a supporting item for Up (qv), in which a misunderstanding causes conflict between a friendly stork and a neurotic storm-cloud]

PASTRIES
(see: Chamber-Mades, The)

PATHWAYS IN THE PARK
(see: Alleyakh Parka, V)

THE PENCIL ON ICE
[see: Karandash na Lidu]

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD’S MAGIC MOVIES
(see: Thrills for You)

LE PENSIONNAT DES PETITES SALOPES
(aka: Ménage à Trois)
France - 1981 - 75m - col
D: Pierre B. Reinhard
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[XXX feature, following the exploits of several nubile young beauties in an exclusive girl’s school. Left behind during the Christmas holidays, they proceed to bonk everything in sight, including a hunkier-than-usual Santa Claus!]

PEREKHVAT
(aka: Interception)
USSR - 1985 - 87m - col
D: Sergei Tarasov
[Though listed in several sources as a Stereo 70 3-D film, there is no evidence to corroborate such a finding. In his book 'The World of 3-D Movies' (1992), author Eddie Sammons cites Russian sources who insist the film was produced and exhibited in 2-D only]

PERSIAN SLAVE MARKET
USA - 1953 - 10m - bw
D: [uncredited]
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Burlesque short, in which three dancers perform a routine. It isn’t set in Persia, and there are no slaves. In fact, there isn’t a market, either!]

PERVERTED CRIMINAL
(see: Hentaima)

PETE ROLEUM AND HIS COUSINS
USA (SV) - 1940 - 20m - col
D: Joseph Losey
Loucks & Norling 3-Dimensions
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short, exploring the world’s dependence on oil. Produced for the Classic Oil exhibit at the 1939 New York World Fair]

EL PEZ QUE HABLA*
(aka: Talking Fish)
Spain - 2001 - 6m - col
D: Enrique Criado
Dual-HD Video / Stereoscopic CGI animation
1.78:1
[Part-animated short, combining live-action with CGI images, in which an old fisherman captures a talking fish]

PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE
USA - 1954 - 84m - col
D: Roy Del Ruth
WarnerVision
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.75:1
[Horror, based on Poe’s ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’, featuring Claude Dauphin as a hard-working cop suspected of several seemingly-impossible murders which turn out to be the work of... well, you’ll see! Strong drama, classy production values, with Karl Malden, Patricia Medina and Steve Forrest in supporting roles]

PHEE JAO LEH
(aka: Ghost Trick)
Thailand (TV) - 2004 - 82m - col
D: Thomas Ben
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/HD Video
Dolby Digital
1.78:1
[Low-budget horror-comedy, produced for TV and released on DVD with Pulfrich 3-D glasses. Four gangsters hide from the cops in a haunted house, and soon wish they hadn’t! The film’s title is rendered Pii Jao-le in some sources]

PHEE... MAI YARK HAI KHON HEN*
Thailand (TV) - 2004 - 74m - col
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/HD Video
Dolby Digital
1.78:1
[Low-budget horror, produced for TV and released on DVD with Pulfrich 3-D glasses. The title is rendered Pi Maiyag Hai Kon Hen in some sources]

PII JAO-LE
[see: Phee Jao Leh]

PHYSICS OF SURFING
USA (SV) - 2009 - 35m - col
D: Nick Colombini
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
Stereo
1.85:1
[Documentary short, exhibited in science centres, museums and sundry other special venues. Featuring pro surfers Julie Cox and Kyla Langen]

PIKACHU’S OCEAN ADVENTURE
(see: Pokemon 3-D Adobenchâ 2: Pikachû no Kaitei Daibôken)

PI MAIYAG HAI KON HEN
[see: Phee... Mai Yark Hai Khon Hen]

PIRANHA*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Alexandre Aja
Digital 3-D release print
[Remake of the 1978 movie, in which shoals of prehistoric piranha fish are released into Arizona's lakes following a minor earth tremor]

PIRATES
USA (SV) - 1999 - 17m - col
D: Keith Melton
Iwerks 3-D
Dual-870
Dual-570 release prints
Dolby Digital
2.20:1
[Special venue attraction with ‘4-D’ physical effects, featuring Leslie Nielsen and Eric Idle as clod-hopping pirates on a search for buried treasure]

IL PIÙ COMICO SPETTACOLO DEL MONDO
(aka: The Funniest Show on Earth)
Italy - 1953 - 70m - col
D: Mario Mattoli
Richardson 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Italy’s contribution to the 1950’s 3-D boom, toplining comedy legend Totò (Antonio de Curtis) as a circus clown pursued by three female acrobats]

PLANETA BUR
[see: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet]

PLANET 51*
UK/Spain - 2009 - feature - col
D: Jorge Blanco, Joe Stillman
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
1.85:1
[Animated spoof, in which a human astronaut crash-lands on a distant planet whose inhabitants are terrified of invasion from outer space]

PLAN 3-D FROM OUTER SPACE
USA (SV) - 1985 - 3m - col
D: Murray Lerner
Digital Widescreen
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Single-strip/35mm release print
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[CGI animated short, produced for the Hitachi Pavilion at Expo ’85 in Tsukuba, Japan]

PLASTICONS
[see: Thru’ the Trees: Washington, D.C.]

PLASTIGRAMS
USA - 1922 - 1 reel - bw
D: Jacob Leventhal
Plastigram 3-D
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Silent and sound versions
1.33:1
[Novelty short, designed to show off the 3-D format by launching objects off the screen at startled audiences. A soundtrack was added for the 1924 re-release]

PLASTISCHER WIES’N-BUMMEL
(aka: Stroll in the Meadow)
W.Germany - 1953 - 9m - col
D: Werner Jacobs
Raumfilm-System
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.66:1
[Documentary exploration of the annual Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, designed to show off the Raumfilm-System 3-D format]

PLASTISCHE VORSTELLUNG
(aka: Concert Concept)
W.Germany (SV) - 1953 - 5m - col
D: Curt A. Engel
Raumfilm-System
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.66:1
[Documentary short, produced for the 1953 Automobile Show in Frankfurt, Germany, designed as a promotional item for the new Volkswagen car]

THE PLAYGIRLS AND THE BELLBOY
(see: Bellboy and the Playgirls, The)

THE PLAYMATES
USA - 1973 - 80m - col
D: Pierre La Farce [Stephen Gibson]
DeepVision
Single-strip/35mm
Anaglyphic camera attachment
Mono
1.85:1
[X-rated item, released in varying degrees of explicitness, featuring Becky Sharp as ‘Jane Kinsey’ (ahem!), a reporter studying the contemporary ‘swingers’ phenomenon. This bare-bones scenario allows for a series of erotic vignettes, featuring Rene Bond (Fantasm, Panorama Blue), amongst others]

POKEMON 3-D ADOBENCHÂ: MYÛ O SAGASE*
(aka: Search for Miyuu)
Japan - 2005 - 11m - col
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Single-strip/35mm release print
Left-right images over-under
2.35:1
[Animated short, based on characters from the popular Pokemon anime series. Released in theme parks and ‘regular’ Japanese cinemas]

POKEMON 3-D ADOBENCHÂ 2: PIKACHÛ NO KAITEI DAIBÔKEN*
(aka: Pikachu’s Ocean Adventure)
Japan - 2006 - 14m - col
Stereoscopic HD animation
Single-strip/35mm release print
Left-right images over-under
2.35:1
[Animated short, in which Pikachu and friends go in search of pirate treasure. The film played in Japanese cinemas and theme parks, and has also been reconfigured in dual-1570 for western markets]

POKHISHCHENIE VEKA
(aka: Kidnapping of the Century)
USSR - 1981 - 70m - col
D: Vitaliy Makarov
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Comedy, in which two car mechanics cause mischief during a trip to the Black Sea holiday resort]

POLA LUX*
W.Germany - 1953 - short - col
Pola Lux 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Promotional film, designed to showcase the Pola Lux 3-D system]

THE POLAR EXPRESS
USA - 2004 - 101m - col
D: Robert Zemeckis
Digital Widescreen
IMAX DMR 3-D
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
2.00:1
[Tom Hanks headlines the voice cast of this animated fantasy, in which a little boy who doubts the existence of Santa Claus is whisked away to the North Pole in a magical train for a meeting with The Man Himself... Only the IMAX version was screened in 3-D; the 35mm and D-Cinema prints were configured in 2-D only, featuring a 2.39:1 aspect ratio, with Dolby Digital, DTS and SDDS soundtracks]

POLITICAL PLEASURES
(see: Capital Hill Girls, The)

POM POM SHE MALES
USA (V) - 1995 - 85m - col
D: Michael Talon
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX video feature, recounting the sexual exploits of a cheerleading squad composed entirely of she-males. Er, that’s chicks with dicks, for the less scientifically-minded amongst you!]

POPEYE: THE ACE OF SPACE
USA - 1953 - 7m - col
D: Seymour Kneitel
Stereotoon
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Dual-35mm release print
Mono
1.85:1
[Animated short, in which Popeye is kidnapped by Martians and uses a dose of strength-rejuvenating spinach to escape from their fiendish experiments]

LE PORNO HOSTESS IN SUPER 3-D
[see: Cameriera Seduce i Villeggianti, La]

PORNO HOSTESS IN 3-D
(see: Cameriera Seduce i Villeggianti, La)

POUNDING ASS
USA (V) - 1995 - 85m - col
D: Michael Talon
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX feature, yet another audition video by director Talon, in which he films various starlets (including Tedra, Nikki Arizona and Stacey King) as they try hard-pounding anal sex for the (ahem!) ‘first time’...]

POURNAMI RAAVIL*
India - 1985 - feature - col
D: A. Vincent
[Listed as a 3-D feature in a number of sources pertaining to Malayalam cinema, though this has yet to be confirmed]

POWER IN PERSPECTIVE
UK - 1956 - 8m - col
D: Alan Pendry
Spacemaster 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.66:1
[Documentary short, produced by the Shell Film Unit, featuring stereoscopic footage of various machines in action]

THE POWER OF LOVE
USA - 1922 - 76m - bw  
D: Nat G. Deverich, Harry K. Fairall
Fairall Process
Dual-35mm
Dual-35mm and single-strip/anaglyphic release prints
Silent
1.33:1
[Drama, notable as the very first feature length film in 3-D, though the stereoscopic version appears to have been screened only once. Sadly, all prints are now believed lost. Often credited as the first 3-D film exhibited to a paying audience, though research by historian Daniel L. Symmes suggests it was preceded into theaters by Movies of the Future (qv)]

POWER RANGERS IN 3-D
(see: Power Rangers: Triple Force!)

POWER RANGERS: TRIPLE FORCE!
(aka: Power Rangers in 3-D)
(aka: Trakeena’s Revenge)
USA (V) - 2000 - 45m - col
D: Ryuta Tazaki
Pulfrich 3-D
Single-strip/Video
Stereo
1.33:1
[Children’s sci-fi drama, derived from the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers (1993-96) TV series, featuring a group of athletic teens recruited by benevolent aliens to battle against intergalactic evil. Here, the Lightspeed Rescue Power Rangers spring into action when the evil Trakeena (Jennifer Burns) joins forces with the equally villainous Olympius, who plots to drain the energy source from everyone on Earth, rendering him completely invincible!]

A PRECIOUS GIFT
(see: Dragotsenniy Podarok)

PRETTY GIRL AH-PING
[Jing Nu A Ping]
China - 1985 - 100m - col
D: Zhang Rongren, Er Lin
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[The title character enjoys herself at a colourful amusement park]

THE PRICE OF LIVING
(see: Valor de Vivir, El)

PRINCESS ORGASMA AND THE MAGIC BED
(aka: Legend of the Magic Bed)
USA (V) - 1992 - 65m - col
D: Anthony Spinelli
Pulfrich 3-D
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX video, featuring Deidre Holland, Nina Hartley and Jon Dough in the tale of a magical bed which drives its users into a frenzy of sexual excess. Or something...]

PRISON GIRLS
(aka: Criminals)
USA - 1973 - 88m - col
D: Tom De Simone
Optovision
Dual-16mm
Single-strip/35mm release print
Left-right images over-under
Mono
1.75:1
[Uschi Digard, Ric Lutze, Candy Samples and Jason Williams (Flesh Gordon himself!) topline this X-rated softcore item, which recounts the exploits - mostly sexual - of six inmates on weekend furlough from a women’s prison. Cue catfights in the shower, lesbian fumblings, gang rape and assorted rumpy-pumpy. As per the ads: “Guaranteed to be the most controversial movie ever made, based on confidential prison sex reports!”]

PRIVATE DANCER*
USA (V) - 1996 - feature? - col
Nu-View
Single-strip/Video
Field sequential
Stereo
1.33:1
[XXX video feature, about which nothing more is known, though the title provides an obvious clue to its content. Not to be confused with another X-rated film produced in 1996, also entitled Private Dancer, directed by Nic Cramer]

LE PROCÈS
(aka: Il Processo)
(aka: Der Prozess)
(aka: The Trial)
France/Italy/W.Germany - 1962 - 118m - bw
D: Orson Welles
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format, under the title The Trial. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

IL PROCESSO
(see: Procès, Le)

PROSTITUTES IN PRISON
(see: 99 Mujeres)

DER PROZESS
(see: Procès, Le)

PUMP-ACTION
UK - 2000 - 4m - col
D: Phil McNally
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D (side-by-side, anaglyph and frame sequential) release prints
Stereo
1.33:1
[Animated short, inspired by crime dramas such as Reservoir Dogs (1991), in which villainous Vic Vinyl terrorizes Balloon Boy and his faithful dog in an abandoned warehouse]

PUPPETMASTER
USA - 1989 - 88m - col
D: David Schmoeller
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

PURANA MANDIR
[see: Saamri]

PUSS IN BOOTS*
USA - 2011 - feature - col
D: Peter A. Ramsey
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated 3-D comedy, headlining the Puss in Boots character made famous in the Shrek franchise]



Q


QIAN DAO WAN LI ZHU
(see: Dynasty)

QING CHUN DE XUAN LU*
(see: Melody of Youth)

QUANTUM QUEST*
USA/Taiwan - 2009 - short - col
D: Harry Kloor, Dan St. Pierre
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570 and -870 (LF) and Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) release prints
[Large Format film, combining NASA space footage and animated material to take viewers on a stereoscopic safari through the solar system. Features voice-work by Neil Armstrong, Samuel L. Jackson, William Shatner, Brent Spiner, Mark Hamill and James Earl Jones, amongst many others]



R


RACER
(see: Deddo Hîto)

RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON
USA - 1952 - 12 episodes - bw
D: Fred C. Brannon
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US DVD in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

RADIO MANIA
USA - 1922 - 95m - bw   
D: Roy William Neill
Teleview
Dual-35mm
Silent
1.33:1
[Expanded version of the short 3-D film M.A.R.S. (qv), aka Mars Calling and The Man from Mars, in which a scientist (Grant Mitchell) makes contact with the inhabitants of Mars via an early prototype TV set. See also Teleview]

THE RAFT
(see: Floß, Das)

RAGE AT DAWN
USA - 1955 - 87m - col
D: Tim Whelan
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

RAIDERS OF SHALIMAR
[see: Shalimar]

RAIDERS OF THE SACRED STONE
[see: Shalimar]

RAM ROD*
USA - 1973 - feature - col
Single-strip (35mm or 16mm?)
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic)
Mono
1.37:1
[XXX gay feature, about which ABSOLUTELY NOTHING MORE is known! One of the great mysteries of 3-D cinema - does anyone out there have any further info (plot, director, stars, etc.)?]

RANGERS OF THE NORTH
(see: Dangerous Mission)

RAPUNZEL*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Glen Keane, Dean Wellins
Disney Digital 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated version of the classic fairy tale]

DER RAUMFILM
(aka: Spatial Film)
W.Germany - 1939 - 1m - bw
D: [uncredited]
Raumfilm-System
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.37:1
[Demonstration film, intended to precede the experimental short Zum Greifen Nah (qv), which shows the audience how 3-D works and why they need to wear special glasses to view such material]

RAZNOTSVETNIE KAMESHKI
(aka: Multi-Colored Pebbles)
USSR - 1960 - 67m - col
D: Sergei Mikaelyan
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Obscure Russian feature, about which nothing more is known]

REACH OUT AND TOUCH ME (Nos. 1 - 3)
USA (V) / 2005-2007 / shorts / col
D: Bob Rudy, Steve Volponi
Reelvision 3-D
Dimensionalized 3-D
Single-strip/frame sequential and anaglyphic release prints
Stereo
1.33:1
[XXX video series, each one devoted to a single starlet (Lauren Phoenix, Melissa Lauren, Brooke Haven, etc.), who strips naked and shows off her, er... ‘wares’, before she’s summarily ravished by a hunky stud (Steve Taylor, Sascha, etc.)]

‘REAL LIFE’ TRAILER
USA - 1979 - 3m - col
D: Albert Brooks
Dimension 3
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.85:1
[Unusual promotional item, a 3-D trailer for the 2-D feature Real Life (1979)!]

RED CRABS 3-D: AUSTRALIA’S CHRISTMAS ISLAND*
Australia (SV) - 2009 - 40m - col
D: Mark Simpfendorfer
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary, following the red crabs of Christmas Island, deep within the Indian ocean, as they march into the sea during monsoon season to breed and repopulate their dwindling species]

RELENTLESS*
USA - 2009 - feature - col
D: Demian Lichtenstein
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Action-adventure in which “four extreme sports professionals ... survive a plane crash in the Amazon jungle , and must use all their survival instincts as they are hunted by a group of homicidal natives”, as per Variety]

EL REPORTERO T.D.
(aka: The Reporter T.D.)
Mexico - 1953 - 54m - bw
D: Rosa Elena Cabiedes
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Single-strip/16mm and dual-35mm release prints
Mono
0.67:1
[Demonstration film, narrated by Jorge ‘Sonny’ Alarcón, which uses a variety of scenes and examples (landscape shots, a peacock in full bloom, passages from Charles Gounod’s opera Faust, etc.) to illustrate the benefits of stereoscopic cinematography]

THE REPORTER T.D.
(see: Reportero T.D., El)

RETURN TO EVEREST
USA/Canada - 2012 - 40m - col
D: Greg Macgillivray
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[3-D sequel to the 2-D Large Format film Everest (1998), which offers dimensional views of the eponymous mountain and the people who live within its shadow]

REVE D’OPIUM
France - 1921 - feature - bw
D: [unconfirmed; possibly Cesar Parolini]
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn’t filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process]

REVENGE
(see: Jorng Wien)

REVENGENCE SUPERLADY
(see: Lucky 13)

REVENGE OF SUPERLADY
[see: Lucky 13]

REVENGE OF THE CREATURE
USA - 1955 - 82m - bw  
D: Jack Arnold
Universal 3-D
Dual-35mm
Pola-Lite and dual-35mm release prints
Mono
1.85:1
[One of the last major-studio 3-D productions of the 1950’s, this sequel to Creature from the Black Lagoon (qv) sees our aquatic anti-hero captured and taken to a marine park in Florida, where it breaks loose and goes in pursuit of a pretty female scientist (Lori Nelson). Look fast for an uncredited Clint Eastwood in one of his earliest roles. Followed by The Creature Walks Among Us (1956), filmed in 2-D]

REVENGE OF THE SHOGUN WOMEN
(see: 13 Golden Nuns)

REVENGE OF THE 13
(see: 13 Golden Nuns)

RHYTHM IN THREE
(see: Ritmo in Tre)

THE RIDER
(see: Jinete, El)

RIDER ON A GOLDEN HORSE
(see: Vsadnik na Zolotom Kone)

RIO*
USA - 2011 - feature - col
D: Carlos Saldanha
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated feature, in which a comical macaw leaves its comfy Minnesota cage in search of adventure on the ‘mean streets’ of Rio de Janeiro]

RISE OF THE INZOMBNIACS
USA (V) - 2003 - 12m - col
D: David Comeau
Nu-View
Single-strip/Video
Field sequential
Stereo
1.33:1
[Short horror spoof]

RITMO IN TRE*
(aka: Rhythm in Three)
Italy - 1953 - short - col
D: Guido Guerrasio
Tridimensionale Christiani
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images split into four and superimposed in projection
Mono
1.37:1
[Travelogue short, taking viewers on a journey across the Dolomites mountain range in eastern Italy]

RITOS E LENDAS DA CATEDRAL*
(aka: Tales from St. James Cathedral)
Spain - 1999 - 6m - col
D: Carlos Sedes
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-video release print
Stereo
[Animated voyage around the history and architecture of St. James’ cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, capital of Galicia in northwest Spain]

RITTAI EIGA ZA AKUME*
Japan - 1984 - 81m - col
D: Kôji Seki
Single-strip/35mm/anaglyphic (partly) release print
Mono
1.85:1?
[X-rated item from long-time smut merchant Kôji (see also Hentaima and various other titles). No plot details for this one, except that it contains 3-D sequences printed in anaglyph format, most likely derived from dual-image origination]

RITTAI HONBAN: HÂDO ÔGAZUMU*
Japan - 1990 - 61m - col
D: Taku Nishikawa
[Nothing more is known about this X-rated Japanese film, whose title translates as ‘Three-Dimensional Public Performance: Hard Orgasm’]

RITTAI TÔSHI EIGA: IJÔ SEI HANZAI SHI*
Japan - 1968 - 70m - bw
D: Kôji Seki
Single-strip/35mm/anaglyphic release print
Mono
2.35:1
[The online All Movie Guide describes this as a ‘2-D’ remake of the same director’s Hentaima (qv), in which a serial rapist (Kohei Tsuzaki) is stalked by a determined cop and one of the few women to have survived one of Kohei’s assaults. However, the Japanese tcat listing (see ‘Acknowledgements’ for URL details) describes it as having been released in 3-D. I was unable to determine whether the film was shot dual-image or with an anaglyphic camera attachment]

RIVIERA*
France - 1936 - short - bw
D: Pierre de Cuvier
Stéréoscopic Lumière
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short, offering stereoscopic views of the French Riviera]

ROAR: LIONS OF THE KALAHARI
(see: Lions 3-D: Roar of the Kalahari]

ROBINSON CRUSOE
(see: Robinzon Kruzo)

ROBINZON KRUZO
(aka: Robinson Crusoe)
USSR - 1946 - 74m - bw and col
D: Aleksandr Andriyevskiy
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (lenticular projection)
Mono
0.67:1
[Daniel Defoe’s classic novel lends itself to cinematic interpretation, especially in 3-D, so it’s no surprise this lavish production - the first feature-length stereoscopic movie in colour - was a huge hit on its home turf in 1946. In fact, the only mystery is why this is the *only* 3-D version of Defoe’s work to date! Surely ripe for rediscovery here in the west?]

ROBOT MONSTER
(aka: Monsters from the Moon)
USA - 1953 - 63m - bw  
D: Phil Tucker
Tru-Stereo
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Sent to earth as the vanguard of an alien invasion, a monstrous robot destroys everything in its path (or as much as the micro-budget will allow), until it falls in love with heroine Claudia Barrett! Alongside Cat-Women of the Moon (qv), this is often cited as one of the worst films ever made, but the 3-D isn’t bad, and Elmer Bernstein wrote the music score!! See also: Apt. 51: Robot Monster]

ROCK THE BOAT*
France - 2009 - feature - col
D: Fabien Suarez, Andre Bessy
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Animated feature, in which a porcupine and a cheetah disguise themselves as a brand new species - a ‘porceetah’! - after being refused entry to Noah’s Ark. The first major non-Hollywood film to test the digital 3-D waters. About time, too.]

ROCKY MARCIANO CHAMPION VS. JERSEY JOE WALCOTT CHALLENGER
USA - 1953 - 17m - bw
D: Nathan L. Halpern
Stereo-Cine
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short, covering the fight between prize-fighters Marciano and Walcott which took place at the Chicago Stadium on 15 May 1953. Plans to create a feature-length documentary around this historic event were scuppered when Marciano knocked out Walcott in the first round!!]

ROD STEELE 0014: YOU ONLY LIVE UNTIL YOU DIE
[see: Click]

ROLL-X GIRLS
USA (V) - 1989 - 86m - col
D: Roy Karch
[Packaging for this direct-to-video XXX feature contains a promise of ‘3-D effects’, but the movie appears to have been released in 2-D format only]

ROTTWEILER
(aka: Dogs of Hell)
USA - 1982 - 93m - col
D: Worth Keeter
Future Dimensions
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Stereo
2.35:1
[Thriller, in which a pack of vicious dogs escape from a US military compound where they’ve been trained to kill humans on sight, and they proceeed to terrorize a small mountain community which is forced to take up arms in self-defence]

ROYAL REVIEW
UK - 1953 - 19m - col
D: Robert M. Angell
Stereo Techniques / Spacemaster 3-D / Pathé 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Newsreel item, covering various events which took place during the UK’s coronation year, using three different 3-D formats configured into a single release print]

ROYAL RIVER
(see: Distant Thames, The)

RUMMELPLATZ DER LIEBE
(aka: Circus of Love)
W.Germany/USA - 1954 - 93m - col
D: Kurt Neumann
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn’t filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process. This is the German-language version of Carnival Story (qv), filmed separately from its American counterpart and featuring much the same cast, but with German-speaking leads]

RUNAWAY SUNDAY
(see: Tobidashita Nichi Yôbi)

A RUNAWAY TAXI
USA - 1925 - 1 reel - col
D: Jacob F. Leventhal
Stereoscopiks
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Silent
1.33:1
[The title gives away the whole plot of this early 3-D short, in which a runaway taxi causes comic chaos]

RUN FOR COVER
USA - 1996 - 83m - col  
D: Richard W. Haines
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[After taking pictures of something he shouldn’t, a renegade reporter (Thomas Dunne) goes on the run from both the FBI and a group of terrorists who have been targeting a series of New York landmarks. Low-budget action film, featuring the likes of Adam West, Viveca Lindfors, Edward I. Koch and the Rev. Al Sharpton!]

RURAL AMERICA
[see: Untitled Porter-Waddell Demonstration Film]

RUSSIAN SALAD
(see: Kontsert)

RUSSIAN SKETCHES
(see: Russkie Etyudy)

RUSSKIE ETYUDY
(aka: Russian Sketches)
USSR - 1969 - 20m - col
D: Yekaterina Stashevskaya
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Documentary short, apparently a musical concert]

RUSTIC CHIVALRY
(see: Cavalleria Rusticana)

RYÔKI: SHIKIJÔ YAWA
(aka: Bizarre Night Story of Sexual Desire)
(aka: Lusty Bedtime Story)
Japan - 1968 - 73m - bw and col
D: Kaoru Umezawa
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[One of countless X-rated items to emerge from Japan since the 1960’s. Nothing more is known about the film, though the alternate titles provide a clue to its content!]

RYS IDET PO SLEDU
(aka: The Lynx Stalks Its Prey)
(aka: The Tiger Goes on Trace)
Russia - 1994 - 80m - col
D: A. Babayan
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Stepan Starchikov headlines this family movie as a forest ranger forced into a confrontation with ruthless poachers, aided by his loving family and an orphaned lynx which he’s raised since birth]



S


SAAMRI
(aka: Satan)
India - 1985 - 106m - col
D: Tulsi Ramsay, Shyam Ramsay
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Sequel to the 2-D shocker Purana Mandir (1984), in which a wealthy patriarch (Ajay Agarwal) is murdered by a wicked step-brother (Prem Chopra) who also plots to destroy the chief beneficiary of Agarwal‘s estate (Arti Gupta). However, Agarwal‘s spirit rises from the grave to exact a grisly revenge... The Ramsay brothers were India’s premiere horror merchants at the time, though this was the only film they produced in 3-D]

SABAIBARU BÎCHI*
(aka: Survival Beach)
Japan - 2006 - 67m - col
D: Hirono Yamada
Single-strip/anaglyphic (partly) release print
Stereo
1.85:1
[Adventure-comedy with 3-D sequences in which four disparate characters are stranded on a desert island where danger lurks at every turn (poisonous snakes, killer sharks, native warriors, etc.). Though the film was released in single-strip/anaglyph format, I was unable to determine which 3-D process was used in production, though it may have been dual-HD Video]

SAMOUREVENNIY KARANDASH
(aka: The Self-Assured Karandash)
USSR - 1955 - 19m - col
D: Vladimir Sukhobokov
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Another 3-D outing for Russian comedy king Karandash (Mikhail Nikolayevich Rumyantsev). See also Karandash na Lidu (qv)]

SANGAREE
USA - 1953 - 94m - col
D: Edward Ludwig
Paravision
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Drama, set in Georgia following the American War of Independence. Fernando Lamas plays a wealthy philanthropist, born into servitude and gifted an estate by his late master (Lester Mathews), who defends himself against the ruthless machinations of Mathews’ evil, grasping relatives. Though photographed with 1.37:1 aspect ratio in mind, the film was exhibited at 1.66:1 in some venues]

SANTA VS. THE SNOWMAN
USA - 1997/2002 - 35m - col
D: John A. Davis
CGI animation
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-1570 (IMAX) release print
Sonics-DDP / DTS-70
1.44:1
[Animated short, produced for TV in 1997 and reformatted in dual-70mm 3-D for theatrical exhibition. On Christmas Eve, a battle of wills erupts between Santa Claus and a lonely snowman. Havoc ensues]

SATAN
(see: Saamri)

SCANDALOUS BEHAVIOUR
[see: Emmanuelle in Space]

SCAR
USA/Canada - 2007 - 90m - col
D: Jed Weintrob
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[Gruesome horror, starring Angela Bettis as a woman who once fought and killed a monstrous serial killer. Years later, she’s forced to relive the past when a series of murders - similar to the ones committed by her erstwhile tormentor - are perpetrated in her home town]

SCARECROW
(see: Miriami Piknik)

SCAT!*
USA - 2010 - 46m - col
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format journey to the edges of the known universe with Captain Shrodinger and his crazy cat!]

THE SCHOOL OF MAGIC
[see: Aabra Ka Daabra: The School of Magic]

SCOOPERS
(see: Sukupazu)

SCORING!
(see: Hard Candy)

SCREW MY WIFE PLEASE!! SCREW HER IN 3D!
USA (V) - 2007 - 85m - col
D: Bobby Rinaldi, Bob Rudy
Reelvision 3-D
Dimensionalized 3-D
Single-strip/frame sequential and anaglyphic release print
Stereo
1.33:1
[XXX feature, with hot studs Marco Banderas (aka Marco Duarto) and Sascha humping their way through a series of amateur ‘housewife’ types, including Michelle Avanti and Adrianna Nicole]

SEA DREAM
USA - 1978 - 23m - col
D: Murray Lerner
Spacevision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
4-track magnetic stereo
2.35:1
[Special venue item, produced for theme park exhibition, though screened theatrically in selected venues. The film takes audiences on a three-dimensional tour of the natural world, on land and sea and all points in-between]

SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE
USA - 2007 - 40m - col
D: Sean MacLeod Phillips
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570, -870  and Digital 3-D release prints
Sonics-DDP (70mm)
Dolby Digital (D-Cinema)
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
1.85:1 (D-Cinema)
[Large Format documentary, narrated by Liev Schreiber, using CGI animation to explore a prehistoric ocean of the Cretaceous period from the point of view of a dolichorhynchops (no, I can’t pronounce it, either!). The first LF film to be released simultaneously in Digital 3-D]

SEARCH FOR MIYUU
(see: Pokemon 3-D Adobenchâ: Myû o Sagase)

SEA REX
USA - 2010 - 42m - col
D: Ronan Chapalain, Pascal Vuong
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary which uses CGI to recreate the world of monstrous sea reptiles who roamed the world’s oceans millions of years before the ascension of land-based dinosaurs]

SEARS SALES*
USA - 1953 - short - col
D: Bernard Howard
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
0.67:1
[Documentary short, produced for Sears, Roebuck in the USA. An instructional tool for the company’s newest recruits]

SEA TURTLES 3D*
USA/France - 2010 - short - col
D: Jean-Jacques Mantello
Dual-HD Video
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Another Large Format documentary from director Mantello, with a self-explanatory title]

SEBASTIAN’S VOODOO
USA - 2008 - 4m - col
D: Joaquin Baldwin
CGI animation
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-video, single-strip/side by side (HD and SD video) release prints
Stereo
1.85:1
[Animated short, originally released in 2-D and ‘dimensionalized’ in 2008 for stereoscopic presentations. “A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death”]

SECOND CHANCE
USA - 1953 - 81m - col
D: Rudolph Maté
Future Dimension
Dual-35mm
3-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Action-drama, featuring Robert Mitchum and Jack Palance as characters on opposite sides of the law. Mitchum is an ex-boxer charged with protecting a former gangster’s moll (Linda Darnell), while Palance is the hitman hired to prevent Darnell from testifying against her old ‘friends’, leading to a climactic showdown on a runaway cable-car! Though photographed with 1.37:1 aspect ratio in mind, the film was exhibited at 1.66:1 in some venues]

SECRETS OF ECSTASY ’72
(see: Ecstasy ‘72)

SECRETS OF THE MICROMEN*
USA (V) - 1998 - feature? - col
[Information is scarce on this obscure item, which is listed as a 3-D film in at least one source, though I haven’t been able to confirm it one way or the other]

SEDUCTION OF INNOCENCE
[see: Adventures of Justine, The]

THE SEDUCTION OF SID DEUCE
USA (V) - 1997 - 88m - col
D: Chip Woods
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX-rated video feature, in which two horny guys advertise for a roommate and end up having wild sex with all the female respondents!]

THE SELF-ASSURED KARANDASH
(see: Samourevenniy Karandash)

SENIOR SNATCH
(see: Surfer Girls, The)

SENRITSU MEIKYU 3-D*
(aka: The Shock Labyrinth)
Japan - 2009 - feature - col
D: Takashi Shimizu
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
[Spooky shocker, in which a group of young people take an ailing friend to a creepy old hospital which turns out to be a mystical labyrinth, heaving with ghosties and ghoulies and long-leggety beasties. Based on the Senritsu Meikyu haunted house attraction at Fuji-Q High Land, near Mt. Fuji]

SEPTEMBER STORM
USA - 1960 - 89m - col
D: Byron Haskin
Superscope 235
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
Mono
2.35:1
[Underwater adventure yarn, with Joanne Dru and Mark Stevens as fortune-hunters searching for sunken treasure off the coast of Mallorca. Photographed in dual-35mm using the Natural Vision rig, and printed in widescreen via the Superscope 235 format. The 3-D process was promoted on contemporary ad-mats as ‘Stereo-Vision’ and CinemaScope]

SEVEN DOORS OF DEATH
[see: Aldilà, L’]

SEX AND ZEN*
[Yu Pu Tuan]
Hong Kong - 2009 - feature - col
Dimensionalized 3-D?
Digital 3-D release print
[Remake of the 1994 erotic classic, based on a 17th century manuscript, which describes the fate of several characters who indulge in carnal excess]

SEXCALIBUR
(see: Sex in 3-D)

SEX DRIVERS
USA (V) - 1996 - 82m - col
D: Chip Woods
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX-rated video, featuring the likes of PJ Sparxx, Erika Grant and Peter North in a series of hardcore vignettes based around the theme of garages and auto mechanics. Please, no ‘tool’ jokes...]

SEX IN 3-D
(aka: Sexcalibur)
USA - 1983 - 75m - col
D: Dinin Dicimin
Sensorama
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[XXX-rated feature, originally intended as a short film built around three unrelated porn loops, though the linking material was subsequently expanded for theatrical release]

SEX, LIES & POLITICS
[see: Click]

SEXUAL FEELING
(aka: The Art of Touch II: A Taoist Erotic Massage)
UK (V) - 1993 - 55m - col
D: Mike Esser
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/Video
Stereo
1.33:1
[Instructional video for gay men, with 3-D sequences. A sensual exploration of male beauty through the ancient art of Taoist massage? Or an excuse to ogle naked beefcake in close-up detail? You pays your money...]

SHADOW LAND OR LIGHT FROM THE OTHER SIDE
USA - 2000 - 32m - bw
D: Zoe Beloff
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
0.67:1
[Experimental drama, based on the autobiography of Victorian medium Elizabeth d’Espérance]

SHADOW VISION*
USA - 2009 - feature - col
D: Eric Parkinson
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Thriller, starring Vivian Schilling “as a blind woman who develops the ability to remotely sense and visualize crimes”]

SHAGGIES
(see: Chlupáci)

SHALIMAR
(aka: Deadly Thief)
(aka: Raiders of Shalimar)
(aka: Raiders of the Sacred Stone)
India/USA - 1978 - 90m - col
D: Krishna Shah
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US DVD in field sequential format, under the title Raiders of the Sacred Stone. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

SHANTIDOOT
India - 1985 - feature - col
[This superhero fantasy - a typical Bollywood spectacular, enhanced by 3-D cinematography - was initiated in 1985 by director Sawan Kumar Taks as an early vehicle for Indian superstar Sanjay Dutt. However, the project was abandoned during pre-production]

SHARKS 3-D
UK/France/Bahamas - 2004 - 42m - col
D: Jean-Jacques Mantello
Dual-HD Video
Dual-1570 (IMAX) release print
Sonics-DDP/DTS-70
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary, presented by Jean-Michel Cousteau (son of the late, great Jacques), which seeks to dispel the myth of ‘man-eating’ sharks by presenting them in their natural habitat, living and dying in the ocean depths]

SHARKWATER 3-D*
Canada - 2006/2009 - 40m - col
D: Rob Stewart
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Shortened version of Rob Stewart’s campaigning documentary, ‘dimensionalized’ for Large Format 3-D exhibition, which seeks to debunk the myth of sharks as mindless predators and to restore their reputation before mankind hunts them to extinction. The full-length 2-D version ran 89 minutes and was originally released with a Dolby Stereo SR soundtrack]

SHE FREAK
(see: Asylum of the Insane)

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON
USA - 1942 - 68m - bw
D: Roy William Neill
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

SHIN RITTAI ANIME OBAKE NO Q TARÔ TOBIDASE! BAKEBAKE DAISAKUSEN*
(aka: Jump, Qtaro! BakeBake’s Grand Stratagem)
Japan - 1986 - 14m - col
D: Hiroshi Sasagawa
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
[Children’s anime, based on the manga Obake no Qtarô (Qtaro the Ghost, created in 1964 by Fujiko Fujio) and subsequent TV series. Reminiscent of Casper the Friendly Ghost, this light-hearted fluff concerns a naughty spirit (Qtaro) who gets into mischief with his equally troublesome friends. Followed by Obake no Q Tarô Susume! 1/100 Daisakusen (qv)]

THE SHIP OF SOULS
USA - 1925 - 60m - bw
D: Charles Miller
Miller Stereoscopic Process
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Silent
1.33:1
[Some contemporary sources claim this silent drama created only an ‘illusion’ of depth and wasn’t true 3-D at all. Noted for the record]

SHI SAN NU NI
(see: 13 Golden Nuns)

SHIVA KA INSAAF
India - 1985 - 124m - col
D: Raj N. Sippy
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Exploitation drama, in which a small boy witnesses the death of his parents at the hands of marauding bandits. Over the course of many years, the boy (played as an adult by Jackie Shroff) learns a variety of combat techniques which he uses to take revenge on his adversaries]

SHOCKING SHORTS 3: 13 NEUE GEFÄHRLICH GUTE KURZFILME
(see: Floß, Das)

THE SHOCK LABYRINTH
(see: Senritsu Meikyu 3-D)

SHOGUN WOMEN
(see: 13 Golden Nuns)

SHOULD A GIRL SAY YES?
(see: Virgin in Hollywood, A)

SHREK FOREVER AFTER*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Mike Mitchell
Tru 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) and dual-1570 (IMAX) release prints
[Third sequel to the ultra-popular Shrek (2001), not counting the unrelated special venue item Shrek 4-D (qv)]

SHREK 4-D
USA (SV) - 2003 - 12m - col
D: Simon J. Smith
Digital Widescreen
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-570 release print
Dolby Digital
2.20:1
[Animated short, produced for the Universal Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida, and based on characters from the original 2-D feature Shrek (2001). Shrek and Donkey (voiced by Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy, respectively) must save Princess Fiona Cameron Diaz) from the evil Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) who has risen from the dead and intends to drag Fiona into the underworld. Later released on home video]

SHRUNKEN HEADS
USA - 1994 - 86m - col
D: Richard Elfman
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US DVD in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

SHUTKI V STORONU
(aka: No More Jokes)
USSR - 1984 - 68m - col
D: Vitaliy Makarov
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Eddie Sammons describes this as a “comedy about a young man who longs to be a clown”]

O SIBIRI S LYUBOVYU*
(aka: About Siberia With Love)
USSR - 1981 - short - col
D: Eugeniy Legat, Arkadiy Levitan
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Documentary short, providing stereoscopic views of the Siberian landscape]

THE SIDE STREETS OF HOLLYWOOD
(see: Virgin in Hollywood, A)

SIEGFRIED & ROY: THE MAGIC BOX
Canada/USA - 1999 - 47m - col
D: Brett Leonard
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Anthony Hopkins narrates this Large Format documentary, a celebration of German-born magicians Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Ford, which combines footage of a phantasmagorical magic show with a narrative account of their rise to worldwide fame]

SILENT MADNESS
USA - 1984 - 92m - col
D: Simon Nuchtern
ArriVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Dolby Stereo
2.35:1
[A dangerous psychopath is released from a mental hospital following an administrative error and returns to the scene of his former crimes (a sorority house), pursued by a concerned doctor (Belinda Montgomery) and representatives of the hospital who plot to cover up their incompetence by killing the psychopath *and* the doctor!]

SILENT SURF*
USA - 2010 - 36m - col
D: Soames Summerhays
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format exploration of America’s ocean depths and the delicate ecosystems which flourish beneath the waves]

SILVER LODE
USA - 1954 - 80m - col
D: Allan Dwan
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn’t filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process]

SIMPLY CONTINENTAL
(see: Einfach Continental)

THE SIMPSONS: HOMER3
[see: Cyberworld]

SINGAPORE BLUE
USA (V) - 1990 - 4 x 60m - col
D: [various]
Field sequential
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX-rated video series (in four volumes), in which beautiful Asian girls sell themselves to the highest bidder in a series of Singapore hotels. Good heavens, might that be construed as some semblance of a plot? Nurse, the screens...]

SINYAYA BORODA*
(aka: Blue Beard)
Russia - 2009 - 90m - col
D: Sergey Olifrinenko
Stereoscopic puppet animation (digital still photography)
Dual-1570 release print
[Puppet animation for Large Format theaters]

SITTING ON THE GOLDEN PORCH
(see: Na Zlatom Kryltse Sideli)

SIX GIRLS DRIVE INTO THE WEEKEND
(see: 6 Mädel Rollen ins Wochenend: Eine Raumfilm-Studie von Zeiss-Ikon)

SLAVE AUCTION
USA (V) - 1995 - 110m - col
D: Doug Davenport
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX-rated gay video, with Clint Benedict and Marc Saber, whose title just about gives away the film’s entire raison d’etre]

SLUTSVILLE U.S.A.
USA (V) - 1995 - 85m - col
D: Michael Talon
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[Candi Vegas and Nikki Sinn topline this XXX-rated video, set in the charming town of Slutsville, which contains “every kind of slut you can imagine” (don’t complain - I’m just repeating the ad-copy!)]

SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE*
USA - 1975 - feature - col
D: John Lawrence
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic)
1.37:1
[Concert film, featuring the eponymous rock group. Some footage was photographed in 65mm side by side (spherical) format. However, the film was never released for legal reasons, and may not have been completed]

SOIRS DE PARIS
France - 1953 - 85m - bw
D: Jean Laviron
Ciné Stéréo Télévision
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[France’s contribution to the 1950’s 3-D boom (their first 3-D feature) concerns a Parisian singer who mistakes an American tourist for a talent scout and takes him on a tour of the city]

A SOLID EXPLANATION
UK - 1951 - 8m - bw
D: Peter Bradford
Stereo Techniques
Dual-35mm
Stereosound
1.37:1
[Instructional documentary, set against the backdrop of an English zoo, which demonstrates the wonders of stereoscopic cinematography. The film was later included in the compilation 3-Dimension (qv)]

SOLNECHNIY KRAI*
(aka: Land of Sun)
USSR - 1950 - short - col
D: Matvey Volodarsky
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary travelogue, featuring the sights and sounds of the Crimea]

SOMEONE’S AFTER ME
(see: Watashi Wa Nerawarete Iru)

SON OF SINBAD
USA - 1953 - 88m - col
D: Ted Tetzlaff
Future Dimension
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.66:1
[Sinbad the sailor (Dale Robertson) goes in search of ‘Greek fire’, an early form of gunpowder which can help defend the city of Bagdad against marauding barbarians. Vincent Price co-stars as Sinbad’s constant companion, alongside Lili St. Cyr, Sally Forrest, Mari Blanchard and a bevy of bountiful beauties. Though shot in 3-D, the film ran into censorship trouble because of its ‘cheesecake’ quotient and was shelved for two years before being converted to Superscope and released in widescreen. However, the 3-D elements still exist]

SORORITY HOUSE VAMPIRES
[see: Sorority House Vampires from Hell]

SORORITY HOUSE VAMPIRES FROM HELL
USA (V) - 1997/2001 - 86m - col
D: Geoffrey De Vallois, Eugene James
Nu-View (partly)
Single-strip/Video
Field sequential
Mono
1.33:1
[Re-edited version of the 2-D video feature Sorority House Vampires (1997), with newly-created 3-D footage. Both versions offer the lure of “Death, Demons and D-Cups”, and both versions regularly attract hugely negative reviews. A villanous alien (voiced by Sean Roddy) sends a sexy vampiress (Eugenie Bondurant) to destroy humanity, and is opposed by a bunch of curvy (it says here) sorority sisters!]

SOS FROM THE TAIGA
(see: SOS nad Taygoy)

SOS NAD TAYGOY
(aka: SOS from the Taiga)
USSR - 1976 - 84m - col
D: Arkadi Koltsaty
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Adventure yarn in which a forester is accused of foul play when a friend goes missing in the Great Outdoors, and he travels into the treacherous - though beautiful - countryside to retrieve him]

SOS PLANET
(aka: Animalvision 3-D)
USA/Belgium - 2002 - 40m - col
D: Ben Stassen
nWave 3-D
Dual-1570
Dual-1570 and -870 release prints
Sonics-DDP/DTS-70
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
[Large Format documentary, exploring various environmental issues. The film was re-edited and shortened in 2003, and released under the title Animalvision 3-D]

SOUTHWEST PASSAGE
(aka: Camels West)
USA - 1954 - 82m - col
D: Ray Nazarro
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
Pola-Lite and dual-35mm release prints
Mono
1.66:1
[Rod Cameron headlines this western adventure, loosely based on true events, in which the US cavalry employs camels to escort a wagon train across a desert in the American southwest. Trouble arises when a wanted criminal (John Ireland) joins the caravan under an assumed name, leading to an escalation of tensions. Meanwhile, deadly Apaches gather in the distance... Also starring Joanne Dru and Darryl Hickman]

SOUVENIR
(see: Suvenir)

SOUVENIR FOR PUBLIC PROSECUTOR
(see: Suvenir dlya Prokurora)

SPACE ADVENTURE COBRA
[see: Supesu Adobencha Kobura]

SPACE ATTACK
(see: Adventures of Sam Space, The)

SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE
Canada - 1983 - 90m - col
D: Lamont Johnson
McNabb 3-D
Dual-35mm
Single-strip release print
Left-right images over-under
Dolby Stereo
2.35:1
[Peter Strauss is a galactic adventurer who travels to a distant planet to save three women from a monstrous villain (Michael Ironside), helped and hindered by a sullen waif (Molly Ringwald) he picks up along the way, and an old friend (Ernie Hudson) who may - or may not - be as trustworthy as he first seems. The 2-D version was projected theatrically at 1.85:1]

SPACE NEWS
(see: Noticiero de Espacial, O)

SPACE STATION
Canada/USA - 2002 - 47m - col
D: Toni Myers
3D30
Single-strip/65mm (30-perf)
Left-right images side by side
Dual-1570 release print
DTS-70
1.44:1
[Tom Cruise narrates this groundbreaking Large Format documentary, filmed aboard the International Space Station, orbiting more than 200 miles above the earth]

SPANISH BULLFIGHTING
[see: Festival de la Tercera Dimensión, El]

SPATIAL FILM
(see: Raumfilm, Der)

SPECTATOR 3-D
USA - 2005 - 24m - col
D: Christopher S. Potter
Dual-HD Video
Single-strip/HD Video release print
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic)
Dolby Digital
1.78:1
[The prime witness in a murder investigation (Danielle O’Hare) is forced to re-evaluate her testimony when questioned in detail about what she saw. The film was also made available in single-strip/anaglyphic format]

SPOOKS!
USA - 1953 - 16m - sepia
D: Jules White
Columbia 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.85:1
[A trio of crazy private detectives (The Three Stooges) track a missing girl (Norma Randall) to a creepy old house where a mad doctor (Philip Van Zandt) performs hideous experiments with a rampaging gorilla and a very, very large hypodermic needle! Fun stuff, with plenty of off-screen gags. Originally designed as a support item for Fort Ti (qv)]

THE SPOOKY MOVIE SHOW
(see: Mask, The [1961])

SPORTING YOUTH
(see: Sportoló Fiatalok)

SPORTOLÓ FIATOLOK
(aka: Sporting Youth)
Hungary - 1953 - 21m - bw
D: Tibor Préda
Plasztikus Film
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Stereo
2.00:1
[Sporting documentary, filmed at the ‘School of Physical Education’ in Hungary]

THE SPOTTED FOAL
(see: Zherebenok y Jablokakh)

SPRING HAS COME TO HELSINKI *
Finland - 1953 - short - col
D: Stig Schubert
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Silent
0.67:1
[Documentary short, the first Finnish 3-D film, about which nothing more is known]

SPY KIDS 3-D: GAME OVER
(aka: Spy Kids 3: Game Over)
USA - 2003 - 84m - col
D: Robert Rodriguez
Reality Camera System (partly)
Dual-HD Video
Single-strip/anaglyphic (35mm and D-Cinema) release prints
Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS
1.85:1
[Second sequel to the original Spy Kids (2001), and the first to feature extensive 3-D sequences. In this one, the children of secret agents Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino become trapped in a virtual reality game designed by arch-enemy the Toymaker (Sylvester Stallone)]

SPY KIDS 3: GAME OVER
(see: Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over)

SREDI SVEREI*
(aka: Amongst the Wild Animals)
USSR - 1949 - short - col
D: Ya. Kaplunov
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short, exploring the various animals at Moscow Zoo]

STARCHASER: THE LEGEND OF ORIN
USA/S.Korea - 1985 - 100m - col
D: Steven Hahn
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Dolby Stereo
2.35:1
[Animated sci-fi adventure set on a distant planet ruled by an evil despot (voiced by Anthony Delongis), where a young slave boy (Joe Colligan) leads an uprising against his wicked overlords. Some sources claim the film may have been screened in a 70mm blow-up version, though there’s no evidence to suggest it was released in anything other than standard 35mm]

STARDUST IN YOUR EYES
USA - 1953 - 7m - bw
D: [uncredited]
Tru-Stereo
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Singer/comedian Slick Slavin promotes the brave new world of three-dimensional movies and the stars who stand to benefit from its implementation. Designed to play as a support item for Robot Monster (qv)]

THE STARLETS
USA - 1976 - 80m - col
D: Daniel L. Symmes, Joseph Tebber
Quadravision 4-D
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic)
Mono
1.37:1
[XXX-rated feature. The film which prompted ‘Screw’ editor Al Goldstein to famously exclaim: “The action is so real, I thought I was cheating on my wife!”]

STAR OF THE SCREEN
Netherlands - 1953 - 2m - col
D: Joop Geesink
Stereoscopic puppet animation (35mm)
Dual-35mm release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Puppet animation, designed as a promotional item for Philips projectors]

V STEPI
(aka: On the Steppes)
USSR - 1950 - 42m - col
D: A. Ulyantsev, Boris Buneev
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short on the subject of collective farming. Zzzzzz...]

STEP UP 3-D*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Jon Chu
Fusion 3-D
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Third in the popular teen dance series, initiated by Step Up (2006)]

STEREO FILM
USA - 1952 - 1m - col
D: Oscar Fischinger
Stereoscopic cel animation (16mm)
Dual-16mm release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Abstract animation, running less than a minute in length]

STEREO HIRADÓ EGY
(aka: Stereo Newsreel One)
Hungary - 1952 - 11m - col
D: Félix Bodrossy
Plasztikus Film
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Stereo
2.00:1
[Newsreel item, described by author Eddie Sammons as a “record of the May Day celebration in Budapest, Hungary”. See also Artista Vizska (qv)]

STEREO HIRADÓ HÁROM
(aka: Stereo Newsreel Three)
Hungary - 1954 - 13m - col
D: Félix Bodrossy
Plasztikus Film
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Stereo
2.00:1
[Newsreel footage of current events in Hungary, circa 1954]

STEREO HIRADÓ KETTO
(aka: Stereo Newsreel Two)
Hungary - 1953 - 7m - col
D: Félix Bodrossy
Plasztikus Film
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Stereo
2.00:1
[Newsreel footage of current events in Hungary, circa 1954]

STEREO-LAFFS
(see: Day in the Country, A)

STEREO NEWSREEL ONE
(see: Stereo Hiradó Egy)

STEREO NEWSREEL THREE
(see: Stereo Hiradó Három)

STEREO NEWSREEL TWO
(see: Stereo Hiradó Ketto)

THE STEWARDESSES
USA - 1969 - 95m - col
D: Alf Silliman Jr. [Al Silliman Jr.]
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic) [35mm]
Left-right images side by side (spherical) [70mm blow-up]
Mono
1.37:1
[The most profitable X-rated 3-D film of all time, this fondly-remembered fluff stars Christina Hart in the tale of a group of stewardesses and their sexual exploits during an extended (ahem!) ‘layover’. Apparently screened in 70mm at the Boston Music Hall Theatre. Reissue prints were sometimes edited for various reasons, and at least one version contains unrelated hardcore footage]

THE STEWARDESSES PART III
USA - 1987 - feature - col
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic)
Mono
1.75:1
[Softcore comedy, comprised largely of footage deleted from International Stewardesses (qv), though the project was scuppered by lack of funding and remains unfinished]

THE STEWARDESSES PART II
(see: International Stewardesses)

STILL LIFE
Canada - 2005/2008 - 9m - col
D: Jon Knautz
Super 16
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-video, single-strip/side by side (HD and SD video) release prints
Stereo
1.85:1
[Live-action thriller, originally released in 2-D and ‘dimensionalized’ in 2008 for stereoscopic presentations. A college student (Trevor Matthews) stumbles across an isolated town where all the occupants appear to be mannequins. Or maybe not...]

THE STRANGER WORE A GUN
USA - 1953 - 83m - col
D: André de Toth
Columbia 3-D
Dual-35mm
3-track magnetic stereo
1.85:1
[Western drama starring Randolph Scott as a former spy for Quantrill’s Raiders who turns his life around when he falls in with the wrong crowd (a band of murdering thieves led by co-stars Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin) and vows to end their reign of terror]

O STRANNOSTYAKH LYUBVI
(aka: About Strange Things Concerning Love)
USSR - 1983 - 70m - col
D: Teodor Vulfovich
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Wilderness adventure, set in the Northern Caucusus, where a group of scientists go in search of a long-extinct species of apricot tree. Don’t expect a remake starring Bruce Willis]

THE STREET CORNER KIDS: SECRETS OF THE TWIN SISTER
USA/Canada - 1994 - 90m - col
D: Margaret Raphael
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US DVD in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

THE STREET CORNER KIDS 2: A PLACE CALLED ELMIRA
[see: Street Corner Kids: The Sequel, The]

THE STREET CORNER KIDS: THE SEQUEL
(aka: The Street Corner Kids 2: A Place Called Elmira)
USA/Canada - 1995 - 83m - col
D: Margaret Raphael
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US DVD in field sequential format, under the title The Street Corner Kids 2: A Place Called Elmira. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

STREET DANCE*
UK - 2010 - feature - col
D: Max and Dania
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Musical drama featuring dance groups Diversity and Flawless - finalists on TV show Britain’s Got Talent - in which members of a dance crew are forced to rehearse alongside ballet performers whilst training for the Street Dance Championships]

STROLL IN THE MEADOW
(see: Plastischer Wies’n-bummel)

STUD HOUSE
USA (V) - 1995 - 89m - col
D: [uncredited]
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[Plotless XXX-rated gay video, set in a house full of studs (which kinda explains the title!) who look for any excuse to bonk each other senseless]

SUKUPAZU
(aka: Dick Island)
(aka: Scoopers)
Japan (V) - 1987 - 58m - col
D: Jun Hirabayashi, Hideo Watanabe
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Single-strip/field sequential video print
Dolby Surround
1.33:1
[Anime feature, based on a story by manga icon Monkey Punch (Kazuhiko Kato), creator of Lupin III. In this futuristic tale, produced for home video, a female reporter and her robot companion investigate a colossal amusement park owned by the mysterious ‘Mister X’ and stumbles across a sinister secret]

SUMMER ISLAND
UK - 1953 - 18m - col
D: Robert M. Angell
Stereo Techniques
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Travelogue short, featuring the sights and sounds of Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago (it says here) situated in the northern Atlantic Ocean]

SUNDAY IN STEREO*
USA - 1953 - short - col
D: David Mange, Milton Fruchtman
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
0.67:1
[Semi-professional documentary short, later included in the compilation item Triorama (qv), which offers 3-D coverage of various leisure activities, such as a fast-paced rollercoaster ride, and visits to an amusement park and zoo]

SUNSHINE MINERS
UK - 1951 - 6m - bw
D: Jack Chambers
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
0.67:1
[Documentary short, produced for the National Coal Board, which reports on the state of open-cast coal mining in Great Britain, circa 1951]

SUPER DRAGON
(see: Dynasty)

SUPERGIRLS
(see: Supergirls for Love)

SUPERGIRLS FOR LOVE
(aka: Beauty Girls)
(aka: The Leasing Girls)
(aka: Supergirls)
W.Germany - 1983 - 85m - col
D: Amato Bozelli [Walter Molitor]
ArriVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[XXX-rated feature starring gorgeous sexpot Olinka Hardiman (Emmanuelle Goes to Cannes) as a jealous housewife who responds to her husband’s infidelities by having quite a few flings of her own. You go, girl! Director Molitor made a career out of similar fare, including Inside Marilyn (1985), and DTV items such as Spritzende Colts (Cock City Corral, 1991), Fuckingdales on Tour (1995) and Erotic Dorian Gray (1998)]

SUPERMAN RETURNS
USA/Australia - 2006 - 149m - col
D: Bryan Singer
HD Widescreen
IMAX DMR 3-D (partly)
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
2.39:1
[Superman for the post-9/11 generation, filmed in 2-D but with certain sequences reconfigured in IMAX 3-D for Large Format distribution. Essentially a sequel to the series of films begun in 1978 with Richard Donner’s Superman, this one finds the Man of Steel (Brandon Routh) returning to earth following a long absence, only to find villainous Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) up to his old tricks... The 35mm prints were screened in 2-D only, running 154 minutes, with Dolby Digital, DTS and SDDS soundtracks]

SUPERSONIC SUPERGIRLS
(see: International Stewardesses)

SUPESU ADOBENCHA KOBURA
(aka: Space Adventure Cobra)
Japan - 1983 - 99m - col
D: Osamu Dezaki
[Listed in some sources as a 3-D movie, though this popular cartoon feature employs nothing more than multiplane animation, intended to recreate the ‘effect’ of 3-D without the need for special glasses]

THE SURFER GIRLS
(aka: Hawaiian Fantasy)
(aka: Kahuna)
(aka: Senior Snatch)
USA - 1978 - 85m - col
D: Frank Silliman [Al Silliman Jr.]
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic)
Mono
1.37:1
[Boobs ‘n’ bikinis form the centrepiece of this softcore item, featuring the (ahem!) TITular heroines and their various adventures whilst searching for a ghostly Hawaiian ‘kahuna’ (no, I don’t know what that is, either). The 3-D format was promoted on contemporary ad-mats as ‘StereoVision 4-D’]

SURF II
USA - 1984 - 91m - col
D: Randall M. Badat
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn’t filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process]

SURVIVAL BEACH
(see: Sabaibaru Bîchi)

SUVENIR
(aka: Souvenir)
USSR - 1977 - 11m - col
D: Elbert Tuganov
Stereo 70
Stereoscopic puppet animation (570)
Single-strip/70mm release print
Left-right images side by side
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[3-D puppet film which highlights the aggressive tendencies of super-powerful nations. Hmm, wonder which specific nation this propagandistic item had in mind?...]

SUVENIR DLYA PROKURORA
(aka: Souvenir for Public Prosecutor)
USSR - 1989 - 89m - col
D: Aleksandr Kosarev
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Action drama, pitting Russian police against Mafia-style crime lords. Now this is more like it!]

SWAN LAKE
(see: Lago de los Cisnes, El)

SWINGTAIL
USA - 1969 - 65m - col
D: Dave Shane
Cosmovision  
Single-strip/35mm
Anaglyphic camera attachment
Mono
1.85:1
[Alex Mann and Alice Noland star in this X-rated item, in which an enthusiastic movie producer plans to recreate his girlfriend’s erotic exploits on film, though her subsequent excesses take everyone quite by surprise!]

SWORD OF GRANADA
(see: Corazón y la Espada, El)

SWORDSMAN II
[Xiao Ao Jiang Hu Zhi Dong Fang Bu Bai]
Hong Kong - 1992 - 108m - col
D: Tony Ching Siu-tung
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

SZÍNES SZOTTES
(aka: The Merry Competition)
Hungary - 1954 - 26m - col
D: Félix Mariassy
Plasztikus Film
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Stereo
2.00:1
[Folk dancing documentary. No blood, no boobs, no car chases or explosions. Just... folk dancing]



T


TAILOR-MADE BEAUTIES
[see: Femmina]

TAINSTVENNYJ MONAKH
(aka: Mysterious Monk)
USSR - 1968 - 103m - col  
D: Arkadi Koltsaty
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Drama, based on a true story, in which counter-revolutionary White Guards take sanctuary in a remote monastery and are foiled by an officer of the Cheka (Lenin’s political police force) disguised as a monk]

TALES FROM ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL
(see: Ritos e Lendas da Catedral)

TALES OF THE THIRD DIMENSION
USA - 1983 - 90m - col
D: Worth Keeter, Todd Durham, Thom McIntyre, Earl Owensby
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Three horrific tales involving vampires, grave-robbers and a ‘sweet’ old lady with a murderous secret...]

TALES OF THE WIZARD*
USA (V) - 1996 - feature - col
Single-strip/Video
1.33:1
[Nothing more is known about this XXX video feature, except that it was distributed in the US by 3D Club Video and stars Chantilly Lace and Teri Weigel]

TALISMAN
USA - 1998 - 72m - col
D: David DeCoteau
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US DVD in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

TALKING FISH
(see: Pez que Habla, El)

TAO JIN JI
(see: Gold Hunt, The)

TAZA, SON OF COCHISE
USA - 1953 - 79m - col
D: Douglas Sirk
Universal 3-D
Dual-35mm
Pola-Lite and dual-35mm release prints
Mono
1.66:1
[Western drama, featuring Rock Hudson as the son of a proud warrior whose death sparks war between Hudson and his ambitious brother (Rex Reason, billed as ‘Bart Roberts’), leading to conflict with the US cavalry]

TEENAGE TICKLE GIRLS
(see: Champagnegalopp)

TEEN BEAUTIES IN HEAT #1*
USA (V) - 2003 - 108m - col
Pulfrich 3-D
Single-strip/Video
Stereo
1.33:1
[XXX-rated item, featuring studly Lee Stone as the host of a wild party where he beds most of the gorgeous young women in attendance. Also available in an edited softcore version]

TELEVIEW
[Not a film per se, but a US compilation program - first screened in 1921 - including the stereoscopic short film M.A.R.S. (qv), later expanded and released in feature-length form as Radio Mania (qv); Release print format unconfirmed - some sources say the 3-D material was projected in dual-35mm, others say it was single-strip/frame sequential]

TÉLI REGE
(aka: Wintertime Tale)
Hungary - 1952 - 25m - col
D: Félix Bodrossy
Plasztikus Film
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Stereo
2.00:1
[A tale of thwarted young lovers, enacted as a ballet performed by ice skaters]

THE TELL-TALE HEART
USA - 1953 - 8m - col
D: Ted Parmelee
[Sometimes credited as having been shot in 3-D, though this animated short wasn’t filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process]

TEN BELLS
(see: Kolokola)

TERROR BY NIGHT
USA - 1946 - 60m - bw
D: Roy William Neill
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

EL TESORO DE LAS CUATRO CORONAS
(aka: Il Tesoro delle 4 Corone)
(aka: Treasure of the Four Crowns)
Spain/Italy/USA - 1982 - 97m/115m - col
D: Ferdinando Baldi
3-Depix
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Dolby Stereo
2.35:1
[Action-adventure in which a group of mercenaries infiltrate the stronghold of a sinister cult in search of mystical artefacts, and must overcome a series of deadly traps along the way. The 3-D format was promoted as ‘Super-Vision 3-D’ and ‘Wonder-Vision 3-D’ in some contemporary ad-mats]

IL TESORO DELLE 4 CORONE
(see: Tesoro de las Cuatro Coronas, El)

THANGA MAMA*
(aka: The Carriage)
India - 1985 - feature - col
D: Simon V. Kurian
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Tamil-language 3-D movie, about which nothing more is known]

THEM!
USA - 1954 - 94m - bw
D: Gordon Douglas
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn’t filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process]

THESE THREE
USA - 1936 - 93m - bw
D: William Wyler
[Eddie Sammons’ book ‘The World of 3-D Movies’ (1992) quotes a trade paper of the day which suggests part of this film was shot in a '3-D' process devised by stereoscopic expert William Alder. However, 3-D historian Ray Zone describes an article written by cinematographer Gregg Toland in a 1935 edition of the ‘New York Times’, in which Toland outlines test footage he had shot with Alder’s format (described by Zone as “an autostereoscopic device with spinning mirrors that recorded three different angles of a subject simultaneously on a single strip of 35-mm film”). Zone avers the footage gave an enhanced illusion of depth but couldn’t be described as a ‘true’ stereoscopic process. Toland was the lighting cameraman on These Three, but it’s unclear whether the test footage he shot with Alder’s process was ultimately included in the finished film, or whether it was intended for this production at all]

THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
USA - 1924 - 155m - bw
D: Raoul Walsh
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

THIRD DIMENSIONAL MURDER
USA - 1941 - 7m - bw
D: George Sidney
Metroscopix
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Novelty short, narrated by Pete Smith, in which the search for a missing relative leads to a haunted house, where a series of frightening fiends (including the Frankenstein monster) throw objects at the camera. The film was later included in the compilation short Metroscopix (qv)]

THIS IS BOLEX STEREO*
USA - 1953 - short - col
D: Larry Crolins, Harry Reiff, Ewing Krainin, John F. Storr
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
0.67:1
[Travelogue short, designed to show off the Bolex Stereo format, which offers panoramic 3-D vistas and intimate stereoscopic details of various far-flung locations, including Florida, Haiti, Gautemala, Nassau, Montego Bay and the Bahamas. The film was later included in the compilation item Triorama (qv)]

THIS IS PROGRESS
USA - 1953 - 4m - col
D: Raphael G. Wolff
Maurer 3-D
Dual-16mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Industrial film, intended for employees of General Motors, which highlights the technical advances employed by the company in its latest automobile designs]

THOSE REDHEADS FROM SEATTLE
USA - 1953 - 90m - col
D: Lewis R. Foster
Paravision
Dual-35mm
3-track magnetic stereo
1.66:1
[Musical western, featuring Agnes Moorehead as the mother of four beautiful daughters left penniless after the death of their father. Shortly afterward, they travel to Alaska and arrive slap-bang in the middle of the Gold Rush]

THREE DIMENSIONS OF GRETA
[see: Four Dimensions of Greta]

THRILLS FOR YOU
(aka: Pennsylvania Railroad’s Magic Movies)
USA - 1939 - 8m - bw
D: John A. Norling
Loucks & Norling 3-Dimensions
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Promotional film, produced by Pennsylvania Railroad for the 1939 Golden Gate Expo in San Francisco]

THRU’ THE TREES: WASHINGTON, D.C.
USA - 1923 - 1 reel - bw
D: William Van Doren Kelley
Plasticon 3-D
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic and dual-35mm release prints
Silent
1.33:1
[Recent research by 3-D historians Jack Theakston, Jeff Joseph, Bob Furmanek and Daniel L. Symmes reveals that this elusive item was one of only two films produced in the Plasticon 3-D process. Intended for demonstration purposes only, it doesn’t appear to have been publicly exhibited until 2006, when it was reconfigured in dual-35mm for the World 3-D Film Expo II in Hollywood, California. The film comprises material shot in Washington DC and New York City, along with inserts from the only other bona fide Plasticon film, Movies of the Future (qv). As such, this entry has been listed under separate (non-existent) titles for many years: ‘New York City’, ‘Plasticons’ and ‘Washington DC’]

TICKLED PINK
(see: Champagnegalopp)

THE TIGER GOES ON TRACE
(see: Rys Idet po Sledu)

TIGER MAN
(aka: Fist)
USA - 1976/1981 - 90m - col
D: Matt Cimber [Matteo Ottaviano]
Impact 3-D
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Obscure action-adventure, in which an avowed fan of the late Bruce Lee uses the skills learned from his idol’s techniques to fight Chinese gangsters in San Francisco. The film was first screened in Europe in 1976 under the title Fist. New material was shot in over-under StereoVision for the movie’s 1982 US debut]

TIGHT END
USA (V) - 1994 - 88m - col
D: [uncredited]
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[Tyler Scott and Tanner Reeves headline this XXX-rated gay video with a soccer theme]

TIME FOR BEANY
(aka: M.L. Gunzburg Presents 3-D)
USA - 1952 - 6m - bw
D: Arch Oboler
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Instructional item, originally designed to play alongside Bwana Devil (qv). Puppets from the popular TV show Time for Beany (1949-1954) are employed to demonstrate the technical and aesthetic benefits of Natural Vision 3-Dimension]

LA TIRANA
Spain - 1958 - 93m - col
D: Juan de Orduña
[In his book ‘3-D Movies: A History and Filmography of Stereoscopic Cinema’ (1989), author R.M. Hayes includes a film entitled ‘El Tirano’, directed by ‘Juan de Forduña’ in 1953, which he lists as having been photographed in dual-35mm 3-D. However, the film turns out to be La Tirana, directed by Juan de Orduña in 1958 and starring Paquita Rico (Hayes lists the actress as ‘Paquito’ Rico). The movie was shot and exhibited in 2-D only]

EL TIRANO
[see: Tirana, La]

TOBIDASHITA NICHI YÔBI
(aka: Runaway Sunday)
Japan - 1953 - 11m - bw
D: Takeo Murata
Tovision
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[The first Japanese 3-D film, following the exploits of a young couple during their visit to an amusement park. Originally screened alongside Watashi Wa Nerawete Iru (qv) as support for the 2-D feature film Yasugoro Desse (1953). The English title is often mistakenly listed as ‘Jumping Out Sunday’]

TOBIDASU BÔKEN EIGA: AKAKAGE*
(aka: Akakage: 3-D Adventure Movie)
Japan - 1969 - 52m - col
D: Junji Kurata, Tatsuya Yamauchi
Spherical/16mm (2-D footage)
Dual-35mm? (3-D footage)
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.85:1
[Fantasy adventure, set in 16th century Japan, in which a band of masked ninjas (led by Sakaguchi Yûzaburô) seek to prevent civil war by fighting evil warlords and their giant kaiju creations. Comprised of material culled from the popular Japanese TV show Kamen no Ninja Akakage (The Magic World of Ninjas, 1967), with extra footage filmed in 3-D for theatrical exhibition, though it isn’t known whether the 3-D footage was shot dual-35mm or employed an anaglyphic camera attachment. Condensed versions were later released under the titles Ninja Scope: The Magic World of Watari, Watari the Conqueror and Watari and the Fantasticks]

TOBIDASU JINZÔ NINGEN KIKAIDÂ
(aka: Flying at Ya’: Android Kikaider)
(aka: The Kikaida 3-D Movie)
(aka: Kikaider: The Movie)
Japan - 1973 - 33m - col
D: Hidetoshi Kitamura
Spherical/16mm (2-D footage)
Dual-35mm? (3-D footage)
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.85:1
[Superhero fantasy with 3-D sequences, derived from footage in the popular TV show Jinzô Ningen Kikaidâ (Android Kikaider, 1972-73). Though released theatrically in single-strip/anaglyph format, it isn’t known whether the filmmakers employed dual-35mm or an anaglyphic camera attachment during principal photography. Daisuke Ban plays the heroic Kikaider, tasked with protecting the world from alien robots, but an evil genius (Mitsuo Ando) has created a device which allows him to restore all the robots which Kikaider has ever destroyed...]

TOBIDASU RITTAI EIGA: INAZUMAN
(aka: Flying from the Movie Screen: Inazuman)
(aka: Inazuman: The Movie)
Japan - 1974 - 33m - col
D: Minoru Yamada
Spherical/16mm (2-D footage)
Dual-35mm? (3-D footage)
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.85:1
[Compiled from footage in the TV series Inazuman (1973-74), this fantasy-adventure (featuring a number of 3-D sequences, newly-created for this release) sees heroic Inazuman - a mutant human with the ability to channel lightning - become part of an organization devoted to protecting Earth from alien invasion. Though released theatrically in single-strip/anaglyph format, it isn’t known whether the filmmakers employed dual-35mm or an anaglyphic camera attachment during principal photography]

TO BULGARIA IN WINTER
(see: Zimoy v Bolgariyu)

TOKYO BLUE
USA/Japan (V) - 1990 - 3 x 40m - col
D: [various]
Field sequential
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[X-rated video item, possibly compiled from footage in a series of Japanese Adult videos]

TOKYO MATER
USA - 2008 - 3m - col
D: John Lasseter, Robb Gibbs, Victor Navone
Disney Digital 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[Fourth in the ‘CarsToons’ series, featuring characters from the 2-D film Cars (2006), and the first to be screened theatrically in 3-D (as a support item for Bolt, qv). In this one, tow truck Mater relocates to Japan, where he’s challenged to a race by a gang leader and his ninja posse]

TOMCAT
(see: Kater)

TONIGHT'S PERFORMANCE
[see: Cyberworld]

TOP BANANA
USA - 1954 - 100m - col
D: Alfred E. Green
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Musical comedy, based on the hit Broadway show, featuring Phil Silvers as a TV comic struggling to make a comeback. Unfortunately, the film was previewed and distributed in 2-D format only]

TO THE ARCTIC*
USA - 2011 - 40m - col
D: Greg MacGillivray
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary which follows an expedition to the North and South Poles to explore the geology and natural wonder of the two most desolate - and beautiful - places on earth]

A TOUCH OF SWEDEN
(see: Chamber-Mades, The)

TOY STORY*
USA - 1995/2009 - 80m - col
D: John Lasseter
CGI animation
Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
1.85:1
[Animated feature, in which a little boy relegates a beloved toy cowboy (voiced by Tom Hanks) to second place in his affections after buying a super-duper newfangled robot (Tim Allen). Typical Hollywood fluff, originally released in 2-D and reworked for stereoscopic presentation in 2009. Followed by Toy Story 2 (qv)]

TOY STORY 2*
USA - 1999/2009 - 92m - col
D: John Lasseter
CGI animation
Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
1.85:1
[Tom Hanks returns as the voice of toy cowboy Woody in this sequel to the hugely popular Toy Story (qv). Here, Woody’s friends come to the rescue after he’s stolen by a collector of ‘vintage’ toys. Originally released in 2-D, and reworked for stereoscopic presentation in 2009. Followed by Toy Story 3 (qv)]

TOY STORY 3*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Lee Unkrich
Disney Digital 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[The first of the Toy Story series to be filmed in 3-D from the outset. Preceded in theaters by newly-‘dimensionalized’ versions of the first two films (see qv)]

TRAKEENA’S REVENGE
(see: Power Rangers: Triple Force!)

TRANSITIONS
Canada - 1986 - 21m - col
D: Colin Low, Tony Ianzelo
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
IMAX Digital Sound
1.44:1
[Early Large Format 3-D film, exploring “the dynamic world of transportation and communications”]

TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS
(see: Tesoro de las Cuatro Coronas, El)

T-REX: BACK TO THE CRETACEOUS
Canada/USA - 1998 - 46m - col
D: Brett Leonard
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
IMAX Digital Sound / DTS-70
1.44:1
[Large Format combination of drama and education, in which a teenage girl (Liz Stauber) is transported back in time to the Cretaceous period where she comes face to face with some of the most extraordinary (and dangerous!) dinosaurs that ever lived]

THE TRIAL [1962]
(see: Procès, Le)

TRIAL*
Finland - 2007 - 15m - col
D: Kasimir Lehto, Sami Laitinen
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Dramatic short, designed by its makers to explore the possibilities of emerging 3-D technologies]

THE TRIAL OF JACK
USA - 2004 - 9m - col
D: Shari Berman
Dual-16mm
Single-strip/video (anaglyphic) release print
Stereo
1.37:1
[Combining 1920’s Expressionism with 1950’s aesthetics, this ‘Just So’ tale features a Jack-in-the-Box whose arrogance causes dissent amongst the other toys in his playroom]

TRIORAMA
USA - 1953 - 37m - col
D: Ernst Wildi, David Mange, Milton Fruchtman, Larry Crolins, Harry Reiff, Ewing Krainin, John F. Storr
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
0.67:1
[Compilation of 3-D shorts American Life, Indian Summer, Sunday in Stereo and This is Bolex Stereo (all qv)]

TRIPPER STRIPPER
USA (V) - 1995 - 88m - col
D: Michael Talon
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX-rated video, in which a tough stripper (Cory Gates) ploughs her way through a series of guys who can barely compete with her stamina, until she meets her match in a young stud who gives her a taste of her own decadent medicine]

TR2N*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Joseph Kosinski
Fusion 3-D
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Sequel to the 2-D sci-fi action-adventure Tron (1982)]

TSVETOK PELOPONESSA
(aka: The Flower of Pelopones)
(aka: The Greece)
Russia - 2000 - 10m - col
D: Dmitriy Masurenkov, Sergey Rozhkov
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Travelogue short, exploring the visual wonders of a health resort in Greece]

T2 3-D: BATTLE ACROSS TIME
USA (SV) - 1996 - 12m - col
D: James Cameron, John Bruno, Stan Winston
Dual-65mm x 3
Dual-570 release print (3-panel)
6-track digital stereo
2.20:1 x 3
[Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong and Robert Patrick reprise their roles from the mega-successful Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) for this special venue attraction, combining live-action stuntwork with 3-D visuals, projected onto three adjoining screens for a truly immersive experience. The film opened at Universal Studios Florida in 1996]

UN TURCO NAPOLETANO*
(aka: Neapolitan Turk)
Italy - 1953 - 92m - col
D: Mario Mattoli
Richardson 3-D
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Vehicle for Italian comedian Totò, playing a petty criminal who escapes from prison and is mistaken for a eunuch assigned to guard the gorgeous wife of a bigwig politician, leading to all manner of hilarious complications. This movie has been listed in most 3-D filmographies for many years, and cinematographer Karl Struss asserted that he did photograph the film in a dual-35mm format. However, as author Eddie Sammons has pointed out, there is no mention of 3-D on contemporary ad-mats, and no proof it was ever screened in 3-D anywhere! Either Struss confused this film with the bona fide 3-D production Il Più Comico Spettacolo del Mondo (qv), or it was filmed in 3-D and - for whatever reason - released in 2-D only]

THE TURNING
USA - 1989 - feature - col
[Reported as in production in 1989, filmed with StereoVision lenses by director John Lawrence, though the film doesn’t appear to have been completed]

TWIRLIGIG
UK/Canada - 1952 - 3m - col
D: Evelyn Lambert
Stereo Techniques
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Dual-35mm release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Abstract animation, produced by animation pioneer Norman McLaren]

TWO GUYS FROM TICK RIDGE*
USA - 1972 - 20m - col
Optovision
Dual-16mm
Single-strip/35mm release print
Left-right images over-under
Mono
1.37:1
[Obscure X-rated short, reportedly screened alongside Prison Girls (qv), though there is no evidence to support this]

TWO NIGHTS WITH CLEOPATRA
(see: Due Notti con Cleopatra)

TYPHON SUR HAMBOURG
(see: Con la Muerte a la Espalda)



U

UCHENIK LEKARYA
(aka: The Doctor’s Pupil)
USSR - 1983 - 89m - col
D: Boris Rytsarev
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Comedy drama, in which a fake doctor pursues a beautiful young maiden by making rash promises to heal her bedridden mother]

ULISSE
(aka: Ulysses)
Italy/USA - 1954 - 130m/104m - col
D: Mario Camerini, G.W. Pabst
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn’t filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process]

THE ULTIMATE ATTRACTION
[see: Click]

ULTIMATE FLIGHT: ZAC’S FLYING DREAM
(see: Ultimate G’s)

ULTIMATE G’s
(aka: Ultimate Flight: Zac’s Flying Dream)
Canada - 2000 - 37m - col
D: Keith Melton
Iwerks 3-D
Dual-870
Dual-1570, -1070 and -870 release prints
Iwerks Digital Audio (1570 and 1070) / DTS-70 (870)
1.44:1 (1570 and 1070)
1.35:1 (870)
[Large Format drama, in which a little boy dreams of flying and grows up to become a pilot. The film was later revised and configured as a 16-minute ride film for theme park exhibition, under the title Ultimate Flight: Zac’s Flying Dream, released in 2001]

ULTIMATE WAVE TAHITI 3-D*
USA - 2010 - short? - col
D: Stephen Low
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format documentary, in which champion surfer Kelly Slater explores the science of giant waves]

ULTRA B: DICTATOR B•B FROM THE BLACK HOLE
(see: Urutora B: Burakkuhôru Kara no Dokusai Sha B•B)

ULYSSES
(see: Ulisse)

UNCLE BILL AND THE DREDGE DWELLERS
(see: Barge Dwellers)

UNDER THE SEA
USA/Canada - 2009 - 41m - col
D: Howard Hall
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Large Format sequel to Deep Sea 3-D (qv), which explores the impact of climate change on ocean wildlife. Narrated by Jim Carrey]

UNTITLED FRIESE-GREENE STEREOSCOPIC FILMS
UK - 1893 - shorts - bw
D: William Friese-Greene
Friese-Greene Stereoscopic Process
Dual-100mm
Silent
1.33:1
[The earliest known 3-D films, produced by inventor William Friese-Greene at the very dawn of cinema]

UNTITLED IN-THREE DEMONSTRATION FILM*
USA - 2005 - short - col
D: George Lucas, James Cameron, Randal Kleiser
Digital Widescreen
In-Three Dimensionalization
Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
2.39:1
[Demonstration of In-Three’s Dimensionalization process, first screened at the ShoWest convention in Las Vegas, 2005. Includes footage from Star Wars (1977), Grease (1978), Star Wars Epsiode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) and Aliens of the Deep (qv)]

UNTITLED LUMIÈRE STEREOSCOPIC FILMS*
France - 1934 - shorts - bw
D: Louis Lumière
Stéréoscopic Lumière
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.37:1
[Series of short films produced by French inventors Louis and Auguste Lumière]

UNTITLED PARAVISION FILM
USA - 1953 - 3m - col
D: Don Hartman
Paravision
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.66:1
[Promotional item for Paravision, a dual-35mm 3-D process developed for Paramount Pictures. The film was shown at trade screenings only, and was never exhibited on a commercial basis. A number of sources mistakenly list the title as ‘Adolph Zukor Introduces VistaVision’, but the film doesn’t appear to have been given an official name, and its subject matter has nothing to do with the large-screen VistaVision process. The 1.66:1 aspect ratio is assumed]

UNTITLED PORTER-WADDELL DEMONSTRATION FILM
USA - 1915 - 3 reels - bw  
D: Edwin S. Porter
Porter-Waddell Stereoscopic Process
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Silent
1.33:1
[3-D historians Ray Zone and Daniel L. Symmes recently untangled this film’s complex history. It was first screened at the Astor Theater, New York, in June 1915, comprising material often listed as separate entries in their own right - ‘Rural America’ and ‘Niagara Falls’. However, these represent only the *subject* of individual reels within this demonstration, and were never conceived as independent items. The demo also includes stereoscopic footage taken on the set of a 2-D feature film, Jim the Penman (1915), which has caused some confusion over the years, leading most 3-D researchers to believe - erroneously - that part (or all) of JTP was also filmed in 3-D. Not so]

AN UNUSUAL CITY
(see: Neobiknovenniy Gorod)

UP
USA - 2009 - 89m - col
D: Pete Docter
Disney Digital 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital Surround EX / DTS-ES / SDDS
1.85:1
[Sadly, not a 3-D remake of the Russ Meyer film (now that we’d like to see!), but an animated feature, in which a cantankerous old coot (voiced by Edward Asner) travels to South America by tying hundreds of helium balloons to his home, lifting the entire building into the stratosphere! But his reckless idyll is disturbed by a young stowaway (Jordan Nagai) who restores the old man’s faith in humanity. In 2009, the film made history as the first 3-D production to open the Cannes Film Festival]

URUTORA B: BURAKKUHÔRU KARA NO DOKUSAI SHA B•B*
(aka: Ultra B: Dictator B•B from the Black Hole)
Japan - 1988 - 20m - col
D: Masuji Harada
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
[Children’s anime, based on the TV series Urutora B (1987-89)]

U2 3D
USA - 2007 - 84m - col
D: Catherine Owens, Mark Pellington
Fusion 3-D
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) and dual-1570 (IMAX) release prints
Dolby Digital (D-Cinema)
Sonics-DDP (IMAX prints)
1.85:1
[Concert film, covering a series of gigs performed by U2 during their worldwide ‘Vertigo’ tour in 2007]



V


VÁLECNIK BEZ SRDCE
(aka: Warrior Without Heart)
Czech Republic (V) - 2003 - 26m - col
D: Jaroslav Kasal
Nu-View
Single-strip/Video
Field sequential
Stereo
1.33:1
[Semi-professional fantasy-drama, in which the surviving warrior of an ancient mountain clan fights his way to glory]

EL VALOR DE VIVIR*
(aka: The Courage to Live)
(aka: The Price of Living)
Mexico - 1954 - 105m - bw  
D: Tito Davison
Tercera Dimensión Bríceno
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Melodrama, notable as the first Mexican 3-D film. Arturo de Córdova plays a concert pianist wrongly convicted on spying charges whose release from jail coincides with his wife’s murder. Accused of the crime, he goes on the run to prove his innocence and falls in love with a beautiful young dancer (Rosita Quintana), but her secrets are no less tragic than his own... The film doesn’t appear to have been released in 3-D during its initial Mexican engagements, so the intended release print configuration is unknown. Evidence suggests it was printed in one (or both) of the principal 3-D formats which existed at the time - dual-35mm and/or single-strip anaglyphic]

DIE VAMPIRE DES DR. DRACULA
(see: Marca del Hombre Lobo, La)

VANKA-VSTANKA
(aka: Favorite Dummy)
Russia/Belarus - 1990 - 80m - col
D: Anatoli Kokorin
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Children’s fantasy, recounting the adventures of a brave little doll]

VASHU LAPU, MEDVED!
(aka: Handshake With a Bear)
USSR - 1969 - 27m - col
D: Tamara Lisitsian
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Wildlife short, focussing on an orphaned bear raised in captivity by humans]

VAULT OF DARKNESS*
USA - 2009 - 80m - col
D: Justin Beasley, Adam Hulin, Matthew B. Moore, Adam Ross
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Digital 3-D release print
2.35:1
[Portmanteau horror film, comprising four separate tales of terror, including Day of the Living, Death Father and Galatea]

VECHER V MOSKVE
(aka: Evening in Moscow)
USSR - 1962 - 73m - col
D: Vladimir Nemolyaev
Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Concert film, about which nothing more is known]

VEDHALAM
[see: Jai Vethlam]

VENUS
(aka: Venus on Fire)
France - 1983 - 87m - col
D: Peter Hollison
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Softcore comedy-drama in which representatives of an American cosmetics firm travel to the Greek islands to hire a beautiful girl (Odile Michel) to model a new line of suntan lotion named after the goddess Venus. However, the goddess herself isn’t pleased with their crass commercialism and rises from the sea to teach them a lesson...]

VENUS ON FIRE
(see: Venus)

VICTORIAN PASSIONS
(see: Champagnegalopp)

VICTORY FOR ALLAH
(see: Jai Badalla)

VIKHODNOY DENI V MOSKVE*
(aka: Day Off in Moscow)
USSR - 1938 - short - bw
D: Nikolai Ekk
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.37:1
[The title suggests a Moscow travelogue, but this has not been confirmed]

VINCENT
USA - 1982 - 6m - bw
D: Tim Burton
[Planned for stereoscopic conversion in 2007 via the Disney Digital 3-D process, as a support item for the dimensional re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas (qv), though the project appears to have been scrapped at the very last minute]

VINTAGE ’28
UK - 1953 - 14m - col
D: Robert M. Angell
Stereo Techniques
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short about vintage cars. The film was later included in the compilation short 3-Dimension (qv)]

VIRGIN BARMAIDS
USA (V) - 1996 - 80m - col
D: Chip Woods
Vidmax 3-D
Dual-video
Sensio 3-D and single-strip/field sequential video prints
Mono
1.33:1
[XXX-rated video, in which innocent barmaids are quickly stripped of their virtue (and everything else!) by various randy customers]

A VIRGIN IN HOLLYWOOD
(aka: Hollywood Confidential)
(aka: Should a Girl Say Yes?)
(aka: The Side Streets of New York)
USA - 1952 - 63m - bw
D: Klaytan W. Kirby
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Low-budget sleaze-fest, in which a female reporter (Dorothy Abbott) is assigned to investigate the darker side of Hollywood and stumbles across a world of peep-shows, girlie bars and striptease routines. Comprised mostly of old burlesque footage, with a 3-D sequence tacked onto proceedings for good measure]

VIRTUAL ACTORS
(see: Adventures in Animation 3-D)

VLUBLENNIY MANEKEN
(aka: The Model Who Fell in Love)
Russia - 1991 - 75m - col
D: Vitali Makarov
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Fantasy-drama in which a beautiful doll comes to life and experiences human emotions, including love]

THE VOLCANO CREATURE
USA - 1989 - feature - col
[Listed in some 3-D filmographies, though there’s no evidence the film was actually completed]

VOLSHEBNOE OZERO
(aka: The Magic Lake)
USSR - 1979 - 21m - col
D: Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Stereo 70
Stereoscopic puppet animation (570)
Single-strip/70mm release print
Left-right images side by side
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Puppet animation, in which a brave young man rescues his beloved from an enchanted forest]

VOYAGE TO THE PREHISTORIC PLANET
USA - 1966 - 80m - bw
D: Curtis Harrington
[Filmed and exhibited in 2-D, but reconfigured on US home video in field sequential format. The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision. Comprises edited footage from the Russian film Planeta Bur (1962)]

VSADNIK NA ZOLOTOM KONE
(aka: Man on a Golden Horse)
(aka: Rider on a Golden Horse)
USSR - 1978 - 88m - col
D: Vasiliy Zhuravlev
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Musical fantasy, in which a young couple from neighbouring countries are thwarted by a wicked dictator, though Love manages to conquer all. Aww, bless...]

V-WORLD MATRIX
USA (V) - 1999 - 75m - col
D: Ron Ford
Nu-View
Single-strip/Video
Field sequential
Mono
1.33:1
[Ultra-low-budget update of Westworld (1973), in which tourists in a futuristic ‘cyber-city’ become locked in mortal combat with a digital hunter who tracks them down with murderous intent]



W


DER WAGEN UND SEIN WERK
(aka: The Car and Its Factory)
W.Germany - 1953 - 6m - col
D: Curt A. Engel
Raumfilm-System
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short, exploring the Volkswagen automobile factory in Wolfsburg, W.Germany]

WALK IN THE ZOO
(see: Állatkerti Séta)

A WALK IN THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN
(see: Állatkerti Séta)

WARLORD
(see: Dynasty)

WARRIOR WITHOUT HEART
(see: Válecnik bez Srdce)

WASHINGTON, D.C.
[see: Thru' the Trees: Washington, D.C.]

WATARI AND THE FANTASTICKS
[see: Tobidasu Bôken Eiga: Akakage]

WATARI THE CONQUEROR
[see: Tobidasu Bôken Eiga: Akakage]

WATASHI WA NERAWARETE ITU
(aka: Someone’s After Me)
Japan - 1953 - 19m - bw
D: Shigeru Tajiri
Tovision
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Thriller with musical interludes, originally screened alongside Tobidashita Nichi Yôbi (qv) as support for the 2-D feature Yasugoro Desse (1953). This was the last 3-D film produced by Toho studios in the 1950’s, prior to the development of their widescreen Tohoscope process. The film’s title is often mistranslated as ‘I am Marked’]

WATER: THE SOURCE OF LIFE
USA (SV) - 1984 - 20m - col
D: Werner Schumann
StereoSpace 70  
Dual-570
6-track magnetic stereo
2.20:1
[Special venue item with an aquatic theme. First exhibited at the New Orleans World s Fair]

WAY DOWN WEST
USA - 1978 - 3m - col
D: David Starkman
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Silent
0.67:1
[Amateur tribute to silent films, publicly exhibited in specialized venues]

A WAY OF THINKING*
USA - 1954 - short - col
D: Floyd Ramsdell
Ramsdell 3-D
Dual-16mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short, screened exclusively in mobile theaters]

WE ARE BORN OF STARS
(aka: Za Yunibâsu)
Canada/Japan - 1985 - 11m - col
D: Nelson Max
Omnimax 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Single-strip/1570 (anaglyphic) release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.44:1
[Computer-generated animation, describing the evolution of life in our solar system, from the smallest atoms to the largest stars. Designed for anaglyph presentation on huge dome-shaped screens]

WEDGES*
USA - 1978 - short - col
D: Richard Hollander
Lipton Three-Dimensional Filmmaking System
Stereoscopic cel animation (Super-8)
Dual Super-8 release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Amateur film, comprised of abstract animated images. Commercially exhibited in some professional venues]

WEEKEND PANORAMA
USA - 1984 - short - col
D: Owen C. (Wes) Western
Western 3-D
Single-strip/Super-8
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.66:1
[Amateur film, highlighting the sights and sounds of Southern California. Commercially exhibited in some professional venues]

DER WEIßE TRAUM
(aka: The White Dream)
W.Germany - 1953 - 5m - col
D: Curt Engel
Raumfilm-System
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.37:1
[Promotional film for Volkswagen automobiles, in which a young couple take an eventful motoring trip through the Bavarian Alps]

WHAT THE SWEDISH BUTLER SAW
(see: Champagnegalopp)

WHEN MEN ARE SINGING
(see: Kogda Poyut Muzhchiny)

WHEN THE ISLANDS COME ALIVE
(see: Kogda Ozhivayut Ostrova)

THE WHITE DREAM
(see: Weiße Traum, Der)

WHITE EAGLE*
Japan - 1979 - feature - col
[Technical details for this obscure Japanese anime have yet to be determined]

THE WHITE POODLE
(see: Belyj Pudel)

WILDCAT WOMEN
(see: Black Lolita)

WILDERNESS*
Canada - 1986 - 16m - col
Iwerks 3-D
Dual-870
Iwerks Digital Audio
1.35:1
[Large Format documentary, exploring the Natural World in all its splendour]

WILD OCEAN
Canada - 2008 - 40m - col
D: Luke Cresswell, Steve McNicholas
IMAX Solido / 3D30 / Dual-35mm / Fusion 3-D
Dual-1570 / Single-strip 65mm (left-right images side by side on 30-perf film) / Dual-35mm / Dual-HD Video
Dual-1570 (IMAX) and Digital 3-D release prints
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1 (IMAX)
1.85:1 (Digital 3-D)
[Large Format documentary, shot in the oceans off the Kwazulu-Natal coast in South Africa, which captures the annual feeding frenzy that occurs when hordes of migrating sardines are targeted by various predators, human and animal alike]

THE WILD RIDE
USA - 1977 - 17m - col
D: Daniel L. Symmes
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[Comedy short, inspired by the Keystone Kops, originally released as a support item for Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth (the reissue title of The Bubble, qv)]

WILD SAFARI 3-D: A SOUTH AFRICAN ADVENTURE
USA/Belgium - 2004 - 45m - col
D: Ben Stassen
nWave 3-D
Dual-1570
Dual-1570, -870, -570 and Digital 3-D release prints
Sonics-DDP / DTS-70
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
2.20:1 (570)
[Large Format documentary. South African zoologist Liesl Eichenberger takes viewers on a 3000-mile journey across the African landscape, exploring the abundant scenery and wildlife along the way. Some footage was shot in dual-35mm and composited into the final release print]

WILLIE NELSON’S 2nd ANNUAL 4th OF JULY PICNIC
(see: Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Celebration)

WILLIE NELSON’S 4th OF JULY CELEBRATION
(aka: Willie Nelson’s 2nd Annual 4th of July Picnic)
USA - 1977 - 90m - col
D: Werner Brandt
Spacevision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images over-under
Dolby Stereo
2.35:1
[Concert movie, filmed in 1974 at College Station, Texas, during the Texas World Speedway. The film went unreleased until 1979 (though copyrighted 1977), by which time the producers were able to add a Dolby Stereo soundtrack. One source claims the projected aspect ratio was 1.66:1, which casts doubt on the use of the Spacevision 3-D process (native 2.35:1 ratio). Furthermore, the film doesn’t appear to have been screened in 3-D at any point]

WINGS OF COURAGE
(aka: Les Ailes du Courage)
USA/France - 1995 - 40m - col
D: Jean-Jacques Annaud
IMAX 3-D
Dual-1570
Dual-1570 and -870 release prints
IMAX Digital Sound (1570) / DTS-70 (870)
1.44:1 (1570)
1.35:1 (870)
[The first Large Format film to employ a scripted narrative, this eye-catching drama features Craig Sheffer as a 1920’s pilot running a provisional airmail service across the Andes whose plane crashes in the mountains, forcing him to return home on foot. Also starring Elizabeth McGovern, Tom Hulce and Val Kilmer]

WINGS OF THE HAWK
USA - 1953 - 80m - col
D: Budd Boetticher
Universal 3-D
Dual-35mm
3-track magnetic stereo
1.85:1
[B-movie melodrama. An American miner (Van Heflin) gets caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11, finds love in the arms of a beautiful guerilla leader (Julie Adams) and falls foul of a corrupt administrator (George Dolenz)]

THE WINNERS*
USA - 1981 - 4m - col
StereoVision
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (anamorphic) (35mm version)
Left-right images side by side (spherical) (70mm blow-up)
Mono
1.37:1
[Documentary short “about a black uni-cycling, basketball playing circus act”, as per author Eddie Sammons]

WINTERTIME TALE
(see: Téli Rege)

WITH DEATH AT YOUR BACK
(see: Con la Muerte a la Espalda)

A WOMAN’S REVENGE
[Yu Nu Qing Chou]
Hong Kong - 1953 - 83m - bw
D: Chiu Shu-sun, Cheng Shu-kin
Dual-35mm
Mono
1.37:1
[Crime drama, based on a true story. In wartime China, a young woman (Chang Chui-ying) travels the countryside looking for the man who killed her parents, but her investigations lead to a tragic conclusion]

WOMEN’S 3-D WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP*
USA (V) - 1992 - 55m - col
Lawrence Vision 3-D
Single-strip/Video
Pulfrich effect
Mono
1.33:1
[Andre the Giant, Dusty Rhodes and The Samoans feature in this wrestling video, filmed to take advantage of the Pulfrich 3-D effect]

WONDROUS ENCOUNTERS OF A MAGICIAN
(see: Magician’s Adventures, A)

WORKING FOR PEANUTS
USA - 1953 - 7m - col
D: Jack Hannah
Disney 3-D
Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)
Dual-35mm and Digital 3-D release prints
Mono
1.37:1
[Animated short. Chip ‘n’ Dale attempt to steal peanuts from a zoo elephant, but their efforts are constantly thwarted by keeper Donald Duck. The film was later included in the compilation item 3-D Jamboree (qv). The Digital 3-D print was first screened in 2007, as support for the animated feature Meet the Robinsons (qv)]

WORLD OF YOUTH
(see: Kontsert)

WU DU
(see: Five Venoms, The)

WU LONG DA HUI
(see: Hong Kong Coronation Parade)



X


XIAO AO JIANG HU ZHI: DONG FANG BU BAI
(see: Swordsman II)

X-MAS TALE
(see: Cuento de Natividad)

XUN SHI SAN LANG
(see: Lion Tamer, The)



Y


YAH NARK*
Thailand (TV) - 2004 - 72m - col
Pulfrich 3-D (partly)
Single-strip/HD Video
Dolby Digital
1.78:1
[Low-budget horror, produced for TV and released on DVD with Pulfrich 3-D glasses. May Patarawarin Timkul plays a debutante actress whose role in a horror movie unleashes a violent psychosis, possibly supernatural in origin, leading to a series of strange murders. The film’s title is rendered Ya Naak in some sources]

YA NAAK
[see: Yah Nark]

YANG NIU XUN SHI
(see: French Queen of Kung Fu)

YOGI
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Eric Brevig
Dual-HD Video / Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Combination of live action and animation, updating the Yogi Bear character for 21st century audiences]

YOSEMITE: LIVE IT IN 3D
USA - 2009 - 45m - col
D: Karl Kozak
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[Documentary exploring the history and grandeur of Yosemite National Park in California]

YOSEMITE VALLEY
USA - 1922 - 1 reel - bw
D: Harry K. Fairall
Fairall Process
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Silent
1.33:1
[Documentary short exploring the natural wonders of the Yosemite Valley]

YOU AND STONE CONTAINER
USA - 1953 - 4m - col
D: Bernard Howard
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
0.67:1
[Documentary short, produced for employees of the packaging company Stone Container]

YOU CAN NEARLY TOUCH IT
(see: Zum Greifen Nah)

YOUR PAW, BEAR
[see: Vashu Lapu, Medved!]

YUNIBÂSU 2: TAIYÔ NO HIBIKI
(see: Echoes of the Sun)

YU NU QING CHOU
(see: Woman’s Revenge, A)



Z


ZAMUROVANNYE V STEKLE
(aka: Locked in Glass)
USSR - 1978 - 98m - col
D: Aleksandr Andriyevsky
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Fantasy-adventure, in which a young boy battles an evil Sultan for supremacy over a magical kingdom]

Z-BÄW
(see: Z-Bäw: Historia de un Gran Equipo)

Z-BÄW: HISTORIA DE UN GRAN EQUIPO*
(aka: Z-Bäw)
Mexico/USA - 2009 - feature - col
D: Ricardo Gómez Villanueva
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[Animated fantasy, set on a distant planet, in which four young friends must win a sporting tournament to prevent their planet being enslaved by a fiendish tyrant]

ZDRAVSTVUY, SOCHI
(aka: Hello, Sochi)
USSR - 1977 - 13m - col
D: Genrikh Brenner
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Documentary short, exploring the Sochi sanatorium and its surrounding countryside, an area of outstanding natural beauty]

ZHAN GU CHANG
(see: Battle in an Old City, A)

ZHEREBENOK Y JABLOKAKH
(aka: The Spotted Foal)
USSR - 1981 - 13m - col
D: Elbert Tuganov
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[An orphaned foal is adopted by a group of children and rescued from certain death. The film’s title is sometimes mistranslated as ‘The Horse-Child in Apples’]

ZHOU LE YUAN
(see: Park, The)

ZIEGFELD MIDNIGHT FROLIC
USA - 1929 - 16m - bw
D: Joseph Stanley
Porter-Waddell Stereoscopic Process (partly)
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Silent
1.33:1
[Musical-comedy revue, toplined by Eddie Cantor]

ZIMOY V BOLGARIYU
(aka: To Bulgaria in Winter)
USSR - 1981 - 10m - col
D: Alexander Melkumov
Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track magnetic stereo
1.37:1
[Documentary short, exploring Bulgaria’s beautiful winter landscape]

ZOMBI 3
(aka: Zombie Flesh Eaters 2)
Italy - 1988 - 95m - col
D: Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei, Lucio Fulci
[Announced as a 3-D production, though the dimensional process appears to have been abandoned sometime during principal photography]

THE ZOMBIE CHRONICLES
USA (V) - 2001 - 71m - col
D: Brad Sykes
Nu-View
Single-strip/Video
Field sequential
Mono
1.33:1
[Whilst searching for a (literal) ghost town in the middle of nowhere, a young reporter (Emmy Smith) picks up a grizzled hitchhiker (Joseph Haggerty) who tells her two stories involving flesh-eating zombies reputed to haunt the area. Amateurish home-movie rubbish, shot on video, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever! Avoid!!]

ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS 2
(see: Zombi 3)

ZOMBIES
(see: Dawn of the Dead)

THE ZOO
(see: Bubble, The)

ZOO SNAPSHOTS
USA - 1953 - 3m - col
D: J.S. Frieze
Bolex Stereo
Single-strip/16mm
Left-right images side by side
Mono
0.67:1
[Documentary short, featuring extended 3-D footage of a zoo and its inhabitants, human and animal alike!]

ZOWIE
USA - 1925 - 1 reel - bw
D: Jacob F. Leventhal
Stereoscopiks
Dual-35mm
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Silent
1.33:1
[Early 3-D ‘demonstration’ short, which thrusts various objects into the theater space]

ZUM GREIFEN NAH
(aka: Close Enough to Touch)
(aka: You Can Nearly Touch It)
Germany - 1937 - 11m - bw
D: Curt Engel
Raumfilm-System
Single-strip/35mm
Left-right images side by side (vertical configuration)
Mono
1.37:1
[Short drama, set in a fairground, designed to show off the Raumfilm-System 3-D format. See also Der Raumfilm (qv)]

ZUR GESCHICHTE DES DEUTSCHEN WERBEFILMS*
(aka: On the History of German Advertising Films)
W.Germany - 1980 - short? - col and bw
D: [various]
Raumfilm-System (partly)
[Various technical configurations]
Mono
1.37:1?
[Overview of German advertising shorts produced between 1910 and 1956, including those shot in the Raumfilm-System 3-D format. See the Technical Glossary for descriptions of the various Raumfilm-System configurations]



NB. Most of the movies listed in this filmography employ a range of 3-D systems which generate *separate* left-right images, configured in dual- or single-strip format during principal photography. However, a sizeable number of these films were printed in the inferior single-strip/anaglyphic process for theatrical and/or home video release, and have rarely - if ever - been seen in full-resolution dual-stream 3-D. That may change in due course with the emergence of Digital 3-D (qv) technology, which allows for the complete restoration and exhibition of any stereoscopic film composed of separate left-right elements. The anaglyphic versions should not be considered ‘definitive’.



1070
Shorthand for 10-perf 70mm film gauge (1.44:1 aspect ratio).

1570
Shorthand for 15-perf 70mm film gauge (1.44:1 aspect ratio).

3-Depix
Left-right images stacked above/below in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame, yielding a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. For technical reasons, the first 3-Depix film (Manhole) had a 2.00:1 aspect ratio, though the specifications were subsequently altered to accommodate the wider image. Sometimes promoted under the name ‘Super-Vision 3-D’.

3-Dimensions
Left-right images configured directly onto a 16mm negative via a specially-designed anaglyphic camera attachment which employs colored filters to separate the elements within each frame. The results are viewed through colored lenses (using appropriate eyewear) which resolves the image into a three-dimensional effect.

3D Plus
Left-right images configured directly onto the negative via a specially-designed anaglyphic camera attachment which employs colored filters to separate the elements within each frame. The results are viewed through colored lenses (using appropriate eyewear) which resolves the image into a three-dimensional effect.

3D30
Left-right 15-perf/65mm images captured side by side on a 30-perf (!) negative, then separated into dual-1570 format during post-production.

3-D Video
Left-right images captured on separate strips of video.

3-Dynavision
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 5-perf 65mm film, then configured on 10-perf film in single-strip/over-under format. Aspect ratio 2.21:1.

3Vision
Left-right images captured on separate strips of video.

570
Shorthand for 5-perf 70mm film gauge (2.20:1 aspect ratio).

870
Shorthand for 8-perf 70mm film gauge (1.35:1 aspect ratio).

Anaglyphic
Single-strip format. Left-right images configured directly onto the negative via a specially-designed camera attachment which employs colored filters to separate the elements within each frame. The results are viewed through colored lenses (using appropriate eyewear) which resolves the image into a three-dimensional effect.

Anaglyphic camera attachment
(see: Anaglyphic)

ArriVision
Left-right images stacked above/below in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame, yielding a 2.35:1 aspect ratio.

Aspex 3-D
Left-right images configured directly onto the negative via a specially-designed butterfly shutter with red-cyan filters that separate the elements within each frame. The results are viewed through colored lenses (using appropriate eyewear) which resolves the image into a three-dimensional effect.

Bolex Stereo
Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 16mm frame, resulting in images that are tall instead of wide (0.67:1 aspect ratio).

Burton 3-D
Animation format. Each frame of film is photographed twice, at slightly different angles to one another, generating separate left-right images configured in a dual-35mm release print.

ChromaDepth
Single-strip ‘holographic’ format which works by controlling the way certain colors reach the viewers’ eyes. Blue light passes through the lenses of specially filtered eyewear with relative ease, while red, green and yellow are forced into various angles, creating an illusion of depth. However, this quasi-dimensional process depends entirely on color mapping within the filmed image and - like Pulfrich 3-D (qv) - barely qualifies as ‘real’ stereo-vision.

Cinedepth
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film in 2-perf Techniscope, and configured in single-strip/over-under format during post-production. Aspect ratio 2.35:1.

Ciné Stéréo Télévision
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Clairmont 3-D
(see: Freddy-Vision)

Clear-Vision
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

ColorCode 3-D
Single-strip/anaglyphic format, derived from material shot in dual-strip (35mm, video, etc.).

Columbia 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Cosmovision
Left-right images configured directly onto the negative via a specially-designed anaglyphic camera attachment which employs colored filters to separate the elements within each frame. The results are viewed through colored lenses (using appropriate eyewear) which resolves the image into a three-dimensional effect.

Cubic 3-D
3-D version of the Japax large format system, a Japanese IMAX variant. Left-right images captured on 8-perf 65mm film, stacked above/below in the space normally occupied by two 4-perf images. Release prints configured in 70mm. Aspect ratio 2.35:1. See also: Twin Cubic.

Cyclostéréoscope
Lenticular format in which the left-right images are captured on separate strips of 35mm film (35mm is assumed, though not confirmed). These are projected onto a screen surrounded by a rotating grid punctuated by carefully-designed openings which 'reveal' each relevant image in the manner of Digital 3-D (qv), but without the need for dimensional eyewear.

Deep Throw 3-D
[see: Wondavision]

DeepVision
Left-right images configured directly onto the negative via a specially-designed anaglyphic camera attachment which employs colored filters to separate the elements within each frame. The results are viewed through colored lenses (using appropriate eyewear) which resolves the image into a three-dimensional effect. Sometimes promoted under the name ‘Widevision 3-D’.

Depth Dimension
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Digital 3-D
D-Cinema format, in which movies are stored and projected in digital form. The left-right images are projected sequentially at high frame-rates in conjunction with specially designed eyewear. Whereas regular 35mm film is projected at 24 frames per second, Digital 3-D can also run at 48fps, 96fps or 144fps, generating a near-seamless dimensional image. At 144fps, for example, each separate left-right image is projected three times in succession at three times the normal speed (L1 R1 L1 R1 L1 R1, L2 R2 L2 R2 L2 R2, and so on), thereby maintaining the original 24fps running time (144 divided by 6 = 24). Technology is already available which replicates similar frame-rates for DVD and home theater applications, which means the back-catalogue of stereoscopic movies (those which employ separate left-right images) will soon be available for home consumption in full resolution 3-D, with all the color, clarity and depth of the best theatrical presentations. See also: Sensio 3-D.

Dimensionalized 3-D
Stereoscopic images created from 2-D source material. 2-D footage (live-action and/or CGI) is scanned into a computer and digitally mapped to create corresponding alternate images, slightly offset from the original in the manner of ‘regular’ 3-D cinematography. This results in separate left-right elements which are later configured into a three-dimensional release print, using methods which vary from one movie to another. In some cases, part of the source material may already exist in 3-D form (such as stereographs, or live-action footage shot in a dual-strip process), but these elements are also digitized and configured into the final release print. The phrase ‘dimensionalization’ was first coined by In-Three for its own computer-generated 2-D to 3-D format (see: In-Three Dimensionalization) and has been adopted for the purposes of this filmography.

Dimensionscope
[see: Optimax III]

Dimension 3 [1]
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Dimension 3 [2]
Left-right images captured on separate strips of video.

Disney Digital 3-D
3-D images rendered within the digital domain. 2-D material (live-action and/or CGI) is scanned into a computer and digitally mapped to create corresponding alternate images, slightly offset from the original in the manner of ‘regular’ 3-D cinematography. This results in separate left-right elements which are later configured into a Digital 3-D (qv) release print

Disney 3-D [1]
Animation format. Each frame of film is photographed twice, at slightly different angles to one another, generating separate left-right images configured in a dual-35mm release print.

Disney 3-D [2]
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 5-perf 65mm film (release prints configured in 70mm).

Dolby 3-D Digital Cinema
Digital projection format in which left-right images are projected sequentially at high frame-rates, used in conjunction with specially-designed eyewear that resolves the separate images into stereoscopic format via colour-wavelength separation (ie. the left lens admits only half the red-blue-green colour spectrum, while the right lens admits only the other half). See also: Digital 3-D (qv).

Dual-35mm
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film. Such material can be screened via interlocked dual-projectors or configured into a single-strip release print (over-under, side by side, etc.).

Dual-HD Video
Left-right images captured on separate strips of high definition (HD) video. Such material can be printed in HD, 35mm or 70mm format and projected via interlocked dual-projectors, or configured into a single-strip (over-under or side by side) release print. It could also be configured in Digital 3-D (qv) format.

Dual-Super 35
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film, with essential action contained within a 1.85:1 or 2.35:1 portion of each frame. This portion is optically extracted during post-production and printed in dual-strip format (either 35mm or 70mm, depending on which gauge is needed for individual prints). It can also be printed in Digital 3-D (qv) format.

Dual-Techniscope
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film in 2-perf Techniscope, yielding a 2.35:1 aspect ratio.

Dual-video
Left-right images captured on separate strips of video.

Dual-VistaVision
Left-right images captured on separate strips of VistaVision film, an 8-perf 35mm format which runs horizontally through the camera, yielding a negative area twice the size of regular 4-perf 35mm.

Dudley 3-D
Left-right images tilted onto their sides in a vertical configuration and placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Aspect ratio 1.66:1.

Dynamic Digital Depth
2-D material converted to 3-D within the digital domain. Every frame of film is scanned into a computer and digitally mapped to create a corresponding alternate image, slightly offset from the original in the manner of ‘regular’ 3-D cinematography. These images are then configured into a three-dimensional release print, using methods which vary from one movie to another (left-right images over-under, side by side, etc.).

Dynoptic 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Elgeet Stereo
Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 16mm frame, resulting in images that are tall instead of wide (0.67:1 aspect ratio).

ESI-3D
Left-right images stacked above/below in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Aspect ratio 2.35:1.

Fairall Process
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Field sequential
Video-only format. Left-right images configured within the two fields which make up each separate video frame and transmitted sequentially - 30fps in NTSC and 25fps in PAL - in conjunction with specially designed eyewear. This process is similar to Digital 3-D (qv) and represents a quantum-leap improvement over anaglyphic (qv) presentations, but each ‘field’ generates only half the image-resolution of frame-sequential Digital 3-D and is further hampered by the frame-rate restrictions of NTSC/PAL technology. See also: JVC 3-D and Sensio HQFS.

Frame sequential
(see: Digital 3-D)

Freddy Vision
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film, using Clairmont 3-D cameras modified for this purpose.

Friese-Greene Stereoscopic Process
According to James L. Limbacher's book 'Four Aspects of the Film' (1968), movie pioneer William Friese-Greene patented his 3-D process in the 1890's. The patent describes how the left-right images are captured on separate strips of 100mm film (gauge approximate, taken from R.M. Hayes' book '3-D Movies: A History and Filmography of Stereoscopic Cinema' [1989]) and projected side by side, viewed by audiences through a 'stereoscope' which resolves the images into a three-dimensional picture.

Fuji Vision
Left-right images stacked above/below in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Aspect ratio 2.35:1.

Fusion 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of HD video. Originally known as Reality Camera System (qv).

Future Dimension
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Future Dimensions
This is StereoVision [1] (qv) under another name. Left-right images stacked above/below in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Aspect ratio 2.35:1. Not to be confused with the earlier Future Dimension (qv) format.

Hi Fi Stereo 70
Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 5-perf 65mm frame and subjected to an anamorphic squeeze, yielding a 2.21:1 aspect ratio. Release prints configured in 5-perf 70mm. Also known as Stereovision 70 and Triarama (both qv).

Hi Stereo Vision
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film in 2-perf Techniscope, and configured in single-strip/over-under format during post-production. Aspect ratio 2.35:1.

Hi-Vision 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of HD video. Many of the items shot in this format were designed for broadcast on Japanese television, requiring the use of a specially-designed TV set with built-in dual-projection system.

HorrorScope
Left-right images configured directly onto the negative via a specially-designed anaglyphic camera attachment which employs colored filters to separate the elements within each frame. The results are viewed through colored lenses (using appropriate eyewear) which resolves the image into a three-dimensional effect. Sometimes promoted under the name ‘MiracleVision’.

IMAX DMR 3-D
3-D images rendered within the digital domain. 2-D material (live-action and/or CGI) is scanned into a computer and digitally mapped to create corresponding alternate images, slightly offset from the original in the manner of ‘regular’ 3-D cinematography. This results in separate left-right elements which are later configured into a dual-70mm or digital IMAX release print

IMAX HD 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of HD video at 48fps and configured into a dual-70mm IMAX release print.

IMAX Magic Carpet
Unique spin on the 15-perf IMAX process which employs two screens for an enveloping effect. Left-right images are captured on separate strips of 65mm film, as usual, but four cameras are used to capture two separate images simultaneously, one pointing directly ahead, the other pointed directly below. The first image is projected onto a screen in front of the audience, while the second screen is positioned beneath their feet, viewable through a transparent floor! A 2-D version is also available.

IMAX SANDDE
Acronym for IMAX Stereo Animation Drawing Device, which allows artists to ‘draw’ three-dimensional images in space using a ‘wand’ connected to a computer. The resulting images are later dimensionalized, creating separate left-right frames which are configured into the final 1570 release print.

IMAX Solido 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 15-perf 65mm film and configured in dual-70mm for the final release print. Though not dissimilar to ‘regular’ 15-perf IMAX 3-D (qv), this format employs distorted lenses to create images designed for exhibition on huge, dome-shaped screens.

IMAX 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 15-perf 65mm film and configured in dual-70mm for the final release print. Some IMAX films are shot in dual-870 and converted to 1570 in post-production, and some are projected digitally or in HD format.

Impact 3-D
Left-right images stacked above/below in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Aspect ratio 2.35:1.

In-Three Dimensionalization
3-D images rendered within the digital domain. 2-D material (live-action and/or CGI)  is scanned into a computer and digitally mapped to create corresponding alternate images, slightly offset from the original in the manner of ‘regular’ 3-D cinematography. This results in separate left-right elements which are later configured into a Digital 3-D (qv) release print.

Iwerks 3-D [1]
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 8-perf 65mm film (release prints configured in 8-perf or 15-perf 70mm).

Iwerks 3-D [2]
3-D images rendered within the digital domain. CGI animation is scanned into a computer and digitally mapped to create corresponding alternate images, slightly offset from the original in the manner of ‘regular’ 3-D cinematography. This results in separate left-right elements which are later configured into a dual-70mm release print (number of perfs varies from film to film).

Iwerks 3-D [3]
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 65mm film. 70mm release print configured in 8-perf single-strip/over-under format.

JVC 3-D
Video-only format. Left-right images configured within the two fields which make up each separate video frame and transmitted sequentially in conjunction with specially designed eyewear. More commonly known as Field Sequential 3-D (qv).

Kleiser Walczak 3-D
3-D images rendered within the digital domain. CGI material is scanned into a computer and digitally mapped to create corresponding alternate images, slightly offset from the original in the manner of ‘regular’ 3-D cinematography. This results in separate left-right elements which are later configured into whatever kind of release print is required (dual-35mm, -70mm, Digital 3-D, etc.).

Kwong-Tzan 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Lantz 3-D
Animation format. Each frame of film is photographed twice, at slightly different angles to one another, generating separate left-right images configured in a dual-35mm release print.

Lawrence Vision 3-D
Single-strip video format in which a 3-D ‘effect’ is created by darkening one of the lenses in specially designed eyewear, resulting in an optical illusion of depth during horizontal camera movement. Essentially just another name for Pulfrich 3-D (qv).

LazerVision
This is StereoVision [2] (qv) under another name. Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame and subjected to an anamorphic squeeze. This process results in tall oblong-shaped images which are ‘de-squeezed’ during projection, yielding a regular 1.37:1 shape.

Lipton Three-Dimensional Filmmaking System
Left-right images captured on separate strips of Super-8 film.

Loucks & Norling 3-Dimension
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Maurer 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 16mm film.

McNabb 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film, with essential action contained within a 2.35:1 portion of the frame(s). This portion is optically extracted from both strips during post-production and printed single-strip/over-under in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame, yielding a 2.35:1 projected image.

Metroscopix
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Metrovision Tri-Dee
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Miller Stereoscopic Process
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

MiracleVision
[see: HorrorScope]

Monogram 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Natural Vision (35mm)
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film. Developed by Dimension 3, and not to be confused with the earlier Natural Vision 3-Dimension (qv) process.

Natural Vision (HD)
Left-right images captured on separate strips of HD Video. Developed by Dimension 3, and not to be confused with the earlier Natural Vision 3-Dimension (qv) process.

Natural Vision (SD)
Left-right images captured on separate strips of standard-definition video. Developed by Dimension 3, and not to be confused with the earlier Natural Vision 3-Dimension (qv) process.

Natural Vision 3
Single-strip/anaglyphic format, derived from material shot in dual-strip format (dual-35mm or -video). Developed by Dimension 3, and not to be confused with the earlier Natural Vision 3-Dimension (qv) process.

Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film. Not to be confused with the later Natural Vision and Natural Vision 3 processes (both qv).

NFBC 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 5-perf 65mm film (release prints configured in 70mm).

Nord 3-D [1]
Single-strip format in which the left-right images are tilted onto their sides in a vertical configuration and placed side by side in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Aspect ratio 1.75:1.

Nord 3-D [2]
Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 16mm frame, resulting in images that are tall instead of wide (0.67:1 aspect ratio).

Norling-Leventhal 3-Dimensions
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Nuoptix
Single-strip video format in which a 3-D ‘effect’ is created by darkening one of the lenses in specially designed eyewear, resulting in an optical illusion of depth during horizontal camera movement. Essentially just another name for Pulfrich 3-D (qv).

Nu-View
Video-only format. Left-right images configured within the two fields which make up each separate video frame and transmitted sequentially in conjunction with specially designed eyewear. Essentially just another name for Field Sequential 3-D (qv).

NVX 3-D
Technical details for this little-used format are unknown. Possibly dual-35mm, though this has not been confirmed.

nWave 3-D [1]
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 15-perf 65mm film (release prints configured in 70mm).

nWave 3-D [2]
3-D images rendered within the digital domain. CGI animation is scanned into a computer and digitally mapped to create corresponding alternate images, slightly offset from the original in the manner of ‘regular’ 3-D cinematography. This results in separate left-right elements which are later configured into whatever release print is required (dual-1570, -HD Video, etc.).

Omnimax 3-D
3-D images rendered within the digital domain. CGI animation is scanned into a computer and digitally mapped to create corresponding alternate images, slightly offset from the original in the manner of ‘regular’ 3-D cinematography. This results in separate left-right elements which are later configured into the final release print. In the only film to use this particular format to date (We Are Born of Stars), the 'completed' version was projected in single-strip/anaglyphic (qv) format, though future presentations could be configured in dual-strip or Digital 3-D (qv).

Optimax III
Left-right images stacked above/below in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Aspect ratio 2.35:1. Sometimes promoted under the name ‘Dimensionscope’. This format began life as Super Touch 3-D (qv), but was renamed following a change in the technical specifications.

Optovision [1]
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 16mm film and printed side by side in 35mm format, in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame.

Optovision [2]
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 16mm film and printed over/under in 35mm format, in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame.

Paravision
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Parkes 3-D
This process either captured left-right images on separate strips of 35mm film, or utilized a single-strip/autostereoscopic (no glasses) format. See the entry for the only film to employ this process (GRAND CANYON).

Parrish 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 16mm film.

Pathé 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Plasticon 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Plastigram 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Plasztikus Film
Left-right images stacked above/below in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Aspect ratio 2.00:1.

Pola-Lite
Single-strip format in which the left-right images are tilted onto their sides in a vertical configuration and placed side by side in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Aspect ratio varies from 1.66:1 to 1.85:1.

Pola-Lux 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Porter-Waddell Stereoscopic Process
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Powell 3-D
Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single Super 8 frame.

PSC 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Pulfrich effect
[see: Pulfrich 3-D]

Pulfrich 3-D
Single-strip format in which a 3-D ‘effect’ is created by darkening one of the lenses in specially designed eyewear, resulting in an optical illusion of depth during horizontal camera movement ('Pulfrich effect'). Though it works best in films specifically designed for 3-D, Pulfrich eyewear will generate a similar dimensional effect in virtually *any* movie or TV show whilst the action is moving in an appropriate direction. Shot-on-video material (standard and high definition) tends to be most effective for this quasi-3D process, which barely qualifies as '3-D' at all. Also known as Nuoptix, Lawrence Vision and Spatial Vision (all qv).

Quadravision 4-D
This is StereoVision [2] (qv) under another name. Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame and subjected to an anamorphic squeeze. This process results in tall oblong-shaped images which are ‘de-squeezed’ during projection, yielding a regular 1.37:1 shape.

Ramsdell 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 16mm film.

Raumfilm-System [1]
Left-right images tilted onto their sides in a vertical configuration and placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Aspect ratio 1.37:1.

Raumfilm-System [2]
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Raumfilm-System (3)
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 16mm film.

Real-a-Rama
[see: Super Touch 3-D]

Real-D
3-D projection format utilizing Texas Instrument’s DLP Cinema technology to project digital images at 144fps. Used in conjunction with stereoscopic films configured in the Digital 3-D (qv) process.

Reality Camera System
Left-right images captured on separate strips of HD video. Format later renamed Fusion 3-D (qv).

Reelvision
3-D images rendered within the digital domain. Live-action 2-D material is scanned into a computer and digitally mapped to create corresponding alternate images, slightly offset from the original in the manner of ‘regular’ 3-D cinematography. This results in separate left-right elements which are later configured into a three-dimensional release print, using methods which vary from one movie to another.

Richardson 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

SAFE 3-D
Acronym for the Smart Anaglyphic Fatigue Eliminator, a single-strip/anaglyphic format, derived from material shot in any number of dual-strip formats (35mm, HD video, etc.).

Sensio HQFS
Acronym for Sensio High Quality Field Sequential, an interlace (field sequential) version of the Sensio 3-D (qv) home theater format. See Field sequential for a technical description.

Sensio 3-D
Home-theater format. Left-right images are encoded in what is described as “a digital sub-pixel high frequency compression/decompression scheme” which transmits stereoscopic content in frame sequential format at 60fps. Used in conjunction with shutter glasses, this allows for full-resolution SD/HD playback via Sensio’s proprietary hardware. See also: Sensio HQFS.

Sensorama
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Shochiku Natural Vision
Single-strip format in which the left-right images are tilted onto their sides in a vertical configuration and placed side by side in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Aspect ratio 1.37:1.

Showscan 3-D [1]
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 5-perf 65mm film at 60fps, and configured in dual-570 for the final release print.

Showscan 3-D [2]
3-D images rendered within the digital domain. CGI animation is scanned into a computer and digitally mapped to create corresponding alternate images, slightly offset from the original in the manner of ‘regular’ 3-D cinematography. This results in separate left-right elements which are later configured into a dual-570 Showscan release print, running 60fps.

Sistema Gaultiero Gaulterotti
Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 63mm frame. The 1.37:1 frames fit comfortably within the larger format.

Spacemaster 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Spacevision
Left-right images stacked above/below in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Aspect ratio 2.35:1. Sometimes promoted under the name ‘Space-Vision Tri-Optiscope 4-D’.

Space-Vision Tri-Optiscope 4-D
[see: Spacevision]

Spatial Vision
Single-strip video format in which a 3-D ‘effect’ is created by darkening one of the lenses in specially designed eyewear, resulting in an optical illusion of depth during horizontal camera movement. Essentially just another name for Pulfrich 3-D (qv).

Stereo Base
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Stereo-Cine
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Stereokino [1]
Left-right images projected sequentially at high frame-rates in conjunction with specially designed eyewear. Aspect ratio 1.37:1.

Stereokino [2]
Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame, resulting in images that are tall instead of wide (0.67:1 aspect ratio). These are projected in lenticular format on a specially-designed transparent screen made up of thousands of wires that reflect the two images in such a way as to create a dimensional effect without the need for 3-D eyewear.

Stereoscopic
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film. In this case, 'Stereoscopic' refers to a specific dimensional format used on the 1925 feature Heartbound, and is not to be confused with the general phrase 'stereoscopic', which of course refers to a wide variety of 3-D processes.

Stereoscopic cel animation
Animated frames rendered on individual cels and photographed twice, slightly offset from one another in the manner of ‘regular’ 3-D cinematography. This results in separate left-right elements which are later configured into a stereoscopic release print. The photographic gauge is noted in parentheses directly afterward, ie. 'Stereoscopic cel animation (35mm)', etc.

Stereoscopic CGI animation
Images rendered within the digital domain in three-dimensional geometric space. Each frame is recorded twice, slightly offset from one another in the manner of ‘regular’ 3-D cinematography. This results in separate left-right images which are configured into a stereoscopic release print.

Stéréoscopic Lumière
Film runs horizontally through the camera (and projector). The left-right images are tilted onto their sides in a vertical configuration and placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame, generating a 1.37:1 aspect ratio. One source claims the images were subject to an anamorphic squeeze (subsequently ‘unsqueezed’ during projection), but contemporary illustrations published in Ray Zone’s 2007 book Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film 1838-1952 appear to refute this.

Stereoscopic puppet animation (digital still photography)
Puppet animation photographed by a motion-controlled digital camera which captures every frame twice, at slightly different angles to one another. This results in separate left-right elements which are later configured into a three-dimensional release print.

Stereoscopiks
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Stereo 70
Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 5-perf 65mm frame. The 1.37:1 frames fit comfortably within the larger format. Release print configured in 5-perf 70mm.

StereoSpace 70
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 5-perf 65mm film and configured in dual-70mm for the final release print.

Stereo Techniques
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film. Sometimes promoted under the name ‘Tri-Optican’.

Stereotoon
Animation format. Each frame of film is photographed twice, at slightly different angles to one another, generating separate left-right images configured in a dual-35mm release print.

Stereovision
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film. Not to be confused with the later StereoVision (qv) format.

StereoVision [1]
Left-right images stacked above/below in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Aspect ratio 2.35:1. Not to be confused with the earlier Stereovision (qv) format. Also known as Future Dimensions (qv).

StereoVision [2]
Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame and subjected to an anamorphic squeeze. This process results in tall oblong-shaped images which are ‘un-squeezed’ during projection, yielding a regular 1.37:1 shape, though the images can be projected at anything up to 1.85:1, depending on how they were composed during production. Also known as LazerVision and Quadravision 4-D (both qv). Not to be confused with the earlier Stereovision (qv) format.

Stereovision 70
Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 5-perf 65mm frame and subjected to an anamorphic squeeze, yielding a 2.21:1 aspect ratio. Release prints configured in 5-perf 70mm. Also known as Hi Fi Stereo 70, Triarama [1] and Super Cinema 3-D (all qv). Not to be confused with the later StereoVision 70 (qv) format.

StereoVision 70
Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 5-perf 65mm frame. The 1.37:1 frames fit comfortably within the larger format, without the need for any reconfiguration, though the 5-perf 70mm release prints can be displayed at any aspect ratio up to (and including) 1.85:1, depending on how the images were composed during production. Not to be confused with the earlier Stereovision 70 (qv) format.

StereoVision TenPerf 70
Left-right images captured on 10-perf 65mm film, stacked above/below in the space normally occupied by two 5-perf images. Release prints configured in 70mm. Aspect ratio 2.20:1.

Super Cinema 3-D
Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 5-perf 65mm frame and subjected to an anamorphic squeeze, yielding a 2.21:1 aspect ratio. Release prints configured in 5-perf 70mm.

SuperScreen
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film at 48fps.

Super 3D
[see: Super Touch 3-D]

Super Touch 3-D
Left-right images stacked above/below in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Sometimes promoted under the names ‘Real-a-Rama’, ‘Super 3D’ or ‘Ultra-Cubic 3-D’. Later renamed Optimax III (qv) following a change in the technical specifications.

Super-Vision 3-D
[see: 3-Depix]

Teleview
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film. When first introduced in 1922, audiences viewed the dual-strip presentation through a shutter device, rather than glasses with anaglyphic or polarized lenses, though surviving elements could now be reconfigured in dual-strip, single-strip or digital 3-D.

Tercera Dimensión Bríceno
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Todd-Dunning 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Tovision
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Triangle 3-D
Left-right images configured directly onto the negative via a specially-designed anaglyphic camera attachment which employs colored filters to separate the elements within each frame. The results are viewed through colored lenses (using appropriate eyewear) which resolves the image into a three-dimensional effect.

Triarama [1]
Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 5-perf 65mm frame and subjected to an anamorphic squeeze, yielding a 2.21:1 aspect ratio. Release prints configured in 5-perf 70mm.

Triarama [2]
Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame and subjected to an anamorphic squeeze. The image is subsequently ‘unsqueezed’ during projection, yielding an aspect ratio of 1.37:1 (though the film can be projected at anything up to 1.85:1, depending on how it was composed during production).

Tri-Delta Stereo
Single-strip format in which the left-right images are tilted onto their sides in a vertical configuration and placed side by side in the space normally occupied by a single 16mm frame. Aspect ratio 1.37:1.

Tridimensionale Christiani
Technical details on this obscure format have proved difficult to confirm, but it seems to be configured as follows: Beam-splitting device divides the left-right images into four separate pictures. These are superimposed over one another during projection, and resolved into 3-D via special eyewear.

Tri-Optican
[see: Stereo Techniques]

Tri-Optique
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Tru-Stereo
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Tru 3-D
Proprietary process, created by DreamWorks for their ongoing slate of animated features, in which stereoscopic images are rendered entirely within the digital domain. Originally known as Ultimate 3-D.

Twin Cubic 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 8-perf 65mm film, using a dual-strip version of the Japax large format system (a Japanese variant on IMAX). Release prints configured in 70mm. Aspect ratio 1.35:1. See also: Cubic 3-D.

Ultimate 3-D
[see: Tru 3-D]

Ultra Vision
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film in 2-perf Techniscope, and configured in single-strip/over-under format during post-production. Aspect ratio 2.35:1.

Universal 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

UPA 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Verifilm 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

VeriVision
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 16mm film.

Vidmax 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of video.

WarnerVision
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Western 3-D
Left-right images tilted onto their sides in a vertical configuration and placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single Super 8 frame. Aspect ratio 1.66:1.

Widevision 3-D
[see: DeepVision]

Wolff 3-D
Left-right images placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 16mm frame, resulting in images that are tall instead of wide (0.67:1 aspect ratio).

Wondavision
Left-right images tilted onto their sides in a vertical configuration and placed adjacent to one another in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Aspect ratio 1.66:1. Sometimes promoted under the name ‘Deep Throw 3-D’.

Wonder-Vision 3-D
[see: 3-Depix]

Zhongguo 3-D
Left-right images captured on separate strips of 35mm film.

Z3D
Left-right images stacked above/below in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame. Aspect ratio: 2.35:1.



Acknowledgements

I’m indebted to the writings of the following individuals, whose own pioneering research into the field of 3-D movies (and other screen processes) provided significant assistance and clarification during the compilation of my own 3-D filmography:
 
Carl Bennett; Michael Coate; Frank X. Didik; Bob Furmanek; Derek Gee; R.M. Hayes; Jeffry L. Johnson; Jeff Joseph; Roland Lataille; Steve Phillips; Eddie Sammons; Andrew Woods

I’m also grateful to the following correspondents for providing invaluable information on some of the most obscure 3-D titles in this filmography, thereby shining fresh light into some dark - and heretofore unexplored - quarters. Heroes all!

Harold Baize
Joaquin Baldwin
Zoe Beloff (www.zoebeloff.com)
Shari Berman (www.sabermantoo.com)
Phil Brown (www.media55.co.uk)
Henry Chung (www.stereoscopy.com/henry/)
Dave Comeau (www.phila3d.com)
Tom De Simone (www.tomdesimone.com)
Piet de Vries
Danny Draven (www.dannydraven.com)
Cameron Edser (www.goorooanimation.com)
John Faust
Brian Gardner
Marvin Jones (www.3dmatinee.com)
Marlita Kahn (www.designmedia.com)
Karl Kozak (www.3dfilmfactory.com)
Robert Kuczera
Pasi Nyyssonen
Rolfe Kanefsky (www.rolfekanefsky.com)
Thomas Keegan
Dennis Lee
Greg MacGillivray (www.macfreefilms.com)
Phil McNally
Gregory Mesh
Christopher S. Potter (www.cspotter.com)
Don Radovich (www.downeastdimensions.com)
Tom Riederer
Aaron Ross (www.dr-yo.com)
Casey Scott
Dan Sherlock
Daniel Symmes (www.3dmovingpictures.com)
Jack Theakston
David Wilt (www.wam.umd.edu/~dwilt/mfb.html)
Ray Zone (www.ray3dzone.com)


Websites:

3-D Movie List (www.3dmovielist.com)
3-D Review Online Magazine (www.rollanet.org/%7Evbeydler/van/3dreview/archive.htm)
Big Movie Zone (www.bigmoviezone.com)
Brook Street Pictures (www.brookstreetpictures.com) Cinematografo (www.cinematografo.it) [Italian text]
The Complete Index to World Film (www.citwf.com)
Directory of 3-D [Stereo] Motion Pictures 1922 - 2001 (www.didik.com/3d_film.htm)
Dolby (www.dolby.com)
DTS (www.dtsonline.com)
DVD-Basen (www.dvd-basen.dk)
European Adult Films Database (www.egafd.com)
Gay Erotic Video Index (www.wtule.net)
Google groups: rec.arts.movies.tech (http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rec.arts.movies.tech/topics?hl=en)
Hong Kong Film Archive (http://ipac.hkfa.lcsd.gov.hk)
The Hong Kong Movie Database (www.hkmdb.com)
The Illustrated 3-D Movie List (www.3d.curtin.edu.au/3dmovies)
In 70mm (www.in70mm.com)
Internet Adult Film Database (www.iafd.com)
The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com)
The Korean Movie and Drama Database (www.hancinema.net)
Marketsaw blog (http://marketsaw.blogspot.com)
Movie Review Index (www.moviereviewindex.com)
The New York Stereoscopic Society (www.ny3d.org)
SDDS (www.sdds.com)
Silent Era (www.silentera.com)
Stereo 3D (www.stereo3d.com/3dhome.htm)
Stereo 70 (www.stereokino.ru)
Stereoscopy.com (www.stereoscopy.com)
TCat 3-D listing (www.tcat.ne.jp/~oguchi/3D%20index.html) [Japanese text]


Books and magazine articles:

The 3-D Explosion (Various authors, Cinefantastique Vol. 13 No. 6/Vol. 14 No. 1, September 1983)
3-D Movies: A History and Filmography of Stereoscopic Cinema (R.M. Hayes, McFarland, 1989)
Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film 1838-1952 (Ray Zone, The University Press of Kentucky, 2007)
The World of 3-D Movies (Eddie Sammons, Delphi, 1992)

[An earlier version of this filmography appeared in Film History: An International Journal (vol. 16 no. 3), published in 2004 by Indiana University Press and John Libbey Publishing. An updated version - now discontinued - was subsequently published online at www.fromscripttodvd.com]

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