This filmography attempts to list every feature-length (50 minutes or longer) 3-D movie screened to paying customers in a commercial venue (theatrical or video) since 1922, the year in which the first long-form stereoscopic subject was produced for theatrical exhibition (THE POWER OF LOVE). TV and direct-to-video programs are also included, but restrictions apply within these categories: For example, direct-to-video (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.

Short films produced since 1893 are listed in their own separate section:



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.

Where two production dates are given (ie. '1991 / 2010'), this indicates that the film was originally released in 2-D format before being reissued in 'dimensionalized' 3-D. The earlier date reflects the original 2-D version, while the latter date indicates the 3-D re-release.

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.

* = Entry incomplete
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
LF = Large Format (anything larger than 5-perf 70mm) 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:

• BELKA AND STRELKA: STAR DOGS
• BEYOND LIMITS
• CATS & DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE
• CLASH OF THE TITANS
• DARK WORLD
• DESPICABLE ME
• FOXED!
• GARFIELD'S PET FORCE
• HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART I
• HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART II
• HAUNTING OF WINCHESTER HOUSE
• KENNY CHESNEY: SUMMER IN 3-D
• LARGER THAN LIFE IN 3-D
• SAW VII
• VIY: THE RETURN
• VIY 2: THE CURSED PLACE
• WEB CAM


UPDATED ENTRIES:

• ABNORMAL SEX CRIMES: Three Japanese titles have now been condensed into a single entry, since research indicates they are all one and the same film. Both Kyôfu no Sadi Suto: Ijô Sei Hanzai and Rittai Tôshi Eiga: Ijô Sei Hanzai Shi have now been dropped from the list and incorporated into the entry for Abnormal Sex Crimes.
• THE ACME: Formerly Rittai Eiga Za Akume. This is the newly-uncovered English title for an obscure Japanese entry.
• BATTLE S GHOST MASTER: Formerly Phee... Mai Yark Hai Khon Hen.
• CANE TOADS: THE CONQUEST: Formerly Cane Toads 2.
• A CHRISTMAS CAROL: Sound formats and aspect ratio have now been added.
• THE COMMAND: Details of the anamorphic format used on the alternative 2-D version have now been updated to reflect new information (thanks, Rick!).
• DARK COUNTRY: Sound format has now been added.
• HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: Aspect ratio added, along with new details of the release format (this will be the first film to employ Technicolor's 'new' 35mm 3-D solution).
• HUNTER SNAKE: Formerly Yah Nark.
• KYÔFU NO SADI SUTO: IJÔ SEI HANZA: See: Abnormal Sex Crimes.
• MEGAMIND: Formerly Oobermind.
• IL MOSTRO È IN TAVOLA... BARONE FRANKENSTEIN: I've added new details of an alternate version which currently exists in the marketplace.
• PLANET 51: Turns out to have been 2-D after all.
• RITTAI TÔSHI EIGA: IJÔ SEI HANZAI SHI: See: Abnormal Sex Crimes.
• SEPTEMBER STORM: The name of the 3-D format has been changed to reflect contemporary promotional materials, along with details of the way the 3-D images were captured during principal photography.
• THE STARLETS: Added plot details, along with a note about the film's 2-D sequel.
• THIS IS IT: Parts were shot in 3-D, but the theatrical release was resolutely 2-D...
• WILLIE NELSON'S 4th OF JULY CELEBRATION: Previous entries cast doubt on the film's 3-D status, but it's now confirmed the film was shot in Spacevision after all.


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.

• THE ALLEY OF DREAMS / Callejón de los Sueños
• APHRODITE IX
• ARABIAN KNIGHTS
• BAIT
• BATTLE ANGEL
• THE BATTLE OF THE YELLOW SEA
• BAYWATCH
• THE BIRDS
• BLACK FRIDAY 2
• BLUE MAN GROUP: MIND BLAST
• BOOTY
• CALIGULA
• CALLEJÓN DE LOS SUEÑOS / The Alley of Dreams
• CLEO
• COLD BLOODED
• CONDITION DEAD
• CRANK 3
• DAMBUSTERS
• DAVE MATTHEWS BAND MOVIE
• DEAD BY DAWN
• DEAD STILL
• DEEP RED (see: Profondo Rosso)
• THE DIVE
• DRAGON ON!
• EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL
• FIRED
• THE FOREVER WAR
• FRANKENWEENIE
• FRIDAY THE 13th PART 2 3-D
• THE GATE: 20 YEARS LATER (formerly The Gate)
• GEORGE CLINTON'S FUNKADELIC MOTHERSHIP
• GHOST IN THE SHELL
• HALLOWEEN 3-D
• HAMLET
• HELLRAISER 3-D
• THE HOBBIT I
• THE HOBBIT II
• HOOTERS 3DD
• HORROR TOUR
• HUMPTY DUMPTY
• INTERWORLD
• JACKASS 3-D
• JEEPERS CREEPERS 3: THE CREEPER WALKS AMONGST US
• JOURNEY 3-D: MYSTERIOUS TRAVELS
• KUNG FU U
• THE LORAX
• 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
• NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: ORIGINS
• OUTBACK
• OWN3D
• PAPAGIORNO LA GRAN / Papagiorno the Great
• PAPAGIORNO THE GREAT / Papagiorno la Gran
• PARADISE LOST
• PIRANHAS (formerly Aubrey Blaze Piranhas)
• PROFONDO ROSSO / Deep Red
• PUNK FARM
• PUPPETMASTER
• RE-ANIMATOR
• ROGER RABBIT 2
• SAMARAI JACK
• SCANNERS 3-D
• SHADY TALEZ
• THE SMURFS
• SPIDER-MAN 4
• STATION 21
• THE STEWARDESSES (remake)
• TERROR IN PARADISE
• THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3-D
• THE THREE MUSKETEERS
• THRILLER
• TITANIC (dimensionalized)
• TRUCKERS
• SUPER SECRET GHOST PROJECT
• UNDERWORLD 4
• THE USHERS
• WANTED 2
• THE WOMAN IN BLACK
• ZOMBIELAND 2




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1.8 DAYS*
USA - 2010 - 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: Fred Olen Ray [as: Nicholas Medina]
• 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 DIMENSIONS OF GRETA
(see: Four Dimensions of Greta)

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]

3D PORN STARS VOL. 1
USA (V) - 2008 - 90m - col
D: Dominic Ford
• Dual-HD Video
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Stereo
1.78:1
[XXX gay feature, compiled from footage shot for director Ford’s interactive website. Various porn studs (including Antton Harri, Brandon Monroe and Arpad Miklos) are paired together for the first time on film and take the opportunity to bang each other’s brains out]

3D PORN STARS VOL. 2
USA (V) - 2009 - 92m - col
D: Dominic Ford
• Dual-HD Video
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Stereo
1.78:1
[More of the same XXX gay stuff, headlined by porn superstud Matthew Rush and nine other lovelies]

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]

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)



A

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*
[Ijô Sei Hanzai]
Japan - 1968 - 70m - col
D: Kôji Seki
Single-strip/anaglyphic release print
Mono
[Remake of the same director's Perverted Criminal (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. I was unable to determine whether the film was shot dual-image or with an anaglyphic camera attachment. Originally listed in this filmography under two separate (and non-existent) titles: 'Kyôfu no Sadi Suto: Ijô Sei Hanzai' and 'Rittai Tôshi Eiga: Ijô Sei Hanzai Shi']

ABOUT STRANGE THINGS CONCERNING LOVE
[O Strannostyakh Lyubvi]
USSR - 1983 - 70m - col
D: Teodor Vulfovich
• Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track 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]

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]

THE ACME*
[Rittai Eiga: Za•Akume]
Japan - 1984 - 81m - col
D: Kôji Seki
Single-strip/35mm/anaglyphic (partly) release print
Mono
[X-rated item from long-time smut merchant Kôji (see also Perverted Criminal 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]

ACROBATIKS
(see: 3-D Follies, The)

ACROSS THE EMPTY QUARTER*
USA (LF) - 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 (LF) - 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]

THE ADVENTURES OF JUSTINE
USA/France/Netherlands (TV) - 1996 - 7 episodes - col
D: David Cove, Kevin Alber, Lev L. Spiro [as: L.L. Shapira]
• 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 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]

AKAKAGE: 3-D ADVENTURE MOVIE*
[Tobidasu Bôken Eiga: Akakage]
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 The Magic World of Ninjas (Kamen no Ninja Akakage, 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]

L’ALDILÀ
(aka: The Beyond)
(aka: 7 Doors of Death)
Italy - 1981 - 87m - col
D: 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 (with the director credited as 'Louis Fuller'). The 3-D effect is negligible, and unrepresentative of ‘real’ stereo-vision]

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]

ALIENS OF THE DEEP
USA (LF) - 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]

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]

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)

AMPHIBIOUS*
Indonesia/Singapore - 2010 - feature - col
D: Brian Yuzna
• Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
1.85:1
[English language horror-thriller, produced by Brian Yuzna (Re-Animator), in which a gigantic scorpion runs amok. Isn't it a bitch when that happens?]

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]

ANGWAGWA MINYEO
(see: Devil and Beauty)

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 (LF) - 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 Kong-ui Dae-yeogseub)
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 3-D (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: ROBOT MONSTER*
USA (V) - 2004 - 50m - col and bw
• Field sequential 3-D
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]

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

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]

ARROWHEAD
USA - 1953 - 105m - col
D: Charles Marquis Warren
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn't filmed or exhibited in a stereoscopic process]

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!]

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]

AVATAR
USA - 2009 - 161m - col
D: James Cameron
• Fusion 3-D
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
[Blockbuster science fiction adventure, set in the distant future, in which humankind attempts to excavate vital minerals from an alien planet, only to face violent opposition from the indigenous population. The film's primary aspect ratio is 1.85:1, though a 2.39:1 version was also distributed to digitally-equipped venues (2-D and 3-D) which could handle the wider aperture]

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 FACE NELSON
USA - 1957 - 85m - bw
D: Don Siegel
[Announced as a 3-D feature in 1954, though shot and released in standard 2-D format two years later]

BAD LOLITA
(see: Black Lolita)

BANDIT ISLAND
(see: Big Chase, The)

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 3-D
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[Series of videos featuring 3-D ‘nudie’ footage from around the world]

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?]

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]

BATTLE S GHOST MASTER
[Phee... Mai Yark Hai Khon Hen]
Thailand (TV) - 2004 - 74m - col
D: Worachai Cheepsatit
• 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 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 - 1991/2011 - 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 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)

BELKA AND STRELKA: STAR DOGS
[Belka i Strelka: Zvezdnye Sobaki]
Russia - 2010 - 80m col
D: Inna Evlannikova, Svyatoslav Ushakov
CGI animation
• Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[Animated adventure in which two circus dogs dream of launching themselves amongst the stars]

BELKA I STRELKA: ZVEZDNYE SOBAKI
(see: Belka and Strelka: Star Dogs)

BELLA SU MISURA
[see: Femmina]

THE BELLBOY AND THE PLAYGIRLS
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]

BELYJ  PUDEL
(see: White Poodle, The)

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]

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

THE BEST OF CITY GIRLS*
USA (V) - 2003 - 115m - col
• Field sequential 3-D
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]

THE BEYOND
(see: Aldilà, L’)

BEYOND LIMITS
France - 2010 - 90m - col
D: Alexander Abela
• Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) and dual-1570 (IMAX) release prints
Dolby Digital / DTS (D-Cinema)
Sonics-DDP (IMAX)
1.85:1
[Filmed all over the world, this documentary follows the fortunes of free-diver Herbert Nitsch as he attempts some of the deepest - and most dangerous - ocean dives ever recorded. The LF version is considerably shorter than its digital 3-D counterpart]

THE BIG CHASE
USA - 1954 - 60m - bw
D: Arthur Hilton
[Crime drama. The climactic chase sequence was shot in dual-35mm Stereovision and released as a separate item (Bandit Island, 1953), though the feature-length version was released in 2-D format only]

THE BIG JUMP
[see: Red Beret, The]

BIZARRE NIGHT STORY OF SEXUAL DESIRE
[Ryôki Shikijô Yawa]
(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!]

BLACK BEAUTIES*
USA (V) - 19?? - 2 volumes - col
D: [various]
• Field sequential 3-D
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 - 2011 - feature - col
D: Ethan Terra
• Dual-HD Video (partly)
Digital 3-D release print
[Horror-thriller. 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
D: 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]

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

BLOOD GRUDGE
[Jorng Wien]
(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 original title is rendered Jong Wen in some sources]

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 from Hell 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
[Sinyaya Boroda]
Russia (LF) - 2010 - 90m - col
D: Sergey Olifrinenko
• Stereoscopic puppet animation (digital still photography)
Dual-1570 release print
Sonics-DDP
1.44:1
[Puppet animation for Large Format theaters]

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]

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]

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!]

THE BRAVE ONE
USA - 1956 - 100m - col
D: Irving Rapper
[Announced as a 3-D feature in 1953, though shot and released several years later in standard 2-D (CinemaScope) format]

BREAST OF 3-D*
USA (V) - 19?? - feature? - col
• Field sequential 3-D
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
[Ona s Metloy, On v Chyornoy Shlyape]
USSR - 1987 - 85m - col
D: Vitaliy Makarov
• Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track stereo
1.37:1
[Musical comedy concerning an unsociable family whose villainy backfires in spectacular fashion]

BROWN SUGAR
USA (V) - 1990 - 2 x 60m - col
D: Michael Starks
• Field sequential 3-D
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]

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]

BURST*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Neil Marshall
Digital 3-D release print
[Blizzard conditions force a group of travellers to take refuge in an isolated location where they're stalked by a malevolent presence which causes them to spontaneously combust. Sounds hot! Sorry... ]

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)]



C


THE CABIN IN THE WOODS*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Drew Goddard
• Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
[Something nasty lurks in an isolated cabin, ready to pounce on unwary teens who take up residence for the night]

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!]

CANE TOADS: THE CONQUEST*
Australia - 2010 - 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 JOHN SMITH AND POCAHONTAS
USA - 1953 - 75m - col
D: Lew Landers
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

CAPTAIN KIDD AND THE SLAVE GIRL
USA - 1954 - 82m - col
D: Lew Landers
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

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]

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)

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!]

CATS & DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Brad Peyton
Spherical/35mm
Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS
1.85:1
[Sequel to the 2-D fantasy Cats & Dogs (2001). In this follow-up, warring cats and dogs are compelled to join forces against an evil kitty with plans for world domination. Based on a true story. Not...]

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 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’]

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]

CHARGE OF THE LANCERS
USA - 1953 - 74m - col
D: William Castle
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

CHEATY GHOST
[see: Ghost Trick]

CHELOVEK V ZELENOY PERCHATKE
(see: Man With a Green Glove)

CHEONHA JANGSA IM GGYEOK-JONG
(see: Man of Great Strength: Im Ggyeok-jong, A)

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
Dimensionalized 3-D
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*
[Tong Yan]
Hong Kong/Thailand - 2010 - feature - col
D: Danny Pang Fat, Oxide Pang Shut [as: The Pang Brothers]
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)

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
USA - 2009 - 96m - col
D: Robert Zemeckis
• Disney Digital 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
[CGI animated version of the Dickens’ classic, complete with all-star voice cast]

CIRCUS OF LOVE
(see: Rummelplatz der Liebe)

CLASH OF THE TITANS*
USA/UK - 2010 - feature - col
D: Louis Leterrier
Panavision
• Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
2.39:1
[Remake of the 1981 movie, in which the son of Zeus assumes mortal form and descends into the underworld to prevent its evil minions from launching all-out war on humankind. Cue the monsters and mayhem!]

CLICK
USA (TV) - 1997 - 7 episodes - col
D: Rolfe Kanefsky [as: Rafael Glenn], 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]

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
USA - 2009 - 90m - col
D: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Digital Widescreen
• 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 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]

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 was photographed in dual-35mm 3-D, the other photographed with anamorphic Vistarama lenses (credited on-screen as ‘CinemaScope’). Only the ‘scope version was ever released, though the 3-D elements still exist]

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 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]

CONQUEST OF SPACE
USA - 1955 - 80m - col
D: Byron Haskin
[Announced as a 3-D feature in 1954, though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

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 in response to 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 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...]

CREEPSHOW
USA - 1982 - 120m - col
D: George A. Romero
[One of the stories in this horror anthology was planned as a 3-D item, though it was eventually filmed and released in 2-D only]

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]

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]



D


DAIKYAJÛ GAPPA
(see: Gappa the Triphibian Monster)

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 - 88m - col
D: Thomas Jane
• Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
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!]

DARK WORLD*
[Tmnyy Mir]
Russia - 2010 - feature - col
D: Anton Megerdychev
Super 35
• Dimensionalized 3-D (partly)
Digital 3-D release print
2.39:1
[Epic fantasy in which a group of teenagers accidentally open the portal to another dimension, unleashing a wave of magical monsters and assorted unpleasantries]

DAWN OF THE DEAD*
(aka: Zombies)
USA - 1978/2010 - 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]

DAY OF THE LIVING
(see: Vault of Darkness)

DEADLY THIEF
[see: Shalimar]

DEATH FATHER
(see: Vault of Darkness)

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]

DEPUTY MARSHAL
USA - 1949 - 60m - bw
D: William Berke
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn't filmed or exhibited in a dimensional process]

DESPICABLE ME*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
• Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[Animated adventure, in which a would-be 'supervillain' is thwarted at every turn by an equally villainous geek and a trio of orphan girls]

DEVIL AND BEAUTY
[Angwagwa Minyeo]
S.Korea - 1969 - 75m - bw
D: Lee Yong-min
• Dual-Techniscope/35mm
Single-strip/over-under release print
Mono
2.35:1
[Horror-thriller. A mad doctor keeps his ailing wife alive by murdering people and feeding her fresh blood, though he's foiled by the daughter of one of his victims]

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 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: Scoopers)

DIGGER*
USA - 2010 - 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]

DISCO DOLLS
(see: Hot Skin)

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

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
[Uchenik Lekarya]
USSR - 1983 - 89m - col
D: Boris Rytsarev
• Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track 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]

DOGS OF HELL
(see: Rottweiler)

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]

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...]

DRAGOTSENNIY PODAROK
(see: Precious Gift, A)

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]

DRIVE ANGRY*
USA - 2011 - feature - col
D: Patrick Lussier
• Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Nicolas Cage stars as a distraught father who seeks vengeance on the low scum who murdered his daughter]

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 stereo in contemporary pressbooks, though the film appears to have been released in mono only]

DRUZOK
(see: Little Friend)

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


EAST OF EDEN
USA - 1955 - 115m - col
D: Elia Kazan
[Some sources claim this was planned as a 3-D feature when first announced in 1953, though it was eventually shot and released in standard 2-D (CinemaScope) 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!)]

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

ELECTRIC BLUE 008
UK (V) - 1982 - 58m - col
D: Adam Cole
• Dual-video (partly)
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)

ELFIE HOPKINS AND THE GAMMONS*
UK - 2010 - feature - col
D: Ryan Andrews
• Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
1.85:1
[Horror-thriller in which a young would-be sleuth (Jaime Winstone) uncovers the dark secrets of a strange family who have just moved into her home town]

EMILIO AND HIS MAGICAL BULL
(aka: Ring Around Saturn)
USA - 1953 - 54m - col
D: Edward Nassour
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot in standard 2-D format. The film was produced under the title Ring Around Saturn, though it wasn't released until 1975 under the new title Emilio and His Magical Bull]

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: Lev L. Spiro [as: L.L. Shapira], 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)

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

ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO
USA - 1953 - 98m - col
D: John Sturges
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH*
Canada - 2010 - 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
[Vecher v Moskve]
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]

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!)]

EXTRAORDINARY STUDIES*
[Neobiknovenniy Etyudy]
USSR - 1963 - feature - col
• Stereokino
Single-strip/35mm
Frame sequential
Mono
1.37:1
[Obscure feature, about which nothing more is known]

EYE OF THE DRAGON
(see: Magnificent Bodyguards)

EYES OF HELL
(see: Mask, The)

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)

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
[Vanka-Vstanka]
Russia/Belarus - 1990 - 80m - col
D: Anatoli Kokorin
• Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track stereo
1.37:1
[Children’s fantasy, recounting the adventures of a brave little doll]

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]

FESTIVAL OF FEAR
(see: Festival of Horror)

FESTIVAL OF HORROR
[Gongpo-ui Chukje]
S.Korea - 1986 - 95m - col
D: Kim In-soo
• Single-strip/35mm
• Left-right images over-under
Mono
2.35:1
[A deformed young girl uses supernatural powers to make herself beautiful, whilst her pretty (and popular) twin sister is rendered simultaneously ugly. However, beauty proves merely skin deep, leading to horrific consequences for all concerned. The film's English title has been rendered in some sources as Festival of Terror and Festival of Fear]

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)]

THE FINAL DESTINATION
USA - 2009 - 82m - col
D: David R. Ellis
Digital Widescreen
• Fusion 3-D
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS
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]

THE FIRST TRAVELING SALESLADY
USA - 1956 - 92m - col
D: Arthur Lubin
[Announced as a 3-D feature in 1954, though shot and released two years later in standard 2-D format]

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 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 stereo in contemporary trade ads, though the film appears to have been released in mono only]

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]

FORT TI
USA - 1953 - 73m - col
D: William Castle
• Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Dual-35mm
3-track 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]

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)]

FOXED!*
Canada - 2010 - feature - col
D: Nev Bezaire
• Stereoscopic puppet animation (digital still photography)
Digital 3-D release print
[Stop motion animation, in which the children of a small town are kidnapped and replaced by magical foxes. One little girl decides to fight back]

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]

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

FUNK*
USA - 1976 - feature - col
D: Michael Findlay [as: Julian Marsh]
• 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


GALATEA
(see: Vault of Darkness)

GAPPA THE TRIPHIBIAN MONSTER
[Daikyajû Gappa]
(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]

GARFIELD'S PET FORCE
USA/S.Korea - 2009 - 75m - col
D: Mark A.Z. Dippé
• Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[Animated sci-fi adventure. Lazy cat Garfield is recruited by comic-book hero Garzooka to defend Cartoon World from an all-conquering super-villain. Released theatrically overseas, but direct to video in the US and UK]

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]

G-FORCE
USA - 2009 - 88m - col
D: Hoyt H. Yeatman Jr.
Super 35 / Digital Widescreen
• In-Three Dimensionalization (35mm footage)
• Stereoscopic CGI animation (animated footage)
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS
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! The theatrical version was printed at 1.85:1, with the 2.39:1 image letterboxed inside the narrow frame. This allowed the filmmakers to further emphasize a number of off-screen effects by having them cross over into the matted portion of the frame, as though 'invading' the space within the cinema]

GHOST DORMITORY
[Ho Pii]
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 original title is rendered Hor Pee in some sources]

GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS
USA (LF) - 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
[Phee Jao Leh]
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 original title is rendered Pii Jao-le in some sources]

GHOST WARRIOR
(aka: Swordkill)
USA - 1986 - 81m - col
D: J. Larry Carroll
[Announced as a 3-D feature in 1983 under the title Swordkill, though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

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]

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]

GOG
USA - 1954 - 85m - col
D: Herbert L. 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]

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: LA BALANZA Y LA ESPADA*
(aka: Goleor: The Scales and the Sword)
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]

GOLEOR: THE SCALES AND THE SWORD
(see: Goleor: La Balanza y la Espada)

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

GONGPO-UI 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!]

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]

THE GREAT BALLOON CHASE
(see: Hot Heir)

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 stereo in contemporary pressbooks, though the film appears to have been released in mono only]



H


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
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
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D format. Followed by a bona fide stereoscopic sequel, Happy Feet 2 (qv)]

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 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: Stephen Gibson [as: Norm de Plume]
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 a 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)]

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART I*
USA/UK (LF) - 2010 - feature - col
D: David Yates
Super 35
• Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS
2.39:1
[Seventh in the 'Harry Potter' series initiated by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), split into two separate movies. Harry and friends must defeat the evil Lord Voldemort who now reigns over Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic. Part II is due for release in 2011]

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART II*
USA/UK (LF) - 2011 - feature - col
D: David Yates
Super 35
• Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS
2.39:1
[Seventh in the 'Harry Potter' series initiated by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), split into two separate movies. Harry and friends must defeat the evil Lord Voldemort who now reigns over Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic. Part I is due for release in 2010]

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
UK/USA (LF) - 2009 - 155m - col
D: David Yates
Super 35
• IMAX DMR 3-D (partly)
Dimensionalized 3-D
Dual-1570 (IMAX) release print
Sonics-DDP (IMAX)
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 release. The 35mm and D-Cinema versions ran 153 minutes and were printed in 2-D only, with Dolby Digital, DTS and SDDS soundtracks]

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
USA/UK (LF) - 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 GRAVEYARD*
[Mon Pii Bog]
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]

HAUNTING OF WINCHESTER HOUSE
USA (V) - 2009 - 90m - col
D: Mark Atkins
• Dual-HD Video
Single-strip/anaglyph video print
Stereo
1.78:1
[A young family falls victim to vengeful spirits inside their newly-acquired holiday home. Melodramatic distortion of an alleged true story]

HEAD HUNTER
[Khon Tud Hua]
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 film’s original title is rendered Kon Tud Hua in some sources]

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: Tom De Simone [as: Lancer Brooks]
• 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)

HELEN OF TROY
USA/Italy - 1955 - 118m - col
D: Robert Wise
[Announced as a 3-D feature in 1953, though shot and released two years later in standard 2-D (CinemaScope) format]

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

HENTAIMA
(see: Perverted Criminal)

HERE COMES DR. TRAN
[see: Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Caught in the Act]

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

HIDEOUS MUTANT
(see: APE)

THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY
USA - 1954 - 147m - col
D: William Wellman
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D (CinemaScope) format]

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 - 2009 - 92m - col
D: Joe Dante
• Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
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 supernatural horror]

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 (Geraldine Page in her feature debut) 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]

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
(see: Ghost Dormitory)

HOR PEE
[see: Ghost Dormitory]

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 - 2010 - 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 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: Stpehen Gibson [as: Norm de Plume]
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), Technicolor 3-D (over-under 35mm) and dual-1570 (IMAX) release prints
2.39:1
[Animated film, based on the children’s novel by Cressida Cowell, in which a Viking boy trains his cowardly dragon to be a hero]

HUAN HUAN XIAO XIAO
(see: Laughing Laughing)

HUNTER SNAKE
[Yah Nark]
Thailand (TV) - 2004 - 72m - col
D: Torpong Tunkamhang
• 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]

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]

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]



I


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

IE NAKI KO
(see: Nobody’s Boy)

IJÔ SEI HANZAI
(see: Abnormal Sex Crimes)

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]

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN
USA - 1980 - 88m - col
D: Joel Schumacher
[Producers of this wayward comedy shot some 3-D test footage during pre-production, after which it was decided to film and release the movie in 'flat' format only]

INFERNO
USA - 1953 - 107m - col
D: Roy Baker
• Clear-Vision
Dual-35mm
3-track 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 3-D
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
[Perekhvat]
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]

INTERNATIONAL STEWARDESSES
(aka: Jet Set)
(aka: The Stewardesses Part II)
(aka: Supersonic Supergirls)
USA - 1974 - 92m - col
D: Allan Silliphant [as: 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]

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 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 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]

IVAN GROZNYI I
(see: Ivan the Terrible [Part 1])

IVAN THE TERRIBLE (PART 1)
[Ivan Groznyi I]
Russia - 1943 - 96m - col
D: Sergei Eisenstein
[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]

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*
(aka: Vedhalam)
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]

JAPANESE LADIES*
USA (V) - 19?? - feature? - col
• Field sequential 3-D
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 stereo in contemporary pressbooks, though the film appears to have been released in mono only]

JET SET
(see: International Stewardesses)

JIJIHALU-UI HEUGTAE-YANG
(see: Jijiharu's Black Sun)

JIJIHARU'S BLACK SUN
[Jijihalu-ui Heugtae-yang]
S.Korea - 1971 - 80m - col
D: Jang Seok-jun
• Dual-Techniscope/35mm
Single-strip/over-under release print
Mono
2.35:1
[Members of the Korean Independence Army are betrayed by one of their own soldiers following a raid on Japanese troops which results in the theft of valuable gold]

JIM THE PENMAN
USA - 1915 - 5 reels - bw
D: Edwin S. Porter
[Listed as a possible 3-D feature in numerous sources over the years. However, research by 3-D historians Ray Zone and Daniel L. Symmes confirms that stereoscopic footage taken on the set of this movie was incorporated into a 3-reel 'demonstration film' by Edwin S. Porter which premiered at the Astor Theater, New York, in June 1915. The material was photographed in the Porter-Waddell Stereoscopic Process (dual-35mm) and screened in single-strip/anaglyph format. Jim the Penman was shot and released in 2-D only]

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]

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 (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]

JORNG WIEN
(see: Blood Grudge)

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]

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)

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: Akakage: 3-D Adventure Movie]

KENNY CHESNEY: SUMMER IN 3-D*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Joe Thomas
• Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Concert film, featuring the eponymous Country superstar on tour during the summer of 2009]

KHON TUD HUA
(see: Head Hunter)

THE KID FROM LEFT FIELD
USA - 1953 - 80m - bw
D: Harmon Jones
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

KIDNAPPING OF THE CENTURY
[Pokhishchenie Veka]
USSR - 1981 - 70m - col
D: Vitaliy Makarov
• Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track stereo
1.37:1
[Comedy, in which two car mechanics cause mischief during a trip to the Black Sea holiday resort]

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]

KISS AND THE SWORD
[see: Saracen Blade, The]

KISS ME KATE
USA - 1953 - 109m - col
D: George Sidney
• Metrovision Tri-Dee
Dual-35mm
3-track 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?!]

KNIGHT-ERRANT GIRL
(see: Lucky 13)

KNOCK ON WOOD
USA - 1954 - 103m - col
D: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

KON TUD HUA
[see: Head Hunter]

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
[see: Abnormal Sex Crimes]



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LADY IN DREAM
[Mongnyeo]
S.Korea - 1968 - 85m - col
D: Im Kwon-taek
• Dual-Techniscope/35mm
Single-strip/over-under release print
4-track stereo
2.35:1
[Spies murder a wealthy industrialist and his daughter in order to claim their estate, only to be haunted into confessing their crime by the daughter's vengeful ghost]

LARGER THAN LIFE IN 3D
USA - 2009 - 88m - col
D: Lawrence Jordan
• Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[Music concert movie, featuring the Dave Matthews Band, Gogol Bordello and Ben Harper & Relentless7, filmed at the Austin City Limits Festival in October 2009]

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 - 2010 - 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]

THE LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER
USA - 1981 - 98m - col
D: William A. Fraker
[Some sources claim test footage for this film was photographed in dual-570, though the movie itself was shot and released in standard 2-D (35mm Panavision) format]

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)

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)]

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 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]

LIFEFORCE
USA/UK - 1985 - 116m - col
D: Tobe Hooper
[Announced as a 3-D feature under the title 'Space Vampires', though shot and released in 2-D (J-D-C Scope) format]

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

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

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]

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

LI TI SHI SAN MEI
(see: Lucky 13)

LITTLE FRIEND
[Druzok]
(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!!]

LITTLE HERCULES*
USA - 2009 - feature - col
D: Mohamed Khashoggi
• Dual-HD Video
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 must decide whether to forego his god-like destiny and live as a mortal in modern-day LA]

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
[Zamurovannye v Stekle]
USSR - 1978 - 98m - col
D: Aleksandr Andriyevsky
• Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track stereo
1.37:1
[Fantasy-adventure, in which a young boy battles an evil Sultan for supremacy over a magical kingdom]

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!]

THE LOST EMPIRE
USA - 1983 - 83m - col
D: Jim Wynorski
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D (anamorphic widescreen) format]

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

LUCKY ME
USA - 1954 - 100m - col
D: Jack Donohue
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D (CinemaScope) format]

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...]

LUSTY BEDTIME STORY
(see: Bizarre Night Story of Sexual Desire)

THE LYNX STALKS ITS PREY
[Rys Idet po Sledu]
(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 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]



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MACHINE 22-12
[Mashina 22-12 [Schastliviy Reys]]
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”]

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]

MAGIC MAGIC
(see: Chhota Jadugar)

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: Akakage: 3-D Adventure Movie]

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/over-under release print
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 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
(see: May Night)

MAMMOTH AND PAPPOTH: A FURRY SHOW
[Papanty, Mamanty: Lokhmatoe Shou]
Russia - 1992 - 70m - col
D: Nelya Gulchuk
• Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track 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]

THE MAN FROM MARS
(see: Radio Mania)

MANHOLD
(see: Manhole)

MANHOLE*
(aka: Manhold)
USA - 1976 - feature - col
D: David E. Durston [as: Spencer Logan]
• 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 ATTIC
USA - 1954 - 82m - bw
D: Hugo Fregonese
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

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]

A MAN OF GREAT STRENGTH: IM GGYEOK-JEONG*
[Cheonha Jangsa Im Ggyeok-jeong]
S.Korea - 1968 - feature - col
D: Lee Kyu-woong
• Dual-Techniscope/35mm
Single-strip/over-under release print
Mono
2.35:1
[Notable as South Korea's first 3-D movie. Historical drama, set during the Joseon dynasty, in which the son of a butcher rises up against corrupt government officials and establishes a village whose citizens are free from political interference in their daily lives. Based on a popular folk tale]

MAN ON A GOLDEN HORSE
(see: Rider on a Golden Horse)

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 THE GREEN GLOVES
[Chelovek v Zelenoy Perchatke]
USSR - 1968 - 74m - col
D: Nikolai Ekk
• Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track stereo
1.37:1
[Circus drama in which an acrobat loses his hand in wartime and develops a new act which circumvents his disability]

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 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 (LF) - 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.
(see: Radio Mania)

MARS CALLING
(see: Radio Mania)

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)
(see: Machine 22-12)

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)

MAY NIGHT
[Maiskaya Noch, Ili Utoplennitsa]
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]

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 stereo in contemporary trade ads, though the film appears to have been released in 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]

MEGAMIND*
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]

MEI REN YU
(see: Mermaid)

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]

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]

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

MISS SADIE THOMPSON
USA - 1953 - 91m - col
D: Curtis Bernhardt
• Columbia 3-D
Dual-35mm
3-track 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’]

MISTER ROBERTS
USA - 1955 - 123m - col
D: John Ford, Mervyn Le Roy
[Announced as a 3-D feature in 1953, though shot and released two years later in standard 2-D (CinemaScope) format]

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

THE MODEL WHO FELL IN LOVE
[Vlublenniy Maneken]
Russia - 1991 - 75m - col
D: Vitali Makarov
• Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track stereo
1.37:1
[Fantasy-drama in which a beautiful doll comes to life and experiences human emotions, including love]

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 stereo in contemporary trade ads, though the film appears to have been released in mono only]

MONGNYEO
(see: Lady in Dream)

MON PII BOG
(see: Haunted Graveyard)

MONSTER FROM A PREHISTORIC PLANET
[see: Gappa the Triphibian Monster]

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)

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 OF GRACE
USA (SV) - 1998 - 73m - col
D: Diana Walczak, Jeff Kleiser
• Kleiser-Walczak 3-D (partly)
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Dual-570 release print
Silent / Mono / 4-track stereo / 6-track stereo
1.37:1 (2-D sequences)
1.66:1 and 2.20:1 (3-D sequences)
[Experimental opera by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, first staged at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles in 1998, in which live performers interact with computer-generated 3-D imagery. The filmed images employ a variety of sound formats, film gauges and aspect ratios]

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 - 2010 - 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]

MOONRAKER
UK/France - 1979 - 126m - col
D: Lewis Gilbert
[Some sources claim test footage for this film was shot in dual-570, though the movie itself was filmed and released in standard 2-D (35mm Panavision) format]

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”]

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! Two versions exist: One featuring a full-frontal nude scene from hunky Joe Dallesandro (yay!), and another in which the same scene unfolds with Joe in trousers (boo!). But hey, at least he's still got his shirt off (another - slightly less enthusiastic - yay!). Ahem! 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]

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
[Raznotsvetnie Kameshki]
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]

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)

MYSTERIOUS MONK
[Tainstvennyj Monakh]
USSR - 1968 - 103m - col  
D: Arkadi Koltsaty
• Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track 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]



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]

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]

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
(see: Sitting on the Golden Porch)

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 stereo in contemporary pressbooks, though the film appears to have been released in mono only]

NEOBIKNOVENNIY ETYUDY
(see: Extraordinary Studies)

NEOBIKNOVENNIY GOROD
(see: Unusual City, An)

NET I DA
(see: No and Yes)

NEW FACES
USA - 1954 - 99m - col
D: Harry Horner
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D (CinemaScope) format]

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!]

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 - 1968/2009 - 96m - bw
D: George A. Romero
Spherical/35mm
• Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
Mono
1.37:1
[Several people barricade themselves inside a lonely farmhouse after coming under attack from flesh-eating zombies. Originally filmed in 2-D, but converted to 3-D in 2009]

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: Akakage: 3-D Adventure Movie]

NO AND YES
[Net i Da]
USSR - 1967 - 73m - col
D: Arkadi Koltsatiy
• Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track stereo
1.37:1
[Another obscure feature, described by author Eddie Sammons as a ‘musical comedy’]

NOBODY’S BOY
[Ie Naki Ko]
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 show3-D Animation: Homeless Remi (Rittai Anime: Ie Naki Ko, 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]

NOCHE DE PAZ!*
(aka: Holy Night!)
Spain - 2010 - 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
[Shutki v Storonu]
USSR - 1984 - 68m - col
D: Vitaliy Makarov
• Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track stereo
1.37:1
[Eddie Sammons describes this as a “comedy about a young man who longs to be a clown”]

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/over-under release print
Mono
2.35:1
[Obscure martial arts drama, set in ancient China, about which nothing more is known]

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]



O


OCCHO KOCHOÏ *
France - 2011 - 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]

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
(see: Broom and Black Hat)

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

OPEN SEASON
USA (LF) - 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)

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)]



P


PAL
(see: Little Friend)

PAPANTY, MAMANTY: LOKHMATOE SHOU
(see: Mammoth and Pappoth: A Furry Show)

PARADISIO
USA - 1962 - 82m - bw and col
D: Haile Chase [as: Henri Haile]
• 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]

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]

PARATROOPER
(see: Red Beret, The)

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]

PASTRIES
(see: Chamber-Mades, The)

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
(see: Interception)

PERVERTED CRIMINAL*
[Hentaima]
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]

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
(see: Ghost Trick)

PHEE... MAI YARK HAI KHON HEN s
(see: Battle S Ghost Master)

PII JAO-LE
[see: Ghost Trick]


PIRANHA*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Alexandre Aja
Anamorphic/35mm
• Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
2.39:1
[Remake of the 1978 movie, in which shoals of prehistoric piranha fish are released into Arizona’s lakes following a minor earth tremor. Shot in 2-D with anamorphic lenses, converted to 3-D in post-production]

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
USA/Spain/UK - 2009 - 90m - col
D: Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad, Marcos Martinez
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

PLANET OF THE APES
USA - 1968 - 119m - col
D: Franklin J. Schaffner
[Announced as a 3-D feature, and subject to some pre-production dimensional test footage, though the film itself was shot and released in standard 2-D (Panavision)]

THE PLAYGIRLS AND THE BELLBOY
[see: Bellboy and the Playgirls, The]

THE PLAYMATES
USA - 1973 - 80m - col
D: Stephen Gibson [as: Pierre La Farce]
• 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]

POKHISHCHENIE VEKA
(see: Kidnapping of the Century)

THE POLAR EXPRESS
USA (LF) - 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!]

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]

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
[Historical seafaring 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)]

A PRECIOUS GIFT
[Dragotsenniy Podarok]
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)]

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)

PRIKLJUCHENIJA ROLLI 3D
(see: Röllin Sydän)

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)

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)

QUEST FOR A HEART
(see: Röllin Sydän)



R


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. (1921), 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]

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]

RAZNOTSVETNIE KAMESHKI
(see: Multi-Colored Pebbles)

THE RED BERET
(aka: Paratrooper)
UK - 1953 - 88m - col
D: Terence Young
[Announced as a 3-D feature under the title 'The Big Jump', though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

RED GARTERS
USA - 1954 - 91m - col
D: George Marshall
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

RELENTLESS*
USA - 2010 - 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)

RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Paul W.S. Anderson
• Fusion 3-D
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Fourth in the series initiated by Resident Evil (2002), and the first to be produced in 3-D]

THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD
USA - 1985 - 90m - col
D: Dan O'Bannon
[Announced as a 3-D feature in 1983, though shot and released two years later in standard 2-D format]

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: Blood Grudge)

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)

THE RIDER
(see: Jinete, El)

RIDER ON A GOLDEN HORSE
[Vsadnik na Zolotom Kone]
(aka: Man 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 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...]
(see: Man on a Golden Horse)

RING AROUND SATURN
(see: Emilio and His Magical Bull)

RING OF FEAR
USA - 1954 - 88m - col
D: James Edward Grant
[Announced as a 3-D feature under the title 'Under the Big Top', though shot and released in standard 2-D (CinemaScope) format]

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]

RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11
USA - 1954 - 80m - bw
D: Don Siegel
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

RITTAI EIGA ZA•AKUME
(see: Acme, The)

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
[see: Abnormal Sex Crimes]

ROBINSON CRUSOE
[Robinzon Kruzo]
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?]

ROBINZON KRUZO
(see: Robinson Crusoe)

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 - 2010 - 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.]

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

ROLLI I EHL’F: NEVEROJATNYE PRIKLJUCHENIJA
(see: Röllin Sydän)

RÖLLIN SYDÄN
(aka: Quest for a Heart)
(aka: Prikljuchenija Rolli 3D)
(aka: Rolli i Ehl’f: Neverojatnye Prikljuchenija)
Finland/Russia/Germany/UK - 2007/2009 - 78m - col
D: Pekka Lehtosaari
35mm cel animation / CGI animation
• Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[Animated children’s fantasy. Originally released in 2-D, then converted to 3-D for limited distribution in Russia under the title Prikljuchenija Rolli 3D in 2009]

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]

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]

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!]

RUSTIC CHIVALRY
(see: Cavalleria Rusticana)

RYÔKI: SHIKIJÔ YAWA
(see: Bizarre Night Story of Sexual Desire)

RYS IDET PO SLEDU
(see: Lynx Stalks Its Prey, The)



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
(see: Survival Beach)

SANCTUM*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Alister Grierson
• Fusion 3-D
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[A father-and-son diving team lead an expedition into an underwater cave system where their lives are threatened by sudden disaster]

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]

THE SARACEN BLADE
USA - 1954 - 76m - col
D: William Castle
[Announced as a 3-D feature under the title 'Kiss and the Sword', though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

SATAN
(see: Saamri)

SAW VII*
USA/Canada - 2010 - feature - col
D: David Hackl
• Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS
1.85:1
[Seventh in the series initiated by horror-thriller Saw (2004), and the first to be shot in 3-D]

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]

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

SCOOPERS
[Sukupazu]
(aka: Dick Island)
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]

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]

SECOND CHANCE
USA - 1953 - 81m - col
D: Rudolph Maté
• Future Dimension
Dual-35mm
3-track 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!]

SENIOR SNATCH
(see: Surfer Girls, The)

SENRITSU MEIKYÛ 3-D
(see: Shock Labyrinth, The)

SEPTEMBER STORM
USA - 1960 - 89m - col
D: Byron Haskin
Superscope 235
• Stereo-vision
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 3-Dimension rig, and formatted in widescreen via the Superscope 235 format]

SEUTACHEISEO: ORINUI JEONSEOL
(see: Starchaser: The Legend of Orin)

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

SEX AND ZEN*
[Yu Pu Tuan]
Hong Kong - 2010 - 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 VISION*
USA - 2010 - 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”]

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]

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]

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]

THE SHOCK LABYRINTH*
[Senritsu Meikyû 3-D]
Japan - 2009 - feature - col
D: Takashi Shimizu
• Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[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]

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 (2003)]

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
(see: No More Jokes)

THE SIDE STREETS OF HOLLYWOOD
(see: Virgin in Hollywood, A)

THE SIEGE AT RED RIVER
USA - 1954 - 86m - col
D: Rudolph Maté
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

SIGN OF THE PAGAN
USA - 1954 - 92m - col
D: Douglas Sirk
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D movie, though it was actually shot and released in 2-D (CinemaScope) format only]

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!]

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]

SINGAPORE BLUE
USA (V) - 1990 - 4 x 60m - col
D: [various]
• Field sequential 3-D
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
(see: Blue Beard)

SITTING ON THE GOLDEN PORCH
[Na Zlatom Kryltse Sideli...]
USSR - 1986 - 70m - col
D: Boris Rytsarev
• Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track 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]

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]

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
[SOS nad Taygoy]
USSR - 1976 - 84m - col
D: Arkadi Koltsaty
• Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track 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 NAD TAYGOY
(see: SOS from the Taiga)

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 FOR PUBLIC PROSECUTOR
[Suvenir dlya Prokurora]
USSR - 1989 - 89m - col
D: Aleksandr Kosarev
• Stereo 70
Single-strip/65mm
Left-right images side by side
570 release print
6-track stereo
1.37:1
[Action drama, pitting Russian police against Mafia-style crime lords. Now this is more like it!]

SPACE ADVENTURE COBRA
[Supesu Adobencha Kobura]
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]

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 VAMPIRES
[see: Lifeforce]

SPIKE & MIKE'S SICK AND TWISTED FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION: CAUGHT IN THE ACT
USA (V) - 2005 - 76m - col
[Compilation of 2-D animation shorts, including Here Comes Dr. Tran (2003), which is promoted as a '3-D' movie. However, this is not the case. In keeping with the anarchic spirit of the short films highlighted in this compilation, Here Comes Dr. Tran 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]

THE SPOOKY MOVIE SHOW
(see: Mask, The)

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)

STARCHASER: THE LEGEND OF ORIN
(aka: Seutacheiseo: Orinui Jeonseol)
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]

A STAR IS BORN
USA - 1954 - 181m - col
D: George Cukor
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D (CinemaScope) format]

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 which revolves around the staff and customers of the Starlets Club, an upscale Hollywood brothel. The film which prompted ‘Screw’ editor Al Goldstein to famously exclaim: “The action is so real, I thought I was cheating on my wife!” Followed by a 2-D sequel, Chastity and the Starlets (1986), released directly to home video]

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)]

THE STEWARDESSES
USA - 1969 - 95m - col
D: Allan Silliphant [as: Alf 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
D: Allan Silliphant [as: Alf Silliman Jr.]
• 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)

THE STRANGER WORE A GUN
USA - 1953 - 83m - col
D: André de Toth
• Columbia 3-D
Dual-35mm
3-track 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
(see: About Strange Things Concerning Love)

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]

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
(see: Scoopers)

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: Walter Molitor [as: Amato Bozelli]
• 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 (LF) - 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
(see: Space Adventure Cobra)

THE SURFER GIRLS
(aka: Hawaiian Fantasy)
(aka: Kahuna)
(aka: Senior Snatch)
USA - 1978 - 85m - col
D: Allan Silliphant [as: Frank Silliman]
• 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*
[Sabaibaru Bîchi]
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]

SUVENIR DLYA PROKURORA
(see: Souvenir for Public Prosecutor)

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!]

SWORDKILL
(see: Ghost Warrior)

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]



T


TAILOR-MADE BEAUTIES
[see: Femmina]

TAINSTVENNYJ MONAKH
(see: Mysterious Monk)

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]

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., 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]

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]

THIS IS IT
USA - 2009 - 111m - col
D: Kenny Ortega
[Originally scheduled to include footage shot in Fusion 3-D for Michael Jackson's ill-fated final concerts, though these plans were dropped during production. A 3-D re-release is possible in due course]

THOSE REDHEADS FROM SEATTLE
USA - 1953 - 90m - col
D: Lewis R. Foster
• Paravision
Dual-35mm
3-track 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]

THREE YOUNG TEXANS
USA - 1954 - 78m - col
D: Henry Levin
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

TICKLED PINK
(see: Champagnegalopp)

THE TIGER GOES ON TRACE
(see: Lynx Stalks Its Prey, The)

TIGER MAN
(aka: Fist)
USA - 1976/1981 - 90m - col
D: Matteo Ottaviano [as: Matt Cimber]
• 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]

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]

TOBIDASU BÔKEN EIGA: AKAKAGE
(see: Akakage: 3-D Adventure Movie)

TOKYO BLUE
USA/Japan (V) - 1990 - 3 x 40m - col
D: [various]
• Field sequential 3-D
Single-strip/Video
Mono
1.33:1
[X-rated video item, possibly compiled from footage in a series of Japanese Adult videos]

TONG YAN
(see: Child's Eye, The)

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]

A TOUCH OF SWEDEN
(see: Chamber-Mades, The)

TOY STORY
USA - 1995/2009 - 81m - col
D: John Lasseter
CGI animation
• Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
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 3*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Lee Unkrich
• Disney Digital 3-D
Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
1.85:1
[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)]

TOY STORY 2
USA - 1999/2009 - 92m - col
D: John Lasseter
CGI animation
• Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
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)]

TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS
(see: Tesoro de las Cuatro Coronas, El)

THE TRIAL [1962]
(see: Procès, Le)

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]

TRON: LEGACY*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Joseph Kosinski
HD Widescreen
• Fusion 3-D
Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D (D-Cinema) and dual-1570 (IMAX) release prints
Sonics-DDP (IMAX)
2.39:1
[Sequel to the 2-D sci-fi action-adventure Tron (1982)]

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]

THE TWO-HEADED SPY
UK - 1958 - 93m - bw
D: André de Toth
[Announced as a 3-D feature in 1954, to be filmed in Germany with the Raumfilm-System format, though it was shot and released in the UK several years later, in 2-D only]

TWO NIGHTS WITH CLEOPATRA
(see: Due Notti con Cleopatra)

TYPHON SUR HAMBOURG
(see: Con la Muerte a la Espalda)



U

UCHENIK LEKARYA
(see: Doctor’s Pupil, The)

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]

ULYSSES
(see: Ulisse)

UNDER THE BIG TOP
[see: Ring of Fear]

UNDERWATER!
USA - 1955 - 99m - col
D: John Sturges
[Announced as a 3-D feature in 1953, though shot and released two years later in standard 2-D (Superscope) format]

UNTAMED MISTRESS
USA - 1956 - 70m - col
D: Ron Ormond, Allan Nixon
[Announced as a 3-D feature in 1953, though shot and released three years later in standard 2-D format]

AN UNUSUAL CITY
[Neobiknovenniy Gorod]
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]

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]

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


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
(see: Favorite Dummy)

VAULT OF DARKNESS*
USA - 2010 - 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
(see: Evening in Moscow)

VEDHALAM
[see: Jai Vethlam]

VEILS OF BAGDAD
USA - 1953 - 82m - col
D: George Sherman
[Sometimes credited as a 3-D feature, though it wasn't filmed or exhibited in a stereoscopic process]

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)

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 (partly)
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]

VIY: THE RETURN*
[Viy: Vozvrashchenie]
Russia - 2010 - feature - col
D: Oleg Stepchenko
Super 35
• Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
2.39:1
[18th century Europe. Whilst travelling through the Carpathian Mountains, a young cartographer (Jason Flemyng) stumbles across an ancient village whose inhabitants are held hostage by a monstrous evil]

VIY 2: PROKLYATOE MESTO
(see: Viy 2: The Cursed Place)

VIY 2: THE CURSED PLACE*
[Viy 2: Proklyatoe Mesto]
Russia - 2010 - feature - col
D: Oleg Stepchenko
Super 35
• Dimensionalized 3-D
Digital 3-D release print
2.39:1
[Sequel to Viy: The Return (qv), about which little is known as yet]

VIY: VOZVRASHCHENIE
(see: Viy: The Return)

VLUBLENNIY MANEKEN
(see: Model Who Fell in Love, The)

THE VOLCANO CREATURE
USA - 1989 - feature - col
[Listed in some 3-D filmographies, though there’s no evidence the film was actually completed]

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
(see: Man on a Golden Horse)

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


WARLORD
(see: Dynasty)

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
USA - 1953 - 85m - col
D: Byron Haskin
[Noted for the record, since some sources mistakenly list the film as having been shot (partially) in 3-D. However, there's no evidence the film was shot in anything other than standard 2-D]

WATARI AND THE FANTASTICKS
[see: Akakage: 3-D Adventure Movie]

WATARI THE CONQUEROR
[see: Akakage: 3-D Adventure Movie]

WEB CAM*
Spain/Canada/Romania - 2010 - feature - col
D: Antoni Sole
• Dual-HD Video
Digital 3-D release print
[Hi-tech shocker, shot in English by a debutante European director. Teenagers are invited to a strange party where they're given video cameras linked directly to the Internet. Unbeknownst to the revellers, online viewers are encouraged to vote on who should live... and who should die!]

WHAT THE SWEDISH BUTLER SAW
(see: Champagnegalopp)

WHITE CHRISTMAS
USA - 1954 - 120m - col
D: Michael Curtiz
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D (VistaVision) format]

WHITE EAGLE*
Japan - 1979 - feature - col
[Technical details for this obscure Japanese anime have yet to be determined]

THE WHITE POODLE
[Belyj Pudel]
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]

WHITE WITCH DOCTOR
USA - 1953 - 96m - col
D: Henry Hathaway
[Announced as a 3-D feature, though shot and released in standard 2-D format]

WILDCAT WOMEN
(see: Black Lolita)

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. However, the final release prints were 2-D only]

WINGS OF THE HAWK
USA - 1953 - 80m - col
D: Budd Boetticher
• Universal 3-D
Dual-35mm
3-track 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)]

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]

WU DU
(see: Five Venoms, The)



X


X GAMES 3D: THE MOVIE
USA - 2009 - 92m - col
D: Steve Lawrence
• Dual-HD Video (partly)
Digital 3-D release print
Dolby Digital
1.85:1
[Emile Hirsch narrates this 'extreme sports' documentary, covering events at the 2008 X Games in Los Angeles, USA. Some scenes are 2-D only]

XIAO AO JIANG HU ZHI: DONG FANG BU BAI
(see: Swordsman II)

XUN SHI SAN LANG
(see: Lion Tamer, The)



Y


YAH NARK
(see: Hunter Snake)

YANG NIU XUN SHI
(see: French Queen of Kung Fu)

YELLOW SUBMARINE*
USA - 2010 - feature - col
D: Robert Zemeckis
• Stereoscopic CGI animation
Digital 3-D release print
[Remake of the 1968 animated fantasia, set to the music of The Beatles]

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]

YU NU QING CHOU
(see: Woman’s Revenge, A)



Z


ZAMUROVANNYE V STEKLE
(see: Locked in Glass)

Z-BÄW
(see: Z-Bäw: Historia de un Gran Equipo)

Z-BÄW: HISTORIA DE UN GRAN EQUIPO
(aka: Z-Bäw)
Mexico/USA - 2009 - 90m - 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]

ZHOU LE YUAN
(see: Park, The)

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)

ZUR GESCHICHTE DES DEUTSCHEN WERBEFILMS*
(aka: On the History of German Advertising Films)
W.Germany - 1980 - feature? - 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. Employed during the 1950's 3-D boom, and not to be confused with the later StereoVision (qv) format.

Stereo-vision
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 as separate left-right/anamorphic images, projected in dual-35mm and yielding a 2.35:1 projected image. This format was used on one particular film (SEPTEMBER STORM), and is 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]

Technicolor 3-D
Release format only. Left-right images stacked above-below in the space normally occupied by a single 35mm frame.

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; Rick Mitchell; 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)
The Korean Movie Database (http://www.kmdb.or.kr)
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]

Copyright © 2010 by Gary Palmer / 3-D Revolution Productions