What happened to great old fashioned 3-D?

I direct your attention to "3D Rarities", a collection of shorts, trailers and cartoons from the 30s to the 50s, newly restored by 3D Archive and available on Blu-ray from Flicker Alley.
The perfect antidote to the insipid 2.5D efforts so frequently on offer today.

"Say it with flowers . . . give her a Triffid."

Thanks for the tip on old 3D stuff. Disappointing that there won't be anything new worth seeing.

PS. Day of the Triffids--great classic sci-fi!

You're welcome.
3D Archive is also restoring the 1954 3D SF movie "Gog" with a Blu-ray scheduled for September. I for one, can't wait.

"Say it with flowers . . . give her a Triffid."

I second the recommendation for "3-D Rarities." We watched it on Tuesday, and it is a refreshing breath of air to see what 3-D, REAL 3-D used to be. And it looks spectacular!

The Chrysler stop motion animation is particularly good, with great use of music.
The trailers for "The Maze" and "it Came from Outer Space" make me wish Universal would get its act together and either re-release them or licence them to someone else.

"Say it with flowers . . . give her a Triffid."

Hi,

Glad you enjoyed Mad Max it was a good movie. No matter how good technology gets, however, you can't beat biology for real 3-d on the screen. Your eyes are set a specific number of degrees apart. Filming in real Native 3-d uses two cameras to duplicate that angle. Otherwise you are only recording one eye's view on the screen and fudging what the other eye might see with a computer. In converted 3-d movies, Mad Max included, the depth goes into the screen away from the audience (the opposite of what real 3-d should look like). You get a windowbox effect where the depth comes from behind the screen and stops at the screen instead of going right up to your nose. Dust and hurling bodies give an illusion of depth because they are coming from inside the screen toward you, but they stop at the screen. You never feel like you have to duck as you did in Native 3-d movies. Go to an amusement park and check out some 3-d exhibits (Like Terminator at Universal). You'll see what I mean. Creating 3-d with one camera is like trying to record true stereo with one microphone-- can't be done.

To avoid eye strain they did not show tha gimmick of throwing things at the Camera.The film maker showed depth instead.Having thing pop put of the screen can bring more strain to the brain.It was shot the same way as a flat movie,so that the flat version would be just as fun too .One of the marvel comic film ant man was shot in 3.d .There was the making of it on Blu- ray .The fake 3D is done for the same reason that in the past produces blew up 35mm Panavision films to 70 mm to save money on using real 65mm film.You could not tell the differences.it's about cutting corners.This is bad.This is not working for the interest of film consumers.

I want to apologize sincerely.I looked up in the I.m.d.b and ant man and Jurassic world was only rendered in 3D.It was not shot in 3D.Non of the cameras mention about dual d cameras.My brother wasted money when i told him to give me x mas present and it was that.I wasted money on Jurassic World .It did look artificial.This is a way to kill 3D .Those tight wads.Digital dual 3d is a lot cheaper than dual 35mm film.This is typical of studio self interest.If we had regulation again .They would of have to shoot them in real 3D or stay flat!Let me recommend Hotel Transylvania 2.It was hot in actual 3D.