Comments on: Iconic 3D movie audience photo taken 60 years ago this week http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 12:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1595308 Antinous / Moderator Fri, 30 Nov 2012 06:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1595308 I was quite shocked to discover that ***SPOILER***the Witch is green.***SPOILER*** I was quite shocked to discover that ***SPOILER***the Witch is green.***SPOILER***

]]> By: Mitchell Glaser http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1595305 Mitchell Glaser Fri, 30 Nov 2012 06:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1595305 The Wizard of Oz. My family had a black and white TV for a long time, and I had seen Wizard several times. Then the first time I saw it after we got a color TV, and Dorothy opens the door into Munchkinland with all the eye-searing colors, I nearly shit myself. The Wizard of Oz. My family had a black and white TV for a long time, and I had seen Wizard several times. Then the first time I saw it after we got a color TV, and Dorothy opens the door into Munchkinland with all the eye-searing colors, I nearly shit myself.

]]> By: noah django http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1595275 noah django Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:20:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1595275 considering the grain density, I'm thinking infrared film? considering the grain density, I’m thinking infrared film?

]]> By: Narmitaj http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1595204 Narmitaj Fri, 30 Nov 2012 03:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1595204 Derek Jarman's Blue comes close: a film that is a continuous blue. http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0106438/ "Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue." Derek Jarman’s Blue comes close: a film that is a continuous blue. http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0106438/ “Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman’s experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.”

]]> By: Ernest Valdemar http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1595034 Ernest Valdemar Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1595034  When's the last time you saw a color film where the colors of objects were essential to the story?  When’s the last time you saw a color film where the colors of objects were essential to the story?

]]> By: Scott Ayers http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594995 Scott Ayers Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594995 Just want to point out that Bwana Devil was not the first full-length 3D movie. http://www.3dgear.com/scsc/movies/firsts.html Still a iconic picture in the history as it created the 50s 3D buzz. But not the first. Just want to point out that Bwana Devil was not the first full-length 3D movie. http://www.3dgear.com/scsc/movies/firsts.html
Still a iconic picture in the history as it created the 50s 3D buzz. But not the first.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594940 Antinous / Moderator Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594940 If you owned a jacket and tie, you wouldn't have gone out without it. Girls weren't allowed to wear pants to school until ~1968. If you owned a jacket and tie, you wouldn’t have gone out without it. Girls weren’t allowed to wear pants to school until ~1968.

]]> By: niktemadur http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594927 niktemadur Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594927 Back in the 80s going on a date usually meant dinner and a movie, and I don't know what these newfangled kids are wearing nowadays at the mall Outback before hitting the 20-small-screens multiplex, but sure, before gangsta and Aeropostale tshirt fashions, we wore fugly and usually synthetic 80s sweaters on a date. Back in the 80s going on a date usually meant dinner and a movie, and I don’t know what these newfangled kids are wearing nowadays at the mall Outback before hitting the 20-small-screens multiplex, but sure, before gangsta and Aeropostale tshirt fashions, we wore fugly and usually synthetic 80s sweaters on a date.

]]> By: GregS http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594893 GregS Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594893 One thing that surprises me is that no one has ever tried making movies in 1D. To my mind, if it can't be shown in a one-dimensional line, it isn't worth seeing. One thing that surprises me is that no one has ever tried making movies in 1D. To my mind, if it can’t be shown in a one-dimensional line, it isn’t worth seeing.

]]> By: GregS http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594887 GregS Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594887 I don't think it has to be a gimmick but unfortunately that's how it gets used most of the time. I'd like to see someone try to make a 3D movie where the 3D effects are actually essential to the story. If it can't be done, then that's the proof that it is just a gimmick. I don’t think it has to be a gimmick but unfortunately that’s how it gets used most of the time. I’d like to see someone try to make a 3D movie where the 3D effects are actually essential to the story. If it can’t be done, then that’s the proof that it is just a gimmick.

]]> By: DevinC http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594834 DevinC Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594834 But we do have Soma!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carisoprodol But we do have Soma!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carisoprodol

]]> By: DevinC http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594823 DevinC Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594823 I remember back in the '80s getting dressed up to go to the movies in nice-but-still-casual clothes.  Since this was taken in the '60s, the men are wearing suits.  By extrapolation, we can surmise that men's wear for moviegoing in the '40s was strictly black tie (note the young guy in the foreground, building up his retro cred) and in the '20s it would be white tie only. Any further back, and you'd have to wear a sword. I remember back in the ’80s getting dressed up to go to the movies in nice-but-still-casual clothes.  Since this was taken in the ’60s, the men are wearing suits.  By extrapolation, we can surmise that men’s wear for moviegoing in the ’40s was strictly black tie (note the young guy in the foreground, building up his retro cred) and in the ’20s it would be white tie only.

Any further back, and you’d have to wear a sword.

]]> By: Christopher http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594820 Christopher Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:06:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594820 True story: During the first few minutes of <i>Pulp Fiction</i> a woman behind me started saying, in a normal speaking tone, "I've seen this before. I've seen it on TV!" The man next to her chuckled loudly and said, even more loudly, "You're dumb! This ain't ever been on TV!" While Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta were discussing Quarter Pounders in Paris this couple continued debating whether what was happening onscreen had ever been on TV until I turned around and started at them and they both shut up. It wasn't exactly MST3K, but their commentary did, for me, add something to the cinematic experience. True story: During the first few minutes of Pulp Fiction a woman behind me started saying, in a normal speaking tone, “I’ve seen this before. I’ve seen it on TV!” The man next to her chuckled loudly and said, even more loudly, “You’re dumb! This ain’t ever been on TV!” While Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta were discussing Quarter Pounders in Paris this couple continued debating whether what was happening onscreen had ever been on TV until I turned around and started at them and they both shut up.

It wasn’t exactly MST3K, but their commentary did, for me, add something to the cinematic experience.

]]> By: Greg McCann http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594794 Greg McCann Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594794 This reminds me of one of my favorite album covers...   This reminds me of one of my favorite album covers…
 

]]> By: robcat2075 http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594782 robcat2075 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594782  the "Hollywood Premiere".  You know... searchlights, flashbulbs, red carpet.  the “Hollywood Premiere”.  You know… searchlights, flashbulbs, red carpet.

]]> By: niktemadur http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594772 niktemadur Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594772 News Of Tomorrow, with The Amazing Criswell! Curiously, it seems that it's "Smellevision". Notice the other bit of news: Quintuplets give birth to quintuplets. News Of Tomorrow, with The Amazing Criswell! Curiously, it seems that it’s “Smellevision”.

Notice the other bit of news: Quintuplets give birth to quintuplets.

]]> By: niktemadur http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594761 niktemadur Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594761 <blockquote>Look at everyone, they're so well dressed.</blockquote>And for what?  For <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_at_Large" rel="nofollow">Gorilla At Large</a>. I know they're watching <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bwana_Devil" rel="nofollow">Bwana Devil</a>, but I couldn't resist pointing out the trend which got set in stone: 3D as a delivery mechanism for <i>el cheapo</i> quasi-horror flicks.

Look at everyone, they’re so well dressed.

And for what?  For Gorilla At Large.
I know they’re watching Bwana Devil, but I couldn’t resist pointing out the trend which got set in stone: 3D as a delivery mechanism for el cheapo quasi-horror flicks.

]]> By: kmoser http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594753 kmoser Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594753 And not ONE person texting! And not ONE person texting!

]]> By: Christopher http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594749 Christopher Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:59:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594749 Sixty years later and we're still not any closer to "feelies".  Sixty years later and we’re still not any closer to “feelies”. 

]]> By: DisGuest http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594741 DisGuest Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594741  No, they'd let the press in.  No, they’d let the press in.

]]> By: niktemadur http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594730 niktemadur Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:48:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594730 "Do you ever look at crowds in old movies and wonder if they're dead yet?  I can't help it" - George Carlin “Do you ever look at crowds in old movies and wonder if they’re dead yet?  I can’t help it” – George Carlin

]]> By: mindysan33 http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594731 mindysan33 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:48:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594731  Me too... unfortunately, it keeps having renaissances.  It was big in the 50s/60s, I remember it was a big deal when they showed a 3D movie on TV when I was kid in the early 80s, and then now every damn kids film has to be in 3d... Other than Coraline, we saw all kids movies in 2d.  Me too… unfortunately, it keeps having renaissances.  It was big in the 50s/60s, I remember it was a big deal when they showed a 3D movie on TV when I was kid in the early 80s, and then now every damn kids film has to be in 3d… Other than Coraline, we saw all kids movies in 2d.

]]> By: mindysan33 http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594693 mindysan33 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:22:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594693 To be fair, it was an opening night event.... but I wonder if people were more likely to dress up for going out back in the day then they are now.  To be fair, it was an opening night event…. but I wonder if people were more likely to dress up for going out back in the day then they are now. 

]]> By: Mitchell Glaser http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594677 Mitchell Glaser Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594677 And 3D is still a gimmick 60 years later. I haven't seen a single film that was improved by it IMHO. Can't wait for it to go the way of Smellovision. And 3D is still a gimmick 60 years later. I haven’t seen a single film that was improved by it IMHO. Can’t wait for it to go the way of Smellovision.

]]> By: soylent_plaid http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594667 soylent_plaid Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:04:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594667 This can't be a movie theatre.  I mean, look at everyone, they're so well dressed.  Not one pair of sweatpants.  And I don't think I can see a single person yammering away at his buddy.  Nobody's yelling at the screen or standing up or crawling over everyone in their row to go to the bathroom.  Everyone's just sitting there eyes forward watching a movie.  This has to be fake! This can’t be a movie theatre.  I mean, look at everyone, they’re so well dressed.  Not one pair of sweatpants.  And I don’t think I can see a single person yammering away at his buddy.  Nobody’s yelling at the screen or standing up or crawling over everyone in their row to go to the bathroom.  Everyone’s just sitting there eyes forward watching a movie.  This has to be fake!

]]> By: UnderachievingSheep http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594655 UnderachievingSheep Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594655 "But members of the audience reported that the glasses were uncomfortable, the film itself — dealing with two scholarly looking lions who ate up quantities of humans in Africa — was dull, and it was generally agreed that the audience itself looked more startling than anything on the screen." Oh, I had completely forgotten there were lions in Avatar. Also, time surely flies! I would have sworn Avatar was only a few years old. “But members of the audience reported that the glasses were uncomfortable, the film itself — dealing with two scholarly looking lions who ate up quantities of humans in Africa — was dull, and it was generally agreed that the audience itself looked more startling than anything on the screen.”

Oh, I had completely forgotten there were lions in Avatar. Also, time surely flies! I would have sworn Avatar was only a few years old.

]]> By: Dustin Ames http://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/iconic-3d-movie-audience-photo.html#comment-1594652 Dustin Ames Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=197256#comment-1594652 And just think, now you'd get arrested or fined for having a camera in a theatre. And just think, now you’d get arrested or fined for having a camera in a theatre.

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