In the early 1980s, when I founded StereoGraphics Corporation, the first bit of revenue income we had came from a venture with Chris Condon of StereoVision International. Chris was a pioneer in the projection of stereoscopic movies using a single 35mm projector. He founded the company Century Precision Optics, which is now a part of Schneider; but he moved on from there, sold it, and created StereoVision International because he had a big hit with the ‘70s movie The Stewardesses. The success of that film set him to work on perfecting a single film approach to stereoscopic projection and photographic techniques. He settled on the above-and-below (also called over and under or over/under) format based on two two-perforation high subframes with the Scope 2.4:1 aspect ratio occupying the area of the academy aperture. (more…)
SIDE-BY-SIDE FOREVER
October 26, 2009Lately there has been a lot of interest in two formats for stereoscopic multiplexing: The above-and-below, resurrected by Technicolor for theatrical projection using film, and the side-by-side for multiplexing left and right images for television. Here’s some background from a personal perspective. (more…)
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