Jacob Leventhal

3-D Rarities

Izzy Sparber, Phil Tucker

Daws Butler, Stan Freberg

Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New York City; New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film originally shown at the World’s Fair in 1940; Thrills for You, a promotional film for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Stardust in Your Eyes, a hilarious standup routine by Slick Slavin; trailer for The Maze, with fantastic production design by William Cameron Menzies; Doom Town, a controversial anti-atomic testing film mysteriously pulled from release; puppet cartoon The Adventures of Sam Space, presented in widescreen; I’ll Sell My Shirt, a burlesque comedy unseen in 3-D for over 60 years; Boo Moon, an excellent example of color stereoscopic animation…and more!

The New Audioscopiks

Jacob Leventhal, John Norling

Pete Smith

A Pete Smith short that deals with the newly-created 3-D process.

Audioscopiks

Jacob Leventhal, John Norling

Pete Smith

After the audience is instructed how to use the 3-D glasses they received, demonstrations of three-dimensional films are presented. Various objects move towards the camera, including a ladder being shoved out a window, the slide on a trombone, a woman on a swing, and a thrown baseball.

Why Movies Move

Jacob Leventhal

Mechanical drawings are used to explain how motion picture machines work.

Plastigrams

Jacob Leventhal, Frederick Eugene Ives

Experiments with Stereoscopic film. This film was released on 17 December 1922 in the Ives-Leventhal stereoscopic (3D) process. It was re-released on 22 September 1924 in New York City with sound recorded by the DeForest Phonofilm process. The same effect of the Plastigram Glasses can be achieved by inverting a pair of anaglyph 3D glasses, making cyan on the left and red on the right.