3-D Rarities Program
Special Features: Intro by Bob Furmanek, president and founder, 3-D Film Archive
Archivist Bob Furmanek presents this eclectic program of rare 3-D films, spanning from the silent era through the 1950s golden age. Included are the earliest surviving stereoscopic film, THRU' THE TREES: WASHINGTON, D.C. (1922); THRILLS FOR YOU, a 1940 promotional film for the Pennsylvania Railroad; a 1940 Technicolor short, NEW DIMENSIONS (aka MOTOR RHYTHM), produced for the Chrysler Pavilion of the New York World's Fair; Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambert's AROUND IS AROUND, a beautiful animated 1951 film featuring dancing, decorative oscilloscope patterns; a 3-D newsreel of the 1953 prize fight between Rocky Marciano and Jersey Joe Walcott; 1953's chilling, hard-boiled docudrama DOOM TOWN, which features footage of an actual atomic bomb test detonated in a mocked-up town; the 1953 stop-motion animation THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPACE; plus comic routines, burlesque dancers, trailers for THE MAZE and IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE and more!
Program approx. 97 min.
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 97 Minutes
Opening Date: Sunday, January 28, 2024
Genre: Shorts program
