BROADCAST EXCERPT #2

Here is the second in the series of broadcast excerpts from August 1981

WNEW-TV 10 O'CLOCK NEWS
August 18, 1981
10:40 PM


ANTHONY PRISENDORF: Remember back in the fifties when tailfins, D.A. haircuts, and the dollar and a half double feature was the rage? Well, something else was big then, too, for a time - 3-D movies. Maybe you're one of the lucky ones that shivered and shrieked through the "Creature From The Black Lagoon" while trying to balance those flimsy cardboard glasses on your nose.

Well, if you're at all eager or curious to see 3-D movies make a comeback, you're in luck. There's a new movie opening in town entitled "Comin' At Ya!". It promises to give you a new dimension in 3-D software.

AIDA ALVAREZ: Publicists told us it was all carefully choreographed for peak excitement and laughs. Flying lances, flaming arrows, slithering serpents. You'll find yourself ducking as it all comes at you. In fact, "Comin' At Ya!" is the name of the movie that's touted as the best 3-Dimensional flick to come along since audiences thrilled to the innovation of 3-D, twenty-five years ago.

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These are the 3-dimensional glasses you'll be using; and the way they work is, they're microscopic lines in the polarized lenses. Now, those lines are matched up with the microscopic lines in the film you'll see on the screen. And it's the coordination of these optics that gives you that 3-dimensional image. It's a manufacturers dream, these 3-D specs. The Hudson Printing Company has an order to put together five million of these glasses for movie goers throughout the country. You'll see the world with new eyes when you buy a ticket to this spaghetti western.

Is this going to be a new craze?

ARTHUR SILVERSTINE: I'm hoping it will be. It's different. It does bring the audience into the film. It does show that action around you.

ALVAREZ: "Comin' At Ya!" opens at twenty-nine theaters in the metropolitan area this Friday. One of those movie theaters is the Eight Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village. Just last July, they finished their second annual 3-D film festival playing the old favorites to packed houses.

STEVEN HIRSCH: I think a good story and action and adventure and things actually coming out of the screen at you excites anyone. And I think 3-D has found its time now in 1981.

ALVAREZ: This is one movie that's definitely for lookers, not listeners. "Comin' At Ya!" features ninety-one minutes of solid action. The picture's only got fifty-one lines of dialogue.

Aida Alvarez, Channel Five News