BROADCAST EXCERPT #3

Here is the third in the series of broadcast excerpts appearing in this month long celebration.

WNBC-TV - NEWS 4 NEW YORK
August 18, 1981
6:00 PM

CHUCK SCARBOROUGH: I am going to make a rather large leap now from the present time in this particular medium to back to a different entertainment than theater, movies, to a time when 3-dimensional movies came out. Do you remember 3-D movies? Are you sure? I even remember the very first one, "Bwana Devil", or whatever it's called. Followed by -- the best one that was ever done in 3-D -- "House Of Wax."

There's a reason for this, you know. I suspect anybody over the age of thirty probably will recall the special eyeglasses you had to pick up on the way to the movies on Saturday afternoon, if you were going to one of those 3-D jobs. Tonight, Bob Teague has a report on how a new movie is causing a run on those very same spectacles.

BOB TEAGUE: If you try to watch a 3-D movie without a pair of glasses like these, what you see on the screen will be two images of each scene from two projectors, and both will be slightly out of focus, something like the ghost you'd she on television. But with these glasses, the two images are polarized, brought together, that is, into one image. As the effect is 3-dimensional.

The Hudson Printing Company here in lower Manhattan is turning out about five million pairs of these cardboard and cellophane spectacles, getting ready for the grand opening of a new 3-D western, "Comin' At Ya."

MAN: THe use of that 3-D effect, of course, in a film can be quite effective, paricularly, in those scenes whete things perhaps are being thrown about or ...

TEAGUE: Thrown directly at the audience?

MAN: At the audience, perhaps.

TEAGUE: It was overdone, I think about 25 to 30 years ago. when I first saw 3-D. Everything was being thrown at you except the kitchen sink.

MAN: Yeah, well, perhaps, it was a form of overkill. After all, the use of the medium has 3-dimensional people getting carried away by showing, perhaps, too much of it. In the end, I suppose, a good story that is well written and well acted will probably help tp carry the film -- will have to carry the film.

TEAGUE: Does that describe "Comin' At Ya"?

MAN: I hope so. I frankly have not seen the film. I'm looking forward to it.

TEAGUE: If you normally wear glasses to the movies, don't worry. These are designed to slip right on top. No problems. Furthermore, they're free of charge.