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MaylJune 1987 Volume 14, Number 2 PTA~NATIONAL STEREO\ t i "*\ STEREOSCOPIC 4 ASSOCIATION @ wa lrar rr d by David Starkman Yes, to any 3-D fan this really buff John Harris, one of the owners The showing was quite a hit at the sounds like a dream, but, believe it of the Dream Theater, was interested Festival, and the Dream Theater has or not, the Dream Theater in Mon- in showcasing 3-D at his venue, be- made arrangements to keep the print terey, California is currently screen- cause he had made especially sure for an indefinite extended run. Cur- ing a newly made twin strip 35mm they were set up for optimum single rently the film is being shown every print of the 1953 3-D classic House and twin strip 3-D projection. Saturday and Sunday for a 2 p.m. of Wax every weekend! John had been after Warner matinee, once each dav onlv. Call It all started with the 1987 Mon- Brothers for years to strike new twin the theater to confirm showiimes. terey Film Festival. Perhaps with the strip release prints of House of Wax. The Dream Theater itself sounds recent interest created by Captain None were available because a single like the ideal place to see a 3-D film. Eo, somebody thought that 3-D strip conversion had been made for Unlike so many theaters today, it is would be a timely subject to discuss a re-release in the early 1970's. But independently owned, and the own- at the festival. Certainly 3-D film Warners just didn't seem interested. ers take pride in making it feel like It apparently took the insistence of an old fashioned "picture palace." the film's director, Andre de Toth, Esveciallv of note is that the owners who would only discuss and in- are 3-D fans themselves, and really troduce the film if a twin strip ver- know the difference between good sion was shown, combined with the and bad 3-D projection. They have expressed interest by famous actor gone out of their way to make sure and Monterey Mayor Clint East- the theater is set up for the best pos- wood, to finally motivate Warner sible 3-D projection. First, they have Brothers to strike a brand new print kept two projectors in the booth from the original right and left (most theaters todav onlv have one) negatives. to allow the possibility of twin strip 3-D projection. Second, they have chosen to use one of the best availa- ble 3-D screen materials for their screen-the British Harkness "Spec- tral 2000," as was used for the 3-D Imax at Expo '86. Finally, to make the 3-D experience as enjoyable as possible for all of their patrons, they insist on using lightweight black plastic framed 3-D glasses instead of the usual cardboard. This is a 3-D event that every NSA member who is going any- I where near the San Francisco bay area should make a point of attend- ing. The Dream Theater is located at Vincent Price desperately throws water on a burning wax figure of Marie Antoinette in a scene 301 Prescott Avenue (at Light- from "House of Wax." With three Natural Vision cameras rolling, the fire in this dramaticscene house), Monterey, CA 93940. Phone was allowed to build to the point where a hole was burned in the roof of thesoundstage. Stereo (408) 372-6993 for more courtesy of Reel 3-0 Enterprises. And tell them you heard about it in Stereo World. m Copyright O 1987 by the STEREO\ NATIONAL STEREOSCOPIC ASSOCIATION - * "LA Volume 14, Number 2 MayIJune 1987 NSA Board of Directors IN THIS ISSUE CHAIRMAN Louis H. Smaus Special Thanks .............................................3 MEMBERS by TK. Treadwell Paul Wing T.K. Treadwell Stereo Plaster: The Rogers Groups. ........................... .4 by Roland A. Kerber NSA Officers PRESIDENT American Brass Bands in Stereographs. ...................... .I4 T.K. Treadwell by Robert M. Hazen and Margaret H. Hazen SECRETARY Hyperstarstereo .......................................... 23 John Weiler by Dan Dyckman TREASURER William Eloe The Nightmare Returns. ................................... .24 VlCE PRESIDENT, REGIONAL AFFAIRS by Mark Willke Tom Rogers Littleton's Kilburn Cache. ...................................29 VlCE PRESIDENT, MEMBERSHIP by Laurence Wolfe Donato Bracco GENERAL BUSINESS MANAGER AManof Depth ............................................34 Linda S. Carter by Ray Zone NSA Staff Liberty Bell Moves Tracked in Stereos. ........................41 PUBLICATIONS by Raymond Holstein Jack & Pat Wilburn October in Interlaken. ..................................... .44 Stereo World Staff by Paul Wing EDITOR John Dennis ART DIRECTOR REGULAR FEATURES Mark Willke Editor's View ...............................................2 CONTEMPORARY STEREOSCOPY David Starkman The Society ............................................... 13 William Shepard Paul Wing The Unknowns ............................................ 36 Newviews ................................................ 38 Stereo World IS published b monthly by the hat~onal Stereoscop c Assoctation. Inc. 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Box 2368, Culver City, CA 90231 "The Unknowns" Editor Dave Klein 14416 Harrisville Rd., Mt. Airy, MD 21771 Front Cover: "The Photographer" is the title of this "3-D Movies" Editor view as well as the plaster sculpture Bill Shepard 17350 E. Temple Ave., #399 shown in it. The pair of figures is one of LaPuente, CA 91744 the Rogers Groups-popular mass Stereoscopic Society, American Br. produced sculpture sold all over the U.S. in the 1860's and 1870's and recorded by Jack E. Cavender, Corresponding Secretary 1677 Dorsey Ave., Suite C a surprising number of publishers in East Point. GA 30344 stereographs like this Kilburn No. 2450 from Roland Kerber's feature in this is- MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL STEREOSCOPIC UNION sue, "Stereo Plus ter." We hope most readers found the The Now article is a look at the material on 3-D film technology and March/April issue well worth wait- complexities encountered in Oboler's part in its development can ing for. The new design elements stereographing a totally different be found in the now famous April, and a combination of other factors kind of music and band. In "The 1974 issue of American too complex to explain here delayed Nightmare Returns," Mark Willke Cinematographer. it even more than usual. covers a recent Alice Cooper concert In case you haven't noticed by After a number of requests over with its loud amplified music, now, what you are reading is set in the past few years, the volume and colored lights, fog and bizarre columns with a non-justified, or issue numbers appear again on the props. In the laser-speed world of ragged, right edge. The reason for cover and datelines appear now at modern popular music, Alice Coop- the change has nothing to do with the bottom of each page. Sometimes er isn't quite in the "now" column, the technology or expense involved it's hard to know where to stop once however. His concert was part of a in modern computerized typeset- you start making these improve- return after some years of absence ting. This fwmat is simply regard- ments, and evidence of that is seen from live performances, so in a ed, in general, as being easier to read in the little end-signals shaped like sense, even our Now stereos cover since all words are spaced the same stereo slide mounts. (That choice what was really a nostalgia distance apart-regardless of the seemed only fair, after changing the experience-wild costume rock hav- wishes of any machine to have stylized cover to look like an actual ing been around long enough to everything come out exactly at the view card.) have its own Then O Now stories. same margin. It's a victory (if a It doesn't happen often, but some- Ray Zone's article on the life and small one) for human concerns over times two entire articles are, in ef- work of the late Arch Oboler only the easy temptation to show off fect, a Then O Now pair. That's how begins to cover the whole story of slick, ram-rod straight columns it ended up with two articles in this this remarkable writer, radio pi- produced at the touch of a button by issue. "American Brass Bands in oneer, film director and 3-D en- a computer. Please let us know your Stereographs" by Margaret and thusiast. As Ray mentioned, there is feelings about this or any other Robert Hazen is based on research easily enough material for the book aspects of Stereo World. Bright for their recent book "The Music that this story deserves to have done ideas, articles, comments, or ques- Men-An Illustrated History of on it some day. Oboler is one of tions are not just welcome but es- Brass Bands in America, 1800-1920," those people who seems to have sential! m Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. been ahead of his time in every field b-w EnmvnaPI**Trr** 1mn.m.~""."* -. The variety and number of stereo- he entered, and it seems only natural graphs of brass bands they located that he was the one to produce the CORRECTION: indicates the importance of that first full length 3-D movie of the The address given for RCI Inc.