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| Bob England |
 Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 2:29 am |
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Got this today in my Stereoscopy.com newsletter.
Thought it might be of interest here.
Bob England
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3-D at the Academy on Monday, December 8, 2003
3D-News Posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2003 (20:41 UTC) | Posted By:
Webmaster
Next Monday, the Academy of Motion Pictures Theater in Los Angeles will be
showing some never before seen 3-D Images of Oscar Winning People Projected
along with the 2002 Academy Award winning Best Picture "Chicago". The 3-D is
just a short "surprise" part of the evening, but part of what will make the
whole evening quite unusual.
Here are the details:
Date: Monday, December 8, 2003 < u>(ONE NIGHT ONLY!!!)
Time: 7:30 PM (arrive at least by 7.00, or 6:15 if you want to see the
excellent pre-show)
Place: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, 8949 Wilshire Blvd.,
Beverly Hills
Ticket Price: $5.00
Background Details:
On May 13, 2002 the Academy began a 75 film series called "Facets of the
Diamond" in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Academy Awards. Every
Monday night for the past 75 weeks they have been showing the AcademyAward
winning Best Picture winners, in chronological order, from 1927 to 2002.
December 8th, 2003 is the last film in the series.
In addition to showing the Best Picture, they have also been ! showing the
Best Animated short subject, and, before the film begins, selections from
the Academy Awards broadcast for that year (or stills, newsreels and other
archive materials for the earlier years). Each week they have also invited
guests, such as the actors, directors, producers and other people who have
worked on each film.
The Program Coordinator, Randy Haberkamp, happens to be a 3-D fan, and,
beginning with the 1939 film "Gone With the Wind", Reel 3-D Enterprises'
David Starkman got permission to photograph the special invited guests in
3-D, alongside the Academy's official photographer.
Randy thought it would be great to wrap up the series with a 3-D "slide
show" with the 3-D pictures of all of the invited celebrity guests who have
visited this series.
This posed a technical challenge, as the Academy does not have a silver
screen, and there was no time or budget to accommodate this requirement for
just one show.
The answer was to digitize the images, convert them to color anaglyphs, and
to project them using the Academy's Theater Size Digital projector. Ray Zone
did the c! onversions, and Academy Information Support specialist Brett
Davidson put Ray's conversions into a computerized Power Point program for
digital projection. The final test of this was just done on Monday, Dec. 1,
2003 at which time Randy enthusiastically approved the "show" for projection
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