3-D+Movies

=3-D Movies =

Tamara Morey

 3-D films and technology have evolved and become more popular in recent times. People can now watch 3-D movies from their home, or can go to a movie theatre with 3-D capability to enjoy them. 3-D films are motion pictures that enhance the illusion of depth perception. This is done in two ways. In the first way, traditional red/blue or red/green 3-D glasses feed different images into your eyes to make the movie come to life. The screen displays 2 messages and the glasses cause 1 image to enter 1 eye and the other image to enter the other eye. These glasses are now mainly used for television and were used in older movies, such as the first 3-D film The Power of Love" in 1922. Some more technologically advanced places, such as Disney World, Universal Studios, and other 3-D venues use the second form, polarized lenses. These lenses allow color viewing. Two synchronized projectors project two images onto the screen, with each image having a different polarization. The glasses allow only one of the images into each eye because of the difference in polarization. There are also more complicated systems. One TV displays alternating images one after the other and special LCD glasses block one eye and then the other quickly. This allows you to see in normal colors but requires special equipment so not everyone is able to use it.  

The two main production companies that produced 3-D films as they started to become popular in the 1950s were Warner Brothers and Universal Pictures. Some of these films include House of Wax, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, Murders in the Rue Morgue, and It Came From Outter Space. There was an attempt to re-popularize 3-D movies in the 1980s but the real success began in the 1990s when IMAX theatres began to arise. 3-D movies started to regain their popularity, as they started mainly at amusement parks, then slowly began to appear as their own venues showing 3-D movies to the public. The first feature film show in an IMAX 3-D theatre was the Polar Express, a classic children's Christmas story made into a motion picture. Some other popular 3-D movies are Chicken Little, Beowulf, Meet the Robinsons, Monster House, Monsters V. Aliens, Bolt, Ice Age 3D, Up, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, Toy Story, and Avatar. Almost all of the 3-D movies released in the past 10 years have done well at the box office, with as much as 40% of the films total earnings coming from 3-D movie sales. Many people feel that 3-D movies are so successful because the images are bright, stable, and perfectly synchronized so there are less eye strains and headaches than in the past. Also, studios are picky with which films will be made in 3-D, only producing a quality film that is likely to do well at the box office. I think 3-D movies are going to continue to grow, expand and do well because there is a high demand and a high profit in return. Because both film makers and consumers are benefitting from 3-D movies I think they will continue to thrive.

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