HISTORY OF 3D TV

3D TV History

Belive it or not, but 3D TV is not as far-fetched that many may have had you to believe! Since the birth of the photographic and movie technology 3D images has also been developed. In fact 3D images in photographs and films was quite popular until the Second World War. The decline for 3D after the WWII lasted untill... NOW!

Development of the 3D Image

The development of the 3D image is an ancient idea. It was the Greek Euklides (about 300 BC) that discovered the binocular eye-sight and Leonardo da Vinci teorized over the process of pictures in 3 dimensions.David Brewster introduced the Stereoscope in 1844, a device that could rake photographic pictures in 3D. The stereoscope was then enhanced by Louis Jules Duboscq and a famous picture of the British Queen Victoria was displayed at the Great World Fair of 1851. Until the Second World War it was quite common for middle-class family to have a stereoscopic (3D) camera at home. All kind of pictures were taken, included naked ones. The war however washed away the playful 3D cameras and intriduced a new time era of photographic realism, the black and white 'war journal' inspired pictures.

 

History of 3D Movies

The 3D movie development was parallell to the development of 3D pictures and images. Already in 1855 the Kinematoscope was invented, that is the Stereo Animation Camera. The first anaglyic movie was produced in 1915 and in 1922 the first public 3D movie was displayed - Power of Love! In 1935 the first 3D color movie was produced. When TV became popular in America in the 50's the cinemas answer was 3D Movies! The first movie was the Bwana Devil from United Artists that could be seen all across the US in 1952. The year after, in 1953, came the 3D movie House of Wax which also featured 2D sound. Alfred Hitchcock originally made his film Dial M for Murder in 3D but for the purpose of maximizing profits the movie was released in 2D. This was of course due to the fact that not all cinemas was 3D capable. Sovjet also jumed the bandwagon and made the first full-length movie in 1947 - Robinson Cruseo.

3D Movies and the public

Although 3D movies was very popular with the public, they where disliked by the critics in the popular press. Just the same critics that dislikes your favourite movie and give five stars to some Albanian movie you have never heard of... There opinion was the only opinion heard, and the 3D movie expansion was halted in the early 70's. But now internet is here and everone can make up their own mind!