TV Moves in on 3-D — Camera Sends Two Pix, Eye Sees One (Sep, 1953)
TV Moves in on 3-D — Camera Sends Two Pix, Eye Sees One
TV has invaded 3-D. On test programs, ABC has alternately telecast scenes as they would be seen with the left and the right eye. A rotating disk—half clear plastic, half mirrored—is set up before the camera (above left). A direct shot is taken through the clear plastic; then an image, bounced to the mirrored half by a second mirror three inches to one side, is photographed. Every 60th of a second, a picture appears on an alternate tube of a twin-tube receiver (above right) and is projected through its own polaroid filter onto a screen. A viewer with polaroid specs sees one picture with one eye at a time, but the brain holds the image and fuses it with the next one.
Any day now.
Some times it takes 60 years for an idea to take flight.
Even an exceptionally bad idea.
If it wasn’t for smell-o-vision this would have taken off in the 50s! I remember hearing about 3D television 20+ years ago or so and how the prototype was ready. At the end of some newscast they showed it on regular 2D TV, which cracked me up because I didn’t see the 3D effect. I remember it showed a dog running around a yard, short maybe 30 seconds of video.
I don’t remember if it caused nausea.
I think famed bus driver Ralph Kramden was the first person to say he would never buy a television until they made them in 3D. I have a 3D television and it was worth waiting since I was a kid in the 1950s to get it. Too bad there isn’t more to watch.
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Wasn’t the guy on the right part of Biff’s gang in Back to the Future?