Long before the multiplex, 3-D was a showman's gamble, and many of its treasures disappeared for decades. The 3-D Rarities series pulls them back into depth: a railroad's glossy sales pitch, a heavyweight championship bout, an atomic-test film yanked from release, a burlesque comedy unseen in 3-D for over sixty years, Casper drifting off the screen. The 3-D Film Archive rescued and realigned every one shot by shot; the result is cinema history leaping into the room.
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Daws Butler
Beany (archive footage)
Stan Freberg
Cecil (archive footage)
Richard Carlson
(archive footage)
Macdonald Carey
(archive footage)
Joanne Dru
(archive footage)
John Ireland
(archive footage)
Trustin Howard
Slick Slavin (archive footage)
Paul Frees
(archive footage)
Corky Marshall
(archive footage)
George 'Beetlepuss' Lewis
(archive footage)
Charlie Crafts
(archive footage)
Dorothy Burke
(archive footage)
Rita Hayworth
Miss Sadie Thompson (archive footage)
José Ferrer
Alfred Davidson (archive footage)
Aldo Ray
Sgt. Phil O'Hara (archive footage)
Cecil Roy
Casper (archive footage)
Jackson Beck
King Luna/Moon People (archive footage)
Jack Mercer
Moon People (archive footage)
Allen Swift
Lookout (archive footage)
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Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New York City; New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film originally shown at the World’s Fair in 1940; Thrills for You, a promotional film for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Stardust in Your Eyes, a hilarious standup routine by Slick Slavin; trailer for The Maze, with fantastic production design by William Cameron Menzies; Doom Town, a controversial anti-atomic testing film mysteriously pulled from release; puppet cartoon The Adventures of Sam Space, presented in widescreen; I’ll Sell My Shirt, a burlesque comedy unseen in 3-D for over 60 years; Boo Moon, an excellent example of color stereoscopic animation…and more!
