Are 3D Movies Finally Here to Stay?

TheProvince.com reports that despite popularity with audiences, technology still has its critics:

“Will the cinema of the future be stereoscopic?” These words were spoken by the great Soviet director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein in 1948 (enthusing after a 3D Russian Robinson Crusoe).

But today we’re prompted to ask his question again by the re-release in modern 3D of Alfred Hitchcock’s hugely enjoyable Dial M for Murder. This theatrical not-quite-perfect-murder story, starring Grace Kelly and Ray Milland, was originally made 60 years ago in 3D, but released in 1954 only in 2D, because the short-lived craze for 3D of the early ’50s – a way of competing with television – had already subsided. “It’s a nine-day wonder,” said Hitchcock. “And I came in on the ninth day.” In fact, the illusion of 3D in one form or another has been around since Sir Charles Wheatstone’s invention of the first stereoscopic device in 1838.

Is it, this time, here to stay? The big studios and exhibitors certainly seem to hope so. The immersive afterwash of James Cameron’s success with Avatar, coinciding with the arrival of digital projection and a wave of new technologies such as 3D television, can feel like an irresistible push into this not-so-new dimension.

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