From Nerdstalgic.

Ever since the dawn of motion pictures, filmmakers have been thinking of new gimmicks and tricks to get audiences to go see movies. 3-D movies are far from the first gimmick audiences got tired of quickly. Though movies like James Cameron’s Avatar show signs that 3-D can work in cinema, most movies that utilize 3-D to tell stories don’t work quite as well. But how did 3-D become so popular, only to fade as quickly as it did?

#3d #movies #nerdstalgic

SOURCES:
https://www.life.com/arts-entertainment/3-d-movies-revisiting-a-classic-life-photo-of-a-rapt-film-audience/
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/aug/20/3d-film-history
https://www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-ideas/50s-third-dimension/
https://gizmodo.com/from-shock-chairs-to-smell-o-vision-the-movie-gimmicks-978832591