Word: anaglyph
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...patent for a 3-D movie process. In 1915 Edwin S. Porter, whose The Great Train Robbery had stoked the first great movie sensation a dozen years before, presented a series of 3-D documentary shorts to a New York City audience, who viewed the short documentaries through anaglyph (red-green) glasses. In the 1920s, many 3-D shorts appeared on programs at theaters such as New York's Roxy. MGM presented three 3-D talkie shorts from 1936 to 1941, the last one in Technicolor. The Polaroid filters created by Edwin Land were used for a short shown...
...movie theaters that have been equipped with a device that fits over a digital movie projector, converting its image to 3-D. Moviegoers will get disposable Polaroid glasses that look like sunglasses, making the 3-D effect far more engaging than it was with the old-fashioned red-cyan anaglyph cardboard glasses of the 1950s and '60s. That said, the Super Bowl commercial (as well as Monday night's episode of the NBC sitcom Chuck) is designed for TV broadcast and requires a setup that's similar to anaglyph - a newer, higher-quality version called ColorCode. "It doesn't bleed...
...Katzenberg said that more than 120 million pairs will be on store shelves in time for Super Bowl XLIII. You'll be able to use the glasses to watch a 3-D commercial at halftime, as well as an episode of the NBC comedy Chuck on Feb. 1. (The anaglyph glasses look like the old red/green 3-D movie glasses of yore but are much improved; 3-D movies use an even better technology, with hard-plastic polarized lenses that theaters will hand...
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