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Author Topic: Friday the 13th 3-D in Anaglyph? Robert Furmanek Expert Film Handler Posts: 113 From: Clifton, NJ, USA Registered: Jun 2012 posted 04-24-2015 11:16 AM                     I've just come across a July 1982 article in Boxoffice which indicates Paramount would be striking red/green anaglyphic prints specifically for drive-in bookings. We know that hardtops played it in over/under polarized 3-D. Does anyone remember playing an anaglyph print at that time? If so, it was the only studio 3-D release to have had two versions in release. Anaglyphic 3-D was mainly confined to the porno titles. More info here: http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/silver-age-1966---1986 Thanks for any information!  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-24-2015 01:07 PM                        1982 was the year that Kodak transitioned from print stock and processing that went pink within a decade or so (5381 and process ECP-2) to low-fade stock and processing (5384 and ECP-2P). So, sadly, if any of these prints survive and are rediscovered, the red will still be there but the green might not!  |  IP: Logged Robert Furmanek Expert Film Handler Posts: 113 From: Clifton, NJ, USA Registered: Jun 2012 posted 04-24-2015 02:04 PM                     Oh, that's okay because Paramount has the left/right elements and I would never want to present it in anaglyph anyway. I'm just interested for the record. I'd like to add the info to our website but would like some confirmation from anyone that might have played it.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-24-2015 02:52 PM                     I know for a fact that Paramount offered "Scope" prints for drive ins. I do not know if they also offered Red/Green prints for them.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-24-2015 03:20 PM                        I remember "almost" booking this. Our booker told us they were going to get us a 2D print of it, but we decided not to play it because we didn't want to disappoint people who would be expecting the 3D.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Wood Expert Film Handler Posts: 206 From: Oxfordshire, United kingdom Registered: Jan 2008 posted 04-26-2015 08:06 AM                     I'm pretty sure I remember seeing it in the UK in red/green format , I remember the glasses with the F13th logo  |  IP: Logged Don Furr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 509 From: Sun City, Ca USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 04-26-2015 09:22 PM                     I've had both a 2D scope and a polarized print of this picture. I've never heard of or seen an anaglyph version on film.  |  IP: Logged Robert Furmanek Expert Film Handler Posts: 113 From: Clifton, NJ, USA Registered: Jun 2012 posted 04-27-2015 01:23 PM                     Here's the quote. It's from the July 1982 issue of Boxoffice, one month before the film opened. Quite a mystery!  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 04-27-2015 02:33 PM                     Be careful with trade reports published in advance of a film's release. Such articles describe intent, and I've found (the hard way) that too often plans end up changing before release. Historians should try to find physical evidence or a corroborating story published during release. Likewise, be wary of reports published years or decades after an event...and people's memories.  |  IP: Logged Robert Furmanek Expert Film Handler Posts: 113 From: Clifton, NJ, USA Registered: Jun 2012 posted 04-27-2015 03:18 PM                     Yes, indeed!  |  IP: Logged Don Furr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 509 From: Sun City, Ca USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 04-27-2015 04:24 PM                     Has anyone actually seen an anaglyph print? My 2D print was scope but NOT anaglyph. Maybe Paramount changed their minds and released all 2D scope prints to the Drive-In's.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-27-2015 04:34 PM                        I saw FRIDAY THE 13 -3D at the King Theatre in Honolulu in polarized 3D when it was released and the thing I remember the most of the presentation was how dark the picture was because unlike dual projection the new horror film was shown using a single projection "Over Under" system. The 3D effect was kind of cool especial during the opening credits when FRIDAY THE 13" came at you. - Claude  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 04-28-2015 02:02 AM                     How did drive-ins usually handle 3D in the past decades? I know most of the 80s 3D movies were only in 2D, remember seeing a newspaper ad for "Jaws 3D" with a footnote "Drive-ins are not in 3D". What about in the 1950s? Notice that the indoor theaters at least didn't do any separate 2D showings like they do now. They didn't charge extra for them either!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-28-2015 07:08 AM                     And they didn't do any fancy upgrades for them either! About all an indoor did in the '80s was swap out a white screen for a silver screen. Lamp sizes were not, generally increased so you typically got a dimmer picture (as Claude noted above). The glasses were the cheapo cardboard frame things and were supplied by the studio. 3D was treated like the novelty that it is.  |  IP: Logged Robert Furmanek Expert Film Handler Posts: 113 From: Clifton, NJ, USA Registered: Jun 2012 posted 04-28-2015 08:42 AM                     There were dual-35mm 3-D interlock shows at drive-ins in the 1950's. A wide variety of glasses were available in the 1982/83 period. If you were given cheap cardboard glasses, it was the theater cutting corners.  |  IP: Logged

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