In any event, the picture is not important. ![]() Bwana Devil is 85 minutes of railroad building and lion hunting. Slowly Paced, but with enough action to offset the generally insipid acting of Robert Stack. The best effects come in the middle distance, although close ups of immobile faces are not bad. But equally poor are long distance shots, backgrounds seem that and artificial. The only sensation that the audience feels is one of eyestrain. The image becomes blurred and Miss Britton develops another head. These are gimmicks, and poor ones, since the third dimension does not seem to work near the camera. Lions leap, spears hurtle, feet kick, and Miss Britton pushes her puckered lips right at the camera. One of the big third dimensional traps into which author, producer, and director Arch Oboler blundered is the temptation to "throw" things at the audience. ![]() Experimentation should correct these defects just as it made sound natural. This means that the audience, in many cases, feels further away from the action than usual, thus defeating the purpose of three dimensions. Also, figures in a scene with depth, appear smaller than those in normal pictures. For instance, important syncronation of the dual mages makes moving figures Shimmer, as though viewed through a layer of slightly agitated water. Since this is a new press, flaws are obvious and excusable. For "Normal Vision," the viewer must observe the picture through Polaroid glasses, and the screen is about stand and size. "Normal Vision" should not be confused with the process of Cinema. ![]() A train slowly putting its way from the back ground toward the camera, a group of men climbing an embankment on top of which sits the camera, a lion moving toward the camera through a field of tall grass these scenes utilize three dimension in a way to make it more than another fad, but until the industry can control this new technique, Bwana Devil will be mercy the first in a cervices of audience sensations. In some instances, however, this technique is quite effective. The individual figures seem to have depth as does the seem, but all figures are isolated in stages. Anyone who has looked into a stereopticon viewer knows that the effect of viewing a flat film from a different angle with each eye produces a false sense of overly pronounced depth. Sacrificing reality for illusory depth, this process, known whimsically as "Natural Vision," seems too real. Not that the picture is a fraud, it has the same three dimensional effect as does a steriopticon viewer.īut this celluloid third dimension is not the one we normally see. Despite advertising posters showing a lion leaping from a screen, and Barbara Britton extending entreating arms to passers-by, the action in Bwana Devil, the first full length three dimensional motion picture, stays safely within the screen.
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