I've been interested in stereographics and 3D since I use to get a kids magazine back in grade school during the 70s.  Ones that always had a 5x7 poster with the red and green drawn artwork  and supplied 3D glasses with the book.  Those were the days. 

Then when 3D made the brief revival with releases of HOUSE OF WAX  and CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, both had utilized the polaroid process, which at that time I never seen until then.  That's when I had been fixed with the anticipation of a new stereo 3D movie to hit the cinemas.

But the slumps took over the 3Dwave.  When the book, AMAZING 3D came out around Christmas of 1982, I had to bug my mother for a copy of that book for a present.  I loved that book the moment I saw it.  Then for the summer of 83 when news of JAWS 3D was coming out that season, that fueled my demands to experience the full impact of full color, polarized stereo 3D.  But then again, after that summer, 3D was gone again.

Then a few years ago, I got hold of an old copy of MODERN SCIENCE, that had a 5 page article on 3DTV.  It had the different processes that the television industry were trying out for a "public 3D"    display.  I was very interested with the possibilities of using polaroid filters in front of monitor screens  and trying to display the 2 images in a single television screen.  I'm not sure the inventor ever had any success with the process that was discussed, but that got my attention for home brewed 3D.

I've heard and read about the IMAX 3D process used for just the IMAX theaters only, and now hearing about your new REAL D system and the rival DOLBY 3D system for the CG animated features of BEAUWOLF and THE POLAR EXPRESS, I should mention a process that was once tried back during WWII.  I'm talking about VECTOGRAPHS.  This was one of the brainchilds of Dr. EDWIN LAND, founder of POLAROID.  I've read up on his invention on taking single-strip film and printing the LEFT and RIGHT images back to back with the polarized films sandwiched together into one strand of film. 

With REAL D, the film is printed with a LEFT EYE frame and a RIGHT EYE frame printed alternately, when projected it would shift on screen at a rapid pace.  Its with the special filter mechanism that gives the image its polarization.  Am I right in giving this explanation.

If, as a discussion, the distributor of stereo 3D or exhibitor of 3D has a quarel with a single strip process that entails the use of a special projection aparatus, or a complaining audience that tries to sit in a theater for 90 minutes  to watch a screen with RED/GREEN images and cardboard glasses giving the nose a general excerise, I'm suprised the experimentors and 3D enthusists of the world don't try a system that only entails the use of a single-strip, duel encoded polarized film for mass distribution.  It's only that simple. 

Vectograph motion pictures would probably take some of the burden off mass 3D distribution.  I mean, if optomatrists use the vectograph book for a patients eye testing, Vectograph motion pictures would probably be interesting for CG oriented audiences.  It's just my thoughts. 

Thank you, REAL D.

marc b.