3-D movies still jump out of the screen
Source: CNN.com
Robert Stack recalls the audience reaction 50 years ago at the Hollywood premiere of a movie in which he starred: "People jumped up from their chairs and ran screaming out of the theater."
No, it wasn't a comment on Stack's acting. As he explains: "There was a long tracking shot of a train coming around a corner, then coming directly toward the camera. It looked as though it was going to run over everybody in the theater ... It scared the hell out of 'em."
Hollywood had entered the third dimension.
The film screening that night in late November 1952 was "Bwana Devil," a no-brain melodrama about rampaging lions preying on railroad builders. It might have been relegated to the lower half of double bills except that it was the first feature film ever shown in 3-D.
