Bwana bob definition8/22/2023 His books include The 151 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, The Great Movie Comedians, The Disney Films, The Art of the Cinematographer, Movie Comedy Teams, The Great American Broadcast, and Leonard Maltin’s Movie Encyclopedia. He teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and appears regularly on Reelz Channel and Turner Classic Movies. He is best known for his widely-used reference work Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide and its companion volume Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide, now in its third edition, as well as his thirty-year run on television’s Entertainment Tonight. Leonard Maltin is one of the world’s most respected film critics and historians. As the Criterion Collection showed us last year, director Elia Kazan and cinematographer Boris Kaufman prepared three separate versions of On the Waterfront in 1954-in 1:33, 1:66, and 1:85-to cover themselves! Bob Furmanek’s article draws heavily on movie trade articles and ads from the period. It’s easy to understand why studios shot two separate versions of early Scope films like The Robe and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers-one in widescreen, and one “flat,” to accommodate theaters that hadn’t yet invested in new lenses and screens. I can’t imagine how studios, filmmakers, or theater owners made crucial and costly decisions during that year of constant change. ![]() These historic 3-D films have never looked this good before.” Bob is not one to exaggerate, and I look forward to seeing this collection on Blu-ray.īy the way, Bob has recently posted a comprehensive and fascinating article on his website about the first year of widescreen movies, 1953-the same year as the 3-D boom. Richard Carlson in a scene from “The Maze.”Īll of these shorts have been mastered in high definition, and Furmanek reports, “All films in the 3-D Rarities release have been restored from original left/right 35mm elements and meticulously aligned shot by shot for precise registration. ![]() …a promotional film for the Pennsylvania Railroad called Thrills for You, first shown at San Francisco’s Golden Gate International Exposition in 1940… the original trailer for William Cameron Menzies’ black & white feature The Maze, starring Richard Carlson…a color stop-motion animated short called The Adventures of Sam Space…and more. The 3-D Rarities disc has much more to offer: the 1952 prologue to Arch Oboler’s Bwana Devil featuring Bob Clampett’s popular TV puppets Beany and Cecil… the earliest surviving 3-D demonstration film from 1922, Kelly’s Plasticon Pictures: Thru the Trees, Washington, D.C. I love Lance Bird and Tom Johnson’s documentary The World of Tomorrow, which includes wonderful home-movie footage of the Fair, and David Gelertner’s evocative novel The Lost World of the Fair.) (Incidentally, If I could step into a time machine, that’s where I’d want to go. As a bonus, the disc will include 3-D color images taken at the Fair. New Dimensions has been mastered from a pair of 35mm Technicolor prints (one for the right eye, one for the left). No print is known to have survived, but Chrysler presented a follow-up for the Fair’s 1940 season called New Dimensions (later released theatrically as Motor Rhythm)…and it’s going to make its home video debut this fall.īob Furmanek, of the 3-D Film Archive has produced a collection called 3-D Rarities which Flicker Alley will be releasing on Blu-ray this fall, and it promises to be exciting for 3-D aficionados and newcomers alike.įurmanek has been busy restoring films for this Blu-ray from original elements wherever possible. A short subject called In Tune With Tomorrow was shown every day in dual-system 35mm. That’s where Polarized 3-D made its public debut at the Chrysler Pavilion. Inventors experimented with 3-D in the earliest days of motion pictures, but experts agree that the medium came of age at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.
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