Film Forum takes audiences back to the 3-D craze of 1953-54 (Courtesy Photofest)
Film Forum
209 West Houston St.
August 13-26
212-727-8110
www.filmforum.org
The current 3-D fad, which includes several films that were not actually filmed in 3-D but transferred later, has nothing on the original craze, begun back in the ’50s. Film Forum is taking people back to that time with Classic 3-D, comprising fifteen films and two shorts, all from 1953-54, shown over the course of two weeks, beginning August 13. The films will be screened using the original double-system projection with Polaroid filters and lenses to capture real 3-D. The series begins Friday with Edmond O’Brien in the noir thriller MAN IN THE DARK, preceded by the Three Stooges in PARDON MY BACKFIRE, and also includes such films as the classic musical KISS ME KATE with Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson, the Raoul Walsh Western GUN FURY with Donna Reed and Rock Hudson, the André de Toth shoot-’em-up THE STRANGER WORE A GUN with Randolph Scott, Ernest Borgnine, and Lee Marvin, the superb Alfred Hitchcock mystery DIAL M FOR MURDER with Ray Milland and Grace Kelly, and the most famous 3-D film of them all, de Toth’s unforgettable HOUSE OF WAX, starring Vincent Price, Charles (Bronson) Buchinsky, and Carolyn Jones. Film Forum will be providing what they’re calling “super-cool 3-D glasses” for this super-cool festival.