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Author Topic: Bringing 3D on 70mm solution Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-10-2009 08:56 AM                     4D definition It's from Wikipedia, so it's got to be true!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-10-2009 12:36 PM                     Someone else MUST own the name "Ride Film" then... has alot more meaning!  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-10-2009 02:45 PM                     Y'Know, when I want to watch a movie, I want to watch a MOVIE without being shaken around. I want to concentrate on the characters, the plot or the visuals without somebody else (or some machine) telling me what I'm supposed to feel like. It's not to say that I don't like motion rides but, when I want to see something like that I'll buy a ticket for the "Back to the Future" ride or something like that. (BTTF closed in 2007. Didn't it?) It just seems to me that movies are being marketed by what 3-D and "4-D" crap they can figure out how to build. Weren't they putting buzzers under seats back in the 1950's? Or was that just an urban legend? They just need to concentrate on making good movies. The rest of that crap will sort itself out by itself.  |  IP: Logged Martin Brooks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 900 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 08-28-2009 07:36 PM                        quote: Randy Stankey It just seems to me that movies are being marketed by what 3-D and "4-D" crap they can figure out how to build. Weren't they putting buzzers under seats back in the 1950's? Or was that just an urban legend? They did for the movie "The Tingler" with Vincent Price. Only certain seats were wired. I went to my local RKO in the Bronx and was really pissed to find out they weren't setup for the effect. I made my father take me to a theatre on Broadway in NYC (can't remember which one), but even there only some seats were wired. I stuck my head under the seats to find one. It was just a little vibrator buzz, but it worked really well. It made me smile, but there were people in the audience who screamed like hell. After they screamed, everyone in the audience would laugh. This was part of the plotline - as I remember it, The Tingler was this lobster looking thing that was attached to your spine, but dormant until you were scared, or something to that effect. I think fear caused it to "get loose" and if you couldn't scream, it would kill you. So near the end of the move, a Tingler gets loose and then they set off the buzzers. I don't know if this was cued into the film or done manually by the projectionist according to a script. Most of the late 50s, early 60s horror movies weren't the least bit scary, even to a kid. But this one did scare me just a little (I was 10 or 11 at the time.) The only other film I can think of that creeped me out a bit was Mario Bava's "Black Sunday". That was one of the only satisfying horror films I saw as a kid. The Tingler was produced by William Castle who always had some gimmicks associated with his films. For "13 Ghosts", they gave you a red/blue viewer. If you wanted to see the ghosts you looked through the red and if you didn't, you looked through the blue (the screen was tinted blue for those scenes.) The movie Matinee (1993) with John Goodman was very loosely based on William Castle.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-28-2009 08:29 PM                        Same with HOUSE ON HAUNTED hill, another Castle low budget, B&W horror with Price. It too had a gimick -- a skeleton about 8ft tall was rigged at the proscenium at the top and to the right of the screen. During the movie, it was hidden by a black velour curtain. In the movie, when Vincent Price pushes someone into a vat of acid or something and the decomposed corps emerges as mostly a skeleton, the curtain would part revealing this thing on a cable which would be pulled on the cable across the orchestra and up toward the projection booth, all the while Price was pulling the ropes that were supposedly attached to the skeleton as it emerged from the vat of acid (and its little hiding place on the side of the screen). Hence the gimick they hyped as "Emergo." Another William Castle first. I saw it with half the kids on my block at the RKO Keiths in Flushing NY -- a 2000 seat stunning movie place (sporting a 3 story water fountain in the grand lobby). We went to the first show on Saturday morning and once we saw the Emergo thing dangling over our heads, we stayed for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th show just so we could use it as target practice for popcorn boxes made into airplanes and spit balls. So determined were we to hurl whatever we could at this Emergo skeleton that we actually chewing napkins non-stop to make a cache HUGE spitballs -- ammo for the next time it emergo-ed. It was awesome fun. We got thrown out half way thru the 4th show. Good times can't last forever.  |  IP: Logged

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