3D is a Nazi invention

[Frank Glencairn]

LOL! Roger Ebert - not exactly a big fan of 3D - pointed me to this, and of course the first shot was bratwurst.

The Australian film-maker Philippe Mora says he has discovered two 30-minute 3D films shot by propagandists for the Third Reich in 1936, a full 16 years before the format first became briefly popular in the US.

The first of the films, titled So Real You Can Touch It, features shots of sizzling stereoscopic bratwursts on a barbecue while the second, named Six Girls Roll Into Weekend, features actors Mora believes were probably stars from Germany's top wartime studio, Universum Film.

"The quality of the films is fantastic," Mora told Variety.com. "The Nazis were obsessed with recording everything and every single image was controlled – it was all part of how they gained control of the country and its people."

Does this mean the death of modern 3D? now whenever anyone goes on about how wonderful Green Hornet 3D was I can say '3D? The Nazis were big fans. You're not a Nazi are you? No? Then you can't like 3D.

Whole article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/...lms-discovered



Frank

[Graeme Nattress]

The truth or falsity of a statement or idea is not dependent upon the moral characteristics of who said it.

Graeme

[Stephen Matthews]

The truth or falsity of a statement or idea is not dependent upon the moral characteristics of who said it.

Graeme

Now that is a wonderful statement sir.

[Thor Melsted]

The truth or falsity of a statement or idea is not dependent upon the moral characteristics of who said it.

Graeme

+11

[Tim Hole]

In the same idiotic way that people frowned if you declared yourself a Wagner fan, or interested in Nietzsche's writings...we can add 3D to the mix. Ha!! I might have to have fun with that one.

On a serious note though...very interesting. I'd love to see them.

[Bruce Allen]

I like Wagner and 3D and read Nietzsche... uh oh.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[Thor Melsted]

The first person to compare whatever or whomever they don't like to Nazis or to Hitler, automatically loses the argument and all future credibility on any related subject.


Frankly, I'm pretty tired of Ebert's rants on the subject...

[Graeme Nattress]

Godwin's Law has been invoked.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

Graeme

[Robert Frank]

I say please pull the plug on this one!

Godwin's Law has been invoked....

I'm all for challenging outdated concepts and having thought provoking discussion but I agree with Eric and Graeme. Based on Godwin's Law this thread ended at the first post.

[Jason Goodman]

This is a stupid inflammatory statement and simply incorrect. The film "The Power Of Love" is widely regarded as the first 3D motion picture and was screened in Los Angeles in 1922 about one year prior to Adolph Hitler's attempted coup of local authorities in Munich. The failure that famously landed him in jail where he wrote Mein Kampf.

The Nazi's had nothing to do with the invention of 3D or 3D motion pictures, they simply utilized the technology.

If this thread is intended as a joke, the joker should be reminded that many people who read this list had grandparents and relatives tortured and murdered by Nazis, so from some people's perspectives, it is not very funny.