![]() ![]() This one is only worth a look for its historical significance, if you’re curious. Historically innovative use of 3D filming.The film is notable for sparking the first 3-D film craze in the motion picture industry, as well as for being the first feature-length 3-D film in color and the first 3-D sound feature in English. Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments: adventure film based on the true story of the Tsavo maneaters and filmed with the Natural Vision 3-D system. … to the “location” shooting in the Santa Monica mountains (supplemented by more authentic 2D footage Oboler caught in 1948).īosley Crowther got it right in his original review for the New York Times, in which he describes the film as having “little or no stimulation of a pictorial or dramatic sort.” To be honest, I was much more intrigued to read about the real-life story this movie was based on - the Tsavo man-eating lions - than watching the film itself. Television was seen as the culprit and Hollywood was looking for a way to lure audiences back. Sources conflict as to who was responsible for the development of the Natural Vision 3-D format. BWANA DEVIL 1952 / GORILLA AT LARGE 1954 3D ANAGLYPH DOUBLE FEATURE DVD-R Sale 13.99 11.99 By 1951 film attendance had fallen dramatically from 90 million in 1948 to 46 million. Unfortunately, everything else about the film is notably undistinguished - from its so-so acting: Bwana Devil was the first feature to use the 3-D process. ![]() Bwana starred Robert Stack and Barbara Britton and was based on the book, The Lions of Gulu, a story of big-game hunters tasked with defeating man-eating lions in Africa. This 3D adventure film by director Arch Oboler is notable for being the first feature-length film shot in color 3D, and for being the enormously popular movie watched by audience members in the classic photograph we’ve all seen for Time Magazine. Bwana Devil, with Robert Stack playing Bob Hayward, was sourced from the same historical events as The Ghost and the Darkness in 1996, with Val Kilmer as John Henry Patterson, and 2007’s Prey, with Peter Weller as Tom Newman. The resulting film, Bwana Devil, was the first feature-length 3-D color film and is considered a pioneer in the 3-D film market. Were your movie poster source for new releases and vintage movie. In late 19th century British East Africa, a man (Robert Stack) in charge of a railroad building project stymied by the presence of two man-eating lions becomes obsessed with hunting them down - and the situation turns even more perilous when his wife (Barbara Britton) appears for an unexpected visit. Buy Bwana Devil movie posters from Movie Poster Shop. “What’s all this nonsense about a man-eating lion?” ![]()
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