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Man-eating lions which would jump off the screen at you
By Bob Rudy | July 25, 2007
Movie studio executives worried that the new medium, television, would steal away their audiences.
What was required was a hook to bring people back into the movie theatre.
As the strippers sang in “Gypsy,” you gotta have a gimmick.Even though 3-D movies had been
around as far back as 1922 and had lost favor, it was decided to try again. Arch Oboler’s “Bwana Devil” started the 3-D craze of the Fifties.
It premiered on Nov. 26, 1952 and starred Robert Stack, Barbara Britton and Nigel Bruce. (see poster below)
An African adventure film (A Lion in Your Lap, A Lady in Your Arms!) about man-eating lions which would jump off the screen at you, it made for pretty exciting watching when the process worked right. People were issued glasses which facilitated the 3-D effect.
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