I seem to remember the beeb doing a 3D week around 1992/1993. I only remember it because they did a 3D Doctor Who episode. It was crap if i remember. I distinctly remember Noel Edmonds introducing it though with Jon Pertwee.
I seem to remember the beeb doing a 3D week around 1992/1993. I only remember it because they did a 3D Doctor Who episode. It was crap if i remember. I distinctly remember Noel Edmonds introducing it though with Jon Pertwee.
was it not the year before they did the smell-o-vision with the scratchcards?
I seem to remember the beeb doing a 3D week around 1992/1993. I only remember it because they did a 3D Doctor Who episode. It was crap if i remember. I distinctly remember Noel Edmonds introducing it though with Jon Pertwee.
It was during Children in Need week, well over two days with some material on the CiN night and the rest on Noel's House Party.
That was a Children In Need gimmick wasn't it? The 3D thing never worked for me and those scratch 'n' sniff cards got right up my nose, I could smell the bloody thing for 2 weeks afterwards!
The Doctor Who special was 1993, Smellovision 1995.
The latter's just that little too early for me, though I remember catching most of the Smellovision programmes and being annoyed that I missed Blue Peter.
Am I imagining it, but wasn't the 3D Doctor in Albert Square? I remember seeing the market and the Vic looking newly painted red.
That used an odd 3D technique of using one shaded viewing lens, and required the camera to circle the foreground object.
Because of the dark filter in the right lens, your eye received the light momentarily after the left eye saw it. Your brain then sees two (moving) background images and puts it together to create "depth".
With all this brain intervention, this technique only needed a single camera, but wasn't pleasant to watch because of the constant movement.
I prefer the 2-camera + polarising filters technique.
Does anyone know if this is the type they are using?
I still have the CiN Smell-o-vision booklet somewhere (cost £1 from Sainsburys and the Post Office I think). From memory, I remember you could smell Mr Blobby, Blue Peter and Jim Davidson's Generation Game.
Am I imagining it, but wasn't the 3D Doctor in Albert Square? I remember seeing the market and the Vic looking newly painted red.
You're not imagining it. It was the world's first and only Doctor Who/Eastenders crossover - although I think the only Easty regular they had was Big Ron.
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That used an odd 3D technique of using one shaded viewing lens, and required the camera to circle the foreground object.
Because of the dark filter in the right lens, your eye received the light momentarily after the left eye saw it.
Sorry to be a pedant, but your eyes receive the light at the same time (light moves very very very fast and a dark filter won't slow it down significantly). Instead, the brain processes the brighter image more quickly, so the view from the other eye seems to be delayed, causing a difference in perspective (as long as the camera is moving around the object, or the object is rotating). You can get the same effect by squinting one eye.
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With all this brain intervention, this technique only needed a single camera, but wasn't pleasant to watch because of the constant movement.
The vistas of balloons over the alps (was it
the
balloon, back in '93?) and such were quite nice, but it's unworkable for much else. There always seemed to be a lot of fences and pot plants in front of the characters to add to the 3D depth!
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I prefer the 2-camera + polarising filters technique.
Does anyone know if this is the type they are using?
That only works when projected onto a screen through polarising filters, and TVs don't put out polarised light, much less two frames at the same time at different polarisations. I assume it will either be red/green (anaglyphic), which will ruin it for people without glasses, or the dark filter thing above, which will look normal without the glasses and will keep the Jimmy Jib and Steadicam operators busy.
Damn you Tomorrow's World, you told us we'd have holographic tellies by now!
I can't remember the name of the programme, but ITV once had an equivalent of Tomorrow's World. Yes, I know that sounds far fetched for kids these days, but its true.
They did 3D in about 1983 with the red/green glasses being distributed in the TV Times (Magazine).
1982 actually, and the programme was TVS' The Real World, presented by Michael Rodd. The programme about 3D on Monday night was followed by a 3D film on Sunday afternoon (a Western IIRC - who chose it?!)
- although I think the only Easty regular they had was Big Ron.
