Were the first 3-D films Nazi propaganda films?
Kathryn Hadley reports on the recent discovery of two 3-D Nazi propaganda films. Released in 1936, they were decades ahead of the boom in 3-D films in the American film industry.
Ben Child reported in today’s Guardian the discovery of two black and white 30-minute Nazi 3-D propaganda films. It is believed that the two films entitled So Real You Can Touch It and Six Girls Roll Into Weekend were produced by propagandists for the Third Reich in 1936, sixteen years before 3-D became popular and commercialised in the United States. They were discovered in Berlin’s Federal Archives by the Australian filmmaker Philippe Mora, who was researching his new documentary, How the Third Reich was Recorded, which explores the way the Third Reich used films as propaganda.
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