Tech History Made on April 8, 1953

On this day in 1953 that first major Hollywood studio debuted a 3 D movie. Smaller outfits had been producing 3 D movies for decades. The film shown for the first time today was Man in the Dark. The audience wore glasses with multi colored lenses that played with depth perception of the viewer. Despite the neat glasses the movie was not that good. The grand roller coaster scene was not very exciting and 3 D or not the plot fell short. It did however kick off the 3 D movie era.