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Leitner's Cinematography Corner, No. 5

Stereoscopy, or 3D imaging, has been around as long as photography, at least since1840, when the English inventor Sir Charles Wheatstone, who first explained binocular vision, fashioned his original stereoscope for displaying photos in stereo pairs. Stereoscopes were widely popular, even common, throughout the second half of the 19th century, as evidenced by their easy availability at flea markets today. I have two wooden models from that era on my bookshelf. By comparison, theatrical 3D movies enjoyed only two brief spikes of popularity, first in the early 1950s (Creature ...

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