3-D?


I just watched this on TCM and it appeared as if the film was intended for a 3D release. There was a lot of unnecessary dimension to some of the scenes. Colorful ball decorations "floating" in front of the actors as they enter a room, etc.....I do not see it on any list of 3-D films and wondered if they scrapped the 3D version as the fad was fading in 1954.

Jerry, 42nd Street Memories

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RIDERS TO THE STARS wasn't filmed in 3-D. Oddly, Ivan Tors's next film, GOG, was shot in 3-D but had little release in that format as by then the fad was fading, as you say. (According to the GOG site, only one print of that film in 3-D exists, and it is in poor shape.)

Interestingly, although RIDERS was filmed in color, all TV prints up through the 70s were in black and white, probably because it was cheaper to do it that way and there wasn't much color on TV till the mid 60s. I remember how cool it was to finally see this in color, some 20 years after its theatrical release. I'd like to see both these Tors films paired on a Midnite Movies DVD someday. They're both fairly inaccurate and stodgy but weirdly likable.

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I just watched and recorded this from TCM. Seeing it as a child on TV in black and white, I too was excited to find it in color. Drove my wife nuts by repeating "it's in color!!!" about a dozen times during the broadcast.

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I remember this in BW too and wasn't sure I was watching the same movie tonight because of the color!

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Well, 16 months later, I'm watching this for the fiirst time and asked myself tthe exact same question after viewing the exact same scene!.. Strange

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That's funny, we must be watching the same broadcast...on TCM?

And I was wondering the same thing too. But I'd decided they were trying to get a little "artsy".

The movie itself isn't bad at all for 1954 sci-fi, even if it is dated, the rocket sounded like a whistling bomb dropping and the meteor looked like it had burned up in the atmosphere even though it was inside the vessel...






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