Industry News with a New Media Production Focus

There's a new 3D arts blog over at marketsaw.com featuring motion picture news on everything from a flawlessly rendered (not that we drooled... much) Beowulf to Tim Burton's '09 reanimation, Frankenweenie. (Burton is getting risky this month with a very glittery rendition of Sweeney Todd, which promises his twisted signature surreal touch via Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.)

Blogger Jim Dorey watches everything from new techniques in IMAX conversion to the latest software and production techniques for original filming in 3D. Included are the complete (and growing) scores of 3D enhanced theaters in the US and which films incite audiences to wear the polarized lenses.

According to 3DGear.com the first 3D motion picture presentation took place right here at the Astor Theater, New York, on June 10, 1915. The first 3D feature with stereophonic sound was Warner Brothers' House of Wax in '53.

Considering this technology was popularized in the fifties as a response by nervous theaters at the increasing dominance of television, it seems fitting that the new wave of streaming digital alternatives would encourage certain mythic genres to explore what can make the theater experience unique again.