AFTER TECHNICOLOUR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1940, Page 9

AFTER TECHNICOLOUR

WHAT NEXT? I With black-and-white pictures conj ceded to be on the way out, Hollywood . is already asking itself: "After techni- , coolur, what?” It's an accepted fact . that television will be along almost any day now. But in between that and . technicolour, predicts director Louis King, wil come third-dimensional pic- ' tures. It’s no secret that third-dimen-sional film has already been developed. The film itself is considerably wider than the ordinary strips of celi lulpid used today; it takes a larger camera and a larger screen. And it definitely gives the illusion w depth. Under the name of “Grandeur” it was tried out, in fact, several seasons ago, in such pictures as “Song o’ my Heart” and “The Big Trail.” And the public didn’t go for it. But then it didn’t go lor technicolour at first, either. Since then, third-dimensional film has been considerably improved. And King expects it to make as successful a comeback as technicolour. In a few years he thinks, third-dimensional technicolour pictures will be so common that the ordinary two-dimensional black-and-white pictures of today will seem as quaint as silent films.