"It's right!"
"It's left!"
Dan and Jerry Hill in Indonesia shooting 12 half hour sitcoms in SpatialVision 3D (5/1995).
The following shots are from some of Daniel Symmes' many 3D film and video projects over the past 30 years!
| In 1966 while in high school, Dan Symmes wrote and created the first "fanzine" about his passion. This is the front and back cover. |
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| 3D #1! Dan Symmes jokes with director Alan Silliphant on the 3D set of THE STEWARDESSES (8/1970). |
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| Manning the 65mm 3D camera on location in Arizona for INTERNATIONAL STEWARDESSES (sequal to THE STEWARDESSES - 4/1972). |
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| Dan conceived of and wrote many of the articles in this best-selling special issue (4/1974). |
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Behind a Mitchel BNC with the SpaceVision 3D lens, shooting in Korea on A*P*E. The girl with the slate is the AD, Mimi Leader, now a very successful director (2/1976). |
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| Shooting POV shots from a go-cart on THE WILD RIDE (8/1976). |
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| Writer, director, cameraman, set designer, 3D camera designer Dan doing a "mad lab" scene for EXPERIMENTS IN LOVE (3/1977). |
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| Shooting in Disneyland for the Viewmaster company testing their unique "cyclops" 3D camera. Special efx wizard Joe Viskocil shot 16mm (12/1978). |
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| 3D history - the first use of Steadicam for 3D. A Steadicam model one fitted with the world's first reflex 3D system for conventional film cameras, the DIMENSION 3 (5/1978) |
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| "From L.O" being Laurence Olivier playing MacArthur in INCHON, shot in Korea (not 3D) (8/1979). | |
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| Who ARE these masked men? |
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| First press viewing of 3D TV by 3D Video for SelecTV. L-R, SelecTV programming director William Mechanic (more recently head of 20th Century Fox production), James Butterfield, Dan Symmes (11/12/1980). |
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| With Alan Williams setting up a 3D gag shot for TIGERMAN (12/1981). |
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| Behind the scenes shooting MORK & MINDY (stars Robin Williams & Pam Dawber in background) (3/1982). |
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| Shooting JAWS 3-D test with D3's single lens system at Sea World Florida. Producer Alan Landsburg (blue), director Joe Alves (directing) (4/1982). |
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| Dan co-authors the definitive "coffee table" 3D book (and best selling in history!) (7/1982). |
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| Preparing to shoot a stunt shot at Moab, Utah, for SPACEHUNTER (10/1982). |
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| Dan does it again with another special 3D issue (7/1983). |
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EYE ON LA host Chuck Henry does a 3D gag for the 3D camera on Waikiki Beach (4/1987). |
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| Dan (extreme FG) finally meets HOUSE OF WAX star Vincent Price (BG), while Dan's friend and director of WAX, Andre de Toth, looks on (4/6/1990). |
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| Michael Wayne at the world 3D TV premire party of his father's only 3D film, HONDO (note the John Wayne 3D glasses) (6/26/1991). |
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"It's right!" "It's left!" Dan and Jerry Hill in Indonesia shooting 12 half hour sitcoms in SpatialVision 3D (5/1995). |
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| Jerry Hill shooting SpatialVision 3D in Caracus, Venezuela (11/1996). |
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| The D3 MKI dual camera rig on Peter Starr's (background, white t-shirt) unique motorcycle camera platform ("Starrbike3") (6/1997). |
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| Charlton Heston had been in B&W, Technicolor, VistaVision but NOT 3D until he worked with The Wizard on an Eli Lilly 3D film (4/1998). |
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