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.
3D #1! Dan Symmes jokes with director Alan Silliphant on the 3D set of THE STEWARDESSES (8/1970).
Manning the 65mm 3D camera on location in Arizona for INTERNATIONAL STEWARDESSES (sequal to THE STEWARDESSES - 4/1972). View with
RED lens over
RIGHT eye!
Dan conceived of and wrote many of the articles in this best-selling special issue (4/1974). View with
RED lens over
LEFT eye!
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).
Shooting POV shots from a go-cart on THE WILD RIDE (8/1976). View with
RED lens over
RIGHT eye!
Writer, director, cameraman, set designer, 3D camera designer Dan doing a "mad lab" scene for EXPERIMENTS IN LOVE (3/1977).
Shooting in Disneyland for the Viewmaster company testing their unique "cyclops" 3D camera. Special efx wizard Joe Viskocil shot 16mm (12/1978).
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)

"From L.O" being Laurence Olivier playing MacArthur in INCHON, shot in Korea (not 3D) (8/1979).
Who ARE these masked men?
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).
With Alan Williams setting up a 3D gag shot for TIGERMAN (12/1981).
Behind the scenes shooting MORK & MINDY (stars Robin Williams & Pam Dawber in background) (3/1982).
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).
Dan co-authors the definitive "coffee table" 3D book (and best selling in history!) (7/1982).
Preparing to shoot a stunt shot at Moab, Utah, for SPACEHUNTER (10/1982).
Dan does it again with another special 3D issue (7/1983).
EYE ON LA host Chuck Henry does a 3D gag for the 3D camera on Waikiki Beach (4/1987).
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). View with
RED lens over
RIGHT eye!
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).

"It's right!"

"It's left!"

Dan and Jerry Hill in Indonesia shooting 12 half hour sitcoms in SpatialVision 3D (5/1995).

Jerry Hill shooting SpatialVision 3D in Caracus, Venezuela (11/1996).
The D3 MKI dual camera rig on Peter Starr's (background, white t-shirt) unique motorcycle camera platform ("Starrbike3") (6/1997).
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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