3-D: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	three-dimensional cinematography • stereoscopic cinematography

Photos and Videos

$Hear about experimental personalized 3-D screens that can correct refractive errors in a user's vision$

Listen to researchers speaking about imaging modalities at the Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging

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Topics

Natural Vision film stereoscopy cinematography Academy Award for best cinematography Cinerama time-lapse cinematography

Key People

Pitfall

André De Toth

Hungarian-born director

Edwin H. Land

Edwin Herbert Land

American inventor and physicist

Michael Todd

Michael Todd

American showman

Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, with her dog, Toto, from the motion picture film The Wizard of Oz (1939); directed by Mervyn LeRay. (cinema, movies)

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