Disney's Upcoming 3-D Films & How Walt Disney Once Joined the 1950's 3-D Craze

Thanks to 3D processes in movies being vastly improved recently, the world won't have to bring a container of Excedrin (or Dramamine) when Disney starts showing their upcoming animated blockbusters in 3D over the next few years. The new 3D glasses designed are quite a bit different from the old anaglyph glasses of yore that had polarization linearly instead of circular as they are now. The circular lenses helps the brain process the action on the screen easier via a polarized frame inserted in every other frame of the movie. It's a very simple and ingenious technological process (with an official name of "Real D Cinema") that allows 3D images to settle easier into a person's brain naturally rather than causing a sense of disorientation.

Yep, had the 3D craze done it this way back in the 1950's--the fad probably wouldn't have gone away...and then come back...and then go away again.

Well, Disney perfected this process with "Chicken Little" back in 1995 that helped kick off a new era in 3D to potentially take Disney back into innovative territory again. While the new roster of Disney animated films scheduled to be released through 2012 are innovative in their own animation techniques employed, having them in 3D still seems gimmicky outside of the visual improvements. It even seemed gimmicky at Disney back in the early 1950's when Walt Disney decided to employ 3D into some of his animated short subjects. And that seems odd in today's terms when we usually take just about everything Walt Disney did to be ahead of the herd. When he debuted his first animated short ("Melody") in 3D in May of 1953, the 3D craze was already more than a year old and on its way down.