Here is what to pay attention to, 3-D-wise, in this scene.
Last year when the Film Forum screened Dial M For Murder in real, original two-reel 3-D, all four screenings sold out fast. So here's your heads up that they're bringing it back this month, from June 17th to 23rd, and tickets are still available here. The 1953 Alfred Hitchcock classic, starring Grace Kelly and Ray Milland, was shot with M.L. Gunzberg's Natural Vision 3-D camera rig, which is said to have begun the 3-D craze (which is now suffering backlash?).
The Film Forum is "equipped with a silver screen, 3-D filters, and two synchronized 35mm film (not digital like today’s 3-D movies) projectors... [it's] the only NYC cinema able to screen vintage double-system 3-D films made during the first big 3-D cycle of the early 50s."
If you have some 3-D glasses around, you can check out some of it on YouTube (below). Though it won't be like seeing the film on the big screen, where it's said that "3-D is most effectively used in the murder sequence, which takes on new and greater significance as the viewer is placed in the midst of the struggle: a voyeuristic accomplice to murder as only Hitchcock could have planned."
[Thanks Kurt Loder!]
