The History of 3D
The History of 3D exhibition showcases the evolutionary story of 3D, depicting history and collectibles from the last decades.
Terms such as stereoscopy, holography, or PHS colography are clarified with the help of the exhibits on display.
Additionally, the head of the Film Museum Munich will give a lecture on „The History of 3D“ - underlined by exemplary 3D clips from the last century.
The probably only German dual tape stereo film camera of the 1950s
In the summer of 1952 Dr. Willi Pfaff promised his friend Eugen Stocke, co-owner of the W. Goebelschen porcelain factory, to produce a stereoscopic cultural film with the factory's own Hummel figures as protagonists. One of the many problems he faced was finding an adequate stereo film camera. With a lot of luck he was able to acquire two 35mm Arri film cameras from the department of the High Commissar for Germany. After than he instructed his camera man Heino König to have both cameras built together to a dual tape stereo film camera by Josef Papst in his Munich camera workshop. And that is the story of the very likely only German stereo film camera of the 1950s. It will be shown without lenses, for these were only lent at the time.
The stereofilm made with this camera was called 'Hummbelkinder', conceived by Willi Pfaff and put into action by the talented Stuttgartian puppeteer Albrecht Roser. It met a - one might say 'tragic' - fate. By the time it was completed the 1950s stereofilm was a tide going out: the 3D cultural film was only shown in 2D in the supporting programme of other movies and stopped running after only a few years.
Stereo Club Nellingen
The Stereo Club is an unconstrained get-together of 3D friends, that have been organising periodical meetings over the last twenty years. For BEYOND they've put together historical recording and projecting devices, 3D clips from around the world, as well as the complete Viewmaster system, educational books and 3D illustrated books from their private collection. Rallied devices and handicraft works of the amateur sector are just as much a part of the exhibition as are precious insights into the analog and digital world of 3D photographs and videos. In addition one will have the one-of-a-kind possibility to experience 3D computer processing and 3D polarisation projections and the chance to talk to the longtime 3D-infected members of the Stereo Club Nellingen.