Our film tour takes place at many unique and cool venues across the country. Our priority on the tour is to host film showings at venues that have a festival style atmosphere such as Boulder Theatre and House of Blues in Boston. The premieres are the kick-off of winter, and we want to host them in festive atmospheres and intricate venues. The problem is that most of these venues are not 3D enabled. The majority of 3D theatres are in megaplexes in malls and other stale locations. The RealD projection systems are not very portable at this time, and they are very expensive. We will not be able to take one on the road with us to all tour stops. Therefore, there will be a number of film stops that are shown only in 2D. There will also be select shows that are shown in anaglyph 3D. Anaglyph is the older style red/blue 3D (think paper glasses). There will be a handful of shows that will be shown in RealD theatres as well. This is the new style that people are seeing now when they go to the theater (think Avatar 3D).

Check our tour page to see if your show will be presented on 3D. The site will get updated frequently, so check back often.

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Types of 3D

Anaglyph

Anaglyph refers to the earliest used method of 3D and is recognized widely by audiences as the red-and-blue form. To create an anaglyph image, one perspective is tinted red and the other cyan. The images are then superimposed on top of each other, with the red and cyan ghosting around the edges of the subjects. When the viewer wears anaglyph glasses, the eye with the red lens sees the red areas as white and the cyan areas as black—vice versa for the other eye. Put together by brain, the black and white are interpreted as distance behind or in front of the subjects, creating depth. Although time tested and relatively easy to do, anaglyph 3D falls short because of its lack of color fidelity, image ghosting and eye strain.

Polarized

Rather than using red and blue as the filters for viewing, polarizing light emissions is a much better way of presenting 3D. A polarizing lens is placed in front of the projection where two images are superimposed on each other. The viewer wears low-cost glasses with a pair of polarized filters oriented differently. Each filter only allows light that is similarly polarized and blocks the light polarized differently, making each eye see a different image and creating the 3D effect. This process has been popularized by RealD, the brand that has dominated theatrical 3D display technologies.