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Still from The Mad Magician
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Released in 3D · 1954

The Mad Magician

1954 · 72 minutes

The Mad Magician (1954) was shot in stereo.

The only way to watch it in 3D is the Blu-ray 3D, and that is out of print.

Exists in
  • Blu-ray 3D
Provenance
Native
Editions held
2

Available in 3D

Every edition the catalogue holds for this film

3D Blu-ray

United Kingdom
No disc region · MVC
Disc count not recorded · PHIBD109
Barcode 5060697922134
Released 25 April 2020

Not established
Where this disc is listed

3D Blu-ray

United States
No disc region · MVC
Disc count not recorded · TWILIGHT-259BR
Barcode 811956021649
Released 17 January 2017

Not established
Where this disc is listed

How the 3D was made

The thinnest part of the record

How a film reached the screen in stereo is the part of this record that matters most, and it is the part that is thinnest. What is missing keeps its row rather than being dropped, so you can see where the record stops.

Provenance
Native Shot in stereo, converted afterwards, or a mix of the two.
Source 1
Conversion house
Not yet recorded The company that did the conversion, where there was one.
No source
Stereographer
Not yet recorded The person who set the depth. Rarely credited, rarely recorded.
No source

What is on the record

Every row carries its source and the date it was checked
FieldValueSource
Aspect ratio1.85:1 Source 2
Camera systemColumbia 3-D Source 2
Capture technologyDual 35 mm Source 2
Earliest disc release17 January 2017 unverified Source 3
A Blu-ray 3D existsYes unverified Source 4
A Blu-ray 3D existsYes unverified Source 5
A Blu-ray 3D existsYes unverified Source 1
A Blu-ray 3D existsYes unverified Source 3
Production countryUnited States Source 2
ProvenanceNative Source 1
ProvenanceNative Source 2
Released in 3DYes Source 2

The catalogue will not store a fact without the address it came from, so every line above can be checked against the page it was taken from.

The film itself

From TMDB, and not a 3D record
6.9TMDB user score50 votes
—CertificateNeither board recorded on TMDB
72MinutesAs catalogued

3D THRILL! Fuel for the human bonfire!

Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.

The description and tagline above are TMDB's own text, reproduced under their terms rather than rewritten.Source 6

Cast

Crew

Director
John Brahm
Screenplay
Crane Wilbur
Story
Crane Wilbur
Cinematographer
Bert Glennon
Composer
Arthur Lange, Emil Newman
Producer
Bryan Foy

Catalogued as TMDB 28363 and IMDb tt0047200. Read on .

Sources

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  1. The Illustrated 3D Movie List checked
  2. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) checked
  3. JH wiki MediaWiki API checked
  4. dvdcompare.net checked
  5. bluray.highdefdigest.com checked
  6. TMDB checked