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Still from The Polar Express
Poster for The Polar Express

Poster via TMDB

Released in 3D · 2004

The Polar Express

2004 · 100 minutes

The Polar Express (2004) was shot in stereo.

You can watch it in 3D now: Apple TV carries it.

Exists in
  • Blu-ray 3D
  • 3D DVD
  • Digital purchase
Provenance
Native
Editions held
5

Available in 3D

Every edition the catalogue holds for this film
Cover of the 3D Blu-ray edition

3D Blu-ray

United Kingdom
No disc region · MVC
Disc count not recorded · No catalogue number
Barcode 5051892034128

Listed second-hand£5 at CeX,
Where this disc is listed
Cover of the 3D Blu-ray edition

3D Blu-ray

United Kingdom
No disc region · MVC
Disc count not recorded · No catalogue number
Barcode 5051892112215

Listed second-hand£5 at CeX,
Where this disc is listed
Cover of the 3D DVD edition

3D DVD

United Kingdom
No disc region · Anaglyph
Disc count not recorded · No catalogue number
Barcode 5051892010238

Listed second-hand£3 at CeX,
Where this disc is listed
Cover of the Digital purchase, UK store edition

Digital purchase, UK store

United Kingdom storefront
Encode not recorded

In print£7.99 at Apple, may have changed
Watch on Apple TV, UK store

Apple publishes no 3D flag, so this row says the film is sold here, not that the 3D version is.

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.
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
Also pressed in anaglyphYes unverified 2
Aspect ratio2.00:1 3
Available in 3D on Apple TV, US storeYes checked 4
On the Apple TV store in the UKYes checked 5
Capture technologyDual 70 mm 3
Earliest disc release16 November 2010 unverified 2
A Blu-ray 3D existsYes 6
A Blu-ray 3D existsYes 7
A Blu-ray 3D existsYes 8
A Blu-ray 3D existsYes unverified 9
A Blu-ray 3D existsYes unverified 2
Production countryUnited States 3
ProvenanceNative 1
ProvenanceNative 3
Released in 3DYes 3
Shown in imax 3dYes unverified 9

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
6.7TMDB user score6,983 votes
UBBFC certificateThe British certificate
100MinutesAs catalogued

A journey like you’ve never imagined.

When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.

The description and tagline above are TMDB's own text, reproduced under their terms rather than rewritten.10

Cast

Crew

Director
Robert Zemeckis
Screenplay
Robert Zemeckis, William Broyles Jr.
Cinematographer
Don Burgess, Robert Presley
Composer
Alan Silvestri
Producer
Gary Goetzman, Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey, William Teitler

Catalogued as TMDB 5255 and IMDb tt0338348. Read on .

Sources

Every fact above carries a number. Nothing is stored in this catalogue without the address it came from, and the date it was last checked is part of the record rather than a footnote to it.

  1. RealOrFake3D checked
  2. JH wiki MediaWiki API checked
  3. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) checked
  4. Apple TV (US iTunes store) checked
  5. Apple iTunes lookup, GB store checked
  6. CeX checked
  7. CeX checked
  8. CeX checked
  9. The Illustrated 3D Movie List checked
  10. TMDB checked