October 1935 issue of Everyday Science and Mechanics magazine : "What is the next step? Obviously, the three-dimensional or stereoscopic motion picture. All films thrown on the screen today are flat; they do not stand out as does, for instance, a stereoscopic picture. The characters move in but two dimensions, whereas they should move in three. In order to heighten the illusion of the motion picture, the characters must seem to stand from the screen. It is true, stereoscopic motion pictures have already been produced many times, but not satisfactorily, because you require a special set of eyeglasses to view them, and this is a bad stumbling block. No audience will stand for this indefinitely. Science, no doubt, will solve this problem so that, with the bare and unaided eye, you will see three-dimensional motion pictures. I am certain that the problem will be solved satisfactorily during the next ten years. After that, what? It should be noted that, after all, motion pictures are only an illusion. While you view the screen you know all the time that you are not looking at living characters; but, the closer the art comes to this and the more perfect the illusion, the greater will be the acclaim by the public. What further illusion can we have from motion pictures? We can now hear them, as well as see them in colors. It is too much to hope to feel them but, anyway, the three-dimensional movie will not make this necessary. Obvious- ly, we cannot hope to taste them. One other sense is left open, and that is scent. And here the technicians during the next twenty years will no doubt evolve marvels. This would be done by "scent organs" from which pipes a r e carried through the auditorium; then, by forced draft, the various scents could be wafted over the house to the delight of the audience. Some years ago, in a New York theatre, a musical comedy had an elaborate scene of an orange grove."
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