{"id":17131,"date":"2017-12-10T12:05:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T17:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=17131"},"modified":"2017-12-10T12:05:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T17:05:46","slug":"3d-live-on-the-battlefield-and-dotting-the-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=17131","title":{"rendered":"3D! Live on the Battlefield, and Dotting the Eye!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Creepy POV moment in Man in the Dark (1953) that also features one of the earliest examples of deliberate jump cuts. Eat that, Godard.<\/p><\/div>\n

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When I moved last year, I’d carefully packed Twilight Time’s Man in the Dark<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(1953) disc purposely to reassess its 3D version once I figured out how to set up the system for red-blue playback, but it got lost in the shuffle, and finally emerged in the fall of 2017 in a lone box of discs packed in a closet. That’s organization!<\/p>\n

Well, more like the inevitable chaos that comes with moving.<\/p>\n

I’ve updated the review to reflect the 3D version (which is quite fun, especially the rollercoaster chase with star Edmond O’Brien), and paired it with another fine restoration by the 3-D Film Archive: a rare docu-drama called Cease Fire!<\/strong><\/a> featuring real soldiers playing themselves, re-enacting a hill capture near battlefields during the end of the Korean War, shot in 3D, with live ammo.<\/p>\n

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Bullshit Alert: These women are NOT in the film whatsoever, especially the Jane Wyman clone.<\/p><\/div>\n

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It’s a daring \/ crazy concept, but you can understand why director Owen Crump though it might work – he’d directed the Oscar-nominated documentary short One Who Came Back<\/strong> (1951) which had a vet playing himself as he’s whisked off the battlefield and sent to a M*A*S*H unit for surgery and packed up for a trip home.<\/p>\n

The Blu-ray from KL Studio Classics \/ Unobstructed View features flat and 3D versions and some rudimentary extras, plus one special feature that’s listed but isn’t on the disc<\/em>. I’ve reviewed the film, plus Crump’s 1951 short which at present floats around on TCM and YouTube.<\/p>\n

Coming next:<\/em> GLOW, Season 1<\/strong>, and some some comments on a serious continuity gaffe that’s only visible to the naked eyes of veteran news shooters, and collectors of vintage ENG camera gear (like me).<\/p>\n

And coming soon:<\/em>\u00a0Doc Martin: Season 8<\/strong>, offering more misadventures with Captain Crankypants and his flustered family.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
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Two 1953 3D flicks on Blu: Cease Fire! from KL Studio Classics \/ Unobstructed View + Man in the Dark from Twilight Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,5453,4516,2562,2563,2631,5454,5452],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ceasefire_bts_featured.gif","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-4sj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17131"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17154,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131\/revisions\/17154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}