[Stereoscopy News]

Carl Hernz, chief stereographer at Carmichael3D (Florida, USA) made a strage discovery while digging old film stock looking for movies to convert in 2D: he discovered that “Phantom of the Opera” was shot with two side-by-side cameras, but NOT to produce a 3D film. The setup was done to produce two original copies of all takes. As one set of copies was used for local distribution and the other for international distribution, the fact that both films were “sligthly different” never bothered anybody.  …

Carl Hernz said : “We had to even ‘invent’ a manner of matching film rate in some instances to make the stereo sequences match. Add to this that the stereo pairs are sometimes reversed, with one reel that generally consists of the left view to suddenly change to offering the right view and then back (even after right after a title card) and vice versa”. …

See the full story here: http://stereoscopynews.com/hotnews/history/prehistory/1964-qphantom-of-the-operaq-was-shot-in-3d-by-accident.html

See the original source story here: http://www.carmichael3d.com/1/post/2011/10/silent-phantom-classic-originally-filmed-in-3d.html