Yea, that's right! Was there writing on the screen or some signal to put them on?? If you wanted to see the ghosts you had to wear the glasses. Of course if you found it too scary you simply had to remove the glasses. Those glasses were made out of a cheap cardboard and didn't last long. Damn, sounds so ancient doesn't it?
TIS
My folks took me to see "Bwana Devil," the first 3D movie, at the Loew's Pitkin in Brooklyn in '53. The Pitkin was the high-end movie palace in our neighborhood (Brownsville), and so you got 3D glasses with plastic frames. The "nabes" gave you glasses with cardboard frames. "Bwana Devil" was preceded by a trailer featuring an opthalmologist who assured the audience that viewing the movie in 3D wouldn't harm eyes.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
Those glasses were made out of a cheap cardboard and didn't last long. Damn, sounds so ancient doesn't it?