ABSTRACT
Edison’s predictions, as they often did, overshot the mark only slightly. “Stereoscopic photography” in the form of what eventually came to be known as 3-D cinema was indeed applied to motion pictures, but not until the 1950s, and primarily as a short-lived gimmick designed by film producers to attract audiences they feared were being lost to the burgeoning medium of television. Color cinematography, on the other hand, had been in existence since 1908, when Charles Urban, an American working in England, patented a process called Kinemacolor, and it would become widespread after the 1917 founding, in the United States, of the Technicolor Corporation.
