ABSTRACT
The 3D cinematography knowledge is an elusive and treacherous concept, the real thing being experience. We will then examine why the deployment of sound and color technologies offers very good analogies, helping us to cope with the current 3D evolution. Cinematography was actually affected to the point that many consider cinema as having a silent age before it entered talking's reign. There’s a popular belief that a 3D movie is just a movie shot with two cameras. 3D movie productions are sometimes initiated by crews who ran a couple of camera tests and feel confident they understand the basics. The Stereographers’ Paradoxes are an unfortunate confluence of events that prevents most existing 3D knowledge and experience from reaching the places where they are the most needed in the Hollywood system. The usual consequence of paradoxes is that studios prefer to invest money in their research and professional development departments, rather than in hiring external knowledge.
