House of Wax Premieres: Cinema Enters the 3-D Era
Warner Brothers unleashed the first feature-length 3-D film, *House of Wax*, sending audiences scrambling for red-blue glasses to experience a visceral horror spectacle. This premiere instantly transformed moviegoing into an immersive event, pushing theaters worldwide to install expensive stereoscopic projection equipment and sparking a brief but intense wave of imitators in the mid-1950s.
April 10, 1953
73 years ago
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