3D Coast enterprise
PA Westport Westport may be small and off the beaten track, but it rates top marks for enterprise. On Monday the first 3D TV programme will be screened and to see the 3D effects you need 3D glasses, which in Westport are sold at Cassette House. But an enterprising youngster had a good look
at one of these glasses and thought he could make them from a piece of cardboard and red and blue cellophane. He sold them through City Voltz for $1.40. Cassette House is selling them for $1.99 —20 c of which goes to Cassette House and the rest to TVNZ. TVNZ heard about it and through an Auckland attorney stopped City
Voltz selling the imitation glasses. The vice-president of Miramax 3D Project, Jim Flynn, who is in New Zealand organising the Monday night show, said it was an ambitious exercise but the proper glasses were not just red and blue cellophane. The lenses were made of mylar plastic, which gave maximum 3D effect, he said.
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Press, 22 January 1988, Page 2
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