bwana devil
1952 – Bwana Devil, a low-budget polarized 3-D film, premieres in late November and starts a brief 3-D craze that begins in earnest in 1953 and fades away during 1954.
POLARIZED 3D FILM
1952 - POLARIZED 3D FILM: A polarized 3D system uses polarization glasses to create the illusion of three-dimensional images by restricting the light that reaches each eye. The viewer wears low-cost cardboard eyeglasses which have a pair of different polarizing filters, in which each eye sees a different image. The film has 2 images that are projected superimposed onto the same screen through different polarizing filters, causing a 3 dimensional effect.
slr camera
In April of 1959, Nikon introduced it’s first SLR camera, one of the most advanced cameras of its day, the Nikon F camera. Unlike most 35mm camera systems the Nikon F had a wide range of lenses, covering 21 mm to 1000 mm focal length by 1962.
Kodak introduces the Instamatic
1963 - Instamatic by Kodak was a series of inexpensive, easy-to-load 126 and 110 cameras. The Instamatic was immensely successful (more than 50 million Instamatic cameras were produced between 1963 and 1970). The easy-load film cartridge made the cameras very inexpensive to produce, as it provided the film backing plate and exposure counter itself and thus saved considerable design complexity and manufacturing cost for the cameras. A wide variety of print and slide film was sold by Kodak in the 126 format.