A great find — Actor Ed Payson sits in Jack Kevan’s makeup
chair at MGM, halfway through his transformation into the Frankenstein Monster
for the Pete Smith comedy short, Third Dimensional Murder (aka Murder in 3-D, 1941).
It’s wonderful how, years on, images like this are still
surfacing, this one making the Facebook rounds recently in connection with the World 3-D Movie Expo III coming September 6-15 to
the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood.
The 10-day festival is a 60th anniversary tribute to the Golden Age of 3-D, the era of House of Wax, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and It Came from Outer Space. The program will include Third Dimensional Murder, screened as part of a 3-D Rarities collection.
The 10-day festival is a 60th anniversary tribute to the Golden Age of 3-D, the era of House of Wax, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and It Came from Outer Space. The program will include Third Dimensional Murder, screened as part of a 3-D Rarities collection.
4 comments:
INCREDIBLY cool find, Pierre. (Though I'd call the foundation piece here more a large appliance, than a full-head mask.)
Thanks!
-Craig
Thanks for pointing me toward that 3D film festival! I know what I'm doing in September!
He looks kind of like Kryten in "red Dwarf."
Coincientally, "Third Dimensional Murder" was shown on Turner Classic Movies this week, at the end of a WWII movie aired (in 3-D!) just before the "Essentials" showing of BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. The makeup looks better in the long- and medium-distance shots used in the film than it does in closeup photos. Thanks for this rare photo of the makeup session - I wasn't aware of the original post and would have missed it!
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