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Still from It Came from Outer Space
Poster for It Came from Outer Space

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Released in 3D · 1953

It Came from Outer Space

1953 · 80 minutes

It Came from Outer Space (1953) was shot in stereo.

You can watch it in 3D now: Apple TV carries it, and the 3D version plays on an Apple Vision Pro.

Exists in
  • Digital purchase
  • Blu-ray 3D unnamed edition
Provenance
Native
Editions held
2

Available in 3D

It Came from Outer Space: cover of the Digital purchase, UK store edition

Digital purchase, UK store

United Kingdom storefront
Encode not recorded

In print£5.99 at Apple, may have changed
Watch on Apple TV, UK store

Apple publishes no 3D flag, so this row says the film is sold here, not that the 3D version is.

A Blu-ray 3D of this film exists. Which pressing it is — the label, the barcode, whether it is still made — has not been catalogued here yet, so there is no edition above to send you to.

Earliest recorded disc release . The source names the film by title alone, so this row is matched rather than confirmed.

Source 5

How the 3D was made

Provenance
Native Shot in stereo, converted afterwards, or a mix of the two. Source 6
Conversion house
Not yet recorded The company that did the conversion, where there was one. No source
Stereographer
Not yet recorded The person who set the depth. Rarely credited, rarely recorded. No source

What is on the record

FieldValueSource
Aspect ratio1.37:1 Source 1
Available in 3D on Apple TV, US storeYes checked Source 2
On the Apple TV store in the UKYes checked Source 3
Camera systemUniversal 3-D Source 1
Capture technologyDual 35 mm Source 1
Earliest disc release4 October 2016 unverified Source 4
A Blu-ray 3D existsYes unverified Source 5, Source 4
Production countryUnited States Source 1
ProvenanceNative Source 6, Source 5, Source 7, Source 1
Released in 3DYes Source 1

The film itself

6.3TMDB user score255 votes
PGBBFC certificateThe British certificate
80MinutesMinutes

Fantastic sights leap out at you!

Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...

The description and tagline above are TMDB's own text, reproduced under their terms rather than rewritten.Source 8

Cast

Crew

Director
Jack Arnold
Screenplay
Harry Essex
Story
Ray Bradbury
Cinematographer
Clifford Stine
Composer
Henry Mancini, Herman Stein, Irving Gertz
Producer
William Alland

Catalogued as TMDB 19483 and IMDb tt0045920. Read on .

Beside this one

Also reaching 3D screens in 1953:

3D films of the 1950s · Shot in stereo · Streaming

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) checked
  2. Apple TV, the 3D Movies room (US) checked
  3. Apple iTunes lookup, GB store checked
  4. JH wiki MediaWiki API checked
  5. The Illustrated 3D Movie List checked
  6. RealOrFake3D checked
  7. Vision Pro 3D list, community maintained checked
  8. TMDB checked