HOLOGRAPHIC CINEMA 1970s - continuing

Emergence of 'MULTIPLEX', 'HOLOGRAPHIC STEREOGRAMS', 'HOLOGRAPHIC ANIMATION & MOVIES'

EXPANDED CINEMA by GENE YOUNGNLOOD (1970) describes the ambitions

Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood 1970     click enlarge page 2 contents Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood 1970     click to enlarge Holographic Cinema - Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood 1970     click enlarge page 409 Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood showing primitive holographic movie viewer 1970

Download EXPANDED CINEMA by Gene Youngblood, 1970 (PDF)

Early Multiplex motion-picture holograms - holographic stereograms

The 'Multiplex hologram, the 'holographic stereogram' (or 'integral') combines 2D cinematography showing horizontal parallax and motion with 'holographic printing' (using Lloyd Cross' invented 'printers' - Mark I to Mark V - as improved on by Sharon McCormack and Cross lenses) at the San Francisco Multiplex Company (see multiplex technology). This remarkable development in holography had a world-wide impact and even appeared in motion pictures. Viewers could 'walk around' a movie playing in 360 degrees with an image appearing to float in a cylinder. It suggested 'holographic TV' or 'holographic movies' and were exhibited in the 1970's and continuing through the 1990's, 2000's.

(Multiplex works pictured here are on display at the Visual Alchemy Studio on Saturna Island, BC, Canada, by appointment.
These works are part of the Sharon McCormack Collection & Archives which are administered by Al Razutis.)

Multiplex Stereograms by Sharon McCormack presentation device - display units - 2D photo by Al Razutis

Video clips of holographic movies - multiplex stereograms - Visual Alchemy 3D videos on YouTube XAR3D channel:

Historical pages as reference:

Sharon McCormack Collection & Archives of multiplex, embossed, and display art holography and San Francisco School of Holography

'Sharon McCormack Collection & Archives home page' - illustrated with links - multiplex technology

Mark III Multiplex Printer Diagra and photos - link to Multiplex page technology - Sharon McCormack Collection of lab notes and archives

'The Story of Multiplex' & School of Holography by Lloyd Cross (.PDF)


Multiplex Holographic Movies in the 1980's by Sharon McCormack

    click/enlarge to PDF Holosphere 1984 article on Sharon McCormack Time Man multiplex hologram           click/enlarge - Los Angeles Herald Examiner 1984 story on Sharon McCormack holography on Peoples of Los Angeles

SPIE 1986 Paper by McCormack: "Special Effects Techniques for Integral Holograms"

click/enlarge - Time Man stills - links to SPIE paper - Sharon McCormack


Moving Multiplexed Portraits

Holographic portraiture was enhanced by using limited motion-pictures - like these two classics:

click/enlarge - 'The Kiss 2' and 'Self Portrait of Sharon' multiplex holograms in the archives and collection

" The attempt to instill limited movement into a portrait is to give it 'more life' - a thing that 'does not move' is considered to be 'dead'.   'Something has to move' to make claim to 'life'.

The motion-picture 'integral' (or 'holographic stereogram' or multiplex' as it was called), when 'printed' onto metal, plastics, or any substrate that will allow the resolution to be maintained, became "3D holographic display" distributed in all forms of advertising and display. Some, like Sharon McCormack did both 'commercial' and 'art' as these limited motion-picture portraits of famous sports figures and entertainers spectacularly adorned commercial products and displays. " - Al Razutis

click/enlarge - sports figures - Michael Jordan on cover of Sports Illustrated, baseball cared, and Prince CD cover multiplex holograms embossed on on foil in the archives and collection

'A different form of multiplex motion-picture holography'

Laser transmission holographic movie animation 1974 @ Visual Alchemy

MIMETIC GLASS - Holographic Film Animation - 1974 by Al Razutis - on exhibit at 2010 Deja Vu exhibition Vancouver, Canada

MIMETIC GLASS - 1974 - Installation view at 'Deja Vu Exhibition' 2010
Laser transmission film animation hologram
12" x 73" Film Strip with individual frames
MIMETIC GLASS - holo camera housing used in creation of animation holograms - photo at Visual Alchemy 1974 by Al Razutis       parabolic projection screens - plexiglas - used for holographic projection tests at Visual Alchemy 1975 by Al Razutis

Cylinder hologram gate housing used in the creation of 'Mimetic Glass' at Visual Alchemy 1974 designed by Al Razutis as prototype for holographic motion-picture masters. 2nd photo: Parabolic plexiglas mirror shapes/mirrors in 1975 for tests of holographic movie projections ('in space') at Visual Alchemy by Al Razutis.

'MIMETIC GLASS' hologram (1974) - over 6 ft. in length - was discovered in 2010 in storage. This film animation hologram by Al Razutis 1974 made by careful advance of frame by frame animation may be the 'first motion picture hologram' made in Canada. This is true holographic stop-motion animation recorded as sequential strips of laser transmission holograms, not a 'rainbow' multiplex from 2D film. Verification or contesting claims are encouraged. TECHNIQUE EMPLOYED: Spatial multi-plexing of laser transmission hologram for each step in the motion of solid subject.

Exhibited in October 2010 at the Deja Vu Exhibition of Holographic Art and Stereoscopic 3D, Vancouver, Canada.

Collection of Al Razutis. This work is located in Saturna Island, Canada.

For purchase of this work contact alrazutis@ymail.com

CONTINUING

HOLOGRAPHIC MOTION-PICTURE PROJECTION - PRESENTED IN CHINA 2014 BY AL RAZUTIS

'Proof of concept' and then politics changed...

Holographic motion-picture projection China 2014 by Al Razutis

For 2015-2013 works by Al Razutis in motion-picture holographic cinema visit the stereoscopic 3D page
Holographics Motion-Picture Prototypes

For 2014-2018 holographic works by Al Razutis in motion-picture holographic cinema and for 3D video documents of multiplex holograms at the Sharon McCormack Collection and Archives visit the stereoscopic 3D page
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