{"id":2542,"date":"2010-12-23T14:57:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T12:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaws-3d.com\/blog\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2010-12-23T16:35:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T14:35:21","slug":"lenny-lipton-rend-hommage-a-chris-condon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaws-3d.com\/blog\/?p=2542","title":{"rendered":"Lenny Lipton rend hommage \u00e0 Chris Condon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Quoi de plus normal qu’ une l\u00e9gende de la 3D rende hommage au pionnier du cin\u00e9ma st\u00e9r\u00e9oscopique? Lenny Lipton<\/strong> fait partie des poids lourds de la discipline. De StereoGraphics<\/strong> \u00e0 Oculus3D<\/strong> en passant par Real D Cinema<\/strong>, c’ est pas moins de 30 ans pass\u00e9s au service du proc\u00e9d\u00e9. A l’ occasion du d\u00e9c\u00e8s de Chris Condon<\/strong> survenu le dimanche 19 d\u00e9cembre, Lenny Lipton<\/strong> a accept\u00e9 de se livrer aux lecteurs de www.jaws-3d.com<\/a> :
\n\u00ab\u00a0Chris was his own worst enemy — if ever that expression had any meaning it applies to Chris<\/em>.<\/p>\n

From the moment I met him he revealed things about himself that were imprudent but endearing. I had a business relationship that lasted for several years and was frustrating and not financially profitable. But I learned a lot. In that time he made me part of his family and taught me a lot about the business of stereoscopic displays.<\/em><\/p>\n

He never stopped trying. as of a few months ago, when he was walking with difficulty and he attempted to sell me an inventory of 400 stereoscopic lenses that he had manufactured in a deal for India. He built these on his own nickel without getting an advance payment and then got stuck. The disaster, which is typical Chris, occurred in the wake of a riot in a theater in India that was using one of his projection lenses. The movie was so terrible that the patrons not only demanded their money back they tore the theater apart<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That scotched his ability to sell more lenses to India and stuck him with a giant inventory that for 30 years he attempted to unload. I remember sitting in Encino in front of a coffee shop on a sunny day telling Chris that I was not going to buy his 400 lenses<\/em>.<\/p>\n

My last memories of him are of him in the hospital and the convalescent home. He was at the point where you think things like: why keep somebody alive when they have already entered the twilight zone?He was a friend, he is gone, many people will miss him. And I am one of them<\/em>\u00ab\u00a0.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Lenny Lipton<\/strong> avait collabor\u00e9 avec Chris Condon<\/strong> sur l’ excellent Dogs of Hell<\/strong>\/Rottweiler<\/strong> (Rottweiler: les chiens de l’ enfer<\/em> en France) r\u00e9alis\u00e9 en 1982 par Worth Keeter<\/strong>. Profitons justement de l’ occasion pour vous\u00a0livrer une anecdote\u00a0de Lipton<\/strong> plut\u00f4t sympathique\u00a0concernant le lien entre ce film et notre\u00a0Jaws 3D<\/strong>: \u00a0\u00bb (…) A year later I sat in a screening room in the shadow the Black Tower at Universal Studios, watching a print of Rottweiler with the head of Universal<\/em> Optical, Pete Comendini, and the man who was going to be the director of Jaws 3D, Joe Alves. I was peddling my<\/em> services and Condon\u2019s lenses for use on the new production, which promised to be the biggest budget stereoscopic film in years. Pete and Joe sat in the row directly behind me and as the film unfolded they began to speak over the dialogue. I turned around and saw Joe removing his<\/em> cardboard 3D glasses: \u201cThe 3D is great. This is the best I\u2019ve seen. Easy on the eyes and the effects are great. Much better than anything else that has come through the door. You would be amazed what crap people have shown us. But the picture itself, it is shit,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d Pete offered, \u201cThis is a terrible picture. I don\u2019t think we can show it to the guys in the Black Tower.\u201d The Black Tower is the office building on the edge of the Universal lot. They felt that given the poor quality of the picture, they could not screen it for the executives who would make the final decision about who would get the job of doing the 3D on the film.<\/em><\/p>\n

Another year later I sat in a mammoth theater in the outskirts of Detroit wearing cardboard 3D glasses watching Jaws 3D. This film was just as crappy as Rottweiler but the 3-D was a disgrace. My feeling was that I was sitting through one of the worst movies ever made with technical mistakes so serious that it was only with an effort of will that I was able to continue to look at the screen\u00a0\u00bb.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>N’ h\u00e9sitez pas \u00e0 visiter le site<\/a> de Lenny Lipton<\/strong> pour en savoir davantage sur son travail. Encore merci pour son intervention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quoi de plus normal qu’ une l\u00e9gende de la 3D rende hommage au pionnier du cin\u00e9ma st\u00e9r\u00e9oscopique? Lenny Lipton fait partie des poids lourds de la discipline. De StereoGraphics \u00e0 Oculus3D en passant par Real D Cinema, c’ est pas moins de 30 ans pass\u00e9s au service du proc\u00e9d\u00e9. A l’ occasion du d\u00e9c\u00e8s de […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2onKy-F0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaws-3d.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaws-3d.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaws-3d.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaws-3d.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaws-3d.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaws-3d.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2925,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaws-3d.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaws-3d.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaws-3d.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaws-3d.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}