1. William Friese Greene of UK was the first innovator to file a patent for a viewing device that combines 2 pictures in one, a forerunner of the 3D image in 1894.

2. The first demonstration of a 3D film was in 1915. At Astor Theater in New York City, USA an audience wore red and green glasses for viewing for the first time 3D footage in film reels depicting dancing girls and Niagara Falls. The film was produced by Edwin Porter and William Waddell and utilized the anaglyph 3D process.

3. The documentary film, Movies of the Future (1922) was the first stereoscopic print movie shown to a paying audience in Rivoli Theater, New York lasting for only 14 minutes.

4. Man in the Dark (1953) was a 3D film made by Columbia Pictures, the first big studio to capitalize on the growing 3D market craze. The film was a remake of the 1936 film The Man Who Lived Twice.

5. The first 3D movie to encourage the use of 3D polarizing glasses with synchronized sounds was the Italian film Nozze Vagabonde (Beggar’s Wedding) in 1936.

6. House of Wax released in 1953 was the first 3D Movie with stereo sound and full colour. It was made by Warner Brothers, the second Hollywood studio to join the 3D market.

7. The Stewardesses, a US film of 1969 has the highest budget to box office ratio of all 3D movies. An estimated budget of over $100,000 was spent in the production of the film which grossed $30 million at the theatres. It was an adult movie.

8. A Christmas Carol released in 2009 directed by Robert Zemeckis and has a production cost of $200 million is the most expensive 3D animation film and one of the first new wave of 3D blockbusters. It eventually grossed $323,555,899 worldwide.

9. Alice in Wonderland (2010) an American fantasy movie directed by Tim Burton released last March grossed $116.1 million in the US on its first 3 days of showing (5-7 March) even surpassing Avatar’s performance in its opening weekend in 2009. The film thus has the record for a 3D movie with the biggest gross in its opening weekend.

10. The year 2009 marked the 3D fever in the film-making industry where major film productions focused on 3D movies. A total of 10 3D films were made, the most number of 3D movies to be released in a single year.