Read what R.M. Hayes says about some of these films in:
3-D Movies, A History and Filmography of Stereoscopic Cinema
(McFarland & Company Inc.: Jefferson, North Carolina and London) 1989. ISBN 0-89950-407-B)

The 3-D Olympics
The III-D Olympiad ( Stereo Club of Southern California; February 20, 1986). Filmed in Elgeet Stereo (16mm side-by-side .67:1). Director Alan D. Williams. Script Tony Alderson, Alan D. Williams and members of the crew and cast. Narration and music Oliver Dean and Alan D. Williams. Cinematographers Stuart Weisbuch and David Starkman. Cameras Box H16 and Éclair ACL. Production Manager John Hart. Art Director Tony Alderson. Wardrobe Daphne Shepard. Budget Director Oliver Dean. Continuity Bill Shepard. Props Susan Pinsky.

A Movie Division of the Stereo Club of Southern California production. Filmed in Los Angeles. Kodachrome 25 (Yale Labs). Optical sound. 6 minutes.

Cast: Holly Weisbuch, Earl Colgan, Alan D. Williams, David Starkman, Bill Shepard, Oliver Dean, Susan Pinsky, Stuart Weisbuch, Daphne Shepard and George Skelley.

This amateur production, the first movie by the Stereo Club of Southern California, was not released theatrically but has been publicly exhibited. It spoofed the Los Angeles Olympics in a series of unconnected, comic outdoor sports events including the backwards race, the javelin catch, the standing race and the long, long, long jump among others. Some of the "amateurs" involved in the production have also been associated with professional filmmaking.

-- p. 347

Nature Trail (June 28, 1986). Filmed in Powell 3-D (super 8 side-by-side version 1.33:1). Producer David Jantzow. Director and 3-D cinematographer Bill Shepard. Writers David Jantzow, Bill Shepard and Daphne Shepard. Suggested by "Nature Trail to Hell in 3-D" by "Weird Al" Yankovic. 3-D technology Marc Powell. Camera Chinon. Filmed in Southern California. Kodachrome 40 (Ektachrome prints by Yale Labs). Magnetic sound. 3 minutes, 55 seconds.

Cast: Sherry MacCarthy, Amy Shepard and Michelle Vensky (Nature Trail cheerleaders), Gary Shelby (Jason Voorhees), Butch Barbata (Ro-Man) and David Youngberg (Smoky the Bear).

This amateur short, a parody of Friday the 13^th-Part III (q.v.) and National Forest Service television commercials was not released theatrically but was publicly exhibited. The story: Three high school cheerleaders hiking down a nature trail are attacked by Jason who murders one with an axe while the other two escape only to be set upon by Ro-Man who rips the arm off one and throws it into the bushes where it is eaten by a giant rat. The third cheerleader lights a fire to warm and comfort her, but she is reprimanded by Smoky the Bear. They walk off in the horizon, arm in arm, followed by Jason and Ro-Man also arm in arm. Extremely well made.

-- p. 276

Weekend Panorama (Western; August 1984) Filmed in Western 3-D (Super 8 side-by-side vertical 1.66:1). Filmmaker Owen C. (Wes) Western

Kodachrome 40 (Technicolor through Tru-Color). Magnetic sound.

This amateur short was not released theatrically but has had extremely wide exhibition to numerous organizations and clubs. It was filmed with a substantially modified Elmo ESM-1 Stereo Movie Unit (see photo on page 367). This film is a collection of entertaining things to do in the Southern California area and includes a drive through Balboa Park in San Diego, various performers in the park, the Imperial Beach sand castle building championships and hot-air ballooning in the north country.

-- p. 365

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