I shared the following post on our Facebook page today and thought you might find the information of interest. Thanks again for your incredible support of our restoration work!
I'll start the year off by answering our most commonly asked question: when is (insert favorite title) going to be available on 3-D Blu-ray?


Over the last six years since our first 3-D Blu-ray release in October 2014, there's not a vintage 3-D film that we have not tried to license and restore. The reasons they have not happened are numerous but the most common: digital 3-D masters do not exist. Certain studios (Warner Bros, Sony) have a very strict internal policy that restoration work must be done in-house. Sadly, they stopped doing 3-D restorations once display manufacturers dropped support of the format several years ago. That's why such highly requested titles as Second Chance, Phantom of the Rue Morgue, The Charge at Feather River, Son of Sinbad, Dangerous Mission, Popeye - the Ace of Space, The French Line, Fort Ti, The Stranger Wore a Gun, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Gorilla at Large, Money from Home, Flight to Tangier and many others have not been released. The left/right 35mm elements do exist so hopefully, they will one day see the light of day.

In other cases, the rights holders are simply not interested. That's the reason Flesh for Frankenstein aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, Hondo, Robot Monster, Cat-Women of the Moon and Starchaser are not available. Lord knows we have tried.

Other titles (The Glass Web, Nat King Cole with Russ Morgan's Orchestra, Hawaiian Nights, I the Jury, La Marca del Hombre Lobo aka Frankenstein's Bloody Terror) are tied up with complex legal issues and the miles of red tape have prevented any positive movement. After trying to obtain rights for the past decade, I have no reason to be optimistic these films will ever get cleared for 3-D Blu-ray release. I wish I could say otherwise.

On films that we own, such as The Mask, 3-D Rarities, The Bubble, The Stewardesses, etc, we have always made them region free. But if a title is region locked, that's because the copyright holder and studio legal departments will simply not license the film for a region free release. Again, we have tried. So it becomes a matter of restoring it for Region A only - or not at all. Thankfully, region free 3-D Blu-ray players are available.

I have been on this mission for nearly 40 years (http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/home/history-of-the-archive) and I humbly suggest that you enjoy what has been released in this very tiny niche of a niche market. It truly has been an uphill battle and these are VERY expensive films to restore, easily double the normal cost. Profit margins are microscopic so please support our new releases and we will continue our ongoing work to save and preserve our stereoscopic film heritage.

Thank you very much and on behalf of the entire 3DFA team, we wish you and your loved ones a very safe, healthy and prosperous new year!

​​​​​​​Bringing any vintage and neglected film back to life is quite a challenge. DYNASTY was no exception and the poor condition of the 35mm materials presented a quadruple threat to the restoration team.

They include;

1. Intermittent (and at times severe) vertical scratches on six of the ten reels.
2. Baked-in stereoscopic anomalies from the Super-Touch 3D lens attachment. They include specs of dirt internally on one of the two prisms; occasional variable shading at the top and bottom of each eye as a result of loose optics in the lens; sporadic soft focus and vertical mis-alignment. The latter has been entirely corrected but the other problems are simply not fixable. You'll learn more about the pros and cons of this inexpensive lens system in Mike Ballew's superb 10 minute featurette on the disc.
3. Vinegar syndrome deterioration at various stages on the ten reels of magnetic Quadrophonic sound.
4. Severe color fading from the 35mm Eastman color elements. Here are some before/after examples.

Keep in mind, when restoring a 3-D film, you have to do every scene twice for the left and right sides. That said, everybody worked overtime to get this one finished and the entire 3DFA restoration team is very proud of the end result.

The digital masters are now in the hands of our post-production replicator in California. The next step is final QC of all the components and once we have signed-off on everything, it's off to the duplicating facility. I'll keep you updated on availability of the discs and will let you know as soon as they are ready to ship.

Thank you so very much for your generosity and patience. We know that you'll be very pleased with your 3-D Blu-ray of DYNASTY!