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By 1954, more than 50 percent of movies were in color.
In 1948, 18,500 movie theaters had drawn nearly 90 million paid admissions per week.
In 1953, 20th Century Fox introduced CinemaScope, which projected a wide-angle image on a broad screen. Hollywood did not crumble and blow away. Instead, it capitalized on the advantages that movies still held over television.
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The industry also tried novelty features such as Smell-O-Vision and Aroma-Rama piped smells into the theaters to coincide with events shown on the screen. Three-dimensional images, viewed through special glasses supplied by the theaters, appeared to leap into the audience. People would rather watch 3-D movies so theaters were evolving more and bringing in more 3-D movies to attract people.
3-D movies of the 1950's:
'Creature From The Black Lagoon' Universal Pictures introduced audiences to another classic movie monster with this film, originally presented in 3-D. The story involves the members of a fossil-hunting expedition down a dark tributary of the mist-shrouded Amazon, where they enter the domain of a prehistoric, amphibious Gill Man.
Released in 1954
'It Came From Outer Space' : is a 1953 American black-and-white science fiction film, the first in the 3-D process from Universal Pictures. A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert, and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strange.
Released in 1953
Non 3-D movies of the 1950's:
'Forbidden Planet'. Forbidden Planet is the first science fiction film in which humans are depicted traveling in a starship of their own creation. It was also the very first science fiction film set entirely on another world in interstellar space, far away from the planet Earth.
Released in 1956
'Godzilla, King of the Monsters!' A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo. Released in 1956
