The 1960 William Castle movie 13 Ghosts used red/blue 3-D style glasses, but not for 3-D!
While most of the movie was black and white, certain sequences had red and blue tinting.
To see the ghosts, you looked thru the red "lens".
To
not see the specters, you looked thru the blue "lens".
For years, you could only see the totally-b/w version on tv (including on TCM today), and the VHS release was also b/w.
When they finally issued a DVD edition, the initial one
included the version with the color Illusion-O segments plus red/blue viewers based on the ones given out in theatres.
Unfortunately, the "first edition" of the DVD was the only one to have both the Illusion-O version of the movie or the viewers!
The much-more available later pressings/editions are
only b/w!
I
finally found a copy of the
original DVD release (with viewer) for only
$4.99 in a used-DVD bin in a local music shop (we used to call them
"record shops"), and spent the afternoon getting a real kick out of
watching it!
It's an entertaining film, but it's
better with Illusion-O! ;-)
and Dr Strange
at Marvel, and was considered the #2 artist at the House of Ideas (behind Jack Kirby) during the Silver Age of Comics.
