Comin’ at Ya!

The 3-D Film Festival, originally due to end Thursday at the Vagabond Theater, has been extended through Sept. 6. Thereafter, the producers hope to continue showing such pictures at the venue indefinitely, making the Vagabond perhaps the first, full-time 3-D film theater anywhere.

“Certain of the films have done very well--and others haven’t done so well--and they think they’ve found the type of film people want to see in 3-D,” says former Vagabond operator Tom Cooper, now a spokesman for Matovich Productions and Stereovision Inc., festival producers.

The extended phase of the event will emphasize titles from the 3-D boom of the early 1950s, before the double interlock system (two projectors) faded with the advent of CinemaScope.

The only existing print of pioneering 3-D producer Arch Oboler’s “Bwana Devil” (1952), which started the craze, will be among the films shown (Robert Stack and Barbara Britton starred). Oboler’s “The Bubble” (Deborah Walley, Michael Cole) will also be featured.