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Sidney Pink, a movie producer who helped pry filmgoers away from their television sets in the early 1950s with the first 3-D feature-length movie, "Bwana Devil," has died.
Sidney W. Pink (1916-2002) was an American film producer and occasional director. [1] He has been called the father of feature-length 3-D movies.He is also noted for producing early Spaghetti Westerns and low-budget science-fiction films, and for his role in actor Dustin Hoffman's transition from stage to screen.
Pink said goodbye to Columbia Pictures and Harry Cohn over a misplaced decimal point. Pink stayed out of filmmaking until 1950, and then came back with a vengeance. He made Bwana Devil, with Robert Stack, the world’s first 3-D color movie. This would be just the tip of the iceberg for Sid Pink’s role as a “film innovator.”
Sidney W. Pink. Producer: Reptilicus. Sidney W. Pink was born on 6 March 1916 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Reptilicus (1961), Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962) and The Angry Red Planet (1959).
- Producer, Writer, Director
- March 6, 1916
- Sidney W. Pink
- October 12, 2002
Budget. $200,000. The Angry Red Planet (also called Invasion of Mars and Journey to Planet Four) is a 1959 American science fiction film directed by Ib Melchior and starring Gerald Mohr. [1][2] Melchior reportedly had an initial production budget of only $200,000 and was given just nine days to film it. [3] Such financial and time constraints ...
Kip Doto's book Reptilicus: The Screenplay (1999) was the first publication to attempt a listing of the main differences between Poul Bang's Danish-language Reptilicus and Sidney Pink's English-language Reptilicus. This was followed by a critical comparison of the two films in Video Watchdog #96, 2003, noting that "almost every time the camera placement and editing differs between the two ...
Looking for a book by Sidney Pink? Sidney Pink wrote So You Want to Make Movies: My Life As an Independent Film Producer, which can be purchased at a lower price at ThriftBooks.com.
