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Stereoscopic glasses were a desperate television deterrent

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Nothing screams panic like forcing your audience to wear cheap cardboard eyewear. When free home broadcasting threatened to bankrupt the cinema industry in the fifties, studios desperately rolled out headache-inducing dimensional gimmicks just to give people a reason to leave their living rooms.

Stereoscopic glasses were a desperate television deterrent
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