Frederic Eugene Ives
Color and stereoscopic photographyIves was a pioneer of color and stereoscopic photography, and demonstrated a system of natural color photography at the 1885 Novelties Exposition of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.[1]
As early as 1900, Ives was tinkering with stereoscopic motion pictures. In 1903 Ives patented the "Parallax Stereogram" a method by which an image made up of interlaced stripes would animate when placed behind a stationary array of opaque, vertical bars and moved laterally. By 1922, he and fellow inventor Jacob Leventhal were producing a popular series of anaglyph 3-D novelty shorts called Plastigrams. The first one was for Educational Pictures released in December 1922, and the latter ones for Pathé Films. On 22 September 1924, one of the Plastigram films, Luna-cy!, was re-released in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.[3]
In 2009, his color photographs of San Fransisco taken shortly after the 1906 earthquake were discovered during cataloging of the collection at the National Museum of American History.[4]
His son Herbert E. Ives was a pioneer of telephotography and television, including color facsimile.