I thought I'd add one more picture to show a breakdown of the 3-d effect. If we separate the left and right images, we get this:
It appears that the anaglyph process used for these shorts relied heavily upon edge-enhancement, which might explain the weird, overblown colour artifacts on the magenta/green outlines, and would certainly account for some of the image blur. Half-colour anaglyphs like these tend to yield less 3-d separation and more stable viewing image (what appears as the b&w image), depending upon optimisation. Looks like a great compromise was made in this case, no?
Journey to the Center of the Earth had the similar trioscopics anaglyph process applied with much better results, no jagged edges and no colour artifacting on the green/magenta edges.
MPEG encoding isn't very friendly to this 3-d process either, I should say, and is probably a huge deterrent to these two Stooge shorts. If one could put two
pure left and right images together in an anaglyph and save it to an avi, or some lossless format, where red is red and green or blue is, you know, it'd look stellar compared to what you see above.
