Motion picture projector system with 3-dimensional effect

Claim 1

A PROJECTION SYSTEM FOR PROJECTING MOTION PICTURES, COMPRISING A PROJECTOR, A SCREEN AND A STATIONARY GRID DISPOSED NEAR SAID SCREEN AND BETWEEN SAID PROJECTOR AND SCREEN, SAID GRID COMPRISING A MULTIPLICITY OF PARALLEL VERTICALLY EXTENDING NARROW STRIPS OF LIGHT ABSORBING MATERIAL, SAID STRIPS LYING SUBSTANTIALLY IN A PLANE AND BEING SEPARATED BY SPACES OF SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME WIDTH AS SAID STRIPS, SAID PROJECTOR COMPRISING FILM HANDLING MEANS FOR PRESENTING SUCCESSIVE FRAMES OF FILM TO BE PROJECTED, MEANS FOR ILLUMINATING SAID FRAMES SUCCESSIVLEY AND PROJECTING MEANS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY PROJECTING THROUGH SAID GRID AND ONTO SAID SCREEN A FIRST IMAGE OF A SINGLE PICTURE IN AN INDIVIDUAL FRAME OF SAID FILM AS VIEWED FROM A SELECTED FIRST ANGLE AND A SECOND IMAGE OF THE SAME SINGLE PICTURE IN SAID INDIVIDUAL FRAME AS VIEWED FROM SELECTED SECOND ANGLE DIFFERENT FROM SAID FIRST ANGLE, SAID PROJECTING MEANS COMPRISING TWO HORIZONTALLY SPACED LENS PORTIONS RECEIVING LIGHT SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM SAID FRAME AND DIRECTING LIGHT TOWARD SAID SCREEN ALONG SEPARATE HORIZONTALLY SPACED AND ANGULARLY CONVERGING PATHS, ONE OF SAID LENS PORTIONS BEING SUBSTANTIALLY IN FRONT OF ONE SIDE PORTION OF SAID SINGLE PICTURE IN SAID INDIVIDUAL FRAME AND AT A SUBSTANTIAL ANGLE TO AND SPACED FURTHER FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE PORTION OF SAID PICTURE AND THE OTHER OF SAID LENS PORTIONS BEING SUBSTANTIALLY IN FRONT OF SAID OPPOSITE SIDE PORTION OF SAID SINGLE PICTURE IN SAID INDIVIDUAL FRAME AND AT A SUBSTANTIAL ANGLE TO AND SPACED FURTHER FROM SAID ONE SIDE PORTION OF SAID PICTURE, AND REFLECTING MEANS CLOSELY IN FRONT OF SAID LENS PORTIONS FOR RECEIVING LIGHT FROM SAID LENS PORTIONS AND DIRECTING IT HORIZONTALLY OUTWARDLY AND THEN FORWARDLY TOWARD THE SCREEN TO INCREASE THE HORIZONTAL DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID PATHS AS THE LIGHT LEAVES THE PROJECTOR, SAID PATHS CONVERGING SUBSTANTIALLY AT SAID GRID, THE LIGHT PROJECTED BY SAID ONE LENS PORTION PASSING THROUGH SAID GRID AT AN ANGLE TO PRODUCE SAID FIRST IMAGE ON A FIRST SERIES OF SPACED PARALLEL VERTICAL BANDS OF SAID SCREEN AND THE LIGHT PROJECTED BY SAID OTHER LENS PORTION PASSING THROUGH SAID GRID AT A DIFFERENT ANGLE TO PRODUCE SAID SECOND IMAGE ON A SECOND SERIES OF SPACED PARALLEL VERTICAL BANDS OF SAID SCREEN, SAID SECOND SERIES OF SPACED BANDS SUBSTANTIALLY FILLING THE SPACES ON SAID SCREEN BETWEEN THE BANDS OF SAID SECOND SERIES, SAID GRID PERMITTING ONE EYE OF A VIEWER TO SEE SAID FIRST SERIES OF BANDS ONLY AND PERMITTING THE OTHER EYE OF SAID VIEWER TO SEE SAID SECOND SERIES OF BANDS ONLY, WHEREBY ONE EYE SEES SAID FIRST IMAGE ONLY AND THE OTHER EYE SEES SAID SECOND IMAGE ONLY TO GIVE AN ILLUSION OF DEPTH TO THE PICTURE BEING VIEWED.