3D Films unearthed created by the Nazi's in 1936

3D films are all the rage currently at the multiplex. It turns out that the Nazi's tried their hand at 3D in 1936, 16 years before the format had it's first wave of popularity in the US.

According to the Guardian, Australian film-maker Philippe Mora says he has discovered two 30-minute 3D films shot by propagandists for the Third Reich. The first of the films, titled So Real You Can Touch It, includes sizzling stereoscopic bratwursts on a barbecue. The second film, titled Six Girls Roll Into Weekend, features actors Mora believes were probably stars from Germany's top wartime studio, Universum Film.

Here is what Mora told ninemsn.com:

"The quality of the films is fantastic. The Nazis were obsessed with recording everything and every single image was controlled – it was all part of how they gained control of the country and its people."

These films were found by Mora while he was doing research for a new documentary, entitled How the Third Reich was Recorded, exploring how the Nazis used film to shape public opinion and manipulate the German people.

The first stereoscopic film to gain popularity in the states was 1953's House of Wax from director André de Toth starring Vincent Price. MGM's Audioscopics won a best short film Oscar in 1936 for Joseph Leventhal and John Norling. 

These 35mm Nazi films confirm Mora's belief that the Germans were decades ahead. "They were made by an independent studio for Goebbels's propaganda ministry and referred to as 'Raum film', or space film, which may be why no one ever realised since that they were 3D," he said.

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