ULYSSES 3D

[High Plains Drifter]

Just read that the 1954 ULISSE directed by Mario Camerini was originally shot in 3D.

[Bill Connolly]

Where did you read that? Neither Kirk Douglas in his autobiography nor Dino De Laurentiis in his official biography, or Anthony Quinn in his autobiography, mention anything about 3D for ULYSSES.

[High Plains Drifter]

Thank you for the scepticism - that was my instant reaction too.
I read about it in the current issue of Filmfax, which was running an article on 3D movies. The list was quite phenomenal, and included a host of movies that were reputedly shot in 3D but then released flat.
In order to check further, I went onto the imdb, and in the entry for ULISSE, under ASPECT RATIO it says 1.66:1, followed by the clickable word MORE. On clicking this, I was presented with the information on the Cinematographic process, which says "3-D (Tridimensionale Christiani)" Curiously, when you click on those words, it gives only a 1994 movie as using the process.
So, in order to see if anyone else had heard about this, I posted the message.

Certainly if you watch ULISSE, there are no specific COMIN AT YA moments, but then it wasn't always common to poke the audience in the eyes, and perhaps the Italians were more interested in the depth of the scene than such highly enjoyable vulgarity. For instance THE FRENCH LINE was originally shot 3D, with the tag-line about Jane Russell knocking both your eyes out. But I've seen the movie many times on TV, and it appears to have been shot in just the same way as many other musical comedies of the period. The bonus for 3D viewers would just have been to see Jane Russell in a more realistic fully-rounded way.

So it may be true that ULISSE was shot 3D, or it may just be another "Sergio Leone playing the Hotel Clerk in CEMETERY WITHOUT CROSSES" canard. At least with the latter you can tell by looking at the movie, with the former, you can't.