Max Otto Miller was an American film producer and inventor of the Miller Stereoscopic Process.Camera Inc., (1935) ''

Camera A camera is an instrument used to capture and store images and videos, either digitally via an electronic image sensor, or chemically via a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. As a pivotal technology in the fields of photograp ...

'', Volume 51, p. 46.Miller, Max (May 7, 1935)
U.S. Patent 2000470.

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It was an early 3-D process of making and projecting pictures, using a conventional

camera lens A camera lens, photographic lens or photographic objective is an optical lens (optics), lens or assembly of lenses (compound lens) used in conjunction with a camera body and mechanism to Imaging, make images of objects either on photographic film ...

with a concave spherical lens attached to increase field without increasing object distance. It included a special design for the

aperture In optics, the aperture of an optical system (including a system consisting of a single lens) is the hole or opening that primarily limits light propagated through the system. More specifically, the entrance pupil as the front side image o ...

plate and projection of the picture through a double convexed spherical

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of lesser

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. The method used 35 mm film printed single strip anaglyphic.Limbacher, James L. (1968). ''Four aspects of the film.'' Brussel & Brussel, It was used in films including the 1925 silent

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'' The Ship of Souls''.Hayes, R. M. (1998). ''3-D movies: a history and filmography of stereoscopic cinema.'' McFarland, Miller also produced the 1924 film '' A Pair of Hellions''. His son was director and photographer Max B. Miller.Gertner, Richard Pay, William (1985). ''International television Almanac'', p. 184 Quigley Pub. Co.,

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