Sidney W. Pink

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Sidney W Pink March 16 1916October 12 2002 was an American movie director and producer He is considered the father of color 3D movies and is also noted for directing early spaghetti westerns and for discovering Dustin Hoffman as a movie actor He was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania After playing the film producer in his high schools production of Merton of the Movies he first realized this was the profession he would ultimately pursue calling it his lifes ambition He worked as a projectionist in a movie theater owned by his wifes family He received a degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh In 1952 Pink produced Bwana Devil the first widereleased 3D movie designed to been seen through the twotoned cardboard glasses The film was shot using a camera with two lenses He would go on to produce over 50 3D movies In 1959 he produced The Angry Red Planet using a new development technique he named CineMagic to cast a pink coloration across the screen In 1961 he did the original story for Reptilicus which he codirected and coproduced in Denmark at Saga Studios In 1966 he discovered the young Dustin Hoffman in an Off Broadway stage production in New York City and cast him in the lead of Madigans Millions which was filmed in Italy and Spain The movie was not released until 1969 however two years after Hoffman was introduced to the moviegoing public in the 1967 movie The Graduate In the early 1970s Pink owned a chain of movie theaters in Puerto Rico and Florida He died in 2002 in Pompano Beach Florida following a long illness Description above from the Wikipedia article Sidney W Pink licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia