In Melbourne, between June and October this year, the sensational new Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) has secured a coup – and will present, exclusively, Tim Burton: An Exhibition featuring over 700 works, including paintings, drawings, puppets, costumes, storyboards and film.

This landmark retrospective charting Tim Burton’s creative vision and process from his earliest work to the spectacular Alice in Wonderland will be sure to be a hit and the Centre is taking bookings for time slots to view it, which are sure to sell out quickly.

Stereoscopy has been used as a technique to create the illusion of a third dimension since it was first invented in 1838. It was all the rage late in the C19 and then, harnessing the advancing technology in France two of the earliest film makers the Lumière brothers made “L’arrivée du train” in 1903 and audiences panicked because they thought the train was about to crash right into them!

When I was as kid, like many Australians of the baby boomer generation, my friends and I used to spend every Saturday afternoon at the local movie house where we watched two movies, two cartoons, a Newsreel, one or two serials and shorts of what was coming next while we consumed pints of ice cream and rolled Jaffas down the raked theatre aisles.

Anaglyph Glasses

Now and again we were given cardboard glasses with red and bluey green cellophane lenses to watch the latest movie in 3D and, although we enjoyed the experience at the time it all came to an end as big budget Hollywood epic, adventure and animated movies took off and dominated the next few decades.

The whole 3D thing then seemed to die for a while until computers of the new age enabled exciting advances in animation. With new inspiration Hollywood luminaries such as James Cameron and Tim Burton, who had a vision for what they could achieve in this exciting medium, with stories like Avatar and, the perennial favourite Alice in Wonderland, it has once again emerged as a new wave technology that will also transpose to television as we constantly seek new ways to be entertained.

Tim Burton: An Exhibition is sure to be worth a visit interstate for the whole family. Go online for bookings.

Kids under 18 also have a chance to Meet Tim Burton by Becoming a Burton Tour Guide.

Sounds like lots of fun to me !

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