| Fort Ti | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | William Castle |
| Screenplay by | Robert E. Kent |
| Story by | Robert E. Kent |
| Produced by | Sam Katzman |
| Starring | George Montgomery Joan Vohs |
| Cinematography | Lester H. White, Lothrop B. Worth |
| Edited by | William A. Lyon |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2.6 million |
Fort Ti is a 1953 American3-DWestern film directed byWilliam Castle, and starringGeorge Montgomery andJoan Vohs. Written byRobert E. Kent, the film is the first Western to be released in 3-D and the first 3-D feature to be released inTechnicolor by a major studio.[1][2]Fort Ti was distributed byColumbia Pictures in the United States.[3]
The film is set in 1759 atFort Ticonderoga during theFrench and Indian War.[4]
As war is raging across 18th-century colonial America, a band of famed native fighters join British forces for an assault on a French stronghold.
William Castle says Sam Katzman was inspired to make the film by the success ofBwana Devil. Castle says he "decided to throw every goddamn thing I could think of at the camera" in the movie.[5]
3-D supervision was byM.L. Gunzburg, creator of the Natural Vision 3-D system that had initiated the 3-D boom, previously used onBwana Devil andHouse of Wax.[6] The film was shot at Columbia Studios and on location inUtah andSouthern California.[7]
Fort Ti earned an estimated $2.6 million domestically during its first year of release.[8]
In 1982,Fort Ti became the first 3-D film to be broadcast on television in the United Kingdom on December 5, 1982, onITV. 3D glasses were given away with theTVTimes listings magazine, which also coincided with theTVS science programme The Real World doing a programme looking at 3-D.
The following year, it became the first 3-D film to be broadcast on television in the United States and Australia along with theThree Stooges 3-D shortPardon My Backfire.[1]