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Fri 10 Oct 2007Encounters of the third kind3-D may be in for a rebirth, with the release of a number of movies in the new "digital 3-D" format. Don't rush out and buy the specs, though - only one cinema in Ireland is equipped to screen them. Denis Cliffordreports.A celebrated cinematic myth holds that the audience at an 1896 film screening in France ran in terror at the sight of a train apparently moving towards them off the screen. Less well known is the fact that Louis Lumière remade his pioneering film (L'Arrivée d'un Train en Gare de La Ciotat) four decades later. The 1936 version was part of a series of experiments with "stereoscopic" - 3-D - cameras carried out by Lumière in his later years.