Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
dg1956, you're absolutely IN-correct.
As many people know, it's short for 3rd dimension'.
I'm appalled at the phenomenal number of stupid idiots who have ATROCIOUS grammar - not knowing that ONLY proper names, the FIRST letter of a sentence - and only a few other criteria 0 are words which are capped, and, instead - capitalise any word they 'feel' should be (and don’t take advantage of what technology can offer to help - but, are quick as diarrhoea to play a video game, or some other b.s.), I'm the FIRST to tell someone to take remedial grammar, and lay off the ridiculous capitalising, but you're W-R-O-N-G.
The OED vouches what I'm saying (they have it as '3-D'), as do a majority of (English language) dictionaries- so, while you're (technically) correct it's an abbreviation, this spelling is in the (VERY small) minority.
In fact, both '3D', and 3-D' are found in much higher numbers than 3d and 3-d are..
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One of the best classic horrors, focusing on story and atmosphere instead of cheap effects.