As the 3-D fad waned in 1960, producer Michael Todd Jr. tried to take the moviegoer into the fourth dimension.

FORBES: Flops

"We're proposing that the fourth dimension is time and that over time static objects will transform and adapt, " he told the BBC.

BBC: TED 2013: 4D printed objects 'make themselves'

Its characters cowpokes, anarchists, plutocrats, private eyes, coked-up undergraduates discourse learnedly on alchemy, electromagnetism, the existence of a fourth dimension and the theories of Nikola Tesla.

ECONOMIST: New fiction