[The Hollywood Reporter]

A Rome-based administrative court ruled this week that children aged three and up can attend films that require the use of 3D glasses, lowering the minimum recommended age and overturning an appeal from the consumer group Codacons.

Previously, moviegoers in Italy had to be at least six years old to use 3D glasses. In 2010, ANEC, the National Association of Film Exhibitors, requested the minimum recommended age for the use of 3D glasses be lowered, citing studies that showed now additional risks to the vision or health of moviegoers aged three to six if they used the glasses.  …

The notion of an age limit appears to be unique to Italy. There is no such rule, or any discussion about imposing such a rule, in the United States, according to Patrick Corcoran, director of media and research at the National Association of Theatre Owners. …

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