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9 unusual facts about IMAX


Alamo: The Price of Freedom

Alamo: The Price of Freedom is a 1988 American IMAX film starring Merrill Connally as Davy Crockett, Casey Biggs as William Barret Travis, Enrique Sandino as Antonio López de Santa Anna, Steve Sandor as James Bowie, Don Swayze as James Bonham, and Derek Caballero as Juan Seguín.

Ally Burguieres

In 2012, Burguieres rented 11 pieces to the National Geographic IMAX film Hidden Worlds, in addition to creating custom artwork for the film.

Antarctica Suite

Antarctica Suite (1991) is a composition for orchestra and solo guitar by Nigel Westlake to accompany the IMAX film Antarctica.

DNA Productions

DNA wrote, directed and produced the 3D Christmas special, Santa vs. the Snowman for O Entertainment, which runs in IMAX theaters during the holiday season.

Les Percussions de Guinée

In 2002, World Music Productions Inc. arranged for Les Percussions de Guinée to appear in the IMAX film, Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey.

Little Things of Venom

Track four, "Little Things Of Venom", was used in the soundtrack for the IMAX 3-D film Haunted Castle (2001), in which lead singer Steverlinck also starred.

Malecón 2000

Several of the greatest historical monuments in the history of Guayaquil can be seen along its length, as well as museums, gardens, fountains, shopping malls, restaurants, bars, food courts, the first IMAX theater in South America, as well as boarding docks where several embarkations offer both daytime and nighttime tours up and down the Guayas River.

Michael Greenburg

Michael has also produced feature films: Alan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold, and the IMAX film My Strange Uncle, as well as various other television films, which include: In the Eye of a Stranger, The Vegas Strip War, and Dixie: Changing Habits.

New Roc City

The complex also contains a Regal Cinemas multiplex and IMAX theater, bowling alley, 25-table billiards hall, electric go-kart track, a glow in the dark miniature golf course, an arcade with over 300 games and rides, a Marriott Residence Inn, a fitness center, EastWest Karate Jujitsu, an ice cream cafe, a Modell's store, and a Stop & Shop Supermarket.


Alec Lorimore

Previous to his involvement in the Imax industry he worked for over ten years as a screenwriter, and wrote a number of feature film scripts which were either purchased or commissioned by the major studios, including Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Paramount Pictures, and worked with such producers as Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Taplin, Ray Stark, and Steve Tisch.

Baker Boys: Inside the Surge

The National Infantry Museum will be hosting a film premiere event for the Fort Benning community, home of the 1-15 Infantry featured in the film, by screening Baker Boys: Inside the Surge in its IMAX theatre on January 19 & 20, 2011.

Canadian Pacific 2816

It was used in Rocky Mountain Express, a 2011 IMAX film which follows the locomotive on a journey from Vancouver to Montreal while telling the CPR's history.

Catalina Trail

Trail and Brugger's search for the butterflies is dramatized in the IMAX film Flight of the Butterflies.

Clément Richard

Richard was president and founder of MétéoMédia, Expotech Imax and the Quebec book publishing company Mondia.

Country Music: The Spirit of America

Country Music: The Spirit of America is a 2003 documentary film, in the IMAX format, written and co-produced by Tom Neff and co-directed by Neff, Steven Goldmann and Keith Melton.

Daniel Ferguson

Ferguson was also director, writer and producer for the 3D IMAX film Jerusalem with George Duffield, Taran Davies and the late Jake Eberts.

Francisco Ferreras

The rivalry of Ferreras and Pelizzari became the focus of the 2001 IMAX production Ocean Men: Extreme Dive, directed by renowned under water photographer Bob Talbot.

Garden Isle

Garden Isle is a 1973 short film which was the first short film made using the Omnimax or IMAX cinematographic process.

George F. MacDonald

Inspired as much by the ideas of Marshall Mcluhan and Disney's Epcot Center as by other museums like the Smithsonian Institution, MacDonald's version of the museum included interactive displays, replicas, and an IMAX theatre.

Graeme Ferguson

In 1971, Ferguson produced, directed and shot North of Superior, the first official IMAX film, which is still shown on IMAX screens.

Hazel Barton

Hazel A. Barton is a professor of microbiology and geology at University of Akron and co-star (with Nancy Holler Aulenbach) of the 2001 IMAX film Journey Into Amazing Caves (narrated by Liam Neeson).

IMAX Corporation

William Shaw was instrumental in helping IMAX Corporation fulfill its ambitions in creating larger and more realistic experiences for audience which included oversized screens, surround sound and steep seating for better viewing.

John Feeney

Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak found new life again in 1992, when filmmakers Colin Low and Tony Ianzelo combined archival and contemporary footage of Kenojuak in Momentum, Canada’s IMAX HD film for Expo '92.

Kenneth C. Brugger

Brugger's search and discovery is dramatized in the IMAX film Flight of the Butterflies.

London IMAX

Pepsi IMAX Cinema at the London Trocadero (closed in 1999) 19.8m by 15.8m with a total screen size of 313m² (164m² for a 2.39:1 film, 212m² for a 1.85:1 film).

Marbles Kids Museum

The Wells Fargo IMAX Theatre is North Carolina's only Giant Screen certified 3D theater and features a screen five stories high, and a sound system capable of supplying 12,000 watts of surround sound.

McWane Science Center

The state-of-the-art science center, aquarium and 280-seat IMAX Dome Theater is housed in the historic and refurbished Loveman's department store building.

Niagara: Miracles, Myths and Magic

Niagara: Miracles, Myths and Magic is a 1986 IMAX film directed and produced by filmmaker Kieth Merrill.

Osha Gray Davidson

Davidson co-wrote the screenplay for the IMAX documentary Coral Reef Adventure and his photographs have appeared in Rolling Stone, InsideClimate News, Forbes.com, and elsewhere.

Polo Park

The mall of Polo Park has over 200 stores including The Bay, Sears, Marshalls, and the Cineplex Entertainment movie theatres which also includes an IMAX venue.

Reissue

A growing trend is for movie studios to re-release films in theaters converted to 3D or IMAX: notable examples include The Lion King, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Titanic.

Other examples include films' being re-released in time for certain anniversaries; Lawrence of Arabia was given a limited re-release in 2012, fully remastered in 4K for its 50th anniversary, and Jurassic Park was re-released on April 5, 2013 in 3D and IMAX 3D for its 20th anniversary.

Richard A. Lutz

Lutz served as Principal Investigator and Science Director of the 2005 IMAX film Volcanoes of the Deep Sea, which was funded by the National Science Foundation and co-produced by Rutgers University.

Richard Wildeman

Science North Science North, is a world-renowned science centre producing multi-media exhibits, displays and IMAX films.His most recent film is about bird migration education produced for the Philadelphia Zoo.

Saint Louis Science Center

In 1991, a major expansion increased the size of the facility seven-fold, adding a main building and Omnimax theater across Interstate 64 from the Planetarium.

Serenada Schizophrana

Some of the movements were used for the soundtrack for the 2006 IMAX film Deep Sea 3D.

Shaw House and Centre

In mid-2010, plans were made to add in 2 more 3D theatres and 1 IMAX theatre.The Cineplex closed in late 2010 for renovations to add the new theatres.It reopened on the 5 May 2011.The latter officially opened on the 19 May 2011 to screen it`s first movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

STS-31

Motion pictures were recorded by two IMAX cameras, and the results appeared in the IMAX film Destiny in Space.

Surf film

The sporting documentary was pioneered by Bud Browne (e.g. "Hawaiian Holiday") in the 1940s and early 1950s, and later popularized by Bruce Brown (e.g. "The Endless Summer") in the late 1950s and early 1960s, then later perfected by Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman (e.g. "Five Summer Stories") in the 1970s and beyond (MacGillivray and Freeman later went on to film IMAX movies such as To Fly! and Speed).

The Young Black Stallion

The film is Disney’s first production made specifically for IMAX theaters, and a prequel to the 1979 film The Black Stallion.

Umberto Pelizzari

The rivalry of Pelizzari and Ferreras became the focus of the 2001 IMAX production Ocean Men: Extreme Dive, directed by renowned under water photographer Bob Talbot.


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