Chapter 16
IMAX
If it’s a stunning visual experience you’re after, and you don’t actually want to go there yourself, then you can’t beat IMAX – the largest motion picture film experience ever developed. In IMAX cinemas, the audience may be warned before the presentation that if they should feel the onset of vertigo, they should simply close their eyes until it subsides. This is no idle warning. The IMAX experience can be a spectacle on the scale of the biggest you will ever see, and as thrilling as a theme park ride without ever leaving the comfort of your cinema seat.
To trace the development of IMAX technology we have to look back over thirty years to Expo ‘67 in Montreal, Canada. Three people who would later become the founders of Imax Corporation ...
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