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About Wortham IMAX® Theatre
Ranked as one of the world's premier IMAX® theatres, this 394 seat theatre features the finest motion picture system in existence. Images of unsurpassed size, clarity and impact enhanced by a superb six-track sound system are projected onto a giant 60-by-80-foot screen. Offering the ultimate movie experience, IMAX® films (15/70 format) provide an exceptional educational experience by letting the viewer "feel" like a part of the action on screen.
IMAX® trivia:
- Highest trip made by an IMAX® camera on Earth - top of Mt. Everest (29,028 feet)
- Second highest trip = Kilimanjaro (Africa's highest mountain at 19,030 feet)'
- Number of countries in the world with an Imax theatre - 30
- IMAX® has images up to 8 stories high and wrap-around 12,000 watt digital sound.
- IMAX® film is the largest commercial film format ever invented.
- The IMAX® camera weighs up to 100 pounds
- Average IMAX® screen is 4500 times bigger than an average TV screen
- IMAX film is strong enough to pull a truck
- Film frame used by IMAX® projection system is 10 times the size of a conventional 35mm frame
- IMAX® screens are designed to encompass your peripheral vision. These screens are painted silver to maximize the amount of light reflected back to the audience.
- Over 700 million people around the world have seen IMAX®.
- IMAX® uncompressed digital, wrap-around sound is a patented Proportional Point Source (TM) Loudspeaker system that delivers exacting volume and quality at every seat. From a small drop of rain to a massive clap of thunder, you hear every shade and subtlety, regardless of where you sit.
About IMAX®
IMAX® is the finest motion picture system in the world. Images are projected from the IMAX film frame-10 times bigger than a conventional 35mm frame-onto a giant screen measuring 80 feet in width and six stories in height. Rather than multiple projectors used to accomplish this task in many IMAX theatres, the Wortham IMAX Theatre uses a single, powerful projector. The unique Rolling Loop technology, which advances the film horizontally in a smooth, wave-like motion, results in superior picture and focus quality.
The IMAX system has its roots in Expo '67 where multi-screen films were the hit of the fair. A small group of Canadian filmmakers/entrepreneurs, who had made some of these popular films, decided to design a new system using a single, powerful projector, rather than the cumbersome multiple projectors used at that time. The result: the IMAX motion picture projection system which would revolutionize giant-screen cinema.
IMAX premiered at the World's Fair in Osaka, Japan in 1970. The first permanent IMAX projection system was installed at Ontario Place's Cinesphere in Toronto in 1971.
IMAX Systems Corporation offers extensive customer support services to its theatres and to the filmmakers who use the IMAX medium. The company's camera rental inventory offers more than a dozen cameras and 100 different accessories. IMAX Systems Corporation is engaged in an ongoing research and development program to stay at the leading edge of cinema technology. Sophisticated computer animation and 3-D IMAX, which debuted at Vancouver's Expo '86, are examples of recent innovations.
IMAX Systems Corporation, a privately owned Canadian company, has its corporate headquarters in Toronto, with engineering research and development offices and manufacturing plant in Oakville.
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