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The IMAX® 3D projector actually projects two separate images onto
the screen and special polarized 3D glasses allow your brain to fuse
the two images together to make a single, pristine, larger-than-life
three-dimensional image.
A typical 45-minute IMAX large format film is three miles/4.8 km or 15,840 feet/4,828m long.
In 1997, IMAX won an Oscar®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ highest honor, for scientific and technical achievement
The IMAX screen has a slight curvature that extends beyond the field of geometric recognition incorporating some of the audience’s peripheral vision.
Light from the 15,000-watt lamp in an IMAX® projector is so bright that if it were on the moon people could see it from Earth with the naked eye
The IMAX® 3D projector actually projects two separate images onto the screen and special polarized 3D glasses allow your brain to fuse the two images together to make a single, pristine, larger-than-life three-dimensional image.
The IMAX 3D projector flashes 48 individual images onto the screen every second!
The IMAX 3D screen is covered with a special silver paint that reflects twice the amount of light as a regular movie screen.
IMAX cameras have been everywhere from the bottom of the ocean, to inside a NASCAR racecar, to the International Space Station.
It takes a phenomenal 259,200 IMAX film frames to make a 90-minute IMAX 3D film.
A 90-minute IMAX film is about six miles long.
The average person blinks between 12 and 20 times per minute. An IMAX 3D projector flashes 48 individual images onto the screen every second.
To create the best images possible, the IMAX projector moves film horizontally instead of vertically like other projectors.
The light beam of an IMAX projector would cause a gigantic log to burst into flames.
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