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(film projector whirling)

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-People often wonder, what exactly is IMAX?

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Short for Image Maximum,
the format was developed in the late 1960s

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by Canadian filmmakers looking to simplify
and elevate large-format cinema.

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Debuting in Japan in 1970, the massive

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high-resolution
image immediately made an impression.

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Through the ‘70s and ’80s,
IMAX found a home in museums

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and science centers
playing educational films.

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By the ‘90s and 2000s,
it made the leap into commercial

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theaters, with filmmakers like Christopher

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Nolan helping
bring IMAX into the blockbuster era.

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Lead projectionist
David Dukart takes us inside the projection

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booth with a behind-the-scenes
look at how the technology works.

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- Hello, I'm David, and welcome 
to the PACCAR IMAX Theater's projection booth.

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So here we have our amp system
that basically powers our,

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5.1-channel surround
sound inside of the PACCAR Theater itself.

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There are four amps on this side
and then two amps on this side.

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We have a dual projection system.

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Each one of these contains a lamp
that is 6.5 kW.

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So when we play a digital movie,
we get hard drives from IMAX.

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You can see we got The Revenant here.

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This is the SMS.

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It is essentially the control center
for the entirety of the IMAX system.

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It tells it to use play, to pause, to stop
what volume it should be at.

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This is our old IMAX film system.

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Essentially as opposed to the SMS.

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Everything was controlled right here.

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We get this all turned on.

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Once it was time for the show, we'd press
projector run.

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We tell it was up to speed,

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open the douser
to let it run for the length of the movie.

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So here we have examples of our IMAX film
that we still keep on sites.

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This one for in particular
is Greece.

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It was the last film
that we ran

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when we had the Pompeii
visiting exhibit.

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And this
unit is called The Brain

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because they're
supposed to make sure

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that the Platters
are running

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at a consistent speed
because this up.

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And then we would take
this over,

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run running through
all of these reels.

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So standard
35 millimeter film

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is about the size
of your thumb, roughly.

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And then IMAX film,

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a single frame is about
the size of your palm.

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So going back to the film
itself,

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this may look like
a lot of film.

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It is a lot of film.

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This is only about 40
minutes worth of IMAX film.

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The IMAX quality as far
as image goes, is bar none.

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I love it
more than anything

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I have ever seen on screen.

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