rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) (03/08/84)
Another place that such films could be viewed will be in the planned addition to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. This theater is just one of many things to be in the new wing they are planning to add to showcase space exploration. Many of the exhibits apparently are planned to give museum visitors the feeling of being an astronaut through simulation. Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe
louie@cvl.UUCP (Louis A. Mamakos) (03/08/84)
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I believe that the National Air and Space museam in Washington, DC will have
the shuttle film when it is done. By the way, if you're ever in Washington
you *must* see 'Hail Columbia!'. It's a film about the first few flights of
the shuttle. You'll almost think that you were there.
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Internet: louie@cvl.ARPA uucp: ...!{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!cvl!louiedmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) (03/17/84)
"Hail Columbia" is an IMAX/Omnimax film. I know the IMAX people have been trying to get one of their cameras on a shuttle flight, perhaps this is what the news report was about. Technical details: IMAX uses 70mm film travelling sideways, 15 perforations per frame. There is over twice the film area per frame than "ordinary" 70mm film. It's designed to be projected on very large screens that fill most of your field of view. Omnimax uses the same technology, but the screen is a hemisphere (usually a planetarium dome or similar) and is shot with a fisheye lens on the camera. I wouldn't have high hopes of long sequences of film from the shuttle. 1000 feet is the longest length of film that the camera will take, and that lasts only 3 minutes. But whatever they get, it will be spectacular. Dave Martindale P.S. IMAX was developed in Ontario (Canada)