The format
Why 70mm IMAX?
The largest picture film has ever carried, on the largest screens there are. Only 34 rooms in the US and Canada can run it.
Not just 70mm
An ordinary 70mm print runs down through the projector, five perforations a frame. IMAX runs the same width of film sideways, fifteen perforations a frame, so every picture is 3.1 times the size.
The screen
Drag from a person, past a digital IMAX screen, to the largest of the 34.
In numbers
- 3.1x
- the picture of an ordinary 70mm frame
- 12K
- lines of horizontal resolution, estimated, on the camera negative
- 337 ft
- of film a minute, at 24 frames a second
- 1.43:1
- a picture nearly as tall as it is wide
Source: Wikipedia, IMAX.
The next sold-out show will have seats again.