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IMAX EXPLAINED: 70mm Film, Negative Cutting, Processing and Projecting
What is IMAX? Why does the format still feel so uniquely immersive compared to standard 35mm or digital projection?
In this episode, we get a rare guided tour of IMAX’s Los Angeles facility with Patricia Keighley, the company’s Chief Quality Guru, for an up-close look at how true 15/70 IMAX films are cut, stored, printed, assembled, shipped, and projected.See negative cutting for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, where master cutter German Núñez hand-splices the giant original camera negative frame by frame.
Tour the cold-storage vaults holding irreplaceable 15/70 elements, the print assembly…
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