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The first permanent IMAX Dome installation, the Eugene Heikoff and Marilyn Jacobs Heikoff Dome Theatre at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, opened in San Diego's Balboa Park in 1973. It doubles as a planetarium theater.
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Jun 13, 2013 · Dick Vaughan arrived in 1983 to organise the installation of the first permanent IMAX cinema in Europe. 30 years later he’s still here, and still fascinated by the technology. Building the IMAX auditorium in 1983
Jul 9, 2013 · Montreal's Cinesphere was the world's first permanent Imax installation (Photo credit: Loozrboy)
Jun 24, 2023 · Opening in April 1983 with a special showing of To Fly!, a 1976 documentary about the history of flight, from early balloons through to space missions, the IMAX was Europe’s first permanent IMAX cinema—and the next one didn’t arrive on UK soil until 15 years later.
Oct 22, 2021 · In 1970, Tiger Child (Donald Brittain), the first IMAX film, was shown at Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan, and the following year the first permanent IMAX system was installed at the Cinesphere Theater in Toronto, debuting in May 1971 with the travelogue North of Superior (Graeme Ferguson).
Jul 25, 2023 · IMAX, or ‘Image Maximum’, was a groundbreaking innovation developed by a group of Canadian filmmakers in the late 1960s. As a technological marvel, IMAX is both a film format and a set of cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation.
The company was founded in 1967 when three filmmakers— Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor and Robert Kerr —incorporated IMAX Corporation. The idea and the new technology, which resulted in the birth of the company, came from the multi-screen productions of Roman Kroitor, Colin Low and Hugh O'Connor. In the Labyrinth [10] and Ferguson's Man and ...
