Giant Screen Technology

The giant screen 15/70mm IMAX® Theatre film format is unique from all other educational mediums in its ability to reveal the wonders of the world in a most powerful, visceral way. With images of unsurpassed size, clarity and impact projected on to giant IMAX Theatre screens up to 80 feet tall, giant screen films create an immersive, “you-are-there” experience that places viewers directly in the heart of the action as it unfolds on-screen.  Whether they are swimming across the ocean floor with dolphins or hurtling through space on the wings of the Space Shuttle, viewers participate in a lifelike experience they most likely would not have any other way.

•  The 15/70 IMAX® film frame is ten times larger than conventional 35mm film, providing projected images that are ten times sharper.

• The sheer size of a 15/70 film frame, combined with the unique IMAX Theatre projection technology, is the key to the extraordinary sharpness and clarity of all MacGillivray Freeman films.

• The images are projected onto giant IMAX screens up to 80 feet tall and, in IMAX Dome Theatres, onto domes as large as 88 feet in diameter.