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NIAGARA FALLS, Ont...
. (CP) — It’s the biggest

show in town — in fact, the
biggest in Canada. —
An exploding panorama

of sound and. color, the-’
space-age

film Hail
Columbia! is dominating a
six-storey-tall screen’ this
summer in this world-
popular tourist community,
And, except for the movie
setting and .

players
themselves, ‘its ingredients -
_ are purely Canadian.

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with DB.
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born Graeme Ferguson and
brother-in-law Roman
Kroitor, a native of
Yorkton, Sask., the 35-
minute. film. captures _ the
spellbinding drama of the

space shuttle Columbia's

maiden flight, from smoke-
belching blastoff to. fanfare
return, colorfully —in-

_ terspersed with views of the

earth from 770 kilometres
aloft.

But to. ‘Ferguson,
directed the film and was
principal . photographer
during the land shots, the

most significant aspect of”
the movie isthe technology —

that wenl-into it. Ferguson,
who brought movie-goers

‘North of Superlor, is
; president of Toronto-based:
Systems. Corp...
developer '.of the huge.
‘projector ahd camera that

Imax

heralded the era of the
giant-screen medium.

. The 400-seat Pyramid
Place theatre, with its
screen 18'4 metres high and
25 metres wide, is the only

Canadian movie. house.

showing Hail Columbia! But
16 theatres in other coim-

tries are attracting -big
‘crowds with the fiJm,

cashing in on Ferguson's
brainchild. .

Basically, his - technique
employs.a 70-millimetre

film -- 10 Himes the area size |
of a conventional movie film.

— run -horigontally: through

a special camere - ane.
Projectors they had to use at

projector, resulting

sharp, clear images.’ the
_ projector alone weighs well

‘over atonne,

_ The Columbia. Jaunch
sequence was filmed by
remote-controlled cameras

‘ located about 300 metres
- from the shuttle, at Jéast, 12

 eHectively mixes.
-millimetre NASA film (such.

....- the. earth .. chots) .. with

. footage provided . by. the
Imax camera, all enhanced.

- Place ls almost half a metre

who. -With.

times closer: than .the
nearest public spectator, It
35-

by an ultrahigh-fidelity

-sound system with nine -

speakers ,surrounding. the

“theatre audience, |
Some foreign theatres are

showlng Hail Columbia!
ithe | . Omnimax
Projection: system, a
‘division of . Imax.’
Omnimax,-- which

The
“piso

“employs a 70-millimetre
_ format, projects with a 180. :
_ degree fisheye lens on to a: -

dome screen — giving the
audience. even. more of a

particlpating. . sensation .—-

“rather than the -widelens
angle of Imax,
Imax's engineering and

~ production plant is in Oak-

ville, Ont:, where the staff
also design acoustic and

screen layouts for theatres °

that plan to show the special
films.

‘The. roots of Imax -
technology go back to Expo
where.

‘67. in. Montreal,
Ferguson and Kroitor, both

. working: for the National.
Film Board, produced the:
films-

multi-screen.
Labyrinth and Polar Life.

From there they set their.

imaginary sights on -a

single, powerful projector

that would replace the
cumbersome, multiple

Expo.

"Drawing on. ‘expertise
countries, *

from other |
Ferguson ‘and. Kroitor had
their new idea developed in

Exposition in Japan. They
repeated the system a year

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Q.. “Whatever . ‘hap.

: pened to David Bowie" 8
movie career? -G.S.

: 3A. Rock star David
_ Bowie has made a few |
- films but he has hardly: :
. turned out to be'a boxof
fice senation.- His latest :

*. Hail Columbia! :

. over the economic recession
time: for Osaka's ‘1970~

later when Ontario nv >
Cinesphere, the firat North.
American Imax theatre, -
opened in Toronto with
Ferguson's spectacular film '

- North of Superior.

The screen at Pyramid’

higher and about one metre.
wider than its Ontario Place -
prototype. oo,

At Pyramid Pince’ the -

‘audience is hypnotized from -

the time the Hail Columbia!"

* camera zooms in on the
‘Kennedy Space Centre in a
Florida for the historic ”

space journey of astronaut
John Young and Richard
Crippen. *

The camera : follows them
from the aborted first .
launch try last -year;.the .
successful liftoff shortly
after, capturing along~ the
way the, ear-numbing roar .
of engines and tearful —
emotion of spectators, and

_Maintaining suspense as if .

their desert landing two.

. days later was . still un-” _

certain. Le
Cne audience v was divided’
beteen awe and applause at
the myriad earth shots from
space — Mount Fujl, the—
Himalayas, the Sacramento
Valley irrigation canals, the

_ sand dunes of Algeria — all

in kaleidescope. proximity. .
Some audience members
were slightly. annoyed ° at

‘cutaway camera shots” of ©

the crowd during the blast-
off scene, but most seemed
Satisfied “that - needless
narration - was kept . to. a
minimum. |

“SUM uncertain: ‘is whether
will win -

and draw Canadian crowds ~~
this summer. Admission to
the movie, whichruns every -
second hour starting at 10
am. — altemating each

-hour with the film To Fly — -

-is $3 for adults and $2 for

children and:seniors.
.A combination ticket to

Pyramid” Place, good. for

_ admissiqn to: both movies as
_wellasmusical Showa; rides _

movie \ was s called “ust a.
- Gigolo,’ a drama set in
pre-war ‘Berlin that. is

remembered - if at all -
for Kim .Novak’s and

_ > Marlene Dietrich’s par-
~~ teipation. ©
- David doésn’t say die

Anyway,

and is forging ahead. His
latest film, just finished .

in London, i is ‘@ gory and |

"sexy vampire item called:

“The. Hunger.” In it,
Bowie . portrays ‘a’ man |

~ who livesta. 300° years of °
age. opposite-.:co-star

Catherine. Deneuve’ 5.
2,000-year-old”. woman.

~, already in wide | use"
. example, °) in.”
_ Smithsonian . ~Tnstititilon’ a

and Kid’s Place, 1s $9.95 for a ree

adults ‘and:
chil ldren.

$8.95" “for
‘However,

Pyramid. Place is only one. me ,

of many Niagara Perea ats -

tractions...0  .)- “
Meanwhile, ge

looking at other mark@tTax,,

his expertise. His oe

-National.:Air and ‘Space’.

- Museum, in Washington. —

buth e'dlike to see more use .
in pda...
‘He hopes to seeit installed: ‘

_ at the. World Fair in Van-
Sa ninion aleo is

couver in 1966 and in a new |

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