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Topic: What's Giantscreen ?
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Dave Macaulay
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Posts: 2321
From: Toronto, Canada
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 03-08-2015 08:14 AM
Definitely the viewing angle is important to the GSTA. I wouldn't have a problem calling a huge stadium Jumbotron® a "Giant Screen". Architectural video projections turn stately homes, castles, office buildings, etc into "giant screens". A giant screen cinema should, in my opinion, have an immediate impact when you first enter the auditorium and see the screen dominating the room. I did not see the pavilion where 15/70 debuted at Expo 70 in Osaka. According to first hand reports the building did not exploit the image well, but did hint at what it could be - as I understand it the projector (from the company that would become IMAX®) had until then only run in a small room and the pavilion was the first place 15/70 was seen on any "large" screen. I was in Cinesphere the year it opened and found it overwhelming - unimaginable to someone expecting an experience like the movie houses of the time. In the flying scenes much of the audience (me too!) believed the whole theatre was pitching and yawing. I believe a "Giant Screen Cinema" should maintain that "wow" effect. The screen should be very large and the audience should be close. Installing a 50M screen facing out of a stadium end zone would be impressive, definitely a "giant screen", but would not have the impact of a true "giant screen theatre". Looking at historic images of the original 1000+ seat Movie Palace rooms it's easy to idealize their complex architecture and decoration; if you look at the screen though, it's a tiny postage-stamp square in the massive ornate proscenium. Probably patrons in the rear rows needed opera glasses to see the image. A typical modern stadium seating cinema would astonish those folks the same as I was astonished at Cinesphere in 1971. A giant screen theatre should have the same effect on people used to the modern cinema experience!
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