Thanks for the tip Roger. I imagined if there were any that they'd be
probably direct animation. I know Brakhage made Night Music on it, but I
highly doubt it's projectable (or that he made a 70mm print of it!) That
said, I also don't know how the machine would handle any direct originals
to begin with. Probably fine... but also probably something worth checking.

Commission might be the best way to go; though I do know that orphaned 70mm
can be hard to come by. According to a projectionist I was talking to,
fresh leader is like a $ grand or so. The couple theaters left that do show
IMAX still throw their trailers out from what I understand (for
scavenging), and you occasionally see one on ebay. A performance is a
possibility too...

Unfortunately, the timeframe to do so might be too short in general - I
just learned that a very large theater here (the biggest in Texas!) is
apparently doing the switchover this winter/spring, and I thought it might
be a nice send off to that mechanical beast (if the theater is interested
too). That said, it's unclear whether they're going to get rid of it,
though considering how much space it takes up, I presume they will... but,
as said before, all very tentative and under investigation.

In general if any of you other folk have been playing around with it, have
some laying around that you were thinking of doing something with and so
on, be in touch.


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Beebe, Roger W. <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ekrem,
>
> Here's the only one I know of:
>
> http://www.ninapaley.com/pandoramahome.html
>
> Always thought it'd be great to give orphaned prints of Imax film to a
> bunch of direct animators to do as they will.  Maybe you need to commission
> a program rather than just curate it?
>
> Good luck,
> R.
>
> On Jul 25, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Ekrem Serdar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hey Framers,
> >
> >   I'm investigating a possibility where we may be able to do a screening
> with an IMAX film projector, and I guess I'm wondering if any of you folk
> have played around with the 15/70 (or know of films that are on it). As
> said, it's very tentative, and I'm sure there's only a small bunch of you
> if any, but if you have, be in touch.
> >
> >  (or if you just worked with regular 70mm and it would work sideways(!)
> - I presume the film strip is otherwise the same, distance between perfs,
> etc? Not sure, feel free to correct me.)
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > austin, tx
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