P3D Re: "Feeling like you're there" movies

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2:30 PM -0700 on 2/26/98, Marlin Linger wrote:


|I don't know who else to ask about this, but maybe someone out there knows
|the photographic conditions necessary for creating that effect you get from
|some movies when an airplane is flying through a mountain canyon or a car
|is driving down a narrow, twisty highway - it feels like you're actually in
|the airplane or car and your body wants to sway with the motion.  Is there
|a name for this effect?  Are any special condtions required to achieve it
|if you do the photography yourself?
|
|Marlin Linger
|linger.1@xxxxxxx

Probably the most dramatic of these effects I've ever experienced was
quite a few years ago (I can't remember if it was Disneyland or IMAX).
At any rate there was the LARGE semi-circular IMAX type screen which
filled your complete cone of vision. I particularly remember a shot
which I now realize was somewhat speeded up with a camera in a convertible
sports car looking forward. It was whizzing down thru canyons, etc and then
very unexpectedly came to a stop sign at a cross street, with a pronounced
drop off on the other side of the intersection. Everybody in the theater
(who was old enough to drive) instinctively stuck their right foot out for
the brake pedal when that stop sign came up.

Does anybody else remember that?

              Bob Wier
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   2:47 PM Thursday, February 26, 1998
   Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
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