P3D IMAX New Feature

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Marvin Jones wrote:
>>
>> I'm sure that in all cases they were chosen for directorial skills
>> unrelated to depth, but at least in the case of Andre de Toth, his House of
>> Wax is often cited as the best 3D film, and the best use of 3D in a movie,
>> ever.
>
>Better movie than the Imax 3D movies?
>
>Mike K.
>

I note that the Discovery Channel is getting into movie-making with
an IMAX film on fighting forest/range fires. However, in the brief
"Making Of" shots I've seen, it appears to be mono - Of course I don't
think that *I* would want to try outrunning a forest fire with an
IMAX rig strapped to my back, much less the stereo version!

Back last summer, when I was at the OCTA convention in Pendleton,
a front came thru with 70+ mph winds and got a heck of a range fire
going (some accounts indicated arson). In fact, I was about to 
talk about the mailing list (the OCTA, not this one :-) when they
came in and said they might have to evacuate the convention
center since it might burn down! Not conducive to a reasoned, orderly
presentation ("Thanks - now let's get the H*LL out of here!). It
didn't quite make it into town (although it did burn into the western
edge). I got some fairly amazing pictures from up on a bluff looking
west - unfortunately I didn't have my Realist with me! I might
have some inadvertant stereo pairs, though. The big danger was
that the winds might have blown the fire another 6 miles east and
gotten up into the Blue Mountains and become a forest fire. There
were reports of cars driving thru 40' towers of flame out on the
interstate (all things being equal, I think I'd have stopped!).

This incident generated considerable speculation if you were camped
in your covered wagon at night and saw a fire off to the west of
you, what you'd do assuming there was no river nearby to cross or
hunker down in. It would be *very* dicey...

              Bob Wier
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   3:23 PM Tuesday, March 9, 1999
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