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Kevin Willoughby wrote:

While not a pure-Soviet film, the 3-D IMAX Space Station movie is worth
the effort to see, even if just for the Soyuz launch sequence.



I should have thought of this one sooner:
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/tamefire.htm

Pat

OM wrote:
While not a pure-Soviet film, the 3-D IMAX Space Station movie ...
That 60fps really makes a difference,
kids.

OM

Bwah? I thought 3D IMAX was 2x24fps (eg, one strip at 48fps,
alternating between left and right eye). Doug Trumbull's "Showscan" is
the (only?) 60fps format I'm aware of.

I'll tell you what is really cool...
SPACECRAFT FILMS has released a whole bunch of DVD sets or Apollo (and I
think Gemini as well, but I am not so sure) TV Transmissions.
I have the Apollo 11 set. Contains pre launch footage, even as far back as
the assembly of the launch vehicle and spacecraft at the contractors. Also
has the pre-launch video from T-4 hours, the suit up, and the launch audio
w/ PAO commentary. Also has all the different pad angles, FD loop audio, pad
damage post launch, etc. All the TV video included as well. Has I think 4
DVDs in the set. Very Cool. I believe there are also Apollo 17, 16, 15 sets
out as well, but not sure. A must have.

Jeff K.

On 2005-01-12, wrote:

Close, it was actually a reflown Gemini.

Really? That fact alone is pretty interesting, tangentially. As years
go by I occasionaly discover that more & more flight hardware was
re-flown during the '60s and '70s.

It was a reflight of Gemini 2, which had originally been an unmanned
(suborbital?) test.

--
-Andrew Gray

Andrew Gray wrote:

It was a reflight of Gemini 2, which had originally been an unmanned
(suborbital?) test.



She was sent aloft atop a MOL mockup via a Titan III on the reflight.

Pat

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OM wrote:
While not a pure-Soviet film, the 3-D IMAX Space Station movie ...
That 60fps really makes a difference,
kids.
Bwah? I thought 3D IMAX was 2x24fps (eg, one strip at 48fps,
alternating between left and right eye).

That's correct. The visual impact comes from:
(1) The subject -- being close to the launch of a Soyuz is something
else.

(b) The huge IMAX format (an order of magnitude more visual information
than 35mm)

(iii) A fully debugged 3D presentation.


Doug Trumbull's "Showscan" is
the (only?) 60fps format I'm aware of.

True, but there have been a few other processes with an increased frame
rate. Heck, even the half-century old Cinerama used 26 fps.
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is more of a security danger than any terrorist risk.
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Kevin Willoughby wrote:
(1) The subject -- being close to the launch of a Soyuz is something
else.

It really is a sin and a shame that IMAX didn't exist quite early enough
to film a Saturn V launch...
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In article ,
Kevin Willoughby wrote:
(1) The subject -- being close to the launch of a Soyuz is something
else.

It really is a sin and a shame that IMAX didn't exist quite early enough
to film a Saturn V launch...

Ayuh...

Except that IMAX was founded in 1967. The IMAX prototype was on public
display at Expo '67 in Montreal. Tiger Child premiered in Japan in 1970.
So IMAX was available during the all too brief time when we could walk
on the moon.

Heck, Cinerama was available in the early 1950s. Yet no one even tried
to use this roughly (then) 20 year old technology to docunent a launch
to the moon. (Atomic Bombs, Si! Moon walks, Non!)
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Kevin Willoughby lid

The loss of the American system of checks and balances
is more of a security danger than any terrorist risk.
-- Bruce Schneier

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 03:50:55 GMT, (Henry Spencer)
wrote:

In article ,
Kevin Willoughby wrote:
(1) The subject -- being close to the launch of a Soyuz is something
else.

It really is a sin and a shame that IMAX didn't exist quite early enough
to film a Saturn V launch...

....Henry, wasn't a prototype for IMAX demonstrated at the '67 Expo?
IIRC, the original proof-of-tech concept was conceived in '65 or
thereabouts, and was supposed to be demonstrated at one of the expos
around that time. Wasn't Hemisfair '68, because I was there.

OM

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On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:26:12 -0500, Kevin Willoughby
wrote:

Doug Trumbull's "Showscan" is
the (only?) 60fps format I'm aware of.

True, but there have been a few other processes with an increased frame
rate. Heck, even the half-century old Cinerama used 26 fps.

....No, you guys are correct. I had Showscan on my mind when I posted
that, hence the 60fps gaffe.

OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

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