In 1994 Trumbull was briefly a Vice Chairman of IMAX Corporation and President of its Ridefilm division through his involvement in the simultaneous combination and takeover of the Canadian based private company Imax Corp. and Trumbull Co.

The IMAX 3D movie Across the Sea of Time incorporates both modern footage and historical photographs of Ellis Island.

Guatemala City offers all the modern amenities along with important historic sites that a world class city can be expected to have ranging from an IMAX Theater to the Ícaro film festival ( Festival Ícaro ) featuring films produced in Guatemala and Central America.

It is also very popular with film fans, as it has nearly 30 screens in three cinemas, including an IMAX cinema and an English speaking cinema, plus a film academy and a film museum.

It flew several times in 1986 and was filmed as part of the Smithsonian's IMAX film On the Wing.

The Smithsonian project to build a working model of Q. northropi was the subject of the 1986 IMAX documentary On the Wing, shown at the National Air and space museum in Washington, D. C ..

In addition, Hanks co-wrote and co-produced Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, an IMAX film about the moon landings.

Centerpiece attractions include a Ferris wheel, an IMAX theater, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Amazing Chicago's Funhouse Maze, the Chicago Children's Museum, the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, and at the entrance to Navy Pier is a statue of Oak Park comedian Bob Newhart, sponsored by the TV Land network.

The Pier also has an IMAX theater, and the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, many of which were salvaged from Chicago mansions.

Donna Cox, leader of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at NCSA and a professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her team have thrilled millions of people with visualizations for the Oscar-nominated IMAX film " Cosmic Voyage ," the PBS NOVA episodes " Hunt for the Supertwister " and " Runaway Universe ," as well as Discovery Channel documentaries and pieces for CNN and NBC Nightly News.

Cost of prints, are less than 25 % of similar running time in conventional 70mm Large Format, and only about 10 % of the cost of 3D of flat IMAX.

As of mid 2010, only about 40 theaters in a huge film market, such as India, are able to show either digital 3D or 3D IMAX.

Nevertheless, in 2008 ILM was still using the format in some production steps, such as for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and a VistaVision camera was used in the semi-trailer flip scene in The Dark Knight when there were not enough IMAX cameras to cover all the angles needed for the shot.

A horizontal variant of 70 mm, with an even bigger picture area, is used for the high-performance IMAX format which uses a frame that is 15 perforations wide on 70 mm film.

The Dynavision and Astrovision systems each use slightly less film per frame and vertical pulldown to save print costs while being able to project onto an IMAX screen.

Still, it took many years more before IMAX began to test the water for big-screen 3D, and sold the concept to Hollywood executives.

Recently, Hollywood has released films shot in 35 mm as IMAX blow-up versions.

Now many 3D films are being shown in the 70 mm IMAX format.

The Polar Express in IMAX 3D 70 mm earned 14 times as much, per screen, as the simultaneous 2D 35 mm release of that film in the fall of 2004.

It includes the third largest planetarium in the United States and an IMAX theater.

The 1996 racing season was chronicled in the IMAX film Super Speedway, which Newman narrated.

Later in the 20th century, the falls was a featured location in 1980s movie Superman II, and was itself the subject of a popular IMAX movie, Niagara: Miracles, Myths and Magic.

She is featured in the IMAX movie Destiny in Space, and has also co-anchored the Discovery Channel's coverage of space shuttle launches.

The center, which first opened in 1993 as New Jersey's first major state science museum, has science exhibits, the world's largest IMAX Dome theater, numerous educational resources, and the original Hoberman sphere.

The park has views of the Spokane Falls, and holds a number of civic attractions, including a Skyride that is a rebuilt gondola that carries visitors across the falls from high above the river gorge, a 5-story IMAX theater, and a small amusement park ( which is converted into an ice-skating rink during the winter months ).

IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems.

The IMAX format in the USA has traditionally been employed for specialty applications.

The expense and logistics of producing and presenting IMAX films has led to approximately 40 minute shorter running times than conventional films.

IMAX Corporation has released four projector types that use its 15-perforation, 70 mm film format: GT ( Grand Theatre ), GT 3D ( dual rotor ), SR ( Small Rotor ), and MPX, which was designed for retrofitted theatres.

IMAX has since renamed the system IMAX Dome.

The further increase in IMAX HD has prevented significant adoption.

Like the film and digital systems, it uses two projectors but it has been said to improve over the smaller digital screens by retaining the traditional IMAX aspect ratio and to allow films to be shown on screens 120 feet wide or more.

IMAX recently has been moving forward with digital projection with recent success with The Hunger Games and The Avengers and the format has also aided in the company's worldwide growth, especially in Russia and China.

Mainly because the system facilitates inexpensive distribution of IMAX features, the company has recently announced that they are re-renovating specially selected locations around the world to present both 70mm analog as well as digital presentations.

To do so, IMAX has, with another, currently unknown, business partner-developed a rail system that allows the projectors to be moved in and out if there's either a full-frame film print available or a digital-only release.

Currently while IMAX has completed the production camera and has been placed into service on several films, there are no plans to produce an IMAX film using solely the new digital system.

Some recent features have employed IMAX cameras for selected scenes, however no full-length feature film has yet been shot entirely using IMAX cameras due to the numerous difficulties presented with the format – the cameras are much larger and heavier than standard cameras and as they are noisier it makes dialogue recording difficult.

Creating 40-50 new jobs, Magic Valley 14 Cinemas will construct a new theater equipped with IMAX screens and D-Box seating.

Other prominent retail space developed by others on the periphery of the mall includes big box stores such as Best Buy, and Costco Wholesale, Nordstrom Rack, a Regal Entertainment Group theatre with IMAX, and Bahama Breeze, Champs, Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, Lone Star Steakhouse and Chili's, all directly across the street from the massive shopping mall.

They chronicled their adventure with an IMAX camera and two handheld video cams, sharing their story in the IMAX film Mystery of the Nile and in a book of the same title.

As China is now the second largest market after USA with roughly 25 IMAX theatres located throughout the country, IMAX aims to attract more viewers by decreasing the admission prices in China.

In 1998 and ' 99, More and The Old Man and the Sea became the first short films produced using the IMAX format and both earned Academy Award nominations, with Old Man and the Sea winning ( currently the only IMAX film to win an Oscar ).

The dome system, which the San Diego Hall of Science called OMNIMAX, uses films shot with a camera equipped with a fisheye lens on the camera that squeezes a highly distorted 180 ° field of view onto the 65 mm IMAX film.

The screen may be a permanent fixture, such as at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the St. Louis Science Center, Boston's Museum of Science, and Birmingham, Alabama's McWane Science Center ; or lowered and raised as needed, such as at the Science Museum of Minnesota ( where it shares an auditorium with a standard IMAX screen ).

The IMAX HD system was tested in 1992 at the Canada Pavilion of the Seville Expo ' 92 with the film Momentum.

The digital installations have caused some controversy, as many theaters have branded their screens as IMAX after merely retrofitting standard auditoriums with IMAX digital projectors.

In 2011, IMAX announced a 4K 3D digital camera with the similar wide resolution of regular IMAX film cameras.