AUSTIN (KXAN) — Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is record-breaking and historic for many different reasons, but the primary one is the way the movie was filmed… and not everyone will get to view the adaptation the way it was intended.
Nolan’s take on Homer’s epic tale is the first-ever feature film shot entirely on IMAX film. A new type of camera even had to be invented for it to work.
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This format is extremely rare, and fewer than 50 theaters in the world can screen it the way it’s meant: straight from film to screen via projector. Only two dozen American theaters have IMAX 70mm film projectors, and two are in Texas.
Dallas
Earlier this week, a Cinemark Dallas employee went viral on social media for his pre-screening explanation of 70mm film. In the video, he held up 24 frames of 70mm film, which was about 5-and-a-half feet long, saying that amount of film covers about one second of film time.
One roll of film containing the entirety of “The Odyssey” spans 11 miles of film, if it were stretched all the way out, and weighs 600 pounds, according to Celebration Cinema.
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The theater employee also said because it’s a rare form of presentation, people travel from all over to experience it, then asked the audience if anyone had traveled from far away. Audience members shared that they’d traveled from Houston, Arizona, New York, and even Australia…