The Walt Disney Company is no stranger to breaking barriers of film technology. Take the case of their newest animated feature, "Treasure Planet". The film takes a classic story, Robert Lewis Stevenson's adventure of Treasure Island, and mixes it with a science fiction universe of exotic planets and interesting characters. Not high tech enough, you might say? The film also mixes traditional cel animation with new digital animation techniques that combine 2D with 3D. And it is the first film to go out simultaneously in four different movie exhibition formats, including standard 35mm, digital projection, Large Format 8-perf 70mm and IMAX 15-perf 70mm.
Producer Roy Conli is one of the talented people behind this epic film adventure. He was kind enough to take a few moments out of his busy schedule to talk about the film, its development and the large format release.
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