Possibly the most technically impressive three dimensional motion picture ever is "Magic Journeys", playing at Kodak"s Journey Into Imagination at EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World's futuristic theme park in central Florida. (EPCOT is an acronym for "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow"). Greg Taylor of St. Petersburg, and proprietor of Stereo Photography Unlimited, describes "Magic Journeys" as "the most outstanding motion 3-D" he"s ever seen.
The 15 minute, 70mm motion picture was created by Walt Disney Productions in cooperation with Kodak research scientists, and was written and directed by Murray Lerner. Lerner, who has produced many, films and television specials, received an Oscar in 1980 for his documentary "From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China". Lerner also created the 3-D film "Sea Dreams" for Marineland of Florida.
The movie opens with a bird's eye view of blossoming apple trees that seem to cover the heads of the audience as young children romp through a field of flowers. One boy picks a dandelion puff ball and blows the spores that change shape with the child's imagination. "Magic Journeys" takes the audience around the world—to circuses, sphinxes, and exotic landscapes. In one Halloween scene, bolts of lightning appear to leap from the screen.
"Magic Journeys" was filmed on Eastman color negative 65mm film and printed on 70mm film. It is projected on a 58 by 30 foot silver screen in a 600 seat theater specially constructed to allow clear viewing of the screen from all seats.
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