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The Fujitsu Pavilion will
house the first demonstration of
IMAX SOLIDO outside of Japan. The
full-color 3-D format uses electronic

liquid-crystal glass and a dome
screen. The
award-winning film,
titled Echoes of the Sun, was produced
by Roman Kroitor and Sally Dundas
of Imax and Fumio Sumi of Fujitsu
Limited. Using sophisticated com¬
puter graphics as well as puppets
and live action, the film explains the
process of photosynthesis.
The strong presence of

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Who are these

prestigious people?
John

Barry Group (Australia)

Camera Service Ctr.

Imax continues at the Canada Pavil¬

ion, where the new IMAX HD sys¬
tem (shot and projected at 48 fps)
augments a filmic portrait of Cana¬
dian life produced by the National
Film Board of Canada and Colin

Low, Tony Ianzelo, Ernie McNabb,
Mark Zannis and Colin Neale.
IMAX equipment has

been
rearranged to provide unusual per¬
spectives at the French Pavilion,
where a 5,382-square-foot screen will
beam up to visitors walking on a
clear floor 20 meters above. Called Le
Puits d'lmage (The Well of Images), the
exhibit will feature three short IMAX

(United States)

Clairmont Camera

(Canada)

Clairmont Camera

(United States)

Grip House (Great Britain)
ILM Lucas Films

(United States)

Otto Nemenz Int'l.
PS-A Atlanta

Salon Films
Samuelson

(United States)

(United States)

(Hong Kong)
Group (Great Britain)
System (Spain)

Servicevision

William F. White Ltd.

(Canada)

films, produced by Gerald Calderon,
Communications, and Ex

F.A.T.

Machina.
In the Environment Pavil¬

ion, Showscan Corporation's
D

first 3production, Concerto for the Earth,

will contrast industrial areas with
of natural beauty untouched by

areas

pollution (see related story in this is¬
sue). The pavilion will also feature
two shorter films, produced by
WQED Pittsburgh, on natural Span¬
ish and Hispanic American flora and
fauna.

People who

have chosen the
Power Pod.
It's

Sony Corporation's pres¬
ence at
Expo '92 includes a special
venue of a
slightly different variety.
The Sony Plaza, which can seat some
10,000 spectators for live music per¬
formances, will house an imposing,
192-meter

Jumbotron

screen.

a modular, remote robotic
head that needs no special

"operator." Fluid-drag wheels
resettable and adjust¬

are

able, for true gear-head feel.

The

reflect as many as 32 dif¬
ferent shades of illumination be¬
tween black and white, and as many
as 256 shades of contrast for each of
the primary colors.
Motion pictures of a more
traditional type will be seen in Seville
as well. Films
representing the most
screen can

significant movements in the history
of cinema will be shown
meter

screen

at Cine Expo,

on a

266-

a specially

designed open-air theater which
holds

an

audience of 1,200.

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