IMAX in Kitchener

Posted May 18, 2011 11:16:55 AM.

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The world-renowned IMAX film experience is coming to Kitchener.

A new IMAX Digital Theatre is being installed at Empire Theatres on Gateway Park Drive. It will make its debut on July 15, just in time for the premiere of the latest Harry Potter film.

They use the largest film-frame size in motion picture history – ten times larger than 35 millimetre.

IMAX technology was created by three men who met as students in Galt.

They founded IMAX Corporation in 1968 in Montreal.

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