Section Meetings
The Toronto Section’s May meeting co-organized by Peter Armstrong and Tony Meerakker was held on 23May at Ontario Place Cinesphere. The Cinesphere was the first IMAX screen in a multiseat theatre environment. The Section was honored with the attendance of Patricia and David Keighley, IMAX chief quality officer gurus, and Denis Tremblay, senior research scientist also from IMAX. Three of Toronto’s societies were also represented: SMPTE, the Audio Engineering Society, and Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC). The outstanding number of 234 registered attendees included 105 from SMPTE, 58 from AES, 36 from CSC, and 35 friends. Patricia and David Keighley provided a history of IMAX and display technologies. Tremblay discussed audio technologies at IMAX; Glenn Shaver, Ontario Place, Manager of Transformation, spoke of the renovation side of the Cinesphere transformation; and Nancy Rowland, Ontario Place general manager, spoke of the current Ontario Place revitalization plans. Cinesphere offers a unique and immersive IMAX theatre experience for the screening of films in digital laser and 70-mm film technologies. After the meeting, Cinesphere showed the 70-mm, 18-min IMAX film
- Print ISSN
- 1545-0279
- Electronic ISSN
- 2160-2492
- Published
- 2018-09
- Content type
- Opinion
- DOI
- 10.5594/JMI.2018.2856638