IMAX Theatre

Glasgow Science Centre | Glasgow G51 1EA
Phone: 0871 540 1000

In case you’re still not sure what it is, IMAX is a motion picture format, used in specialised cinemas capable of projecting high-resolution films onto screens of tremendous size. Glasgow’s own IMAX uses two very helpful comparisons to give you an idea – their screen is bigger than a five-a-side football pitch, or, for the non-sporting, taller than four double-deckers sat on top of each other.

The IMAX theatre aims at delivering a totally immersive cinema experience, and it does this well. Sat among the perilously steep seating, surrounded by the seventy-two individual speakers, one can’t help but feel overwhelmed.

Such are the technical requirements of shooting IMAX movies that few blockbusters receive the treatment. These are certainly worth going to see, with the average ticket price not exceeding that of a trip to yer usual multiplex by much. However, when these aren’t in rotation, the IMAX screens shorter documentaries and animations. These forty minute affairs are not cheap, and while the idea of Leonardo DiCaprio narrating a documentary on the hubble may sound alluring, you’d have to be pretty keen on witnessing the raw technology to spring for it. All that science is still mighty impressive, though. IMAX filament lamps produce plasma 12000 degrees Celsius hot. That’s twice as hot as the surface of the sun, and requires its own dedicated cooling system to stop it from incinerating the audience – and who doesn’t love facts like that? 

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    IMAX Theatre
    Glasgow Science Centre
    Glasgow G51 1EA

    IMAX Theatre

    Phone: 0871 540 1000
    Web: http://www.glasgowsciencecentre.org
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