“Canada Far and Wide”
Canada's entertainment offering is an in-the-round movie shot in Circle-Vision 360[dg], a process Walt Disney originally called Circarama. You wouldn’t believe the work it takes to make a film that surrounds you from all sides. The makers first had to figure out the optimal number of screens (nine—which enables projectors to be slipped in the gaps between screens) and then they had to suspend a ring of carefully calibrated film cameras from helicopters so that the crew wasn’t in the shots.
The 12-minute presentation, which requires standing (you can lean on railings), is packed with timeless spectacular scenery worthy of a tourist brochure, but it is just a movie, after all, so measure that against your priorities. (Co-host Eugene Levy: “Say, are you a fan of heli-skiing?” Fellow presenter Catherine O’Hara: “Heli-yes!”) You’ll find it hidden deep within the pavilion by a waterfall in a dreamy rock canyon.
Canada's entertainment offering is an in-the-round movie shot in Circle-Vision 360[dg], a process Walt Disney originally called Circarama. You wouldn’t believe the work it takes to make a film that surrounds you from all sides. The makers first had to figure out the optimal number of screens (nine—which enables projectors to be slipped in the gaps between screens) and then they had to suspend a ring of carefully calibrated film cameras from helicopters so that the crew wasn’t in the shots.
The 12-minute presentation, which requires standing (you can lean on railings), is packed with timeless spectacular scenery worthy of a tourist brochure, but it is just a movie, after all, so measure that against your priorities. (Co-host Eugene Levy: “Say, are you a fan of heli-skiing?” Fellow presenter Catherine O’Hara: “Heli-yes!”) You’ll find it hidden deep within the pavilion by a waterfall in a dreamy rock canyon.
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