Interstellar and the birth of IMAX in Toronto - blogTO (blog)
While IMAX may seem like yet another cynical studio ploy to increase their bottom line by charging more money per ticket, it actually began in Toronto with an altruistic vision for Canada's place in the cinematic order of things. From at least 1939, with the establishment of the National Film Board of Canada , it became apparent that apart from a few aberrant titles, Canada was simply not interested in feature length narrative film making. In 1967, the paradigm shifted dramatically with the films created for Expo'67 : a celebration of Canada's centennial which still represents a high watermark for Canadian idealism. Experimental multi-screen films such as We Are Young , A Place to Stand , and Canada '67 blew minds and singed eye-balls with their radical technique. Toronto native Graeme Ferguson directed the Expo'67 film Man and the Polar Region , a breath taking multi-screen exploration of the Arctic while his brother-in-law Roman Kroitor directed the NFB's official offering Labyrinth , often cited as the... Source: www.blogto.com
