IMAX 70mm INTERSTELLAR Print Assembly Video

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Ever wonder how a 70mm IMAX print is assembled and prepared for projection? Fort Lauderdale, Florida’s AutoNation IMAX Theater Chief Projectionist Armando Mena released a video that explains how this is accomplished, and he does it with a print of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. It shows you just how much work goes into projecting 70mm film onto a giant IMAX screen so that audiences can enjoy the movie. 

After seeing all of the effort put into this, I can see why IMAX is eventually eventually going drop the use of celluloid and go full digital with a laser projector system. The video was posted by Discovery and Science, and I'd like to see more behind-the-scenes videos like this. If you have a theater to go to where you can watch Interstellar in 70mm IMAX, you need to do it!

The Interstellar print is 60,288 feet long which equates to the length of 200 football fields!!! AutoNation IMAX Theater Chief Projectionist, Armando Mena, explains why Christopher Nolan shot Interstellar in 70mm film format, which offers the biggest, brightest, clearest images at ten times the resolution of 35 millimeter film shown on a new giant five-story-tall screen.