Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site t4test.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!intelca!t4test!chip From: chip@t4test.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: 70mm shuttle film to be made! Message-ID: <374@t4test.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 11:35:57 EST Article-I.D.: t4test.374 Posted: Tue Mar 6 11:35:57 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 08:32:54 EST References: <219@ll1.UUCP> Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, Ca. Lines: 15 > I just read in the Chicago Sun-Times a day ago that on the > rest shuttle flights this year the are going to be filming interior > and exterior sequences with a special 70mm camera. Some time next > year NASA plans to release the film to theaters, but the only ones > that will be able to show it are those equipped with one of those > concave wide screens. What is special about the camera is that it has an extremely wide field of view. The film is intended for release to planetariums. I hope the folks in Rochester, NY keep an eye out for this. You people have the most fantastic planetarium I have ever seen. But given the nature of the city (e.g. R.I.T., Kodak, etc.), that's no surprise.