http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/imax%e2%80%94not-the-first-but-close/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:35:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/imax%e2%80%94not-the-first-but-close/comment-page-1/#comment-56798 Henry Mon, 07 May 2012 05:45:53 +0000 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?p=1383#comment-56798 I hope you guys are going to show The Dark Knight Rises here… I’m definitely going to watch it in true IMAX!

]]> http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/imax%e2%80%94not-the-first-but-close/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Dominick A Pisano Mon, 10 May 2010 18:54:17 +0000 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?p=1383#comment-286 From what I can determine, the first IMAX theater in the US was an IMAX Dome (later called OMNIMAX) theater at the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater and Science Center in San Diego, Cal., which opened in 1973. The theater was also a planetarium. The opening program consisted of two features: Voyage to the Outer Planets ( a planetarium show and OMNIMAX film produced by Graphic Films) and the OMNIMAX film Garden Isle (Roger Tilton Films.

]]> http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/imax%e2%80%94not-the-first-but-close/comment-page-1/#comment-284 SkyChazz Mon, 03 May 2010 22:09:43 +0000 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?p=1383#comment-284 So, what *was* the first IMAX film shown in the US? (I didn’t really pick it out of the article above.) Was it “Tiger Child” in Spokane after the debut in Japan?

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