https://www.theverge.com/23801118/imax-movie-palm-pilot-oppenheimer
"The Palm Pilot surely wasn’t the point of the TikTok, but it seemed to be the
only thing anybody noticed. Ahead of the release of
Oppenheimer, the official
IMAX TikTok account posted a video showing the mind-bending size of the 70mm
film print and the orange extensions IMAX had to build just to hold the platter
in place. To give you some context:
Oppenheimer’s film reportedly weighs 600
pounds, and the reel is an outrageous 11 miles long. Director Christopher Nolan
told
Collider that he thinks he might have hit the “outer limit” for how big
a film reel can be.
But anyway, back to the Palm Pilot. Right there, in the foreground of the
TikTok video, is a small blue and silver Palm device. (It’s technically not
called a Palm Pilot — PalmPilot was the name of the company and devices long
before the m130 came out — but everybody calls this class of devices Palm
Pilots. So we will, too.) More specifically: a picture of a Palm Pilot, on a
tablet, mounted to a white column next to the machine holding the reels. It’s
not just a Palm Pilot; it’s a Palm Pilot
emulator, running on another device
because that’s apparently how important this thing is to getting
Oppenheimer
on a screen near you."
The Melbourne IMAX is one of the locations that still has the equipment and
staff to show this, even though they mostly use digital projection these days
like everyone else. There was an article in the local media about it as well.
Via Susan ****
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