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Iwerks'
Imagine 360
Catches Fall of the Wall
by George Turner
One of the monumental
news
events of the
century - the
joyous celebrations of newfound
freedom by the citizens of East
Berlin and the fall of the Berlin
Wall - was seen on live televi¬
sion last November by millions of
people in many countries of the
globe. These multitudes were
watching history being made,
seeing and hearing each moment
at the very instant of its happen¬
ing.
Simultaneously, camera¬
recording these joyous
moments electronically and on
film, creating a living historical
experience for generations yet to
men were
One of the cameras at the
on November 15,1989, as
the torrent of East Berliners
46
several cameramen, the observer
is surrounded by the tumultuous
sights and sounds. The details
upon which he concentrates are
of his own choosing rather than
those selected by the cameramen.
It's the closest thing to being there
we can ever experience - unless
someone
succeeds in
inventing a
time machine.
come.
scene
poured into the West, was not
like the others. The images it
captured for posterity have an
uncommon sense of immediacy,
an incredible
"you are there"
quality in which the observer is
placed in the midst of the action.
Instead of looking at an assem¬
blage of views photographed by
American
Cinematographer
The
March 1990
izing in the design and manufac¬
ture of unique format/special
venue
systems, films and thea¬
ters. The 360-degree scenes at the
Berlin Wall are part of Das Pano¬
rama
Berlin, which made its debut
last December 20 at the
gala
opening of Destination Berlin, a
remarkable
new
theater at Eu-
Center in West Berlin.
Actually, Das Panorama
Berlin had been completed about
ropa
six months before the celebration
at the infamous Wall
was
began. It
produced by Circle Vision
GmbH of Munich, owners and
operators of the blue domed
in
question
is the Imagine 360, a product of
Swiss filmmaker Ernst Heiniger
camera
and Iwerks Entertainment, Inc., a
Burbank-based company special¬
Destination Berlin, which is in¬
tended as the first in a network of
European Imagine 360 theaters.
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