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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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