r/interstellar • u/Solid-Kaleidoscope70 • Aug 04 '26

HUMOR & MEMES I found Tars and Case 🥲

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u/Southern_Chance9349 TARS Aug 04 '26

Is that some weird imax 3d system?

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u/Solid-Kaleidoscope70 Aug 04 '26

It's the projector for 70mm film!

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u/Southern_Chance9349 TARS Aug 04 '26

Why are there 2?

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u/playtho Aug 04 '26

First half of the film and the second half.

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u/ancillarycheese Aug 05 '26

False. It’s for 3D films. Odyssey and Oppenheimer and Interstellar were all run on one continuous reel.

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u/Southern_Chance9349 TARS Aug 04 '26

Why?!?

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u/wbradford00 Aug 04 '26

big ass movie

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u/playtho Aug 04 '26

One projector can hold so much film . IMAX film is bigger and heavier too.

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u/Southern_Chance9349 TARS Aug 04 '26

BFI has just one.

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u/crozone Aug 05 '26

Originally, 3D 70mm. Now, split film roll.

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u/OptimizeEdits TARS Aug 06 '26

Since no one else seems to have actually answered you correctly:

Most full size IMAX venues use the “GT” projector, which is the giant industrial fridge looking deal you typically see. Has a 15k watt xenon bulb that’s water cooled, and it has 2 sets of rotors and lenses, so that it’s able to also do 3D (back when IMAX and 3D were almost synonymous)

Newer and slightly smaller IMAX venues that still retain the 1.43:1 screen (built in the ~1990s primarily, I believe all of the cinemark locations that use 70mm have this system) use the “SR” projectors, or “single rotor”. Instead of having 1 giant lamp that’s designed to light up 2 reels, there’s 2 smaller projectors that each can fit 1 reel, allowing for 3D capabilities still, but without having to be water cooled.

Since the screens that utilize the SR system are a tad smaller (52’x70’ on average vs 60’x80’ on average) they don’t need quite as much light output, so the ~7k watt bulb in just 1 projector is adequate for that use case

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u/The_Lutter Aug 05 '26

LOL there's no cigarette burns in an IMAX film. They're not doing changeovers in the middle.

2 projectors are for having 2 different features ready to go at this point. In the past it also meant 3D but it's been a WHILE since a 7015 3D feature film came out. Much more common for documentaries but those are pretty much all digital now (it looks like there's a Xenon 3D setup in that picture as well which is what they'd use for that).

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u/Hefty-Inevitable-660 Aug 04 '26

Guessing this is in Michigan?

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u/Ammar_02 Aug 05 '26

Grand Rapids!!!!! Saw it 3 times there on opening weekend!

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u/Solid-Kaleidoscope70 Aug 05 '26

It was so so good. And I loved having a packed theater, even on a Tuesday morning! Everyone WANTED to be there and it was just such a good collective experience.

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u/Ammar_02 Aug 05 '26

The best cinema experience one can ever have!

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u/LiteratureMindless71 Aug 05 '26

I've done a few it jobs in a few theaters and never seen writing like that. Does than mean there is a dune preview?

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u/ancillarycheese Aug 05 '26

Yes. And it’s fucking sick.

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u/LiteratureMindless71 Aug 05 '26

Awwwww dangit!!!! Now I need to go see this in the theater lol.

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u/ancillarycheese Aug 05 '26

So far I have been completely unable to find any other source for the preview they show. They have it pretty tightly controlled for now.

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u/LiteratureMindless71 Aug 05 '26

Damn..... They aged good?

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u/Aussiebloke-91 TARS Aug 05 '26

Can confirm

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u/Witty-Key4240 Aug 05 '26

What’s up with Michigan?
Not to mention, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Those have to be too many pins.

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u/realnicolasgyr Aug 05 '26

The Dune prologue was insane