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The curving IMAX screen is gigantic, the largest indoor screen in the area: 66 feet wide, 40 feet high. The six-channel stereophonic sound system surrounds the audience with 11 speakers. IMAX is a state-of-the-art engineering feat. Only 11 such theater ell planetarium-style dome theaters are equipped to project the IMAX films in the western hemisphere. During a showing of "To Fly" earlier this week, an audience of 500, including scores of toddlers among perhaps 200 pre-school children, was spellbound for nearly a-half-hour, their primary reaction exclamations of visceral delight at awesome scenes of Niagra Falls, the Sierra Nevadas, Grand Canyon, the pyrotechnics of the Navys Blue Angels precision stunt team, a hang glider floating over Hawaiis volcanic peaks filmed from helicopters, an F-4 reconnaissance jet and the belly of a 747 jumbo jetliner.

The IMAX system, patented by a team of Canadians, uses a film frame three time larger than conventional 70mm. nd 10 timea larger than standard 35mm. Shooting and projecting is so costly that thus for none of the 17 movies filmed in the IMAX process or the four currently in production has been feature-length. "To Fly," running 27 minutes, was produced by Francis Thompson, whose jwbfisrsting multi-screen documentary "To Be Alive" was a film highlight of REVIEWS re msbce of muz. Umcnipuloui lewmei dupw in- Hd enuring in kmonnl mm.

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Tickets cost $2 for adults and $1 for children, in pdditiim to the museums admission charge of $2.50 for adults and $1.50 for children. On Fridays and Saturdays, theres a double feature of To Fly and another IMAX film, "Living Planet," at 6 PM and 7:40 PM, with tickets costing $5.50 and including admission to the museums exhibits, the 1964-65 New York Worlds Fair, where a theater was built just for it "To Be Alive subsequently won an Academy Award. Filmed to celebrate the UJ5. bicentennial, "To Fly premiered in 1976 at the new National Air and Space Museum in Washington. The film has been a mnti miing tourist attraction for millions of visitors in the past six years.

Thematically, To Fly" "hiusa brief surveys of the westward movement of Americas pioneers and developments in transportation. Most of the film is a breathtaking panoramic trip aloft from New England to Hawaii an awesome travelogue that transforms mere picturesqueness into visual lyricism. To provide optimum sightlines, the museum sells tickets for only 550 of the auditoriums 1,000 seats. (The screen is retractable, so the auditorium remains available for other uses.) The screen of a baauWul young woman. Ro-mmticiiad story of gambiats and crimheli, told through ttw intor-play of a motlay group of cftaiao-lus, ndn of a bygone an and rwwooman attracted by the re- Burt lancaaftr, Susan Sarandon, Kato Reid.

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Is she pretty, Giorgio, wonders? "I leave that to you, the doctor tells him. But. when Giorgio sees her for the first time, he registers the same iphnrk uTid Burpried that we do the beak-like nose, the underbite, the short hlA hair matted to her scalp, 1 the eyes sunken into angular cheek- e- ,7. I 1 bones, the inordinately large forehead. Fosca (a made-up Valeria dObici) looks like something between Margaret Hamiltons witch and the Nosfer-atu of Max von Schreck.

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