![]() Imax may be the last vestige of what the critic Tom Gunning has called ''the cinema of attractions'': cinema that existed before storytelling, as a dime museum display or a vaudeville turn. It was enough for something to move on a screen to keep audiences captivated in those days, and it is enough today for Imax just to cast its high-definition gaze on a perfectly ordinary scene to transform it into spectacle. ![]() Imax takes us right back to the Lumière brothers, whose pioneering films of the 1890's - single-shot images of workers leaving a factory, or a train pulling into a station - were full of wonder at their own existence. With its high-resolution 60-millimeter image projected on a giant screen, Imax may be one of the most technologically advanced motion picture formats, but in a sense it is also one of the most primitive.
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