It's much easier to give the facts about
the eight and a half million dollar
amphitheater than to describe what the
system does to a mere piece of film,
the theater is the largest one of its
kind in the world.
The projector alone weighs twelve hundred
pounds, is used to thread film that's ten
times as large as that used in movie
theaters. 72 speakers are used
to make the audio track sound like the
real thing.
Images are projected on a giant concave
screen 80 feet in diameter,
toping feet that allow the audience to
take in all of the sights and sounds that
literally surround them.
As in this promotional clip of Hail
Columbia, a film on the space shuttle,
its first voyage and the Army's first
presentation, we.
In this particular case, you're actually
closer than anyone was
at the time the launch occurred and
you feel the pressure
of the rockets going off.
You hear the sound and you hear
the sound of the crowd around you
cheering and yelling.
It's something you just have to have to
experience.
The film and the theater will run four
to six months, 35 shows each week.
We set records show 450000
people visit the museum each year.
But attendance is expected to start
soaring in mid-April when people will get
their chance to see, hear and experience
the magic of the Army theater.
Delbra Walker, Channel 5 Action News
or horror that started.