Showscan

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Showscan is a cinema process developed by Douglas Trumbull. Like some other spectacular wide-screen processes, it utilizes 70 mm film, but Showscan films and projects at a frame rate of 60 frame/s, 2.5 times as fast as standard cinema (the same fluidity possible by video). It renders a picture that is not only extremely high in definition, but is dramatically smoother and more realistic in its rendering of motion.

At one time it was intended that all, or at least the "virtual reality" segments of the feature film Brainstorm were to have been filmed and presented in Showscan, but the plans fell through.

To date, it has been used mostly for short "ride films," in conjunction with powered motion simulator seats.

Showscan Film Corporation, which produced and marketed the equipment, underwent Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2002[1]; the process was then acquired by a new company, Showscan Entertainment[2].

[edit] See also

• Slit-scan photography

[edit] External links

• Showscan Entertainment

• List of Showscan films