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Los
Angeles - Take a bug’s eye
view and discover a world unlike any other,
a world
that has been hidden from the human eye. A
Rainforest Adventure: Bugs! in 3D
opens at the California Science Center IMAX®
Theater on March 26, 2004, located in Exposition
Park. Experience breathtaking photography shown
on the enormous 7-story IMAX® screen. Highlighting
the extraordinary world of insects, A Rainforest
Adventure: Bugs! in 3D focuses
on the life cycles of a praying mantis and a
butterfly from their birth to their inevitable
encounter in the tropical rainforests of Southeast
Asia where predator meets its prey.
 More
than 40 tropical insects are featured in A
Rainforest Adventure: Bugs! in 3D. The audience
will view the birth of hundreds of praying mantids,
captured in minute detail
for the first time in 3D Large Format, see a
caterpillar hatch from a single tiny egg to
metamorphose into
a butterfly, and watch as a praying mantis snaps
up a fly for its dinner—another giant
screen first. A variety of other tropical insects
which
make their way across the gigantic screen, some,
magnified 250,000 times their normal size,
includes
tarantulas, scorpions, vipers, and jungle nymphs
as well as a million bats as they flit through
the jungle in search of insects which they consume
nightly by the ton. It’s survival of
the fittest!
Narrated
by the distinguished English actress, Dame Judi
Dench (Iris, Mrs. Brown).
The 40-minute film, which features at least 40
insects, was shot on location in the jungles of
Borneo and in the United Kingdom where a microcosm
of a tropical rainforest was replicated in studio
for extreme close-ups.
 Director
Mike Slee (IMAX® 2D films Wildfire –
Feel the Heat, Legend
of Loch Lomond) who co-wrote the script with
Abby Aron, shot the film from a bug’s perspective,
as they weave their way through blades of grass,
travel across the leaves of a tropical rainforest,
flit across the rainforest canopy, or skitter
across the sand on the ocean’s edge where
an equatorial sunset suffuses the screen with
gold.
Slee
surrounded himself with an outstanding team of
visual masters including Technical Oscar-winning
Specialist Photographer Peter Parks, who designed
and built new systems equipment to shoot insects
in extreme close-up; and Director of Photography
Sean Phillips, one of the world’s leading
stereographers and 3D cinematographers.
A
Rainforest Adventure: Bugs! in 3D is
produced by Phil Streather (IMAX®
2D films Legend of Loch Lomond, Wildfire
– Feel the Heat) and Alexandra Ferguson
(Legend of Loch Lomond, Wildfire
– Feel the Heat) with Jonathan Barker
(Into the Deep IMAX® 3D, Straight
Up! Helicopters in Action IMAX® 2D),
Simon Relph (Hideous Kinky) and UKFTV’s
Peter Fudakowski serving as Executive Producers.
Tim Wellspring (Legend of Loch Lomond)
is the Associate Producer.
A
Rainforest Adventure: Bugs! in 3D
is produced by Principal Large Format film in
association with Image Quest 3-D, co-produced
by the UK Film and TV Production Company Plc,
financed with The Film Consortium in association
with the Film Council. The film is presented
by Terminix and distributed to the worldwide
network
of IMAX and other Large Format Theaters by SK
Films Inc. of Toronto, Canada.
Tickets:
Ticket prices for IMAX films range from $4.50
to $7.50. Call (213) 744-7400 for information.
For advance ticket purchase and group rates, phone
213.744-2019.
Proceeds
from the IMAX Theater support Science Center exhibits
and programming. Guests should call (213) 744-7400
to confirm film schedule prior to their visit.
For general information, visit our website at
www.californiasciencecenter.org.
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