Loud sound of IMAX 15/70 film cameras rolling

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[malypavel]

The pain I feel hearing all the frames before “action” being wasted knowing the price of film 😢

[David..]

The complexity of making a film is just mind boggling to me. There are so many codified and subjective things that go into making a film it’s just insane to think brilliant directors, producers, and actors like Neil Breen can put such works of art together.

[pauljakeman]

“Is it rolling?”
“WHAT?!?”
“I SAID IS IT ROLLING!?!”
“YES!!!”

[mixdown]

absolutly love IMAX and the people who 're making the extra effort

[vb]

Such a shame they didn't retain this aspect ratio for home viewing of the IMAX scenes

[okitasan]

This video was a reminder to me of how important lighting, art and production design is to making a movie look cinematic. Like, we're seeing BTS footage that could've been shot with what I assume is probably around the level of a RED or a Black Magic, and you could put these up on a screen and they would look fantastic, and probably would still look incredible shot through the lens of a DSLR or mirrorless.

[tsegulin]

I did the IMAX camera course for 3 days in 1986 at their Oakville facility. At the time they were changing over to the new Wilkinson IW5 cameras. That might be one in the video, I'm not sure.

To understand why an un-blimped IMAX camera sounds like a lawn mower you just have to squirt a few feet of film through the gate with the door open. The IMAX camera was horizontal traveling (like a 35 still or VistaVision camera) and shot on 65mm negative with a 15 perforation pull-across. Each frame had to be pulled several inches over and locked on the pilot pins 24 times a second. This took a beautifully engineered movement that was forced to make quite the 24 Hz racket. The footage these things shot on these massive negatives was utterly superb - the very best Eastmancolor has ever looked AFAIK.

Anyway, thanks for the video - I quite enjoyed it!

[pedroesteves]

i understand now why dialogue isnt shot with imax cameras ahahha

[TsReelTalk]

I remember being on set for this production for 6 months. Such a great experience

[Rezzanine]

Always wondered what Imax cameras sounded like.

[mkhan]

love it, love it, absolutely love "tick, tick, tick, tick" is a reminder to actors how expensive IMAX film is. Better give your very best shot every time in front of the camera.

[simonjohansson]

A moment of silence for the on set sound recordists out there.. they could really use it..

[Veyronskyhook]

Had a feeling they'd sound similar to an old movie projector. I'm surprised to find I was actually correct.

[ToddLamming]

Film making is such a practical process everytime I see the “making of” it feels so uncreative b/c you have to be thinking in such a linear way to be able to get the shots you need for editing process later and then the need of so much human help to be able to achieve such out of this world shots in real life in real spaces with real cars and real people. It’s truly magic

[nigelbraunig]

I had absolutely no idea that film was still used today, that's awesome.

[bloodstreamband]

Christopher Nolan definitely uses this video to fall asleep at night. On loop.

[metronohm_]

Class video, great insight into scenes I never knew were shot on IMAX, crazy! Thanks!

[MovingThePicture]

Never thought about how loud these things are. Now they feel even more ancient.

[gregfaris]

Many large-format cameras have has this problem - It's hard to silence that much mechanical flapping. Some 65mm cameras had huge "blimps" for filming where sound was required. Usually voices are simply re-recorded in post - some might be surprised to learn how common this practice is. One of the noisiest I've heard was the Vista-Vision camera (8-perf horizontal 35mm).

[athens]

Those Italian streets look so much better without hundreds of layers of unnecessary color grading.