Every IMAX Camera Christopher Nolan DESTROYED

Christopher Nolan has broken plenty of IMAX cameras over the years and in spectacular fashion! Join us as we take a look back at all the times an IMAX camera was destroyed under the watchful eye of Christopher Nolan.

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0:00 IMAX, IMAX, IMAX, and IMAAAXXXXX
1:02 The camera repair shop 😢
2:27 IMAX - What is it?
3:52 The Dark Knight (2008) IMAX
6:53 The Dark Knight Rises (2012) IMAX
7:33 Dunkirk (2017) IMAX
9:14 Oppenheimer (2023) IMAX

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[Amphibax]

Nolan is one of very few people who can just wreck an IMAX Camera and still get them for his next project

[izzieb]

I suppose if you're willing to pay for them to be replaced, you can destroy as many IMAX cameras as you like.

[VariTimo]

The crazy thing about the Dunkirk crash is that the footage actually ended up in the film!
The put the camera mag in distilled water and shipped to FotoKem in LA where they developed the film. And because Nolan prints photochemically, the piece of film that was on the bottom of the sea for 1 1/2h was in direct contact with all of the 31 70mm IMAX prints shown in IMAX 70mm theaters.

[Kirmo]

Imagine if for the sake of realistic filmography, Nolan decided to recreate a fake nuke, but then decided step by step to replace the fake parts with the real ones for "authenticity". Then without nobody realizing, they build a fully fledged nuke in the studio and accidentally detonate it
That might break an IMAX camera or two

[KangaGamer]

"We really are treating an IMAX cammera like a gopro camrea" this sentence is the greatest string of words to be conceived by a film maker

[HokageHunter_]

The scene where the camera was destroyed in the dark knight made it into the final cut of the movie (sort of).
It's in the chase scene in the tunnel and it cuts right before the truck or stunt car hits the camera but you can clearly see that the car/truck still has some momentum when it cuts.

[AhmadAli]

By the way, he didn’t actually crash a plane for Dunkirk. It was just a model - probably not cheap to make but certainly cheaper than an actual plane. Not to mention crashing precious historical crafts would be totally unacceptable.

[skullsNscalps]

Went to repair my IMAX camera today. Played Shadow Legends at the waiting lobby.

10/10 would do it again.

[LordWout]

I love at 0:45 where van Hoytema struggles to carry this gigantic camera because he wants to have a handheld shot, it looks so impractical.

[Modenut]

I was a service engineer for Flir Systems for a number of years working on their highest tier science and military cameras. Some of those were also in the multi million dollar price range and occasionally we'd get one in for repairs that were absolute wrecks lol. You'd just stare at it, scratch your chin and nip out for an extended lunch to calm your nerves.

[billyoung]

I disagree that with digital it would have all been lost, because they could put the media into an isolation enclosure that could literally drop down the bottom of the ocean if they wanted to. Film is FAR more subject to environmental damage than digital media when proper precautions are taken.

[Cato-ep]

"And now I become Nolan, the destroyer of IMAX cameras"

[revolver]

With all the IMAX cameras Christopher Nolan destroys he'll probably need a Raid Shadow Legends sponsorship

[ClassicalRips]

I really hope to see more cinematographers using real IMAX film and just film in general going forward, it's such a fantastic medium

[stephenfazekas]

Its very dishonest “for the press not you” saying the budget went up by another billion dollars when a camera gets damaged. The repair costs several thousand dollars yes but come one they spend more on catering a single meal than they do fixing a camera

[johnjohn]

I think it’s worth mentioning Bob Hall the legendary cameraman for being able to keep all those IMAX shots with Nolan in focus. That would be incredibly difficult.

[Happymali]

"If it were digital the footage would be lost"
Yeah....except waterproof digital camera systems exist.

[hemangkorane]

it's actually a surprise for me that, no IMAX camera was destroyed while filming Tenet😂

[radioactivebitflip]

I enjoyed this one a lot. Your videos get better with every upload. Cheers bro. ❤

[Glenn_v_e]

*UPDATE : Found it !
Its called : " Lamborghini Crash - The Dark Knight " video is 1:53 min. crash is at 0:46. really minor not really destroy.. so yeah.


if i'm correct, there is a shot in the making of for Dark Knight where the russian arm car crashes into a stunt car. i was not 100% loss probably just some minor damage to the head and camera. it was the day time scene a car gets T boned lambo I believe and the camera car has the camera at the wrong place and it gets smashed between the cars.