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Subject: Re: Trumbull
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Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 09:52:26 EST
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From: William M. York <York@SCRC-QUABBIN.ARPA>

    Date: 7 Apr 85 04:38:20 GMT
    From: lsuc!msb@topaz.arpa (Mark Brader)

    >> What's Trumbull doing today?
    >
    > Trumbull has at least two projects going.  The first is a Showscan
    > process film for Expo 85 which is in Montreal, I believe.  The
    > film is part of an amusement park ride: you are part of a
    > commercial space shuttle flight in the near future.

    Nobody else has said anything, so I suppose I'd better.  Expo 85
    isn't in Montreal; it's in Tsukuba, in Japan not too far from Tokyo.
    Expo 86, however, will be in Vancouver (which is at least in the
    same country as Montreal).

    The theme of Expo 85 is science and technology for man at home; the
    theme of Expo 86 will be transportation.  Therefore it seems more
    likely that the Trumbull film talked about will be shown in
    Vancouver...especially since it is described as "in progress" and
    Expo 85 has already opened.

The Showscan movie in question IS being shown at Tsukuba Expo '85, in
the Toshiba corporate pavillion.  I got a chance to see it while we were
setting up our exhibit in the US pavillion.  The Showscan process is as
impressive as ever.  The film has more plot (a Japanese boy visiting an
American scientist in a research lab and touring the facility with the
scientist's robot) and less action the the original Showscan "demo"
film.  It seemed like they were worried about overstressing the
audience.  The action sequences have more visual surprises (e.g. in the
sequence taken from the front bumper of a car travelling at high speed
down narrow roads, other cars keep popping out of intersections and
there are many near misses), but each sequence is interrupted frequently
by shots of the boy and robot.  This keeps the sequences down to about 5
seconds each and the visceral reaction from the VERY realistic visual
effects is not allowed to build.  Still a pretty good show...