Hurricane Katrina in IMAX?
Filed under: Documentary, Tech Stuff, DIY/Filmmaking, Politics
Like virtually everyone except for certain high-ranking members of the federal government, Glen Pitre knew a major hurricane would devastate New Orleans. A few weeks ago, he was in the area shooting footage for Storm on the Bayou, an IMAX documentary about what might happen in the event of such a natural disaster. "We wanted the original film to warn people what nature could do to New
Orleans," producer and co-director Greg MacGillivray told USA Today. "Then we
watched it happen." After the disaster, Pitre and MacGillivray borrowed a hellicopter from the set of Miami Vice and went back into the area to shoot more footage. They ended up diving into the rescue and recovery effort. No release date has been set for the film, but I would imagine that it would behoove everyone involved to get it out as soon as possible. As Pitre says, "In six months, people will have forgotten [New Orleans]. We'll need something to remind America about this place."I'm just imagining the images I've been seeing on my 13" television, blown up on an IMAX screen to the size of a skyscraper.
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9-14-2005 @ 3:29PM
Kurt said...
"Like virtually everyone except for certain high-ranking members of the federal government", nice partisan touch there. How about the mayor refusing to evacuate his city, per his responsibility? How about the governor refusing to allow aid to flow into the city? How about every official in the region not attending to their levee with the numerous federal dollars for such purpose?
The federal government was not the problem with Katrina, unless you want to talk about the devastation of the welfare state.
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9-14-2005 @ 3:51PM
Peej said...
This week HDNet started showing post-Katrina documentary footage -- in full 1080i HDTV -- on their show "World Report." See:
http://www.hd.net/op_worldreport.html
A lot of the aerial rescue footage they use is the same as I saw on the networks -- except now it's high-definition. I read somewhere that in the early days there was a pool helicopter that was providing most of this, and they apparently were shooting HD as well.
HD is of course not as good as IMAX, but what I saw sure impressed me. And HDNet didn't pull any punches -- to see a floating, bloated corpse in HDTV brought back the awfulness of the disaster all over again.
Show synopses are here (scroll to episodes # 361, 362 & 363):
http://www.hd.net/op_worldreport_epguide.html
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9-14-2005 @ 11:09PM
Eric P said...
Ditto your comments Kurt...good grief, some people look for every chance they can to point a finger at Bush. This is probably because such people think Bush is soley responsible for every mistake made by "the government". Good lord people, grow up...I especially love those who go so far as to think Bush single handedly caused global warming, which in turn creates super hurricanes that break levees in New Orleans and flood the entire city. This isn't a forum for political discussion, and let's quit using devastated lives as a political wild-card.
As for Hurricane coverage in IMAX...wow...I'm fascinated by storms so this might be a must watch for me!
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9-15-2005 @ 12:26AM
Nikki Allen said...
Well, lets just hope that it is in taste and not just for money.
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