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First Man/Lunar Surface Landing

Scene dossier / 2018

Lunar Surface Landing

EXTdayIMAX — Moon (set)

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Scene Equipment

camera bodyIMAX-CamIMAX Corporation IMAX 65mm Film Cameras/IMAX MSM 9802 (65mm 15-perf)a_cam

The Moon surface was the sole use of IMAX 65mm — the shift from Super 16mm to IMAX for the Moon sequences created a radical resolution and scale jump that Sandgren and Chazelle used to represent transcendence from the intimate to the cosmic.