Optics: motion pictures – Special effects
Patent
1989-02-15
1991-06-25
Hayes, Monroe H.
Optics: motion pictures
Special effects
352 43, 352 86, 350117, G03B 2132
Patent
active
050261525
ABSTRACT:
An enhanced cinema system for use with a movie screen using a fog-like gas released from a plurality of retractable shafts having slits. The plurality of shafts may spin to generate a fog effect with the fog-like gas escaping from the slits. A movie projector may project a movie onto the movie screen, and signals may cause a laser beam of light to interact with the movie and fog-like gas in front of the movie screen. Programmable lighting panels may be mounted on the side walls of the movie theater and in response to a lighting signal from the movie projector, activate lights in the programmable lighting panels during a movie. The enhanced cinema system may further include a remote location coupled to the enhanced cinemas, for distributing programs through a communications channel or other medium, for having a globally controlled system for various movies and effects.
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Capt. Eo Show, Walt Disney World, Epcot Center.
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