Seeing an IMAX movie is impressive, sure, but what’s even more impressive is watching an IMAX theatre get built. The world’s largest no less. It’s a feat.
This timelapse from imaxmovies shows the entire process of turning Hollywood’s historic TCL Chinese Theatre — home to premiers like The King of Kings and Star Wars — into the worlds largest IMAX to date (sorry Sydney).
The theatre will seat 932 people, more than any other IMAX in the world, and its screen is a whopping 90 feet by 46 feet. It’s worth noting the theatre is the largest; the screen’s just the third largest in North America. But it’s still damned impressive.
It’ll reopen on September 20 with a special IMAX screening of The Wizard of Oz, but in the meantime this timelapse is mesmerizing enough. I wonder what it’d look like in IMAX. [imaxmovies, SlashFilm]