The IMAX® system was developed
for EXPO'67, in Montreal, where multi-screen movies
were the hit of the fair.
A small group of Canadian entrepreneurs and filmakers
(Grame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor and Robert Kerr), who
had made some of those popular movies, decided then
to design a new system using a single projector rather
that the cumbersome multiple projectors used at the
time.
The result was the IMAX® motion picture projection
system that would revolutionize giant-screen cinema.
In 2008, there are nearly 300 IMAX® theatres in the world.
The head office of IMAX® Corporation is in Mississauga,
Ontario.
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