Is a visit to Australia really worth the 20 hour plane ride ? If so . where should I go to make it worth the trip <| sep |> Zero 7 In the waiting line <| sep |> In case anyone cares , and you don ' t , this Imax theater is at 68 th and Broadway in New York City . It sits on the fourth floor of the Lincoln Square Cinema complex , which was one of the very first megaplexes at 13 screens , including the Imax screen . The Imax screen was one of the largest in the world at it ' s opening , with a screen measuring 77 feet tall , and 101 feet wide . The picture above shows the original 3 D glasses $ 500 electronic goggles that featured active blanking with LCD panels in the lenses . They needed to be recharged every 2 shows and were abandonded once passive lenses gained in quality . It opened in November of 1994 , and ran 40 minute Imax films for several years . One of It ' s most popular was a film called Across the Sea of Time , Which happened to feature a quick cameo By Trump himself , as he entered a Broadway show . Across . was a very New York centric film , and as such was not seen much outside of NYC . This Imax theater ran Across . well over 5000 times over the years . The Theater was directly responsible for the Imax Corporation entering the Hollywood style feature film format . It was one of the first theaters that could even handle a film longer than 60 minutes . When it first opened , it contained massive 8 foot wide platters that could accommodate up to a four hour long print . Imax film is ten times larger than conventional 35 mm , and as such the equipment to run it needed to be much larger , too . The only feature length film at the time was the concert film Rolling Stones at the Max which was actually an 80 minute show normally shown with an intermission between 40 minute segments . This was the first theater that was able to run the film nonstop with full digital sound . The success of the theater led in part to Disney ' s foray into Large format films . The release of Fantasia 2000 , the first feature length film made with Imax in mind opened the market for other films , most notably from Disney and Warner Brothers . Disney had a great success with the remastered rerelease of Beauty and the Beast , but halted further releases when 911 happened and they decided to not rerelease Aladdin at the last minute . Of late , Imax Corporation has all but abandoned the film format for digital , and now laser based projection systems . The new systems cannot hold a candle to film in terms of image resolution , but brightness , long an Imax issue , was generally improved with later systems . Lone holdout , Christopher Nolan , still releases Imax movies in the film format . The Dark Knight trilogy , Inception , Interstellar and the upcoming Dunkirk were all shot in whole or in part with Imax cameras and were meant to be seen on Imax screens in the Imax format . As a projectionist at this theater for nearly 20 years , trust me when I say that Imax and Climax has been successfully negotiated by more that a few patrons .