Aluminum Core, IMAX
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- IMAX Corporation
- Summary
- NASA flew this aluminum film core with the IMAX camera in the payload bay of the space shuttle on seven missions in the 1980s and 1990s to capture film footage for four IMAX productions. Perhaps the most notable use of the camera was to film the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope during STS-31 in 1990, footage that later went on to use in the IMAX films Destiny in Space (1994) and Hubble 3D (2010).
- This aluminum film core was contained within either the feed or take-up magazine, acting as the spool around which unexposed or used film could be wound.
- Gift of the IMAX Corporation in 2011.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the IMAX Corporation
- Inventory Number
- A20120259011
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Photographic
- Materials
- Aluminum
- Paint
- Dimensions
- Overall: 6.5 x 7.6cm (2 9/16 x 3 in.)
- Country of Origin
- Canada
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20120259011
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv964c86e89-5070-410e-8675-9e386b0f0436
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