The Moon

Have fun while interacting with your young audience using this very effective modular program about the moon,or it can be played straight through without pauses..

The Moon incorporates a popular animation style to capture and hold student attention. National Science Standards are covered using a variety of topics in this 3-part modular program.

  • Module One: The observable features of the moon.
  • Module Two: The apparent daily motion of the moon.
  • Module Three: The pattern of change in the moon’s appearance (phases).

 

Produced by Audio Visual Imagineering
Appx. running time: 20 minutes
For children, school

Moonbase – the next step

It has been over 50 years since humankind last set foot on the moon… Now we are going back… Multinational efforts are being made to return before the end of this decade and to stay for good.

MOONBASE: THE NEXT STEP tells the story of this human endeavour, visualising the scientific and technological advances needed to achieve this dream. How to safely travel 250,000 miles and survive the hostile and alien conditions of reduced gravity, extreme temperatures and toxic lunar dust. How do we establish a foothold on the Moon? Can we explore the vast landscape and extract the resources needed to live there on a permanent basis?

MOONBASE: THE NEXT STEP will place the viewer in an immersive environment that shows the sheer scale of the Moon itself and the huge task of surviving in such a hostile place. The audience will experience spectacular soaring visuals moving seamlessly from contemporary 3d animations into photo-real ‘point of view’ visuals, as we dock, land and explore the lunar world around us.

Follow our story filled with awe, danger and trepidation and share the wonder of the lunar environment made for the 360 full dome format. Prepare for an immersive and breathtaking lunar experience…

Moons: Worlds of Mystery

Moons: Worlds of Mystery immerses you in the amazing diversity of moons and the important roles they play in shaping our Solar System.

Follow in the footsteps of astronauts to our silvery Moon, then venture beyond to unfamiliar and exotic worlds. Journey to the outer planets and their moons, and return home with newfound wonder about the dynamic and intricate Solar System in which we all live.

 

Produced by the Museum of Science, Boston
This show features an original orchestral score.
For family audiences and school groups
Available in 25 and 35 minute versions.

Mysteries of the Unseen World

MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD will transport audiences to places on this planet that they have never been before, to see things that are beyond their normal vision, yet literally right in front of their eyes.

Mysteries of the Unseen World will reveal phenomena that can’t be seen with the naked eye, taking audiences into earthly worlds secreted away in different dimensions of time and scale.

High-speed and time-lapse photography, electron microscopy, and nanotechnology are just a few of the advancements in science that now allow us to see a whole new universe of things, events, creatures, and processes we never even knew existed and now give us new “super powers” to see beyond what is in front of us.

Visually stunning and rooted in cutting-edge research, Mysteries of the Unseen World will leave audiences in complete thrall as they begin to understand the enormity of the world they can’t see, a world that exists in the air they breathe, on their own bodies, and in all of the events that occur around them minute-by-minute, and nanosecond-by-nanosecond. And with this understanding comes a new appreciation of the wonder and possibilities of science.

 

Produced by National Geographic
Appx. running time: 39 minutes
For general audiences.
Available in 3D

Nanocam

The show that shrinks you down to the size of an insect and flies you through the eye of a needle.

NANOCAM is a microscopic joyride into the five kingdoms of livings things. With the latest 3D animation technology it offers a unique, motivating, didactic and funny approach to living things that has never been seen like this before. The perfect show to celebrate United Nations International Decade of Biodiversity, stimulate interest into science and invoke an investigative spirit among young people.

NANOCAM is an invitation to think about what life is.

 

Produced by El Exilio
Approximate running time: 27 minutes
Suitable for school groups and family audiences.

Natural Selection (2D/3D)

Join the young Charles Darwin on an adventurous voyage of exploration circumnavigating the world with the HMS Beagle. In Victorian times many physical phenomena were already discovered and described by natural laws, but life’s most eloquent mechanism was still unknown: How could new species arise to replace those lost in extinction?

It was time for someone to stand up and come forth with a naturalist explanation of this mystery of mysteries. Witness the thrill of scientific discovery by seeing the world through Darwin’s eyes.

Make observations of the most beautiful natural scenery and let the pieces of the scientific puzzle slowly but surely fall into place. Allow Darwin himself to reveal this simple and most beautiful mechanism that explains the evolution of all life on Earth: Natural Selection, the single most wonderful idea anyone has ever had…

 

Produced by Mirage3D
Running time: 40 minutes
Suitable for family audiences and school groups
Available in 2D & 3D

Ningaloo: Australia’s Other Great Reef

A magical expedition with marine biologist, Anna Cresswell, revealing intimate secrets of Ningaloo Reef. One of the world’s largest fringing coral reefs, Ningaloo Reef is visible from space and stretches along the north west coast of Western Australia for 260km.

The live action fulldome film is an immersive voyage of discovery as we witness Ningaloo Reef and the rare natural wonder and spectacle of life – coral spawning.

We travel in a two-person submarine, Odyssea, on an underwater adventure. Rich in coral, we experience this highway for the planet’s largest and smallest fish, including the whale shark.

 

Produced by Prospero Productions
Appx. running time: 25 & 45 minutes
For general audiences & children.
*** Educator’s Guide Available ***

Oceans in Space

Oceans in Space is a journey of exploration that seeks out places where conditions are favorable for life to exist. This original and thought-provoking presentation highlights the search for extrasolar planets and an understanding of the conditions necessary to form and sustain life. Inspired in part by the goals of NASA’s Origins Program – an effort to answer the enduring questions that spur space exploration – this program introduces audiences to the diversity of life on our home planet even as humans embark on the search for life in the Universe. Narrated by Avery Brooks (Captain Benjamin Sisko of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”).

 

Produced by Loch Ness Productions
Running time: 30 minutes
Suitable for family audiences and school groups

One Day…on Mars

Join this expedition to Mars and enjoy a thrilling immersive experience. You’ll dive into the depths of seemingly bottomless canyons and brave the violent winds that sweep across the Red Planet’s icy dunes. Set to music by Dumas, One Day… on Mars will take you to a world that mankind, in its ongoing search for life, could well visit in just a few decades.

 

Producer Montreal Space for Life’s Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium
Appx. running time: 25 minutes
For general audiences & children.

Origins of Life

Origins of Life deals with some of the most profound questions of life science: the origin of life and the human search for life beyond Earth.

Starting with the Big Bang, in chronological order, the show deals with prebiotic chemistry in the universe, the formation of stars, formation of solar systems, and the first life on Earth. Furthermore, Origins of Life covers the great extinctions as well as our search for (primitive) life beyond planet Earth.

Origins of Life is a motivational journey through time and a celebration of life on Earth. It features many recent discoveries related to life science, demonstrating to the youth that if there was ever a time that science made its greatest advances, it would be right now! Narrated by Lord Robert Winston.

 

Produced by Mirage3D
Running time 24 minutes
Suitable for family audiences and school groups