The Celestial Railroad

Get aboard this fantasy train in the stars. The Celestial Railroad is the fantastic journey of a boy, Giovanni, in the dreamscape created by colorful fulldome CG animation imagery and scored with exquisite music. Based on a story written in the early 20th century, artist KAGAYA has breathed new life into the unique imaginary world using all of his creative energy and precise astronomical knowledge.

The starry sky is depicted full of color, yet with scientific accuracy as the Celestial Field made up of a river, silver grass fields, flowers, birds, survey towers, signals, and other figures. Across this amazing and beautiful scenery, the Celestial Railroad runs along the Milky Way.

This unforgettable trip will be a feast to the eyes and ears of all audiences. Children can enjoy science and fantasy, and adults will be entertained with its elegant artistry and profound implications.

 

Produced by KAGAYA Studio
Available in 28 or 38 minute versions
Suitable for family audiences
Imagery © KAGAYA Studio

Cell! Cell! Cell!

You are made of 70 trillion living cells. They work. They talk. They think. They are what make you alive. This is the story of how they do it.

Join Sooki and Raj on an adventure to explore the human body as they use a series of fantastic instruments to peer inside complex living cells. Uncover the mystery of DNA and discover how we all began as a single, tiny cell.

Produced by NSC Creative and INTECH
Supported by the Wellcome Trust
Approximate running time: 25 minutes.

The Christmas Story

The planetarium brings the traditional Christmas story to life for your audiences. You accompany Mary and Joseph from the Annunciation by the angel Gabriel in Nazareth to the search for a room in overcrowded Bethlehem.

Stand before King Herod in his great palace, alongside the three Wise Men from the East. Visit the shepherds and their flocks in a field and, in a stable, find the child in a manger.

Produced by Verkehrshaus der Schweiz
Running time 30 minutes
Suitable for family audiences.

Chronicle of a Journey to Earth

Sky-Skan no longer features this show in it’s catalog. For infomation on purchasing this show, please use the following link: Albedo Fulldome Shows

If you’re looking for a home, which world would YOU choose? From the cold frontier inhabited by the dwarf planets of the outer Solar System to the warmth of the Sun, any self respecting traveler would ultimately be drawn to Earth.

First the outer comets and the dwarf planets, then the giant planets, the asteroids, the rocky planets, amongst them the Earth, which of these has by far best environmental conditions to encourage the development and evolution of living organisms.

Produced by Antares FullDome
Productions Approximate running time: 22 minutes
Suitable for general audiences and school groups

Climate Change

Sky-Skan no longer features this show in it’s catalog. For infomation on purchasing this show, please use the following link: Albedo Fulldome Shows

Earth is the only world in the solar system where we know life exists. Countless species of plants and animals thrive on its surface and in its oceans. But Earth is changing. The atmosphere is losing its ability to regulate the comfortable temperatures that help life thrive. Things are warming up.

 

Produced by Albedo Fulldome
Appx. running time: 25 minutes
For general audiences.

Cocomong: A Space Adventure

Cocomong is very curious about space. But reading about space in books makes it seem so far away. That’s when Halley, a friendly alien, drops in!

Halley has come to Earth all the way from Titan in order to protect the last remaining Star Gem from the evil Virus King. If Halley wants to find the other Star Gems and rescue his parents, then he needs the help of Cocomong and his friends! However, Halley’s home Titan is by Saturn which is really far away, even farther than Mars or Jupiter. Will they be able to make it all the way safe and sound? “I guess we won t know until we go. So, let s get on the spaceship and blast off!

 

Produced by Metaspace and Digital Creature
Running time: 19 minutes

Continuum

Imagine yourself lying in the grass in the countryside on a beautiful summer night, watching the stars …

First, you take a breathtaking fall into our life-sized solar system! Your senses are constantly awakened by the strange beauty of what surrounds you. This odyssey through the beauty and forces of space is accompanied by a mesmerizing soundtrack composed of selected symphonic works by Philip Glass, echoing the immensity of the Universe in a spectacular transformation from the infinitely large to the infinitely small!

Producer Montreal Space for Life’s Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium
Appx. running time: 23 minutes
For general audiences & children.

Coral: Rekindling Venus

A  2013 Sundance Film Festival Official Selection.
A metaphor for global cooperation on climate change, eschewing narration.

An extraordinary journey into a mysterious realm of fluorescent coral reefs, bioluminescent sea creatures and rare marine life, filmed in the oceans most threatened by climate change.

Produced by Maze Films & Felix Media
Running time: 45 and 20 minute versions

Cosmic Collisions

Produced by the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and narrated by Robert Redford, AMNH’s third space show illustrates that cosmic collisions are a universal force of nature, both destructive and creative.

Dynamic and dazzling, they have created many things we take for granted—the glowing Moon, the Sun’s warmth and light, our changing seasons, and waves washing up on a sandy shore. They’ve ended the age of the dinosaurs and changed the very map of the cosmos, reforming galaxies and giving birth to new stars and new worlds.

Produced in partnership with NASA, Cosmic Collisions relies on AMNH’s Digital Universe, an unparalleled database containing over three billion stars, and on data and visualizations from the world’s top astrophysics and research institutions. Cosmic Collisions provides an unprecedented and extraordinary view of these catastrophic and constructive events that have shaped our world and universe.

Produced by the American Museum of Natural History
Approximate running time: 23 minutes
Suitable for family audiences.

Cosmic Dance

Cosmic Dance is a feast for your eye and an inspiration for your mind: the award winning Immersive Cinema movie features the parallels between modern quantum-and astrophysics and Indian Vedic knowledge. On an adventurous dance through India the young Canadian physics student Leela discovers in a discourse with international scientists that the entire universe and all life are connected, matter and spirit are not separated and divine energy reigns in all of us. Hindu faith, modern science and universal thinking are no contradiction but one reality.

Documentary and fictional scenes shot in India combined with Bollywood-like dancing creates a breathtaking Immersive Cinema experience.

Produced by LivinGlobe for the Canadian Museum of Hindu Civilization
Running time: 45 minutes