The world in which we live, is familiar to us. We can estimate everyday distances, we know how long we will need to perform our daily work, and we know how it feels when it is very hot or very cold. The world out there though, is alien to us. When we hear of distances expressed in light years or when we hear that our solar system was formed billions of years ago, it defies our imagination.

Cosmic Dimensions vividly makes distances and time periods comprehensible. To understand distance, we reduce the Earth to the size of an apple — how big are then the Sun and Moon? how far away are the other planets of the solar system?

Hard to believe, but even if all the planets shrink to the size of fruit and vegetables, our cosmic home is still the size of a great city!

In order to explain unimaginable periods of time, we reduce the complete history of our universe to a normal working day — it’s then fascinating to see that the entire development of mankind, our cultural and scientific background, fits into just a few split seconds before the end of the day!

Cosmic Dimensions makes the universe a reality — for one working day we follow the employee Max. On the basis of his daily life, we shed light on space and time from fresh perspectives and make the unimaginable, imaginable…

Produced by INTERMEDIA
Approximate running time: 41 minutes
Suitable for family audiences.

Volcanoes tower 80,000 feet above a barren surface. Monstrous hurricanes rage for 400 years. And multicolored rings sit suspended in air.

In Cosmic Journey: A Solar System Adventure, you’ll travel through our Solar System faster than the speed of light, taking in the wonders of the planets and their moons.

Cosmic Journey: A Solar System Adventure takes you on a voyage to the outer reaches of our Solar System in search of worlds that might support life. Especially popular with school age children and teachers, Cosmic Journey: A Solar System Adventure is one of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s most successful programs and is suitable for all ages.

Produced by Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Appx. running time: 23 minutes
Written by James Manning

The opening sequence of the film is footage captured during the space shuttle Discovery s final lift off. The 3D footage was shot in real-time digital high speed t 500fps at a distance only 300 feet away from the launching pad.

Journey through the universe is among the best new motion and stereoscopic rendered images from Hubble and Cassini. Audiences are immersed in amazing depth of the clouds of Jupiter and Saturn and scores of gaseous nebula.

With an engaging sound mix and informational graphics to help the viewer understand what they are seeing, audiences will get a true WOW experience. The film compares what was going on historically on earth with the time it takes light from these far off planets to actually reach earth. Which light from what planet left when dinosaurs walked the earth?

Produced by Kallisti
Running time: 20 minutes
Available in 2D & 3D

A visual tone poem designed for the fulldome planetarium format but encompassing terrestrial subject matter, Crossing Worlds utilizes spherical photography from the American desert west to immerse the viewer in a transcendent spectrum of austere landscapes.

Innovative xRez Studio’s first fulldome film, Crossing Worlds won a coveted “Domie for “Best Design in a Dome at DomeFest 2009. The meditative sound track was provided by Marconi Union in the UK, written by Richard Talbot and Jamie Crossley and published by Just Publishing.

Produced by xRez Studio
Approximate running time: 5 minutes

The lunatics are in the dome. After two years of work, the first ever Pink Floyd-approved planetarium show is now available. The show is a 44 minute visual spectacular set to the 50th anniversary  remastering of Pink Floyd’s 1973 album, The Dark Side Of The Moon. NSC Creative led the visual production efforts, working closely with Pink Floyd’s Creative Director, Aubrey Powell; the audio remaster was produced by James Guthrie and Joel Plante of das boot recording.

The American Museum of Natural History’s latest space show celebrates a new age of cosmic discovery as well as its deepest mysteries. Dark Universe features spectacular scenes of recent spacecraft, such as the Galileo probe’s breathtaking plunge into Jupiter’s atmosphere, the most accurate visualizations ever produced, such as a Milky Way galaxy spangled with exploding supernovas, and novel renderings of hotly discussed phenomena, like dark matter.

Developed by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; and GOTO INC, Tokyo, Japan.

“…Set to blow the minds of kids and adults alike.”—Space.com

Produced by American Museum of Natural History
Appx. running time: 24 minutes
For general audiences
Educational materials available

Re-live the excitement of the early days of space exploration, from the launch of the first artificial satellite to the magnificent lunar landings and privately operated space flights.

Be immersed and over whelmed with this most accurate historic reconstruction of man s first steps into space.

Who were these men and women that took part in these death-defying endeavors?

Witness their drive, their passion, and their perseverance to explore, in Dawn of the Space Age.

Produced by Mirage3D
Available in 30 or 40 minute versions
Suitable for family audiences and school groups
Available in 2D & 3D

THE NEXT GIANT LEAP IN HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT IS UPON US.

NASA – and others – have their sights set on the Red Planet, and they’re building the technology to get us there! Destination Mars: The New Frontier gives audiences an up-close look at humanity’s most epic endeavor. Explore the work being done around the globe to help make the dream of getting humans to Mars a reality. Fly through the International Space Station, where astronauts are already living and working in space, and follow the rockets and vehicles that will take humans beyond the Moon and, one day, all the way to Mars! Travel along as we imagine this remarkable journey.

Produced by the Museum of Science, Boston
For family audiences and school groups
Running time: 32 minutes

Dinosaurs Alive is a global adventure of science and discovery, reincarnating animals from the earliest creatures of the Triassic to the monsters of the Cretaceous – life-sized and lifelike.

Audiences will marvel at these great creatures of the past brought roaring to life.

Journey with renowned paleontologists as they hunt for fossilized clues buried in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert and Ghost Ranch,
New Mexico, uncovering evidence that dinosaur descendants may still walk (or fly) among us today.

Produced by David Clark Inc., Giant Screen Films, Maryland Science Center, Stardust Blue LLC
Appx. running time: 40 minutes
For general audiences.
*** Educator’s Guide Available ***

The Origins of Flight

Dinosaurs at Dusk is a learning adventure of a father and his teenage daughter Lucy, who share a fascination for all things that fly.

You’ll travel back in time to meet the pterosaurs and the ancestors of modern-day birds: the feathered dinosaurs. Lucy and her father navigate from continent to continent, looking for clues about the origins of flight.

When time runs out they experience first-hand the cataclysmic last day of the dinosaurs. Science content includes topics such as continental drift, proper motion of stars, asteroids and impacts, extinctions and the convergent development of flight among species.

Produced by Mirage3D
Running time: 41 minutes
Available in 2D & 3D