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The following secondary headline made it to the front page of the Ottawa Citizen here in Ottawa today: "Bible Belt creationists threaten IMAX film industry with extinction" followed by a pretty long article where Canadian producers of science films, like the Montreal produced volcano film, predicted that they could be put of out business if they happen to mention the e-word in future films. According to the article there are only 250 Imax theaters in the world with about 50% in the US -- and about a dozen of them in the US south have refused to air this film -- many of them at alleged science museums (e.g. Fort Worth Museum of Science and History and the Charlsetson IMAX Theater). Since each film costs $6-10 million dollars to produce they have to make the rounds of almost all IMAX theaters to be profitable. No complaints have been received from Canadian IMAX theaters because Canadian evangelicals are not powerful a consumer group as their US counterparts. I suggest that the only solution is that those of you in the south counter by letting your local IMAX theaters know that if they engage in this sort of silly "pre-censorship" that you will arrange a similar boycott by 'sensible' people. Although the snow and cold of January are a bit annoying sometimes it is times like this that it feels much more comfortable in the north:-) Tim Patterson -- Dr. R. Tim Patterson Professor of Geology Dept. of Earth Sciences Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6 CANADA PH: 613-520-2600 ex 4425 FAX: 613-520-2569 www.carleton.ca/~tpatters
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