Re: paleonet Bible Belt creationists threaten IMAX film industry with extinction

[Dave Scott <David.Scott@xxxxxx>]

Amen to that Tim
On Thursday, March 24, 2005, at 04:59 PM, RT Patterson wrote:

> 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
>
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