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

[Nancy Meyer <marsglow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hence my suggestion of a boycott.
--- Dave Scott <David.Scott@Dal.Ca> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> -- 
> David B. Scott, director
> Centre for Environmental and Marine Geology
> Dalhousie University
> Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5 CANADA
> PH: 902-494-3604; FAX: 902-494-3877/6889
> email: dbscott@dal.ca
>
http://meguma.earthsciences.dal.ca/staff/dbscott/scott.htm
>
NAPC2005:http://meguma.earthsciences.dal.ca/napc/napc2005-s.htm
> 
> 
> 

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