This Abandoned IMAX Theatre Is So Creepy and Weird - You Won't Believe What's Inside!
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2022
- The Niagara Falls IMAX® Theatre has left the iconic pyramid building behind. The theatre has been in operation for more than 35 years and has introduced millions of people to the exciting history of the Falls through its dedicated film and daredevil exhibition. A new theatre is in the works with an announcement planned soon.
This is so sad. It breaks my heart to see a theater just abandoned like this that too 70mm IMAX screen which is rare nowadays.
Especially if it was used for Oppenheimer? Bruh
Hope they salvaged the projector, those things still produce an insane 70mm 18k image. I heard their building a new one close by and I hope they include the old projector with the new like they did in Vancouver. Thanks for the video, last time I was there was on an elementary school Feild trip!
The projector was gone night one so they definitely saved it can’t wait to see the new location
projectors or at least the main components of it are the first to go when a theater closes.
Sometimes they don’t even own it and it goes back to the leasing company.
@@colemorningstar Now the parts in use in the 31 theaters left in the world showing Oppenheimer.
There's only 30 of these 70mm IMAX theaters left in the world, sad to see that massive and unique screen destroyed like that.
This isn’t creepy but super cool and sad at the same time! Thanks for the vid!
I have visited this place so many times. So sad to see the whole area go :(
It's gonna be replaced by a 12 story hotel sadly...
No IMAX theatre should be abandoned. We need more of them. Cinema needs to be revived with the best technology to compete with modern TV's and home cinema audios...
As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I realized I'd been there. And saw a movie there. Wow.
Getting sea sick. The camera never stops moving!
You mean motion sickness
Yes, you should take your time and stop to film things properly. Your viewers can't really appreciate what you're filming if you don't take the time to film properly... that's the basic rule of filming.
There's a half an hour I'm never getting back.
Thanks for the vid... I was visiting a few years back and thought I'd ask if I could see the projection booth... and they were more than happy to show me while running an IMAX movie... very cool to see the 70mm film, lamp and platters in action. You can see the red pump truck that they used to move the film patters in the video. Sad to hear of it's demise.
That’s dope Thanks for sharing
I worked as a projectionist for 10 years, both film and later digital. I LOVED every second of it! It was a blast if you are good at it.. if you are not, well, i saw people have nervous breakdowns . Lol
To be honest it's pretty disgusting how we humans abandon places without dismantling them and recycling the materials.
Yes it certainly is VERY DISGUSTING!! all the waste in this world then they accuse the public of polluting everything
ANTS DO THE SAME THING AND OTHER ANIMALS.... THAT MAD NO SENSE
@@soundstructuremediamade perfect sense and comparing humans to animals and insects is illogical because we can literally repurpose things we have the ability to actually think logically and don’t compare us to wildlife as humans are the most wasteful without reasons only reason an animal “waste things” is due to threats of other animals or humans, we’re number 1 for destroying the environment!
I'm glad they're re-opening this Summer, but that pyramid building was so distinct and the Greg Frewin Theatre won't be the same. According to the website the screen was six stories high I guess the new building can accommodate that lol
I highly doubt it there isn’t a building being constructed in the tourist area for that big of a screen but I could be wrong or maybe it’s gonna be in an existing building
It's sad to see this place abandoned. 70mm IMAX is so rare, and most IMAXes you find nowadays are just your standard premium large format screen competing with Cinemark XD etc, nothing really special. I guess it just got old and showed only one movie, but it would have been cool if they'd upgraded it and shown other things to keep it commercially competitive.
the problem with IMAX is the expense. Yup, it's crazy expensive even compared to regular 35 MM that's been in theaters for the last 75 years. Not only is the film expensive, but so is all the gear necessary to shoot in this format, and show it to an audience. Not everyone is willing to cough up the extra $$ for the experience.
I don't think that table was for rewinding the film, I think it was probably for constructing the film. IMAX film is 70mm and if memory serves, films were shipped in pieces and had to be cut back together on site. The final feature length film was so heavy and large, it required fork lifts or teams of people to move. The rewinding mechanism would be part of the platter the film was run off of into the projector (kinda sad none of that vintage equipment is still there).
You mean the newest one, right?
Hardly 'vintage' equipment! 😲😳😁
Lift at 26:15
70mm Imax film prints are shipped to the cinima on reels containing about 3 mins and 30 seconds of film a normal length film can easly arrive in boxes with 40 plus reels , yes the table is used for the process of building the film.. ruclips.net/video/Rqb5oKhXif8/видео.html
Very cool, I think this is the first time I've seen an abandoned Imax theater video
Great video, so sad to see this place close. Saw the Niagara movie there when I was a kid. Try to get into Guinness next
Man I just wanted a 5 minute video and you delivered, Cool stuff.
good afternoon Jared
It would have been cool to see all the old iMax equipment still left over up close. Sad that the speakers and sound system are all just left there to rot. Maybe they’re already no good. But 20 000 watts of sound must have been banging at one point. A shame it couldn’t be salvaged.
No... that stuff was fine. The people in charge were just absolute MORONS for letting it all be destroyed.
@@StubbyPhillips that’s really sad to hear. This sounds like it was a state of the art system not that long ago…
the stuff could be used elsewhere , even in a home theater.even the dmx lighting controls are still usable
If I was a worker doing that job I would of taken all the speakers, amps, lighting, lighting amps, maybe even air conditioning units and sell or keep them, givin the owners didn't lay claim to them. That's like $20000 or more worth of usable used priced equipment from what I saw.
Note to the producer of this video: fix your sound! I understand, you whispered when you were recording, but there’s plenty of ways to boost the sound in post before you publish the video.
Agree- was very hard to make out dialogue. Best to record a voice track during editing.(keep the live track for reference but re-dub a good quality voice track)
This whole site looks like a sad waste. So much of that looks like it could have another life as is!
But to bulldoze it then separate and salvage the 'waste' is painful for me to see.
Best wishes from an Englishman making armour in a French forest. 👍⚒️🇬🇧🇨🇦
You must have said “it’s crazy” about 50 times ,and nothing is crazy ,it is just an abandoned building and everything is what you would expect to see.
I was just blown away by a pyramid shaped building in the middle of a tourist destination, being demolished for a 12 story hotel
I've been there for the experience! Me when I find out it was demolished: 😮 😢 💀
Very cool vid, thanks for documenting before it all got destroyed
I’m disturbed at the idea of such an amazing and expensive facility left in ruin. Even if another IMAX theater were being built, the concert/stage hall this could make…what an astonishingly unproductive waste.
RIGHT 😭
i think I went to this theater in like 2016/2017. I drove past it last may and could not believe it was abandoned
They could have filled every seat at every showing of Oppenheimer. Every seat virtually sold out every show of the 31 theaters left.
Oppenheimer should be shown here for 1week only. Ticket machines and food served outside.
I always saw this building when i went to Niagara Falls… but never went inside
614 seats to be exact.
Thanks for the number it was amazing
Your voice is beautiful Cole. Beautiful!
I remember this place fondly when I saw Star Trek: Into Darkness here a long time ago
This is so cool and so sad! Just imagine kids being cool and setting up their own projectors for their own movie fun!
The screen is actually pretty valuable, depending on what type it is, some are like a diamond pattern to reflect the light correctly, others are just garbage canvas type stuff.
Man so much in there could still have easily been salvaged. Crazy the amount of stuff just left behind.
I’ve not seen this place since I was a kid. This was awesome! Do you plan on doing this in other places in Niagara?
Any places that have easy access I’ll be more than willing to document
Thank you!
good video! notifcations r on g.
Cool video you needa come to Gary Indiana to do some haunted
Great video
Sorry to see it that way😢
There should be some 50 or 60 speakers behind that screen, as well as more than that scattered around the building, for just the one theater. Including 8-ft High racks full of power amplifiers and a custom digital audio processor designed to decode the IMAX audio into thx.
Now imagine how it'd look if it was abandoned in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Really sad to see the speakers left inside. I hope someone saved most of them, and the DMX stuff. BTW the video is unbearably shaky! I skipped through most of it but still got dizzy from it. Please do something about that in the future.
Man, you need a gimbal! Too much rocking n' rolling with the camera!
I would like to take those expensive speaker
What a waste of seats that could be repurposed.
Aren’t IMAX speakers super high-end JBL something? As in the ones with 5 digit price tag each?
thats a badass bando to fly that would be awesome!!!
Rewind the FILM! Not rewind the tape.
I hope they kept the sound systems.
9:16 Oh My Gosh no how could someone do that in the abandoned building that is like racism for pulling the fire alarm
Light up a doobie and bring your own projector and start this movie night!
Thats such a bucket list thing i've always wanted to do
Bring a projector to an abandoned theater and watch a movie in it..
Id have to pick a movie like Blade Runner or something else really dreamy and surreal to play in an abandoned theater to watch...
One big question tho is, how would you get power to the projector?
@@joshwizinsky1979 there's battery powered once these days, youu just need a powerbank with 20:000mha and your seet
Portables *
I been to this place years ago. I can't believe they shut it down
I'm surprise they didn't sell off the seating.
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As soon as people realized you can simulate imax by holding your phone 2 inches from your face.. it all went downhill!
Why did it get abandoned? Was it not enough profits so they have to move or is the building starting to decay & they don't have the money for maintenance? Looks alright to me, why would they need to expand at another building? They should have turned this one into a movie theater to make more profits that way. Or for special events. Move the Niagra film/exhibit to the other place as planned & then turn this original building into a movie theater because that giant screen would be a great attraction there.
How does a Imax theatre get abandoned. Did they build it far away from where people actually live, assuming people would go out of their way to get there?
I have been to that Imax when it was open.
That pyramid looks like it was ordered on Wish.
What happened there? How did it turned into a mess like this?
This was days before it’s demolition to make room for a 12 floor hotel
@@colemorningstar que pena para crear un jodido hotel se destruya algo que creo cultura
La estructura se ve sana y fuerte ..ese lugar se hubiera remodelado y hubiera sido todo un espectáculo
@@colemorningstar Thanks for the information. It had to be something like that. The real estate value probably exceeded the income producing potential of the original Imax site.
26:15 Lifting dolly for reels of film.
its too bad those expensive DMX light controllers and lights were all left in there without being reclaimed for use in at least an amateur's interests :/
Camera is too shakey cant watch
Agree
So... this is what's left of NERV's headquarters after the Third Impact happened... :Tc
cool place to fly some fpv drones
To be fair it seems like the building was not really an engineering nor aesthetic masterpiece- more like a metal tent in the middle of a field of tar parking lot. I do hope the IMAX equipment lives on either installed elsewhere or as spares to keep others running. Wonder what speakers those were.
Absolutely disgusting.
How they fell for the digital scam.
Very nice! Wow, cognitive dissonance ... an IMAX being demolished, wtf?
That volume of area up above, from the catwalk, is a functional space for acoustics.
It's a bass trap. Those thick fiberglass tiles on the face of that mammoth volume of air, it's a textbook bass trap.
LF trapping is for tighter, faster low frequency decay times. The product being bass clarity, impact, and overall delineation.
Those loudspeakers should be salvaged.
One would think the seating may be salvaged.
Cool vid
Much appreciated
Very painful situation.
14:52 did he actually just say that DMX is for sound or I misunderstood that?
Glad imax movies are not shot the way this guy handles the camera 😵💫🤮
Que pasada de cine a un abadonado se ve que seria una vestia
Grab that sign at 8:45!
These imax theater is distoryed or going to build?
Sad thing to see.
Such a shame to see such waste. I see a lot of stuff can be salvaged and some looks in almost nearly new condition.
Seria bueno reconstruir un cine en ese lugar ..por salvar lo ya creado
Whats the reason behind?
You're not filming the old posters or other things of interest.
What is the backstory behind this?
Probably went bankrupt and usually a total loss is not worth salvaging. Depends on what entity owns the real estate as to what would happen to the site.
@@Pioneers_Of_Cinemayeah but why did it close? COVID or something else?
Looking for some devotchkas?
You need to pan slowly otherwise it is hard to watch
Yeah, I understand was super paranoid that I was going to be caught in there
such a shame they left the speskers etc....
I’d *love* to take home those speakers.
SAD!
😭
Sad
REAL RAP...INVEST IN AN ACTION CAMERA... ITS TO MUCH TECH OUT HERE FOR U TO HAVE THAT SHAKY ASS CAMERA
why are you whispering lmaoo
this building is in the middle of Niagara Falls tourist District so I'm trying to keep my noise to a minimum to not alert anyone that I'm inside
@@colemorningstar Just a tip - it was hard to make out dialogue. Best to keep your original audio for reference but re-dub your voice over the final edit file.
A little weird, not creepy though. Must have been constructed in the earlier days of IMAX, because compared to anything new, it would have had to have been highly inferior. The outside of this place just reeks of "not impressed".
get a gimble
Mala exploración mueven mucho la cámara...
me dio mareos 🙂
Nor surprised; IMAX always was a stupid idea.
yeah, a stupid idea that made millions of dollars. We still have one in town and people still line up for tickets.
why
There are lines of people for the new movies. Two week wait for the latest Barbie and Oppenheimer movie. Sold out for every show.
Cole 🤝
I’ve never had the pleasure or experience of IMAX seeing people one slowly get destroyed by people who have nothing better to do make it so under appreciated
No dummy, DMX is lighting control comm protocol, not for audio.
13:53 dmx is for lighting controls