''The Sensorium'' is regarded the world's first commercial
4D film and was first screened in a
Six Flags
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation is an American amusement park corporation, headquartered in Arlington, Texas. It has properties in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Six Flags owns the most theme parks and waterparks combined of any a ...
theme park in
Baltimore
Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the List of municipalities in Maryland, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, and List of United States cities by popula ...
in 1984.
It was produced in partnership with Landmark Entertainment.
Description
The 4D film included multiple track discrete sound system, bodysonic seats and Scent-a-Vision (a series of smells released in sync with the film). The story told a series of American pastimes around the turn of the twentieth century and was narrated by the inventor Phineas Flagg - an imaginary turn-of-the-century explorer/scientist/raconteur (modeled after
Jules Verne's literary world traveler character in the novel ''
Around The World in Eighty Days''). The film used the
ArriVision over/under 3D film system. The film was only showing at
Six Flags Power Plant
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation is an American amusement park corporation, headquartered in Arlington, Texas. It has properties in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Six Flags owns the most theme parks and waterparks combined of any amu ...
theme park.
See also
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Sensorama
The Sensorama was a machine that is one of the earliest known examples of immersive, multi-sensory (now known as multimodal) technology. This technology, which was introduced in 1962 by Morton Heilig, is considered one of the earliest virtual re ...
, one of the earliest known prototype of an immersive, multi-sensory technology
References
Amusement rides introduced in 1984
1984 films
1984 3D films
1984 short films
3D short films
American short films
4D films
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