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The Tall Tales of the Southsm 4-D
Theater brings unexpected sensations to creative 3-D imagery as a Southern
grandfather teaches his grandchildren the art of storytelling. Viewed through
special glasses, a frog’s tongue is the first element to stretch into the
movie audience from its perch on a swamp log. Each screening of the 12-minute
film tickles the senses with special lighting, wind, falling rain and aromas
from hot chocolate to a wandering skunk.
Actors featured in the film are Danny Nelson
of Elijay, Georgia and as his grandchildren, Cody Newton of Buffalo, South
Carolina and Carrie-Rose Menocal of Miami, Florida.
Animal stars include a bloodhound, an
eight-foot pattern less python, a skunk and a six-foot alligator. Animated frogs
and bees abound.
Few people in the film industry know more
about the technique of 3-D filming, using large format twin 65-mm cameras than
highly acclaimed Disney veteran Director of Photography, Peter Anderson. His
dozens of feature film credits range from The Deerhunter to Roger
Rabbit. His theme park and special film projects include Honey, I Shrunk
the Audience and Space Mountain Finale for Disney as well as the Universal
Studio Tour’s Effects Stage. His numerous television credits include Max
Headroom, Battlestar Galactica and Hill Street Blues. He has
headed up the film technology development at various times for Universal Studios
and Walt Disney Studios.
Director Keith Melton, A.M.P.A.S., L.F.C.A.
has more than 30 films to his credit, including Cirque du Soleil: Journey of
Man (2000), a 3-D IMAX film, License to Thrill, The Texas
Adventure for the Alamo, and Haunts of The Olde Country, an award
winning 70mm 3-D film for Iwerks and Busch Entertainment.
Camera Operator Paul Babin has worked with
Stephen Spielberg, Francis Copolla, James Cameron, Gary Marshall, Peter Weir and
Barry Levison.
Lisa Smith is Executive Producer and Ben
Kupfer is producer of Tall Tales of the SouthSM.
The storytelling focus is intentional.
Throughout Stone Mountain Park storytellers share their southern heritage by
offering up history, anecdotes and old-fashioned tall tales
3-D filming is extremely different from
filming a typical feature film as it requires four times the amount of lighting
to achieve the correct look for a nighttime scene because of the number of
filters needed for these special cameras.
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