SOUND FOR THE NEXT CENTURY

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The Vancouver Film School's 70 Seat Screening Room located at 400 West Hastings Street in Vancouver, Canada, features a Leader-designed, state-of-the-art Atelier Series theater. Features include: Advanced Digital Video, HDTV and Data Projection 35mm and 16mm Motion Picture Projection Massive 15 foot Screen Image Precision Schneider Lenses and Ernemann 35 and 16 mm Projectors equipped with Laser Sound Heads for top-quality 16 and 35mm sound 16/35 mm Dubber (Interlock) Horizontal and Vertical Screen Masking Advanced Dolby DVD 5.1 Surround featuring Leader Cinema Systems Studio Atelier Series Screen Speaker Systems Comprehensive Patching facilities for Multichannel Audio, Video Conferencing, and Remote facilities. Leader Technical Systems include Video Distribution Amplifiers, Video Isolation Transformers, Balanced Inputs/Outputs with Active Summing and Combining Networks. All videotape formats in popular use are provided. Sources: DV CAM (digital), HI 8, DVD, VHS, SVHS, 3/4 inch U-Matic, Laser Disc. Beta SP and Digi-Beta may also be incorporated when required.		Acclaimed as "ahead-of-the-art" by Millennium and X-Files Director, David Nutter , the Leader Hollywood Formattm (LHFtm) theater designed for the world-renowned Vancouver Film School captivates audiences - and redefines the cinema experience. LHFtm, with its multi-dimensional sound and razor-sharp image, allows the audience to achieve a more intimate relationship with the story. Central to this is perspective. Matching of the huge 18' (diag.) screen, with pure image and color fidelity, to the astonishing performance of the Leader LHFtm/Dolby digital Surround Sound system fulfilling the Director's vision. This theater conveys a degree of sensuality not normally associated in the description of a sound system . . . the audience is transported into the story through the magical sense of time/space and depth of the LHFtm/Dolby Sound System. The Film School's $8.5 million New Media Campus is the world's most technologically sophisticated facility, where curriculum appeals to the international elite intent on becoming special effects artists for the next millennium. Critical evaluation of historical and current productions enables students and industry professionals to appreciate the subtle layers contained within the soundtrack. These nuances and effects are not readily apparent on lesser systems. Whether unlocking these secrets used in movie/TV making, or for the pure enjoyment of it, this LHF(tm) award-winning system reins supreme. HBO's (Home Box Office's) evaluation of LHFtm is simple . . . "LHF? Feels like we're out in the Twilight Zone! Wow!!" Outer Limits/HBO