by SUSAN KING
Director Greg MacGillivray says shooting the film was his hardest task because of the extreme heat and the government bureaucracy involved.
Director Greg MacGillivray knows a thing or two about shooting large-format films in tough locations: For 1998’s “Everest,” for example, he designed a lightweight, all-weather Imax camera to take up the highest mountain on Earth. But he says his new Imax movie, “Arabia 3D,” opening Friday at the California Science Center, was his hardest endeavor.
“At times we were in 120-degree heat” in the Saudi desert, recalled MacGillivray, 65. “When we would change rolls, which is every three minutes, we would actually put a tent over the camera. We had a tent that was tied down and then we would lift it up and over the camera, so that the camera assistant could change film in the tent where dust wasn’t blowing around.”
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