Post by spacefanatic64 on Mar 29, 2021 0:08:44 GMT
Hello, this is a film that I've been searching for a while. I've been able to make a few good leads on here but I haven't found the actual full film yet. So basically, Theater of Time was a ride film that was located in Luxor in Las Vegas, Nevada, part of a trilogy called In Search of the Obelisk. This was around the time Luxor had first opened there. The way the ride's visuals were created is actually pretty interesting; they were made by having the backgrounds being built with miniature models, then the spaceships were created in CGI. The director for this film was Douglas Trumbull and the CGI was done by a company called Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company. Small clips of this animation have appeared in two animation compilations: The Gate to the Mind's Eye (1994) and Odyssey into the Mind's Eye (1996). However, the clips do not have their original sound. In addition, there are some clips in the 1995 documentary Synthetic Pleasures, though they don't offer anything new. The strangest part of this is that there is ride film footage of the first part of the In Search of the Obelisk trilogy (albeit in low quality), but there isn't any for Theater of Time.
To see if anyone can make any further leads, I transcribed the credits of the animation from The Gate to the Mind's Eye below.
Produced by The Trumbull Company
for Circus Circus Enterprises
Directed by:
Douglas Trumbull & Arish Fyzee
Producer:
Hart Getzen
Visual Effects Supervisor:
Joel Hynek
Production Supervisor:
Diane Pearlman
Production Design:
Robert U. Taylor
Computer Animation by:
Kleiser-Walczak Construction Co.
Animation Directors:
Jeff Kleiser & Diana Walczak
Producers:
Jeffrey A. Diamond
& Michael Van Himbergen
Head Animators:
Derry Frost & Ed Kramer
Animators:
Randy Bauer, George Karl,
Eileen O'Neill, Jeffrey A. Williams
Patsy Frost
Software/Animation:
Frank Vitz & Lisa Reynolds
Post Supervisor:
Patsy Frost
Production Manager:
Robert O'Haver
To see if anyone can make any further leads, I transcribed the credits of the animation from The Gate to the Mind's Eye below.
Produced by The Trumbull Company
for Circus Circus Enterprises
Directed by:
Douglas Trumbull & Arish Fyzee
Producer:
Hart Getzen
Visual Effects Supervisor:
Joel Hynek
Production Supervisor:
Diane Pearlman
Production Design:
Robert U. Taylor
Computer Animation by:
Kleiser-Walczak Construction Co.
Animation Directors:
Jeff Kleiser & Diana Walczak
Producers:
Jeffrey A. Diamond
& Michael Van Himbergen
Head Animators:
Derry Frost & Ed Kramer
Animators:
Randy Bauer, George Karl,
Eileen O'Neill, Jeffrey A. Williams
Patsy Frost
Software/Animation:
Frank Vitz & Lisa Reynolds
Post Supervisor:
Patsy Frost
Production Manager:
Robert O'Haver