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The Making of Mysteries of the Great Lakes
If you could take everyone on this continent on an expedition from one end of the Great Lakes to the other, you would change the way that they look at these natural treasures. Of course that’s impossible to do, but we can take them on that journey through the power of IMAX®, which is often dubbed “the next best thing to being there”.
The giant screen film, Mysteries of the Great Lakes, is as much a celebration of Earth’s greatest freshwater ecosystem as it is a rallying cry for protection. The story will take audiences on an inspiring voyage through these amazing inland seas. In the film, a few stops along the way highlight the stories of three key species - one each from water, air and land. The film also turns the camera on us, as humans - by touching on the human interface with the Lakes including the role of shipping to commerce, the use of the Great Lakes’ water by the millions of people who rely on it for life, and the general sense of well-being that people receive from simply being near these massive bodies of water.
The scenery and wildlife footage captured through the IMAX lens for Mysteries of the Great Lakes is spectacular, with some shots being unlike anything ever captured for this medium before. Filming took the production crews from beneath the waves of the Wolf River in Wisconsin - where thousands of lake sturgeon, the world’s largest freshwater fish, thrashed in the shallow rapids en route to their spawning grounds - into the skies to shoot aerial footage of all of the Great Lakes. 
The filmmakers acquired some amazing footage of woodland caribou while shooting in Lake Superior’s Slate Islands. Over the course of the first two days of filming, the crew saw almost 20 individual caribou of various ages. The Slate Islands are home to the largest remaining woodland caribou herd in the Great Lakes region, and over the course of their 100 plus years on the Islands, they have evolved some unusual biological adaptations. The caribou on the Slate Islands weren’t shy about settling their differences in the presence of humans either, and this unusual situation provided our filmmakers with a picturesque, once-in-a-lifetime shot of two male caribou battling for dominance, with a glorious Lake Superior sunset as a backdrop. |
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