CAVES: An Omnimax/Imax Film

September 15th, 1996 - August 11th, 1998 | PROJECT

The Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and Science (CMNHS) is producing a large format film on caves. The film will be a multidisciplinary introduction to the little-understood world of caves and cave science. Caves will introduce viewers to the alien beauty and wonder of caves and the scientists and explorers who study them. It will explore the formation of caves and speleothems, the highly adapted life-forms found in caves and the varied use of caves by people, past and present. A comprehensive educational package of ancillary materials will be available to schools and to the general audience. The PI for the project will be Kit Anderson, Director of Film Projects for CMNHS. The principal science content specialist will be Jacqueline Janine Belwood, a researcher in vertebrate zoology at CMNHS. She will work closely with an advisory committee of eighteen experts in caves, in the various science disciplines relevant to the cave environment, and in large format films. She also will have access to the expertise found among the staff of the CMNHS. The film will be produced by MacGillivray Freeman Films, the company that produced the large format film, "To Fly".

Project Website(s)

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Project Products

Summative Evaluation of Journey into Amazing Caves with a Student Audience
Summative Evaluation of Journey into Amazing Caves with an Adult Audience

Team Members

Kit Anderson, Principal Investigator, Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and Science
Jacqueline Belwood, Co-Principal Investigator, Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and Science
Barbara Flagg, Evaluator, Multimedia Research

Funders

Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: ISE/AISL
Award Number: 9627043
Funding Amount: 520907

Tags

Audience: Elementary School Children (6-10) | General Public | Middle School Children (11-13) | Museum | ISE Professionals
Discipline: Geoscience and geography
Resource Type: Project Descriptions
Environment Type: Films and IMAX | Media and Technology