Regisseur: Greg MacGillivray
Studio: Image Entertainment
Genre: Documentary
Erscheinungsdatum: Darsteller:
FSK: NR
Zusammenfassung: For anyone who craves the adrenaline rush of maximum velocity, "Speed" is a thrill ride custom-made for superior home-theater systems. Like any IMAX film, this popular 30-minute program suffers from home-theater reduction, but its crisp images and flawless audio (especially in DTS mode) provide adequate compensation as James Burke (lively host of the classic science/invention series "Connections") narrates a brisk survey of speed, from the earliest push-pedal bicycle, to the Stanley Steamer, internal combustion engines (including a nod to pioneering hot-rodder Bill Vukovich), jets, rockets, and beyond. From Chuck Yeager's breaking of the sound barrier in 1947's Bell X-1, to the supersonic SR-71 "Blackbird" spy-plane, the Apollo missions, rocket-powered dragsters, and the Blue Angels precision-flight team, this MacGillivray-Freeman production delivers a breathtaking blaze of color, sound, and historical perspective, finally suggesting--with a "stargate" sequence reminiscent of "2001: A Space Odyssey"--that "the final frontier" of speed lies within the realm of imagination. "--Jeff Shannon"
Studio: Image Entertainment
Genre: Documentary
Erscheinungsdatum: Darsteller:
FSK: NR
Zusammenfassung: For anyone who craves the adrenaline rush of maximum velocity, "Speed" is a thrill ride custom-made for superior home-theater systems. Like any IMAX film, this popular 30-minute program suffers from home-theater reduction, but its crisp images and flawless audio (especially in DTS mode) provide adequate compensation as James Burke (lively host of the classic science/invention series "Connections") narrates a brisk survey of speed, from the earliest push-pedal bicycle, to the Stanley Steamer, internal combustion engines (including a nod to pioneering hot-rodder Bill Vukovich), jets, rockets, and beyond. From Chuck Yeager's breaking of the sound barrier in 1947's Bell X-1, to the supersonic SR-71 "Blackbird" spy-plane, the Apollo missions, rocket-powered dragsters, and the Blue Angels precision-flight team, this MacGillivray-Freeman production delivers a breathtaking blaze of color, sound, and historical perspective, finally suggesting--with a "stargate" sequence reminiscent of "2001: A Space Odyssey"--that "the final frontier" of speed lies within the realm of imagination. "--Jeff Shannon"