 
DCI's latest release, "Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West" has already received numerous accolades for its depiction of a thrilling and important period of American history.
FROM THEATERS:
Lewis & Clark is a hit with schools - enrollment is about double that for the other film we were offering a year ago. We also have ideas for associated museum programs.
Steve Fentress, Director Strasenburgh Planetarium for Rochester Museum & Science Center, Rochester, NY
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Over 275 people attended the Lewis & Clark, Saturday, July 12, IMAX Film Adventure Travel Series. People were lined up outside at 9:00 a.m. In addition to the 225 presold tickets, over 50 tickets were sold to walkups. The audience was family and seniors. The film Lewis & Clark will be a real hit!
Wesley A. Wenhardt, VP of Business Development and IMAX Theater, San Jose, CA
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"I am extremely pleased with the Lewis & Clark attendance! Since the first of the year, we've been running well below projected attendance. When we opened Lewis & Clark we immediately saw attendance jump back to predicted levels. Lewis & Clark has been running above 60% since it opened. I think we have a hit on our hands."
Eric Melenbrink, Science Museum of Virginia
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"'Lewis & Clark' continues to perform very strongly for us (we sold out nearly 50% of our weekend shows for the past four weekends, and school groups are still booking trips to see the film)."
Robert L. Suter III, Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts
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"'Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West' has had excellent opening attendance . . . over $14,000 in two weeks. The film has generated excellent press statewide and been very well received by Lewis & Clark aficionados gearing up for the bicentennial."
Mark Brittell, Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, Portland, OR
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"'Lewis & Clark' has vastly exceeded all of our most optimistic projections. It opened to multiple sellout shows and hasn't missed a beat in the 30 days we have had it on the schedule. It appears the public is ready for an uplifting, American hero type film like 'Lewis & Clark.' Attendance has been a bit soft for the past year like most theaters and this is the shot in the arm we needed. Plus the interest in this film we have had from teachers indicates that we should have an excellent school year as well."
Craig Blower, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, San Diego, CA
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"'Lewis & Clark' had more than exceeded what we thought the film would do and is on track to become one of the most successful films we have shown in our nine years of operation."
Randy R. Wisthoff, Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha, NE
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"Fabulous reviews! Strong school group bookings.... 'Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West' could be on our school schedule for years!"
Diane Carlson, Pacific Science Center
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"The scenery was absolutely breath taking I still don't know how they captured all that footage without power lines!! As for the story, it was beautifully told and I learned how truly difficult their journey was. Our educators gave it a thumbs up and can't wait to begin developing Virginia Standards of Learning for next year."
Carolyn Schwanhausser, Science Museum of West Virginia
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"The film has launched in spectacular fashion with numerous sell-outs. Audiences have often clapped at the end of the film. Regarding attendees, we are seeing lots of seniors, and of course, lots of families, too."
Wendy M. Grant, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
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FROM PRESS / REVIEWERS:
The state museum also houses the IMAX Theater. We were treated to a showing of "Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West." It was just great. We got to see Meriwether Lewis, his dog Seaman and William Clark trek their way over 8,000 miles to open the American West. We got to see Sacagawea pave their way for them in a story that was beautifully filmed and well told. It's worth the trip just to see this movie in such a gigantic format. You can tour the museum without the film, but I can't encourage you more to include it in your tour.
By Nancy Taylor, Saturday, July 12, 2003 Hopkinsville, Kentucky
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"'Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West' brings the sweeping Western vistas as Lewis and Clark saw them to the large Omnimax screen. It follows them across country, giving audiences the same sense of awe the explorers must have felt.
National Geographic has gone after the Lewis and Clark story in a big way,
The research behind the film was painstaking - down to details such as equipment and clothing used on the trip. The film researchers turned to the journals Lewis and Clark kept as a guide and consulted with history experts and native tribes.
The result - a compelling look at the frontier as Lewis and Clark saw it and an amazing story of human triumph."
Adrian McCoy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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"Historians today compare Lewis and Clark's fantastic 1803 journey to a present-day trip to the moon. It was a voyage marked by unprecedented and unkown dangers -- raging rivers, thick forests, plunging cliffs, Indian warriors, stampeding buffalo.
So moviegoers are in for a real historical treat when National Geographic's Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West comes to the big screen. And 'big' is an understatement."
Lisa Tramontana, The Baton Rouge Advocate
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"Emotions ride the rapids right along with the early-19th century pioneers. This larger-than-life slice of history rambles across the six-story screen in a manner sure to thrill any history buff or casual observer."
Larry Ratliff, San Antonio Express-News
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"In many ways, 'Lewis and Clark' is as much a celebration of the land itself as it is of these courageous and unflaggingly curious explorers. The IMAX format is uniquely suited to this story. We see acres and acres of buffalo. When Lewis tops a high ridge -- expecting to see the ocean, but confronted by the Rockies -- we share his mixed feelings of wonder and dread. 'Lewis and Clark' is a tale of America and of Americans -- of a nation birthing itself out of wilderness, rivers and mountains, under star-strewn skies."
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal Constitution
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"['Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West'] tells the tale in a way that immerses the viewer in the experience as nothing else can. Details of clothing, tools, weapons and other equipment is as accurate as research can make it, and the filmmakers managed to find beautiful sites without roads, rails, power lines, structures or contrails. This meticulously researched and excitingly staged film is the closest the curious student can come to an approximation of how the trip felt."
Ted Mahar, Portland Oregonian
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"Beautiful and dutiful, 'Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West,' ...arrays visual spectacle, historical research and sociological sensitivity in a 42-minute retelling of the extraordinary expedition that blazed a trail across early America to its Manifest Destiny at the shores of the Pacific Ocean. ..[A]udiences who thrill to the beauty of these United States and to epic adventure may find that 'Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West' whets their appetite to know more about this remarkable expedition and its impact on a young nation."
Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times
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"The latest six-story-high movie to arrive on the SuperScreen inspires awe in an American journey. And unlike some other large-format films, this one tells its story with refreshing understatement. 'Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West' whisks us away from St. Louis and across the prairie with the Corps of Discovery, into the great unknown as it looked in 1804. 'Great Journey' lays out a wide range of facts that will have you shaking your head in amazement."
Diane Urbani, Deseret News
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"'Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West' tackles a job nearly as formidable as the legendary cross-country expedition. [The film] does everything you want it to. It makes you feel you are part of the expedition, riding rapids on hand-carved canoes, even losing your balance while collecting plant samples from the side of a cliff."
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press
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"From the comfort of your theater seat, you can join these intrepid explorers along their grueling 8,000-mile journey through America's unmapped West. "
Karen Fanning, Scholastic News.com
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"'Lewis & Clark' is a fine introduction to the subject matter by way of a documentary-like re-creation that condenses the epic 8,000-mile journey into 42 minutes while filming in locations as close as possible to the ones described in historical journals."
David Hunter, The Hollywood Reporter
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"A journey that shaped a nation -- 'Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West' recreates historic exploration of the West. The film uses actors and large-format film to tell the story of the Corps of Discovery in sweeping scope. The filmmakers were able to capture completely pristine vistas without any hint of modernity."
Bill Blankenship, The Capital-Journal
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"All history lessons should be as enthralling. [This] dramatic recreation of the epochal Lewis and Clark expedition -- an undertaking that was in its day (1803-1806) equivalent in difficulty and danger to a trip to the moon -- represents a truly spectacular use of the IMAX format. A really tremendous piece of filmmaking and a stunning visual and aural treat."
Steve Simel, TV Guide.com
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"The National Geographic production 'Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West' traces the perilous expedition of the Corps of Discovery -- explorers who set off on the Missouri River north of St. Louis in May 1804 to chart the unknown West. Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark are the heroes of the new large-format film, but the real star of the show is the beautiful, young America."
Mary Delach Leonard, The Post-Dispatch
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"This illusion of an unexplored and undeveloped landscape is one of the most satisfying elements of 'Lewis & Clark.' It's a visual feast for Western buffs, and in many ways it's a throwback to those history films so common during the early years of IMAX. ... [T]he movie leaves you open-mouthed at the incredible accomplishment of the Corps of Discovery and the hardships they encountered (there's a harrowing and beautiful sequence of the expedition's nearly fatal march through the snowy Bitteroot Range)."
Robert W. Butler, The Kansas City Star
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"Bruce Neibaur's short feature is not only a fine historical and educational film but also is excellent from the point of view of filmmaking. Nearly every scene is engaging and visually interesting. There is a real cinematic feel to this authentic-looking account of the grand 28-month journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark into the vast, uncharted areas of the Louisiana Purchase territory."
Jim Delmont, Omaha World-Herald
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