When people hear the word IMAX, they usually think about giant screens, earth-shaking sound, and blockbuster movies that feel larger than life. But IMAX was never created just to make movies “bigger.” It was invented to solve a real problem filmmakers faced in the 1960s: how to make cinema feel truly immersive without confusing audiences with messy multi-screen projections. What started as an experimental Canadian project eventually transformed global cinema.
