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🗓️ 12 April 2025
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0:00.0 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch. We go right to Las Vegas. Jeff, the Wizard of Oz comes to Las Vegas. How so? Good evening to you. |
0:17.7 | Good evening, John. Yes. Here it is. It's, I think it's 89, it's 86 years old now. And what better place to show off that great, that movie, that landmark film, then our favorite attraction there, the sphere, the totally immersive experience, usually reserved for concerts, a few sporting events. and they do show movies in there but |
0:38.1 | you know really the first big movie they thought about bringing back to show in there seems |
0:41.8 | so perfect and that's |
0:43.6 | gonna be the wizard of oz so you'll have a |
0:45.9 | hundred sixty thousand four square foot screen |
0:49.4 | with all the music and all the digital you know magic behind it |
0:54.1 | and it'll be up there. |
0:55.0 | It'll be pretty impressive. |
0:56.0 | I'm sorry I'm not going to get a chance to see it. |
0:58.0 | The flying monkeys on the sphere or pay no attention to the man behind the curtain on the sphere. |
1:06.0 | And I want to know what the witch looks like. |
1:08.0 | What? She'll be about 150 feet tall. |
1:11.6 | You know, it's interesting when I went to the Eagles show back several months ago, |
1:15.6 | they had a sequence during the Boys of Summer Song that had people swimming or cavorting in the ocean or a pool. |
1:22.6 | And these huge figures were rendered on the screen above you that were probably, you know, six, |
1:27.8 | eight stories tall or bigger lifelike. So I can only imagine what Margaret Hamilton on her broomstick |
1:32.7 | as the Wicked Witch is going to be like for any of the other great special effects. It should |
1:36.7 | be very exciting. And Jeff, according to the release, it's late summer, August 28th, |
1:43.9 | they think they can add wind and sounds of |
1:47.4 | nature around to people. Now, you've been there. The speakers are that good? You can hear |
1:52.5 | things because it's a big audience. They are that good. As a matter of fact, they have a system |
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