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21 March 2005 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

IMAX documentaries that touch on the issue of evolution have been removed by numerous science museums and other venues in Southern states following local protests, the New York Times reported on Saturday. The films include, Cosmic Voyage, Galapagos, and Volcanoes of the Deep Sea. In an interview with the newspaper, Carol Murray, marketing director of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, said that the museum had pulled Volcanoes after receiving complaints from members of the audience. She told the Times, "If it is not going to draw a crowd and it is going to create controversy, from a marketing point of view, I cannot make a recommendation." Such decisions to bar screenings of the film are apt to affect the content of IMAX documentaries in the future, the Times indicated. It quoted Joe DeAmicis, vice president of the California Science Center in Los Angeles as saying, "It is going to be hard for our filmmakers to continue to make unfettered documentaries when they know that 10 per cent of the market will reject them."

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