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The Ancient Americas exhibit at the Field Museum features something that even the most powerful native emperors never had: professional high definition projectors supplied by Sound Vision.
The exhibits include 10 high-end multimedia projectors from Projection Design, Inc., including six of their 3,000-ANSI F20 sx+ projectors and four of their 4500-ANSI Cineo3+ digital cinema projectors. "The reason we ended up with Projection Design was that they were the only manufacturer willing to warranty a projector turned on its side and run in a high use environment," says Joe Niziolek of Progressive Communications, who acted as a design consultant on the project.
A highlight of The Ancient Americas is a Pleistocene area with five portrait-mode projection screens. "The museum has woolly mammoths walking from screen to screen to screen," says Sound Vision's Tom Allison, who worked with Niziolek and Museum media services manager Tony Stepovy on the project. "It's a great effect, but turn a standard projector on its side or try to run it all day and all evening, and you'll burn it out in short order," explains Allison. "Very few projectors are designed to run that constantly, and a standard cooling system will work only if the projector is upright."
The F20 projectors will not only run 24/7, but they can be rotated to project in either landscape or portrait mode and still cool themselves properly. They offer 1050 x 1400 resolution, optical lens shift, configurable color wheel options, interchangeable lenses, network control and simplified asset management. The Museum uses a sixth F20 in a walk-through theater exhibit on ancient governments and four Cineo3+ projectors (also from Projection Design) showing side by side high definition pictures on a wall in the Living Descendants conclusion area.
"The Cineo units work well there because of their very high brightness, native 16:9 aspect ratio, film-like image quality and high reliability, which is crucial in a permanent exhibit like this one," explains Allison.
The Ancient Americas opened March 9 at the Field Museum. It includes 2,200 artifacts and reconstructions plus dozens of videos and interactive displays presenting the history of the Americas in the 13,000 years before Europeans arrived.
"So far everything looks good," says Stepovy. "We've had absolutely no issues with any of the projectors. The biggest problem we had was figuring out how to mount them vertically."
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