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1999 Wrapup Report
TechnoVisions was the most enjoyable and festive of recent Virginia Film Festivals. The subject was special effects and technological innovations, and the Festival overflowed with them. Nearly twelve hundred people donned 3D polarized glasses to see Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder in all of its dimensions, and many more picked up the red and blue glasses that brought Boris Starosta's 3D Festival poster to life. A sell-out crowd of four hundred nostrils experienced John Waters' Polyester in glorious Odorama, and a continuous parade of teenagers defied nausea by riding the MaxFlight simulated roller coaster in the Regal lobby TechnoFair. Vinegar Hill Theater mounted a two-screen presentation of Andy Warhol's Outer and Inner Space, exceeded only by the magnificent presentation of Daniel Reeves' three-screen Try to Live to See This at PVCCs Dickinson Auditorium. Finally, Radford University Professor Ted McKosky resurrected Percepto, producer William Castle's effect of giving electrical shocks to members of the audience of The Tingler, which McKosky supplemented with other Castle effects (including a nurse pushing a patient on a gurney through the theater). MORE:
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