IMAX 1
Kennedy Space Center · United StatesSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 45/100 — a modest premium screen, 239 m² of lit picture, with 29% of the screen never lit. The projector rests on a single source. Data read 5 November 2026.
State Road 405, Kennedy Space Center, FL, 32899 · Open in maps ↗
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 21.3 m × 15.9 m (339 m²)
- Picture area
- 239 m² — 29% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 1.34:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 395
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 1984
- Operator
⚠ This venue does not screen commercial films. The score above describes the room — how big the picture is and what lights it — not what is on it. However good the auditorium, you probably can't see this week's release here.
Why IQ 45
239 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source
IMAX Commercial Laser · one source
1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show
no sound specification published
⌷ Size is scored on the picture, not the fabric. This screen is taller than its projector's frame, so a chunk of it is never lit and doesn't count.
How big, really?
Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m
- 1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21.0 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
- 2BFI IMAX · 26×20.0 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
- 3IMAX 1 · 21.3×15.9 m · picture 239 m², 29% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
3 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 3 up · 339 m² total)
What you actually see
Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters
IMAX digital — what most “IMAX” showings actually are
- Screen
- 339 m²
- Picture
- 239 m²
- Screen used
- 71%
4.7 m of this screen's height — 29% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.90 showing. The projector here can't produce the full 1.43 frame, so the top and bottom of the screen are never used at all.
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
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You'd get 49% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.
Better screens within 75 mi
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Where this comes from
Single sourceWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- single source
- Operating status
- verified open
Sources disagree
The 2021 industry listing records this venue as film; we publish laseron the strength of a more recent source. IMAX has converted a great many screens to laser since that listing closed, so the newer record usually wins — but you should know the two don't match.
The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
Showtimes
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