Tom Ridge Environmental Center IMAX

Erie · United StatesPublished figures

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 23/100 — at the bottom of the premium range, with no published dimensions, so the size score rests on an estimate. No source states the projector, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 October 2026.

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Map position approximate (city centre)

~IQ 23*provisional

Premium in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.

Spec sheet

Projection: Not recorded
Screen: 13.7 m × 10.1 m (138 m²)
Screen shape: 1.36:1 — the fabric itself
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 175
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2006
Operator

⚠ Still trading, but no longer an IMAX venue. Wikipedia (updated Nov 2025) still describes the centre as featuring 'a large-format movie theater' (the Big Green Screen); LFE records a Christie 8/70 non-IMAX system. The trecpi.org domain is dead, so the operating detail is not confirmed from the centre itself.

Nobody we can cite states what projects the picture in this room, so the projector scores at the floor — neither credited with laser nor assumed to be xenon. Treat the score as indicative.

Why IQ 23

Screen size *8/38

dimensions never published, scored on a conservative estimate · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection11/36

Not recorded · no source on file

Full 1.43 frame4/18

no frame shape on file — the projector it was derived from was withdrawn

Sound0/8

no sound specification published

* This venue has never published its screen dimensions. Size is scored on a deliberately conservative estimate, so an unmeasured screen can't out-rank a measured one on guesswork.

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
3Tom Ridge Environmental Center · 13.7×10.1 m
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 138 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 138 m²
Picture: 99 m²
Screen used: 71%

2.9 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

Nothing materially better within 75 mi — this is your best option locally.

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Where this comes from

Published figures

We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.

Screen dimensions: single source
Projector: not established
Operating status: verified not-imax

No source on file names the projector in this room. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.

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