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Here’s why the best IMAX movies still need a Palm Pilot to work

A photo of Cillian Murphy in a crowd acting in front of an IMAX camera.
Oppenheimer was shot on super-high-end cameras — and uses some super-low-tech gear to show it to you. | Photo: Universal Pictures

The Palm Pilot surely wasn’t the point of the TikTok, but it seemed to be the only thing anybody noticed. Ahead of the release of Oppenheimer, the official IMAX TikTok account posted a video showing the mind-bending size of the 70mm film print and the orange extensions IMAX had to build just to hold the platter in place. To give you some context: Oppenheimer’s film reportedly weighs 600 pounds, and the reel is an outrageous 11 miles long. Director Christopher Nolan told Collider that he thinks he might have hit the “outer limit” for how big a film reel can be.

But anyway, back to the Palm Pilot. Right there, in the foreground of the TikTok video, is a small blue and silver Palm device. (It’s technically not called a Palm Pilot —…

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