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GEO World, August, 2002
Movies often push the truth when depicting scenes of advanced technology. However, "The Sum of All Fears," which opened May 31, 2002, is the first film to use and properly portray high-resolution satellite imagery that has only recently been available outside the intelligence community.
Denver-based Space Imaging supplied satellite images (worth about $90,000) to Los Angeles visual effects shop Rhythm & Hues Studios for its work on scenes in the Paramount Pictures film, which is based on the 1991 Tom Clancy novel of the same name. The images are used as transitional elements in the movie, presenting realistic "zoom-in" scenes of various locations around the world.
"Hollywood has always been enamored with satellite imagery, but few films outside of...
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