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- Recent News - TOLGUS TIN and the Haunted Mine
Whilst on holiday in Cornwall recently, I came across a new 3d experience. I was looking for the Tolgus Tin Museum which I found as part of the Cornish Gold and Treasure Park. This is a retail park selling gold, silver and gem ornaments and jewellery. At the back of this park is the original museum which demonstrates the refining of tin with the original machinery.
In one part of the museum they have set up a small cinema and show a 3d film which is a journey through a Cornish tin mine riding in one of the ore wagons. The film is fast and furious dropping you down the mine shaft. You take a roller coaster ride through the tunnels, smashing through barriers into the disused workings, meeting wagons coming in the opposite direction and rapidly reversing. You leap across an abyss when you run out of rail and there is the inevitable ride over the boiling lava. OK, the film is like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom . I have seen other 3d simulation films and been disappointed but in this film the 3d effect is superb even in the fast parts of the film. The cinema opened on July 1st this year and was set up by Metropolis Entertainment of London who specialise in installing 3d theatres.
My wife and I really enjoyed this film. It is breathtaking, funny and the 3d effects were superb - one of the best 3d films I have seen. The museum is on the B3300 Redruth-Portreath road and entry to the museum is only £2. This attraction is well worth a visit if you are in the area.
Tony Holmes – Third Dimension Magazine
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