22 mins for California trip at Science City

KOLKATA: Get set for a ride you won't forget in a hurry. Prepare to walk among the swish set at the Academy Awards and get a dizzying view from atop the Golden Gate bridge.
But you don't have to go to the US to experience these thrills. All you need to do is take a trip to the Science City' Space Theatre.
Have you ever visualized yourself walking down the red-carpet at Academy Awards surrounded with paparazzi or you swerving down the icy Alabama Hills in snowboarders or surfing and gliding through the wildest sea-waves at Mavericks Beach in California? To experience it all, you do not have to go to the United States.From awe-inspiring Sierra Nevada mountains to the dizzying heights of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, you can traverse through the diverse California topography in just 22 minutes.
Space Theatre at Science City is set to take its viewers for a 22-minute visual expedition down the unexplored natural bounty of California with a large-format movie, 'Adventures in Wild California'.
A few minutes into the film, and you will find yourself surfing, swirling and twirling on thermals above the clouds in San Diego and swimming through the oceans with sea otters in Monterey Bay Aquarium in Silicon Valley, where these endangered species are raised by surrogate human mothers so that they can be sent back safely into the wild.
The visuals will take you for a ride into an unexplored terrain. You would find yourself one with the caretakers standing on top of Golden Gate in San Francisco now and in a few seconds, you will be sitting on the top of a 30-storey tall Giant Sequoia tree excavating the heart of the woods at California's Sequoia National Forest.
You will also find yourself taking a joyride in Disneyland, all in a few minutes.
"You just have to surrender yourself to the film and it will take care of the entertainment quotient by itself. It is a spectacular treat for our audience, especially for the kids as the film will educate them as well. It teaches us to care for nature and learn the art of co-existence in the most simple way," said Science City director Arijit Dutta Choudhury. 'Adventures in Wild California' is the 20th showcase by the space theatre, which plans to go digital by 2014.
Made in 2000 by American large-format filmmaker Greg MacGillivray, the 22-minute documentary captures California's most daring and dynamic adventurers using small hand-held cameras, which can easily plunge down cliffs and fall out of planes. A myriad tale of exciting and though-provoking real stories are inter-weaved into the plot, while the film reveals how the lifestyle of California culture is influenced by the surrounding untouched wilderness.
Shot with a 70-pound IMAX camera, the uncanny cinematography gets to the very soul of the activity performed. With an eloquent narration by Golden Globe-winning actor Jimmy Smits, the creative background score by Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham fills up the breathtaking imagery. The film seldom flags in energy and is sure to leave the audience wanting more.