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Toronto-based IMAX Systems Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. of Japan announced they will collaborate on the first stereoscopic, wrap-around screen film to be shown at the 1990 World’s Fair in Osaka, Japan. The 15- to 17-minute film will combine live action with state-of-the-art computer animation to depict how plants store solar energy in sugars, and how animal muscles release that energy to produce motion. Fujitsu is sponsoring the film, which will also demonstrate a new IMAX system that is being billed as a “dramatic advance” in three-dimensional cinema. Roman Kroiter, producer and executive vice president of IMAX Systems, said: “The color images--including the introduction by humorous puppets and some live action--will be almost touchable. You’ll have no sense that you’re watching an image on the screen.”