# THX Cimarron

Cimarron is the third promotional/introductory trailer for the Lucasfilm THX Sound System. It debuted in select THX-certified theatres in May 1988 to coincide with the release of the film Willow . Cimarron was the first THX trailer to implement computer-generated imagery, courtesy of Industrial Light & Magic, and was made to provide an alternate trailer for cinemas. The trailer has been prepared for 35mm Dolby SR, 70mm Dolby A, and 35mm Dolby Digital. It was included on the THX Ultimate Demo Disc DVD in 2003, but multiple variants exist. The original version begins with an orchestra tuning against a small black-to-grey gradient square centred on a black backdrop. In this box, a conductor's hand holding a baton raises into the frame, silencing the tuning. He flicks his baton, prompting a cyan-to-red wormhole to engulf outside of the box and fill the entire frame as we go through it. Musically, it is accompanied by a harmony of descending synth tones, sparkling chimes, and an atonal horn section. At the end of the wormhole, there is a reflective THX logo zooming towards us and shifting its angle as it comes closer to pass through us, against a backdrop of red lights at first organized in the frame, and each light moves away from one by one until there is few red and more black. During this, we hear a quieter set of descending synths with more mellow musical accompaniment, and an E-flat(?) note is held as the logo is on screen, which crescendos to a higher note as it leaves…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1988
- By: THX
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/thx-7680x-4320-thf-4)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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