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General Manager of Sydney Imax, Mark Bretherton, has announced that Sydneysiders are in fact the luckiest people in the world this week, and it's not because The Pope is in town.

Several key scenes of The Dark Knight were originally shot on Imax cameras. The ratio of Imax film information to normal 35 mm film information is 10:1. The print being used in Sydney was cut from the original film negative - the only other in the world will be in London.

That means you will be able to see the biggest, clearest, most spectacular Dark Knight sequences if you live in Sydney.

At a special preview screening on Monday night, the audience literally burst out laughing in shock and awe at the sheer vertigo of the opening scenes. They also burst into applause at the end of the film.

The film also opens a day ahead of the rest of the world in Oz.