Home > Theater 2 > Films > Ellen's After experiencing the prehistoric diorama, guests find themselves within a second theater. Here, the story continues with another film where the audience is once again reunited with Ellen and Bill Nye 750,000 years in the earth's past. Here, they witness primitive man's discovery of fire and the audience is then transported on a fast-paced trip through a stylized version of the history of civilization from the Egyptians, to the Greek and Roman empires, onto the Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, onto the Victorian Age and finally into the 20th century ending up in modern day. The audience once again rejoins Ellen & Bill Nye who are flying in a small helicopter. From there, Bill takes Ellen on an aerial journey across the western United States to teach her about modern day energy resources such as solar, wind, hydroelectric, coal, natural gas, crude oil, and finally nuclear power. At the end of their journey, Ellen winds up back on the set in time for Double Jeopardy!. With her new-found knowledge of energy, she manages to answer every single question correctly to tie her brilliant roommate, Judy, for the lead. The film concludes with the reading of the Final Jeopardy! question which will determine who will win the game. The Theater II film is shown on three massive 70mm motion projection screens that together form a giant wraparound screen that measures 210 feet wide and 30 feet high creating a 218° field of view, which is designed to extend beyond a person's peripheral vision. To shoot the twelve and a half minute film, the original camera-rig that was custom built to film the original Theater II film in 1981, was pulled from storage and was once again put to use to capture the images for the new Theater II film. Film crews took the massive rig to various locations across the western United States such as the Glenn Canyon Dam in Arizona, Colorado, and the Gulf of Mexico. All of the scenes where the actors were present, however, were filmed in soundstages in front of a green screen where the background was digitally added by computer during post production. For example, in the distant shot of Ellen and Bill Nye walking across the top of the dam back to their helicopter are actually only doubles. This was done primarily to save on production costs of having to fly the actors out to each of the locations. Also to save on the cost of being on location, the scene featuring the Texas oil derricks is actually only a tiny scale model. Using stock film footage from the original Theater II film also saved on production costs. The flyover sequence over Solar One near the beginning of the film, which was used in the original film, was reused for the new film as well. Composer Bruce Broughton composed the underscore for the Theater II film.