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IlSggjjg ? ? H l l I I I Futuri JANE KALINOWSKY/REVIEW-JOURNAL Jill Englestead staples an "E" on a float in preparation for Saturday's Helldorado Days Parade. By MIKE WEATHERFORD REVIEW-JOURNAL ? m ovie already used the title “ Planes, Trains & Autom obiles.” But if all goes to plan, the weekend’s centennial festivities w ill roll out stagecoaches, a steam locom otive, classic cars, helicopters, F-16s, a big red shoe (from M cDonalds) and E lvis im personators jumping out of airplanes with sparkl ^ attached to their feetv 31* duoo And if you don’t mipd m\mp t a s Vegas Review-Journal seeing the backs of eight tractor-trailers in the middle of Saturday night, centennial organizers could sure use your help in unloading 130,000 pounds of cake for the world’s largest birthday cake on Sunday. The Starbucks and Red Bull is on them. A big parade, the giant cake and the clim actic fireworks display are all part of the weekend’s Las Vegas centennial activities downtown. The ever-evolving nature of Las Vegas is summed up on Fremont Street. A W estern village and late-1800s steam locom otive mark the revival of Helldorado Days for the first tim e since 1997. They sit under the canopy of the Fremont Street Experience, which hosts a new high-tech video called “Lucky V egas” on its 500-yard screen of LED lights. The montage of gaming footage set to classic rock is the first Fremont Street film that’s entirely live-action, a major departure from the computer-animate^f^rp jof m ost of the “Viva Vision” shows. “This w ill elevate the screen to its full capacity,” says film m aker Bruce Adlhoch, of California-based Adlhoch Creative, Inc. In term s of the projection surface, the new show is “the largest live-action film ever created,” Adlhoch notes. Im ages w ere duplicated and som etim es spliced together to create the extrem e w idescreen view , “so large you can’t encom pass it with a single look,” he says. “Lucky V egas” debuts at 8 p.m. today and repeats at 10 ? SEE CENTENNIAL PAGE 6