MATTE & EFFECTS FILMS CELEBRATED: Part Eight
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2M ago
Greetings to all who are particularly partial to the long lost era of traditional, hand painted mattes and other ingenious motion picture 'tricks of the trade'.  It is indeed that time again - perhaps a little overdue according to some of my faithful correspondents - for a veritable cavalcade of amazing (and in a few isolated instances, perhaps not so flash) special photographic and miniature trick shots from across the long and wide cinema spectrum. As is my self anointed vfx historian warrant, I've assembled a broad cross section of incredible films, with, in most cases, some terrif ..read more
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MATTE & EFFECTS FILMS CELEBRATED: Part Seven
Matte Shot - A tribute to Golden Era special fx
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5M ago
  Welcome fans and devotees of old school mattes, models and clever trick photography.  It's time once again for another giant of a blog post, and I do emphasize, giant!  I never do these things by half-measures and always try to cover all possible bases when examining and illustrating these amazing hand rendered moments of movie magic. I have a vast collection of shots here, from a very broad cross section of movies.  As usual there are some very rare mattes that nobody has ever seen which should utterly delight the aficionados among you (you know who you are!).  The ..read more
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MATTE & EFFECTS FILMS CELEBRATED: Part Six
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8M ago
  Hello again friends and olde timey matte and trick shot enthusiasts.  It's that time again for a trip through the cinematic museum of movie wizardry and creativity from the pre-computer era.  I call this my mid-winter blockbuster, as it is that particular season right now where I am, and what better time than to dust off a multitude of visual effects wonders to feast your eyes upon. Seriously. Well, what have we got?  An overlooked disaster epic from long ago;  A CinemaScope lightweight medieval costumer; A pair of eighties flicks about teens with special abilities ..read more
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MATTE & EFFECTS FILMS CELEBRATED: Part Five
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11M ago
  Hi friends... it's autumn here now and the season is turning a different colour 'down under' (sounds like something a medic should promptly look into?)  As such, it appears that it is that time again for another vast and fulfilling exploration of all things traditional matte, miniature and optical - done the 'old fashioned way' by eye, hand, instinct, and sometimes sheer seat of the pants ingenuity to sell a shot. As always, I have a treasure trove of material to share - much of which I'm certain will be fresh to many, if not all of my readers.  We have an astonishingly bro ..read more
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MATTE & EFFECTS FILMS CELEBRATED: Part Three
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1y ago
  Hello there folks.  I know it's been an eternity since one of these substantial and value for money(!) blog posts on all great things matte related, but I have had other things to do, such as home renovation work after the destructive cyclone and floods here last January (yes, it took 7 months for the damned insurance to come through... with 50'000 odd claims, most far more serious than ours!) That aside, as mentioned ad nauseam over the fourteen or so years that these bloggings have been rolling off the cyber presses, I've just got to be in the exact mood to tackle 'em.  It's ..read more
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MATTE & EFFECTS FILMS CELEBRATED: Part Two
Matte Shot - A tribute to Golden Era special fx
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1y ago
  Hi Guys and Gals.... it's matte magic time once again, with a healthy round up of films and genres, from a wide spectrum indeed.  I've got 'B' grade monsters, big budget Technicolor fantasy, gritty British WWII action, a thirties comic classic, a VistaVision epic, a wonderful Disney true story, and to top it off, a biopic of the late Tina Turner!  Plus, a long forgotten and previously unidentified matte shot by Albert Whitlock when he was in England in the 1940's is also in today's line up!  And as if that weren't enough, I've got a cavalcade of rarely seen Matte World ..read more
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MATTE & EFFECTS FILMS CELEBRATED: Part One
Matte Shot - A tribute to Golden Era special fx
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1y ago
Greetings friends and myriad enthusiasts of 'old time' traditional special photographic effects, mattes, miniatures, trick shots and all such 'lost' art forms of days gone by.  It is time for yet another journey down that ever fascinating path of wonderful motion picture magic, that we all love so much. Today, I've assembled a very broad cross section of films, from across the cinematic spectrum - from science fiction, western, swashbuckler, jungle adventure and epic desert romance genres - all here in the one packed blog post.  As usual, I've included a few worthy titles that f ..read more
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KEEP 'EM LAUGHING: Mattes & Trick Shots in Comedies - Part Two
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2y ago
Hi there friends and followers of the sublime, lost art form of traditionally rendered matte painted shots and miscellaneous motion picture wizardry. It is indeed that time again, Delays in getting this up and running have been due to near apocalyptic weather conditions, with the worst cyclone descending upon New Zealand from the tropics ever recorded, with floods and destruction the likes unseen here since records began.  Whole communities wiped off the map.  My home was partially flooded, though luckily just a spare bedroom and annexes in the basement, though, unfortunately, that ..read more
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KEEP 'EM LAUGHING: Mattes & Trick Shots in Comedy Films - Part One
Matte Shot - A tribute to Golden Era special fx
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2y ago
'Tis the season to be jolly, or so they say, so here we are back again with yet another blog that's absolutely jam packed with cinematic wonderment.  My previous blog on low cost film effects proved most popular, with much feedback and comment (and a couple of corrections).  I still plan to do a follow up Low Budget blog at some point, as I missed a bunch of great little films with really nifty trick work such as the sci-fi cult item FIEND WITHOUT A FACE among others.  Stay tuned, as they say. Today we will be embarking on the first of a large two-parter on mattes and trick ef ..read more
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INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC: THE MATTE ART - Part Two
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2y ago
  Hi there friends, followers and fellow film fanatics.  It is, without question, well and truly time to examine more of that utterly magical lost art form of the traditional, hand painted and photo-chemically assembled matte shot.  I have an epic (truly!) rundown here today, as the continuation of the mammoth tribute piece to Industrial Light & Magic's matte painting department and the personalities therein. As with the first part of this extensive overview, I've attempted to cover all of the ILM traditional mattes as best I can, and in chronological order.  There a ..read more
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