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James Cameron Painting a Matte for Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Above: Cameron paints the hero’s village—a beautiful, surreal design—from BBTS. Below: Cameron painting the skyline for Escape from New York. And here’s a short magazine blurb on Galaxy of Terror. The...
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Manhattan Miniature from Escape from New York (1981)
In the first two photos, Bob (dark hair and beard) and Dennis Skotak, two legends in the visual effects field, work on the model. In the third, John Carpenter inspects the finished product. To achieve...
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Cinefantastique (Vol. 6, No. 1, 1977): Behind the Scenes Visual Effects from...
Read the article at Pop Apostle, where I got the images. The visual effects for Land of the Lost were supervised by Gene Warren, who won an academy award for his special effects on George Pal’s The...
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Leigh Took Painting a Matte for Hawk the Slayer (1980)
I found these at a wonderful site called Matte Shot, a tribute to golden age special effects artists. The third image shows the matte as it appears in the film, and you can see a lot more at the link,...
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Fantastic Films #17 (July, 1980): Interview with Richard Edlund
There were a number of interviews with the special effects crew of The Empire Strikes Back in Fantastic Films #17. Here’s the first. It gets pretty technical, because that’s Edlund’s field, but anyone...
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