Matte & Effects Films Celebrated: Part Twelve
Greetings fellow enthusiasts and fans of the wonderful world of traditional era matte painting...
The World of Charles Dickens
So, first up is the 1935 MGM version of DAVID COPPERFIELD...
The Art of the MGM Matte
Among the thousands of exquisite matte shots produced under the watchful eye of Warren Newcombe...
The Last Days of Pompeii
Among effects master Willis H.O'Brien's more atypical film credits...
A Photo Tribute to Russell Lawson
While assembling images and data for today's blog I was hard pressed to find very much info...
A Salute to Versitility and Ingenuity
For several years from the late seventies I was an employee of Warner Bros...
SHE… A Tribute
H.Rider Haggards' epic story was one ripe for the picking by adventurous Hollywood producers...
Creature Feature
Flash back to a time when going to the movies (or as we'd have said here "to the pictures")...
Meddings Magic Miniatures
This is one of those films that had always escaped me back in the day...
Up in lights…
There's no two ways about it - when it came to the musical, MGM were king of the jungle...
The Supercalifragulous Visual Effects of a Disney Favourite
Time for another of my all time favourite films...
H.G Wells’ The Time Machine
Certainly one of my favourite fantasy or science fiction films and time has not dulled...
Whitlock Wages War!
The 1977 war bio-pic "MacARTHUR" in many ways harks back to the Golden Era of great war films...
Jan Domela – An Intimate Portrait
When trying to learn more about the careers and backgrounds of technical folk...
Roy Seawright – Hal Roach Studios Resident Wizard
One of the least known among todays special effect circles would have to be Roy Seawright...
Saboteur
Alfred Hitchcocks' "SABOTEUR" (1942) remains one of my favourite Hitchcock thrillers...
The Red Shoes
I'd always put off looking at this film as it never seemed to appeal to me...
Rebecca
Cosgrove recieved Oscar nominations for "GWTW" (1939), "REBECCA" (1940), "PRIDE OF THE YANKEES" (1942)...
Duel in the Sun
As I have a large amount of great matte shot material from many Selznick productions...
The Burning of Atlanta
Matte painter Jack Shaw did glass shots for Willis O'Brien on the Oscar winning "Mighty Joe Young"...
Matte & Effects Films Celebrated: Part Eleven
It's been a while since I posted one of these enormous retrospectives...
Matte & Effects Films Celebrated: Part Ten
Greetings fellow matte painting and traditional special effects fans. I'm back with yet another mammoth blog post...
Matte & Effects Films Celebrated: Part Nine
It's been a while, and a few loyal and long time dedicated Matte Shot readers...
Matte & Effects Films Celebrated: Part Eight
Greetings to all who are particularly partial to the long lost era of traditional, hand painted mattes...
Matte & Effects Films Celebrated: Part Seven
Welcome fans and devotees of old school mattes, models and clever trick photography...
Matte & Effects Films Celebrated: Part Six
Hello again friends and olde timey matte and trick shot enthusiasts. It's that time again...