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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx: September 2014

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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx. Sunday, 21 September 2014. VINTAGE MGM MATTE PAINTINGS UP FOR AUCTION. A stunningly rendered pastel matte, purportedly from DAVID COPPERFIELD, though I suspect not. Although I had fully intended to dedicate this post to the second part of the Lands of Wonder. Classic era Metro Goldwyn Mayer Newcombe mattes under the stewardship of the esteemed Hollywood memorabilia auction house, Profiles in History. BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938. That of MGM. As reported he...

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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx: June 2014

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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx. Monday, 30 June 2014. Thrills Times Four: Matte Art From Hitchcock's 60's Era. I never fail to be thrilled by the master and his filmic structure. Among the many, many superb scenes (without a single visual trick) are: Cary Grant carrying 'that' glass of milk up the stairs to Joan Fontaine in the excellent and under rated SUSPICION (a blog with all the many mattes in high def BluRay from this film will come here soon). So, I hope my BluRay. Captures of wha...

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Hal C F Astell | Apocalypse Later Empire | Apocalypse Later International Fantastic Film Festival

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Mail Hal C F Astell. Roll up, roll up! Come one, come all! Welcome to the second annual Apocalypse Later International Fantastic Film Festival. The venue is the same for year two: the Phoenix Center for the Arts. However, we're expanding to a full two day event in 2017: Saturday, 14th and Sunday, 15th October. Submissions for 2017 are now open! We're accepting short films and features. From across the fantastic film genres. Ticket sales for 2017 are now open! For a full two-day event pass. So we're not r...

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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx: A COMPANY CALLED MATTE EFFECTS - Part Three

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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx. Friday, 31 July 2015. A COMPANY CALLED MATTE EFFECTS - Part Three. A COMPANY CALLED MATTE EFFECTS -. The work of Ken Marschall and Bruce Block. Hello friends and fellow matte art enthusiasts. It is with great pleasure that I post this (hopefully. Error free) concluding episode in the fascinating and hitherto untold story of the quite frankly. Amazing motion picture matte magic produced by painter Ken Marschall and cameraman Bruce. Which would be compatible...

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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx: January 2015

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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx. Saturday, 31 January 2015. Kubricks' 2001: One Mans Incredible Odyssey. Well friends, it's another new year and it's a hot 'n humid January in the part of the world where I live - which always gets folks in the significantly reversed climes of the Northern Hemisphere scratching their heads. It seems that the older I get the quicker these 'new' years tend to creep up on me and catch me unawares, like a thief in the night! Well, quite frankly, 'yes'. I sort ...

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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx: December 2014

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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx. Thursday, 11 December 2014. MAGICIANS OF THE MINIATURE. I had fully intended to have my career tribute article on matte exponents Ken Marschall and Bruce Block ready to roll for this final issue of Matte Shot. Best special effect after matte art . the miniature. With their success being to a considerable extent the result of - as much as anything else - the gut instinct and 'eye' of the miniatures exponent. Miniature ships from NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (1947).

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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx: December 2013

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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx. Wednesday, 18 December 2013. Mattes Ride The Range: The art of the matte shot in Westerns. Prairie gallery art by MGM matte artist Clyde Scott. John Wayne. Shows like TRUE GRIT, BIG JAKE, THE SEARCHERS and especially EL DORADO were and remain solid, top shelf entertainment decades later. If there had been any Hollywood legend whose hand I'd have liked to shake, it would have been Duke (followed by the inimitable Groucho Marx - now there's. Of course matte ...

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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx: October 2014

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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx. Sunday, 19 October 2014. LANDS OF WONDER, ROMANCE and HIGH ADVENTURE - PART TWO. Former Disney matte painter and Buena Vista Visual Effects chief, Harrison Ellenshaw takes an up close look at one of the Profiles in History. PETE'S EDITORIAL BEFORE THE MAIN FEATURE. Click to enlarge and enjoy even more! I was initially planning on completing the Lands of Wonder. However, before we venture down that path - and as things more often than not tend to work thems...

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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx: March 2014

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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx. Saturday, 8 March 2014. Movie Magic at The Rank Organisation: Pinewood Studios' mattes, miniatures and trick photography. Movie Magic at the Rank Organisation:. Pinewood Studios’ mattes, miniatures and trick photography. It’s been a while since I put together one of my gargantuan matte shot tribute blog posts, and for that I humbly apologise. Kind of a fella, as opposed to the more upbeat “cup half full”. Seriously positive, driven types. Anyway, after a w...