Название: The Saga of Special Effects: The Complete History of Cinematic Illusion, From Edison's Kinetoscope to Dynamation, Sensurround...and Beyond
Автор: Ron Fry, Pamela Fourzon
Издательство: Prentice Hall
Год: 1977
Формат: PDF
Размер: 66 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The enthralling wizardry of special effects is well known to anyone who hos seen King Kong, War of the Worlds, or 2001. Although some devices ( breakaway furniture, double exposure, controlled conflagrations like those in Gone with the Wind and The Hellfighters) have become familiar standbys, each new picture presents a new challenge- and calls for wholly unique solutions. And because these special effects are meant to be convincing, the most ingenious of them often pass unnoticed. (How many film buffs realize that many of Citizen Kane's interiors were actually laborious composite matte shots?) Here, for the first time, The Saga of Special Effects presents the full story of the largely-unknown technicians, artists, and jacks-of-all-trades who, ever since pictures first began to move, hove been creating the impossible on screen.