It's been a while, and a few loyal and long time dedicated Matte Shot readers of foreign locales have been gently 'prompting' me to "pull finger", and get some damned mattes and models onto the cyber-waves. It's summer here, and household jobs, bits of carpentry and sundry unsavoury repairs - too numerous to mention - have held my attention of late, but they are pretty much done, so here we are.| Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx
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.| Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx
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 s...| Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx
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.| Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx