Greetings fellow matte painting and traditional special effects fans. I'm back with yet another mammoth blog post celebrating that wonderful movie magic that was created before the intrusion of the wretched 'computer', 'megabytes' and 'binary code(!)'. The days when true craftsmen (and crafts-women) and artistes conjured up endless cinematic wonders, more often than not with the most basic and elementary of resourses and heaps of pragmatic inventiveness.| Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx