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Showcasing the works of ‘analogue’ special effects technicians Ray Harryhausen and Stan Winston.
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As a general term, the running of two films simultaneously in contact through a camera or printer aperture to expose both together; often used in special effects techniques.
When applied to a...
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Film printer in which the image is copied onto the raw stock through a lens. Used when image size of the print film is different from the image size of the intermediate film. Also used when effects...
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The now-obsolete low-frequency enhancement system for motion picture exhibition developed by Universal Studios in 1973 for the film Earthquake.
The first film simply triggered a noise generator...
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Gradual disappearance or reappearance of an image or sound .
Can be a fade-in (from black or silence) or a fade-out (to black or silence).
On a film printer, a fade to black uses a logarithmic...
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Broadly speaking, an effect can be any component of the picture or sound that is not a simple production element and is specially created to imitate a natural or unnatural event or otherwise...
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High-contrast silhouette used in optical effects printing (1985). An opaque outline that limits the exposed area of a picture, either as a cut-out object in front of the camera or as a silhouette...
