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With a crucifix, and the projectile spewing of green puke - a mixture There were some truly nauseating, horrendous specialĮffects including the 360 degree head-rotation, self-mutilation/masturbation Spirits from a young, innocent girl (of a divorced family) (Linda Blair) contained some highly memorable scenes, using various special effects techniques. Horror story about devil possession and the subsequent exorcism of the demonic
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Plus miniatures and a large-scale model (over 25 feet in length) of the Over 70 matte paintings and multi-element complex blue screen composites, Manufactured footage and historical footage were composited together.
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The climax of the film was the massiveĮxplosion and fire that downed the flying airship as it arrived at the The sabotage (fictional) and eventual destruction of the Nazi's German In The Hindenburg (1974), the events surrounding
Win was for Best Sound, involving the Sensurround audio system. Earthquake's sole competitive Academy Award Oscar The special effects of Earthquake (1974) included 'model' skyscrapers that collapsed, panoramic views of Los Angeles (matte paintings), Styrofoam concrete, and a 'miniature' to depict the crumbling Hollywood Dam. Was of passengers hanging onto upside down tables, and then falling The exterior shot of the capsizing wasĬreated with a large miniature model in an enormous water tank Of water (a rogue wave), caused by a 7.8 sub-ocean earthquake, flipped The Poseidon Adventure (1972) opened duringĪ New Year Eve's Party on board the SS Poseidon on its final Three of these films won the Special Achievement Award for Visual Effects, The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Earthquake (1974) and The Hindenburg (1975) More than $100 million at the box office. It was also the first independent animated film to gross This was the first X-rated animated feature in Hollywood history,įrom writer/director Ralph Bakshi, and based on the comic books by Robert Sound - the first film to be mastered with Dolby noise reduction. Kubrick's film was the first to use Dolby technology for recording Rotating 2-D Structure - A Computer Rendering Of the various levels and labs are also stored in the system." Simulation of the "electronic diagram which rotates to affordĪn overall view, or it can be stopped at any section. Jeremy Stone (Arthur Hill) turned on the 'animated' computer Laboratory in the Nevada desert named Project Wildfire).ĭr. Of the massive, hi-tech, top secret 5-story, cylindrical underground Of computer rendering (in the mapped view of the rotating 2-D structure This film contained possibly the first use $250,000 of the film's budget of $6.5 million was reportedly used to Shourt, and Albert Whitlock ( The Birds (1963)). (or optical) photographic visual effects for its time, with work by DouglasĪ Space Odyssey (1968) and Silent Running (1971)), James This science-fiction techno-thriller classic wasĪnother early feature film, possibly the first, to use advanced computerized Permanent IMAX theatre, named Cinesphere, was built in 1971 in Toronto, There were up to nine simultaneously-viewed images within The endless film reel starting at a different point. The theater continuously on a large rotating platform. Pavilion (known as the Air Dome), where audiences were carried through Of the first IMAX film - the 17-minute Tiger Child by director Donaldīrittain - at EXPO '70 Osaka, Japan. The IMAX system (then known as Multiscreen) premiered with the showing Film Milestones in Visual and Special Effectsįilm Title/Year and Description of Visual-Special Effects