Movie Magic Before Pixels
Models, stop-motion and painted backdrops: how film fooled the eye long before computers
What this quiz asks
- 1What is stop-motion?
- 2In King Kong (1933), the giant ape is brought to life by…
- 3Georges Méliès, a pioneer of trick shots, directed in 1902…
- 4What is a matte painting used for?
- 5To make a miniature (a ship, a city) look large, it is often filmed…
- 6Ray Harryhausen signed his fantasy creatures with a technique he called…
- 7In Star Wars (1977), the ships in the final battle are mostly…
- 8Go-motion, developed at Industrial Light & Magic, adds to stop-motion…
- 9Metropolis (1927) blends actors and skyscraper miniatures through a semi-transparent mirror. This process is called…
- 10In 1993, Jurassic Park moves to computer imagery. Which dinosaur stop-motion specialist saw it as the end of his craft?
