| 1.1 |
Georges Méliès, The One Man Band (L’Homme Orchestre) (1900) |
| 1.2 |
The principles of traveling mattes |
| 1.3 |
Rear-projection diagram |
| 1.4 |
A single-head optical printer |
| 1.5 |
A multiplane animation stand |
| 1.6 |
Rotoscoping diagram |
| 1.7 |
A motion-control rig setup |
| 2.1 |
The New Hollywood style: Harold and Maude (Ashby, 1971) |
| 2.2 |
Contact printing |
| 2.3 |
Linwood Dunn’s climactic effects in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Kramer, 1963) |
| 2.4 |
Robert Abel’s 7UP ad, “Bubbles” |
| 2.5 |
Anti-illusionistic composite shot from Saugus Series (O’Neill, 1974) |
| 3.1 and 3.2 |
Laser fight strobes in Star Wars (Lucas, 1977) |
| 3.3 |
Faux point-of-view shots in The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980) |
| 4.1 |
An example of VistaVision “Lazy 8” film stock |
| 4.2 |
How three-color separation works |
| 5.1 |
O’Neill’s color-distortion work on Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Van Peeples, 1971) |
| 5.2 |
Frame capture from Heavy Light (Beckett, 1973) |
| 5.3 |
Larry Cuba’s Death Star simulation in Star Wars |
| 5.4 |
Adam Beckett’s unused explosions for Star Wars |
| 5.5 |
Frame capture from Allures (Belson, 1961) |
| 5.6 |
The Martian terrain and spaceship in Forbidden Planet (Wilcox, 1956) |
| 5.7 |
Interstitial space shots in Star Wars |
| 5.8 |
Jump to light speed in Star Wars (Lucas, 1977) |
| 5.9–5.14 |
Opening flyover sequence (Lucas, Star Wars) 174–75 |
| 6.1 |
Spaceship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| 6.2–6.7 |
The UFOs’ first flyover in Close Encounters 190–91 |
| 7.1 |
Zoopomorphic Imperial Walkers in The Empire Strikes Back |
| 7.2 |
A faux helicopter shot on the stop-motion stage in The Empire Strikes Back |
| 7.3 |
The flat cutout ships of Dune (Lynch, 1984) |
| 7.4 |
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Wise, 1979): Apogee’s opening sequence |
| 7.5 |
Trumbull’s V’Ger sequence, Star Trek: The Motion Picture |
| 7.6 |
High-contrast matte work for the “wolf-vision” in Wolfen (Wadleigh, 1981) |
| 7.7 |
Electronic force fields in Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984) |
| 8.1 |
Harryhausen’s stop-motion Kraken in Clash of the Titans (Davis, 1981) |
| 8.2 |
Trumbull’s vision of heaven in Brainstorm (Trumbull, 1983) |
| C.1 |
Flying on Banshees in Avatar (Cameron, 2009) |