American Cinematographer - August 1987 - 54

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Wire, Tape and Rubber Band Style

art.

comes

Someone will look

at

this

and, if they like it, they'll have
a 15-minute dissertation in which
the repercussions of someone's
psyche at a certain time in life is
given as a reason to use slow mo¬
tion, when in fact it had to be to
make it look as real as we could."
As Jaws went into post¬

production, McPherson returned
deluxe for further research be¬
fore deciding what method to use
to

in

making the release prints.

"When
ent

best

(Photo is of Kenworthy Snorkel Camera in
...

a

use on

"Logan's Run")

book about MOVIE MAGIC

The late L. B. "Bill" Abbott, ASC, originated many
of the illusions that made movie special effects

by

a giant lizard; the
turned upside down;

was

The ASC Press

Please send

P.0. Box 2230

Rubber Band Style

all the differ¬

that seemed

from the original to
anamorphic IP and then an anamorphic internegative. It tended
to keep the granularity to a mini¬
mum and it
kept a nice contrast,
although it did soften it somewhat
from the original daily print. The
65 mm blowup from the original
was very tight and without
gran¬
ularity. It did have a tendency to
flatten out somewhat, but for a
was to

go

movie that one would want to
have a pastel, softer quality it has

interesting, pretty look. We
tried Fuji print stock and inter¬
mediate stock, but Kodak was
softer and a little richer, so we're
printing

on

Kodak."

Things

to

A

Come

...

devoured

more.

copies Special Effects-Wire, Tape and

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at

one

luxury liner Poseidon was
Rex Harrison rode a giant

moth to the moon; and much, much

$29.95

looked

an

plausible. He began when the movie business was
young, was long-time chief of special effects at
20th Century-Fox, and completed a brilliant career
in the '80s. His legacy is this book, which tells
how a flying saucer was landed in the heart of
Washington, D.C.; Paul Newman and Robert
Redford leapt 80 feet into a rocky creek; the
world's tallest building was destroyed; Raquel
Welch took an odyssey through a man's
bloodstream; James Mason almost

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