.wk12.Special Effects.

• What was the name of the film made by Edwin S Porter that made use of a double-exposure to show a train window view of passing landscape? 
• The Great Train Robbery, circa 1903 
• Who invented the traveling matte shot in 1916? 
• Frank Williams 
• How many weeks did it take to animate the main character in 1933’s KING KONG? 
• 55 weeks 
• Which film made use of the ‘slit scan’ process in the 1960s? 
• 2001: A Space Odyssey 
• In his essay “Industrial Memory” theorist Mark Dery argues that the silver fluid T1000 cyborg character represents a ‘masculine recoil’ – but from what? 
• From the feminization of electronic technology. 
• Tim Recuber in his essay “Immersion Cinema” describes the key idea – that of immersion cinema itself – what is it? What makes it unique? 
• Immersion Cinema refers to how technology has effected how the viewer experiences cinema using projection, audiovisual advancements, hi-fi and 3-D. Never before has the viewer been able to be so completely immersed in theatre and be almost physically affected by it. The viewer is able to feel as if they are an active participant in the story. 
• In the special effects history links, in the Time magazine history of special effects, there is a description of ‘motion control’ cameras developed for “Star Wars” in the 1970s. What is motion control? 
• Motion control allows for complicated camera movements during filming. The original motion control system, the Dykstraflex, allowed for specific series of shots to be automated, saved, and re-filmed in the same series. The system was completely digitally controlled and allowed for 7 specific movements: roll, pan, tilt, swing, boom, traverse, track, lens focus, motor drive, shutter control, and then the duplication of the moves for many takes. 
• Out of the 14 minutes of Jurassic Park’s dinosaur footage, how many minutes were computer generated imagery or CGI? 
• 4 minutes were computer generated, the rest were created using animatronic models. 
• In the ‘denofgeek’ website, what is the name of the film that features an army of sword fighting skeletons, made in 1963? 
• Jason and the Argonauts 
• In the ‘denofgeek’ site, which 2005 film used a special effects shot to sell the idea of a remake of a famous science fiction story to Steven Spielberg? 
• War of the Worlds