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Georges Méliès produces his magnificent "Voyage to the Moon",
A fifteen minute epic fantasy parodying the writings of Jules Verne and HG Wells. The film used innovative special effect techniques and introduced colour to the screen through hand-painting and tinting. -
splicing film my hand
the first film titled 'the great train robbery' was madsewith splicing. -
Cecil Hepworth
Cecil Hepworth produced, with Lewin Fitzhamon "Rescued by Rover". A charming film in which Hepworth, his wife, child and dog, star. -
glass shot
more techniques for augmenting sets and creating false realities would be developed. The Glass shot was a technique of painting elements on a piece of glass and placing that glass between the subject and the camera – a sort of real world compositing which was refined by early filmmaker Norman Dawn, using it to augment sets making them look much bigger and more elaborate without the costs of construction. -
Blue Screen
The Williams Process had some issues – for one, any shadows on the subject would be lost in the traveling matte. An alternative came about in 1925, invented C. Dodge Dunning which would eventually be called the Dunning Process. -
film“Sunrise”
a black matting process which photographed subjects against a pure black background. The film would then be copied to increasingly high contrast negatives until a black and white silhouette emerged. -
“Yellow” Screen
Hollywood kept experimenting with other variations on the bluescreen process including the ultraviolet matte as used in The Old Man and The Sea. But the real challenger to blue screen was created in the late 50s and credited to one of the giants in world of compositing Petro Vlahos. -
Disney first on film The Parent Trap
This technique produced some of the best travelling mattes of the time and was used by Disney first on film The Parent Trap and then The Absent Minded Professor both in 1961. Mary Poppins in 1964 demonstrated the capability of the sodium vapor process winning an academy award for best special effects.
