Special Effects: Creating Movie Magic
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Language: English
Published by Abbeville Pr, 1989
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Like new including dust jacket for a spectacular book on making special effects for movies prior to AI. Thick book, well written and researched with many accompanying photographs and film stills.
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- Title
- Special Effects: Creating Movie Magic
- Author
- Finch, Christopher
- Publisher
- Abbeville Pr
- Publication year
- 1989
- Condition
- As new
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0896594521
- ISBN 13
- 9780896594524
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 2,131.884 grams
- Dimensions
- 10.75 inches width by 10.75 inches height by 1.25 inches depth
This illustrated history of motion picture special effects discusses the techniques of animation, optical printing, deployment of mechanical models, computer graphics, and robotics in the films of de Mille, Disney, Hitchcock, Spielberg, Lucas, and others
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