Although I have a profound dislike of actor Gregory Peck for reasons I can’t exactly pinpoint (he’s always been just such a dull performer who seems to blend in with the wallpaper to my mind…or maybe it’s that flat monotone voice?) – I’ll have to make an exception for the 1956 John Huston film based upon the famous Herman Melville book, MOBY DICK.
The film actually stands up very well some 55 years or so after hitting the cinema screens, and to be honest I enjoyed it far more this time around – some 25 years since I last saw it on television. What impressed me no end were the visual effects, which naturally is what my blog is all about. They are tremendous. While my blog is essentially a tribute to matte painting in film, I occasionally extend that framework to include other old school effects techniques such as cell animated visual effects, model shots and ingenious hand done opticals of days gone by (and I have so many of these I’ll never have time to cover all of this stuff in my archives).
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A Tribute to Golden Era Special FX
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