The Epics – Matte Shots – Part 11

Every time I feel the ‘epics’ have run their course I find more old matte shots in my files that I just can’t skip, so although I was planning a new topic today I feel the urge to still upload more great old styled epic mattes, with today’s effects shots from the studios of Warner Bros, Paramount and MGM respectively.

First up is a film unjustly relegated to camp status, Howard Hawk’s 1955 LAND OF THE PHARAOHS which actually isn’t all that bad. Sure it has the larger than life characterisations mandatory to the genre, and all of the ingredients that go along with it – plenty of flagellation, slaves eaten by hungry crocs, psychotic femme fatale in the shapely shape of a young Joan Collins, and some really nice Lou Litchtenfield matte paintings – some of which I illustrated earlier in my special tribute to Warner Brothers blog a while back…

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A Tribute to Golden Era Special FX

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