Special Effects in Film

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1929 Press Photo Movie factory machine by AW Nichols to make sounds - neo13613

This is an original press photo. Photo measures 10 x 8.25inches. Photo is dated 04-16-1929.

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Historic Images Part Number: neo13613

1956 Press Photo Special Effects Department of Movie Studios at Cinecitta Rome

This is an original press photo. It is from this hodge-podge of toy-scale buildings, ships, vehicles, monuments, weapons, and what-have-you (from every time period), that the Italian movie producers get backgrounds and "props" for their different films.

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1931 Press Photo Ralph Hammeras Academy Award Nominated Special Effects Designer

This is an original press photo. Photo measures 8 x 10.25inches. Photo is dated 11-17-1931.

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1935 Press Photo Paula Stone signed by Warner Brothers & made up by Perc Westmor

This is an original press photo. Credit - NEA and ACME Photo measures 10.25 x 8inches. Photo is dated 11-19-1935.

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1940 Press Photo Actress Gloria Dickson & Husband Perc Westmore In New York

This is an original press photo. Photo measures 8.5 x 6.5inches. Photo is dated 03--1940.

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1941 Press Photo Perc Westmore & Mrs Julietta Novis apply for marriage license

This is an original press photo. Perc Westmore one of the Westmore family of movie makeup artists and Mrs Julietta Novis former wife of singer Donald Novis apply for marriage license at Los Angeles June 23 The ceremony will be held June 28 It will be the 3rd marriage for Westmore who last was married to actress Gloria Dickson Photo measures 9.25 x 7 inches. Photo is dated 06-24-1941.

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1941 Press Photo Jane Randolph wears a coiffure designed by Perc Westmore

This is an original press photo. Hollywood, CA - Jane Randolph, featured Warner Brothers film player, wears this stunning coiffure designed by Perc Westmore. The hair is parted across the top of the head from ear to ear and swept up at the sides with the end curling forward, across the front. It is brought upward with a soft wave and broken with the ends which are brushed forward over the right temple. The body of hair is brushed close to the head and caught in tight with a barrette at the nape of the neck. The ends are then finished in one loose wave resembling a roll, but which is not so severe.Photo measures 8 x 10.5inches. Photo is dated 12-23-1941.

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1941 Press Photo Rosemary Lane, Married to Hamilton B. Westmore by Rev. Mast

This is an original press photo. Photo measures 7 x 9.25inches. Photo is dated 12-28-1941.

Part Number: sbx03262

1944 Press Photo seamanship instructor Frank Westmore also make-up artist, NYC

This is an original press photo. Make-up king in Coast Guard. New York City -- Frank Westmore, who in his day had a hand in the paint pot of every star in Hollywood, now uses his famous touch on the cast of "Tars and Spars", Coast Guard Review now playing a limited engagement here at the Strand. But Frank is only dawdling in the grease paint temporarily -- he is an instructor in seamanship, and a good one, too.Photo measures 8 x 6inches. Photo is dated 05-23-1944.

Part Number: lrm02076

1946 MGM Make Up Artist William Tuttle & Actress Wife Donna Reed Press Photo

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You are bidding on an original press photo of MGM Make Up Artist William Tuttle & Actress Wife Donna Reed. It Shows him helping her put on a over the counter brand of makeup at their home in Hollywood. Photo measures 7.5 x 9 inches and is dated 9/11/1946.

1948 Press Photo Jack Lannan, Mar Martin, Special effects, snow machine, Cali.

This is an original press photo. Photo measures 6 x 8inches. Photo is dated 1-21-1948.

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1955 Press Photo George Westmore and Jeanne Shores marriy at Little Brown Church

This is an original press photo. Photo measures 7 x 8.75inches. Photo is dated 04-02-1955.

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1957 Press Photo The actor,Gianni Esposito was modeled to make life like mask

This is an original press photo. An art technician brushes layer of sticky modeling plaster to make a life like mask of the Paris actor.Photo measures 7.25 x 9inches. Photo is dated 5-3-1957.

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Historic Images Part Number: nec84522

1957 Press Photo Hollywood Park Race Track Call me Lucky Buddy Westmore

This is an original press photo. Photo measures 7 x 9.25inches. Photo is dated 05-07-1957.

Part Number: nee44841

1960 Press Photo Bud Westmore applies makeup to Agnes Moorehead for her role.

This is an original press photo. Actress Agnes Moorehead is made to look like a 105 year old woman for her role in "The Lost Moment." But Bud Westmore attached rubber face pieces to Miss Moorehead's face above the muscles so the makeup wrinkled and moved

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1963 Press Photo George Pal, Producer- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Cinerama products are cleaner than Brand X films. They are poly-unsaturated, sex-wise, and free of harsh messages. In short- and by design- they are aimed at the family market. "We are still trying to maintain the family audience for films," said George P

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1986 Press Photo George Pal, Animator of "The Cobbler and the Elves" - nop62843

This is an original press photo. George Pal talks things over with his five Puppetoon friends who play the do-gooder Elves in the delightful "The Cobbler and the Elves" sequence of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Cinerama presentation of his production, "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm". "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm" is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Cinerama presentation of the George Pal production. The biographical script, directed by Henry Levin, stars Laurence Harvey, Karl Boehm, Claire Bloom and Walter Slezak with Barbara Eden, Oscar Homolka and Ian Wolfe co-starred. Fairy tale sequences directed by Producer-director George Pal, star Yvette Mimieux, Russ Tamblyn, Beulah Bondi and Clinton Sundberg in "The Dancing Princess:; Terry-Thomas and Buddy Hackett in "The Singing Bone", and Laurence Harvey as the Cobbler in "The Cobbler and the Elves."Photo measures 8 x 10.25inches. Photo is dated 09-03-1986.

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Historic Images Part Number: nop62843

1951 Press Photo Director George Pal featured in "The Fantasy Film Worlds"

This is an original press photo. The Disney Channel presents the exclusive television premiere of "The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal" this fall. The 96-minute tribute to the genius of producer/director George Pal (upper) was produced by Arnold Leibovit and features celebrity reminiscences of the famed filmmaker plus selected scenes from Pal's classic films, including "When Worlds Collide."  Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches. Photo is dated --1951.

Part Number: spp69680

1951 Press Photo George Pal, Producer/Director of "When Worlds Collide" movie

This is an original press photo. The Disney Channel presents the exclusive television premiere of "The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal" this Fall. The 96 minute tribute to the genius of producer/director George Pal, upper, was produced by Arnold Leibovit and features celebrity reminiscences of the famed filmmaker plus selected scenes from Pal's classic films, including "When Worlds Collide" Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches. Photo is dated --1951.  

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1963 Press Photo Tony Randall actor gets shaved by William Tuttle, Hollywood.

This is an original press photo. Hollywood, - Actor sacrifices hair for convenience--Usually when the hair is shorn off it's because he must appear baldheaded before the cameras. In case of Tony Randall. He's about to start work in a movie called "Seven Faces of Dr. Lao," which he portrays seven different characters and wears different wigs. He and head makeup man, decided it would be easier if Randall's head was shaved, so the clippers with this result. A mighty close haircut was given to Tony Randall by William Tuttle, Hollywood make-up expert. This treatment is generally given an actor in a bald role but Randall will portray seven characters in the movie "Seven Faces of Dr. Lao," and will wear wigs hence the smooth foundation. This tops everything. Tony Randall gets "topped" for his Dr. Lao role. Shave Tony. Bald-MD. Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches. Photo is dated 07-12-1963.

Part Number: mjx64643

Press Photo Cliff Robertson looks over scale model of PT Boat 109 in Hollywood

This is an original press photo. Actor Cliff Robertson looks over a scale model of PT Boat 109 in Hollywood. He'll be skipper of a full-sized version in the film "PT Boat 109," in which he has the role of Lt. (now President) John F. Kennedy. Robertson, who's been doing fine in TV but not so well in movies, knows that if this part comes off he has it made on the screen. Photo measures 9 x 7 inches. Photo is dated --none.

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1969 Press Photo Carlo Rambaldi Manipulates Island On Model Display Of Minitalia

This is an original press photo. Credit: NEA and UPI. The project is to provide access to pedestrians for all of Italy.Photo measures 8 x 10.25inches. Photo is dated 1-24-1969.

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1970 Press Photo Hollywood make-up artist John Chambers transforms actors faces.

This is an original press photo. John Chambers - Hollywood makeup expert. john Chambers -- Merlin of the make-up art. Head of the 20th Century-Fox make-up lab, Chambers' most interesting and difficult assignment was making monkeys out of actors for the weird production of "Planet of the Apes."Photo measures 10 x 8.25inches. Photo is dated 04-08-1970.

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Historic Images Part Number: hca81341

Press Photo John Chambers featured in "Into The Shadows: The CIA in Hollywood"

This is an original press photo. Academy Award-wining make-up artist John Chambers (Planet Of The Apes -1968), is featured in American Movie Classics' first investigative special, Into The Shadows: The CIA in Hollywood. This one-hour special, airing on December 4 at 10:00 PM (ET), reveals for the first time, the very personal and patriotic partnership forged by make-up wizard John Chambers (Left) and key CIA operatives as Hollywood assisted in some of the government's top secret operations. Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches. Photo is dated --NONE.

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Historic Images Part Number: nop88285

1970 Press Photo Whitey McMahon Special Effects man for Universal Studios

This is an original press photo. Whitey McMahon Special Effects man for Universal Studios Photo measures 10.25 x 8inches. Photo is dated 10-17-1970.

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1978

Press Photo Make-Up Artist Transforms Actor Rob Reiner into Old Man - sap53341

This is an original press photo. Rob Reiner; "Free Country" Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches. Photo is dated --NONE.

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1978 Press Photo Makeup Artist Dick Smith With Aged Dustin Hoffman Dummy

This is an original press photo. Dick Smith; Hollywood makeup artist; Left- Dustin Hoffman dummy Photo measures 8 x 10 inches. Photo is dated 06-21-1978.

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Historic Images Part Number: sap49653

1978 Press Photo Makeup Artist Dick Smith Poses With Aged Dustin Hoffman Model

This is an original press photo. Dick Smith; makeup artist; 120-year-old Dustin Hoffman model Photo measures 8 x 10 inches. Photo is dated 06-22-1978.

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Historic Images Part Number: sap49650

1998 Press Photo Hollywood make-up artist Dick Smith with Dustin Hoffman mold.

This is an original press photo. Hollywood make-up artist Dick Smith with Dustin Hoffman mold. Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches. Photo is dated --1998.

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Historic Images Part Number: sap49037

Press Photo Dick Smith and Ed Flanders featured on Plain Speaking, on PBS.

This is an original press photo. Make-up artists Dick Smith, who transformed Marlon Brando into The Godfather, and created the make-up for The Exorcist, touches up Ed Flanders as Harry Truman. In addition to lengthening his nose and aging him with make-up, Smith asked Flanders to wear contact lenses that duplicated Truman's eyesight - then gave him Truman's prescription glasses. Ed Flanders performs Truman in the PBS presentation "Harry S. Truman Plain Speaking." Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches. Photo is dated --none.

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Historic Images Part Number: sap49036

1978 Press Photo Close Encounter of the Third Kind effects-Douglas Trumbull

This is an original press photo. Douglas Trumbull, best known for his special photographic effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey, brings his creativity to the screen again in his capacity as visual effects coordinator for Close Encounter of the Third KindPhot

Part Number: cvp91992

1978 Press Photo Visual effects coordinator, Douglas Trumbull - mjp42268

This is an original press photo. Douglas Trumbull, best known for his special photographic effects for "2001: A Space Odyssey," brings his creativity to the screen again in his capacity as visual effects coordinator for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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Historic Images Part Number: mjp42268

Press Photo Star Trek The Motion Picture Makeup artist creating Spock's ears 

Star Trek The Motion Picture Photo measures 9.75 x 8.25 inches. Photo is dated --none.

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Historic Images Part Number: mjx77577

1979 Press Photo Special Effects Maker Danny Lee in "The Love Bug" on NBC-TV

Danny Lee, who constructed the special effects for such films as "Mary Poppins," "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World" and "The Great Race," exhibits a model used in his most ambitious project to date "The Black Hole," Lee's magic also brightened Disney's "T

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Historic Images Part Number: sap29425

1981 Press Photo Harrison Ellenshaw, special effects worker at Walt Disney

This is an original press photo. Harrison Ellenshaw, special effects worker at Walt Disney  Photo measures 8 x 10inches. Photo is dated 6-12-1981.

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1981 Press Photo Robert Wagner and makeup artist Frank Westmore in Hart to Hart

This is an original press photo. subjects : Robert Wagner, left and seated right; and makeup artist Frank Westmore Program : "Hart to Hart" - "Murder of Jonathan Hart" On Air : Tuesday, August 25 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT).Photo measures 9.25 x 7inches. Photo is dated 08-04-1981.

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1981 Press Photo Vince Backeberg Sculpted Monster Mask - orb83732

This is an original press photo. Vince Backeberg's Monster Mask looks out from shelf in artist's workshop.Photo measures 8 x 10inches. Photo is dated 10-31-1981.

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1985 Press Photo Prop mistress Mary Kay Stone with fake head & skull - cva43557

This is an original press photo. Prop mistress Mary Kay Stone with fake head & skull  Photo measures 10 x 8.25inches. Photo is dated 07-24-1985.

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1986 Press Photo George Pal, Animator of "The Cobbler and the Elves" - nop62843

This is an original press photo. George Pal talks things over with his five Puppetoon friends who play the do-gooder Elves in the delightful "The Cobbler and the Elves" sequence of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Cinerama presentation of his production, "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm". "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm" is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Cinerama presentation of the George Pal production. The biographical script, directed by Henry Levin, stars Laurence Harvey, Karl Boehm, Claire Bloom and Walter Slezak with Barbara Eden, Oscar Homolka and Ian Wolfe co-starred. Fairy tale sequences directed by Producer-director George Pal, star Yvette Mimieux, Russ Tamblyn, Beulah Bondi and Clinton Sundberg in "The Dancing Princess:; Terry-Thomas and Buddy Hackett in "The Singing Bone", and Laurence Harvey as the Cobbler in "The Cobbler and the Elves."Photo measures 8 x 10.25inches. Photo is dated 09-03-1986.

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Historic Images Part Number: nop62843

1986 Press Photo Larry Day Special Effects Expert

This is an original press photo. Larry Day has acquired knowledge of chemistry and anatomy in making special effects for television and advertising products.  Photo measures 8 x 10.25inches. Photo is dated 10-31-1986.

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1987 Press Photo Douglas Trumbull, Special Photographic Effects Director

This is an original press photo. Douglas Trumbull, best known for his special photographic effects for "2001: A Space Odyssey," brings his creativity to the screen again in his capacity as visual effects coordinator for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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Historic Images Part Number: sap38243

1987 Press Photo Albert Whitlock, Special Effects creator on the set of "Masada"

This is an original press photo. Albert Whitlock, one of the world's most honored special effects creators, was responsible for the creation and execution of key sequences in "Masada," the eight-hour "ABC Novel for Television' which will be telecast Sunday, April 5; Monday, April 6; Tuesday, April 7; and Wednesday, April 8 (9:00.1100 p.m., EST each night) on the ABC Television Network. (Clockwise from top right) Whitlock displays his English grin on location in Israel; the miniature battering ram used in certain sequences of the film; Whitlock working with the camera crew in setting up a key visual effect; the full.sized battering ram used in the majority of the film; Whitlock with the matte painting of the Roman ramp. Photo measures 10 x 8 inches. Photo is dated 04-11-1987.

Part Number: spp57285

1989 Press Photo Disney Imagineer Programs Special Effects - mjx28596

This is an original press photo. Bank Legerdemain- A Disney Imagineer programs special effects in The Great Movie Ride, one of the attractions at the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park at Walt Disney World, which opens May 1, 1989. The Great Movie Ride takes guests past re-creations of famous film scenes which feature Audio-Animatronics figures of legendary movie stars as well as realistic props and sets- such as the pictured bank, which regularly will be blown up during and old West robbery. Photo measures 10 x 8inches. Photo is dated 04-23-1989.

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1992 Press Photo Special Effects Experts Work on Model in Sea Work, Florida

This is an original press photo. From sketch to design...following pencil sketches, these special effects experts add detailed designs to a model submersible, which is being created for Sea World of Florida's newest attraction, "Mission: Bermuda Triangle"

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Historic Images Part Number: hca52085

1994 Press Photo Michael Westmore works on Glynnis O'Connor for "Why Me?"

This is an original press photo. Five-up composite - Glynnis O'Connor and Michael Westmore (top left), "The ABC Monday Night Movie" - "Why Me?," Monday, March 12 (9:00-11:00 p.m., EST)Photo measures 9 x 7 inches. Photo is dated 03-13-1994.

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1994

1990 Press Photo Special effects coordinator Tom Savini, sculpting a head

This is an original press photo. Airing the night before the Academy Awards and hosted by Entertainment Tonight film critic Leonard Maltin, A Night of Movie Magic goes behind-the-scenes to explore the conception, creation and execution of some of Hollywood's most fantastic special effects. From storyboards to the big screen climax, this two-hour special walks through the complete creative process of Academy Award-nominated visual effects and demonstrates the widespread use of similar effects throughout film and television. The special follows the format of Discovery's popular Thursday night series Movie Magic. Films featured in the special include Forrest Gump and True Lies. A Night of Movie Magic airs on Sunday, March 26, from 9:00-11:00 PM (ET/PT) and midnight-2:00 AM (ET/PT). Pictured at top: Special effects coordinator Tom Savini, sculpting a Frankenstein head. Please credit: GRB Entertainment. Photo measures 5.25 x 8.25 inches. Photo is dated 03-20-1990.

Part Number: spp65818

1995 Press Photo Tom Savini sculpts Frankenstein head for A Night of Movie Magic

This is an original press photo. Airing the night before the Academy Awards and hosted by Entertainment Tonight film critic Leonard Malton, A Night of Movie Magic goes behind-the-scenes to explore the conception, creation and execution of some of Hollywood's most fantastic special effects. From storyboards to the big screen climax, this two-hour special walks through the complete creative process of Academy Award-nominated visual effects and demonstrates the widespread use of similar effects throughout film and television. The special follows the format of Discovery's popular Thursday night series Movie Magic. Films features in the special include Forrest Gump and True Lies. A Night of Movie Magic airs on Sunday, March 26, from 9:00-11:00 pm (ET/PT) and midnight-2:00 am (ET/PT). Pictured at top: Special effects coordinator Tom Savini, sculpting a Frankenstein head.Photo measures 5.25 x 8 inches. Photo is dated 4-24-1995.

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Historic Images Part Number: spp59141

Press Photo Artist Ray Harryhausen - sap15900

This is an original press photo. Artist Ray Harryhausen Photo measures 7 x 9 inches. Photo is dated --None.

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1981 Press Photo "Clash of the Titans" Special Effects Expert Ray Harryhausen

This is an original press photo. Special effects master Ray Harryhausen adds the finishing touches to the model of one of his spectacular fantasy creatures created for MGM’s "Clash of the Titans” In the fantasy-adventure film, based on legends of Greek mythology, this creature, the monstrous Kraken, is unleashed by jealous gods to destroy a Greek city Charles H. Schneer and Harryhausen co-produced "Clash of the Titans," directed by Desmond Davis from the screenplay by Beverley Cross. A Charles H. Schneer Production. A United Artists Release. Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches. Photo is dated --1981.

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Historic Images Part Number: hcp58715

Press Photo Actor Fredd Wayne in composite receiving prosthetic makeup

This is an original press photo. Actor Fredd Wayne in composite receiving prosthetic makeupPhoto measures 9 x 7inches. Photo is dated --None.

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Historic Images Part Number: sap48633