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Douglas Trumbull improved the techniques already used by
Derek Meddings,
thanks also to the help of Meddings’ pupil, Brian Johnson. He created the effects for “2001: a space odyssey”, the movie which led to a totally new way to produce science fiction cinema. Trumbull matched the real life miniatures of Brian Johnson to a more advanced use of “matte shots”. Until then, matte-shots needed several filmings and developments, which resulted in lower quality images; Trumbull succeeded in filming all with the same film, which needed absolute precision and months of work to make all the necessary mattes. The result were more realistic and high quality images. The incredible length of production caused the considerable discrepancy between the film and Arthur C. Clarke’s novel: in fact the movie ends on Jupiter’s orbit, while the novel talks about Saturn. Trumbull was preparing a great Saturn scene, but producers did not wait and, with a |
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faster and
cheaper technique, the final background was Jupiter’s (forcing Clarke to
give explanations to the readers of “2001” sequels).
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