{"id":81,"date":"2007-08-31T14:20:51","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T21:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historicalwebber.mossiso.com\/archives\/81"},"modified":"2007-08-31T14:20:51","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T21:20:51","slug":"history-of-special-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/2007\/08\/31\/history-of-special-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"History of special effects."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love a good special effects movie?  Of course, when you can&#8217;t tell that there are special effects, that&#8217;s when you know it&#8217;s a good movie.<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanheritage.com\/articles\/magazine\/it\/2007\/1\/2007_1_10.shtml\">this article<\/a> at AmericanHeritage.com, that describes the beginnings of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilm.com\/\">Industrial Light &amp; Magic<\/a>, George Lucas&#8217; personal special effects company, makers of all cool films (especially Star Wars).  This article also describes another sort of paradigm shift in the film industry.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, these types of effects are my favorite. Using real things in innovative ways.  I think it&#8217;s unfortunate, in a way, that so many of the stunts and effects are digital.  I like the good, old fashioned effects where objects are real, made from real things, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.nasm.si.edu\/code\/emuseum.asp?style=browse&amp;currentrecord=1&amp;page=search&amp;profile=objects&amp;searchdesc=close%20encounters&amp;quicksearch=close%20encounters&amp;newvalues=1&amp;newstyle=single&amp;newcurrentrecord=3\">mother ship on &#8220;Close Encounters of The Third Kind&#8221;<\/a> (the movie I haven&#8217;t seen, but the ship I have).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/historicalwebber.mossiso.com\/files\/2007\/08\/A19790906000d7.jpg\" alt=\"MotherShip\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, it was a good article.<\/p>\n<p>And, just as a side note, I always fear losing these web articles, until now. I use <a href=\"http:\/\/zotero.org\">Zotero<\/a> which allows me to store, sort, tag and view web pages, books, and all sorts of stuff. I&#8217;ll be using it to collect data for my research projects this year.  It&#8217;s also made by the good guys at the Center for History and New Media, where I work. \ud83d\ude42 &#8211; Shameless plug!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love a good special effects movie? Of course, when you can&#8217;t tell that there are special effects, that&#8217;s when you know it&#8217;s a good movie. I stumbled upon this article at AmericanHeritage.com, that describes the beginnings of Industrial Light &amp; Magic, George Lucas&#8217; personal special effects company, makers of all cool films (especially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/2007\/08\/31\/history-of-special-effects\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History of special effects.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14],"tags":[275,66],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-history","tag-history","tag-paradigm-shifts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wosP-1j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}