Encyclopedia of Movie Special Effects

Special effects are now de rigueur in the movie business. The Star Wars movies, Jurassic Park and Titanic come to mind immediately, but let us not forget The Wizard of Oz (1939) which featured “almost every special effect known at the time”, The Ten Commandments (1956) and the parting of the Red Sea, and such modern effects as Tom Hanks’s turn of speed in Forrest Gump, the clever person‐cartoon dialogue of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the minituarization of Tom Thumb and the chilling cyborg character in Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Indeed, what chance now has a film...