As special effects before the advent of computer animation Bashny.Net

Scene with punching his chest in the film "Alien" (1979)
To remove the episode needed chest fiberglass tube for supplying artificial blood and a puppet of others.





Fight with the skeletons in the film "Jason and the Argonauts" (1963)
In the four-minute episode was spent more than four and a half months time-lapse animation.



Splitting of the Red Sea in the movie "The Ten Commandments" (1956)
To create the effect was poured water from two huge tanks, and then the film was scrolled in the opposite direction.



The monkey in the movie "King Kong" (1933)
Kong was actually a mobile model in size 45 cm. The actress filmed separately and then put together with the help of mounting two video sequences into one.



The transformation of the werewolf in the film "An American Werewolf in London" (1981)
The conversion was filmed using prosthetics and robotics. To simulate the growth of hair and use a reverse shot.



Tornadoes in the "Wizard of Oz" (1939)
Hurricane on the delela was a skein of wool, packed sand, which rotate the fan over the miniature model farm.



Landing time machine in the movie "Back to the Future 2" (1989)
The film directed by Robert Zemeckis used street lights to cover the transition from the frame with a small model to frames with this car. Imagine how much effort has been spent to combine light and shadow.



Tour of the body in "Fantastic Voyage" (1966)
The interior of the body has been created with the help of a huge variety of highly detailed models of organs.



UFO landing in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977)
In the film, Spielberg was used a flying saucer made of fiberglass, weighing 180 kg and dimensions of about one and a half meters.



Melting Face Nazis in the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981)
In the scene we used the face of gelatin, which then really melted. The layers are arranged so as to melt in a certain sequence, and this created a grim effect.



A spaceship in "2001 A Space Odyssey" (1968)
In the film, Stanley Kubrick used a huge wheel, created by British company for the production of aircraft. The cost of manufacturing was 750 thousand dollars.



Explosion "Death Star" in the "Star Wars" (1977)
Lucas first used a motion control technology, which has been achieved thanks to the effect of movement in the vacuum of space debris. The source of the explosion was a box stuffed with gunpowder and shavings of titanium.