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Surprises Hidden in The Shawshank RedemptionThe Shawshank Redemption was a sleeper hit. It didn't make much stir when it was released in theaters in 1994, most likely because of all the other, flashier movies out at the time. But on home video and TV, it grew to be a cult classic, and a generation of viewers love it. As such, we didn't have a lot of trivia articles about it on the internet. Fame Focus addresses that oversight with a new video. Here we have tidbits of trivia, and a breakdown of the film's special effects. What? You didn't know The Shawshank Redemption, a period prison drama, had special effects? It certainly did, and before CGI became used in every single scene of every movie, they had to get creative for them. Learn about what went into the filming of The Shawshank Redemption, including a small detail that bugged the director for ten years before it was corrected, in this video. #TheShawshankRedemption #specialeffects #trivia

Watch the Trailer for Light and MagicDisney has managed to come up with a documentary series that even science fiction and fantasy fans will watch. Light and Magic is a six-part series that traces the rise of modern visual effects that owe their existence to the company Industrial Light & Magic. ILM was born as a division of Lucasfilm in 1975 because George Lucas couldn't find a company to handle the visual effects needed for Stars Wars. Since then the studio has redefined special effects with cutting edge technology, often developed for a specific ILM film. They have worked on more than 350 films, including all the Star Wars movies, plus the franchises of Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, the Terminator, Pirates of the Caribbean, Back to the Future, Men in Black, Jurassic Park, and more. Read more about the company at Smithsonian. Light and Magic premieres July 27 on Disney+.#ILM #IndustrialLightandMagic #visualeffects #specialeffects #documentary 

Karel Zeman's Special EffectsCzech filmmaker Karel Zeman spent most of the 20th century pioneering animation techniques. He began as an advertising producer, creating animated film ads in the '20s and '30s. Zeman began making stop-motion films in the 1940s, using puppets and special effects techniques he developed. He experimented with stop-motion, glass animation, miniatures, forced perspective, layering, and 3D techniques. As you can see in the compilation above, he used a wide range of tricks to get to the finished product. In the 1950s, Zeman began a series of six feature films that combined animation with live-action footage, which he is most famous for. Many of Zeman's works are available at YouTube. The full 1980 documentary by Zeman, from which the above compilation was taken, is available online, but the film quality is poor. -via Everlasting Blort#movies #animation #specialeffects #KarelZeman

7 Classic Movie Tricks That Led To Modern CGIMovies transport us to worlds unknown, but it's not always been easy to pull it off. In the old days before computer-generated cinematic effects, people would often leave a theater wonderinghow they did that. What filmmakers did was put 100 years of imagination to work in any way they could. The classic effects of those films inspired and guided modern computer effects. Insider explains how that happened. -via Damn Interesting #movie #CGI #specialeffects #VFX