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special effects

2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

Thinker

Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès was a French filmmaker and stage magician who was one of cinema's founding artists, inventing the special effect and the narrative film.

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Institution

Industrial Light & Magic

American visual effects company founded by George Lucas in 1975 to create the effects for Star Wars — and which went on to create the visual effects for the Jurassic Park, Terminator, Indiana Jones, and dozens of other defining films — becoming the most important technology company in cinema history.

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