Tim Dirks' Visual and Special Effects Milestones
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From even its earliest days, films have used visual magic ("smoke and mirrors") to produce illusions and trick effects that have startled audiences. In fact, the phenomenon of persistence of vision (it was first described to some degree in 1824 by British physician Peter Mark Roget) is the reason why the human eye sees individual frames of a movie as smooth, flowing action when projected.
The earliest effects were produced within the camera (in-camera effects), such as simple jump-cuts or superimpositions, or were created by using miniatures, back projection, or matte paintings. Optical effects came slightly later, using film, light, shadow, lenses and/or chemical processes to produce the film effects. Film titles, fades, dissolves, wipes, blow ups, skip frames, bluescreen, compositing, double exposures, and zooms/pans are examples of various optical effects.
Cel animation, scale modeling, claymation, digital compositing, animatronics, use of prosthetic makeup, morphing, and modern computer-generated or computer graphics imagery (CGI) are just some of the more modern techniques that are widely used for creating incredible special or visual effects.
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Monkeyshines, No. 1
1890, in 0 top lists Check -
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Dickson Greeting
1891, in 0 top lists Check -
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Pauvre Pierrot
1892, in 1 top list Check -
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Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
1894, in 1 top list Check -
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Dickson Experimental Sound Film
1894, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
1895, in 1 top list Check -
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Escamotage d'une dame au théâtre Robert Houdin
1896 — a.k.a. The Conjuring of a Woman at the House of Robert Houdin, in 1 top list Check -
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The Humpty Dumpty Circus
1898, in 0 top lists Check -
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Santa Claus
1898, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Kiss in the Tunnel
1899, in 1 top list Check -
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The Enchanted Drawing
1900, in 1 top list Check -
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Grandma's Reading Glass
1900, in 1 top list Check -
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Let Me Dream Again
1900, in 1 top list Check -
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A Railway Collision
1900 — a.k.a. A Railroad Wreck (Imitation), in 0 top lists Check -
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Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost
1901, in 0 top lists Check -
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Fun in a Bakery Shop
1902, in 0 top lists Check -
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Le voyage dans la lune
1902 — a.k.a. A Trip to the Moon, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Great Train Robbery
1903, in 11 top lists Check -
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Life of an American Fireman
1903, in 4 top lists Check -
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Mary Jane's Mishap
1903, in 1 top list Check -
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Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
1906, in 5 top lists Check -
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Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
1906, in 1 top list Check -
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The Haunted Hotel
1907, in 0 top lists Check -
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Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
1908, in 1 top list Check -
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The 'Teddy' Bears
1907, in 2 top lists Check -
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Dreams of Toyland
1908, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Adventures of Dollie
1908, in 0 top lists Check -
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Fantasmagorie
1908 — a.k.a. A Fantasy, in 2 top lists Check -
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À la conquête du pôle
1912 — a.k.a. The Conquest of the Pole, in 0 top lists Check -
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Cabiria
1914, in 12 top lists Check -
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Gertie the Dinosaur
1914, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Miser's Reversion
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916, in 24 top lists Check -
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The Gulf Between
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The Sinking of the 'Lusitania'
1918, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Debut of Thomas Katt
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The Toll of the Sea
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The Power of Love
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The Ten Commandments
1923, in 5 top lists Check -
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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
1924, in 13 top lists Check -
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Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me
1926, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Thief of Bagdad
1924, in 14 top lists Check -
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Bronenosets Potemkin
1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check -
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Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ
1925 — a.k.a. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Lost World
1925, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Black Pirate
1926 — a.k.a. The Black Buccaneer, in 4 top lists Check -
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Don Juan
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The Jazz Singer
1927, in 6 top lists Check -
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Metropolis
1927, in 36 top lists Check -
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Napoléon vu par Abel Gance
1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
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