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Special Effects

Basic Information

Inventory ID 596028
Production Type SPECIALS^SHORT^EDUCATIONAL
Release Year 1973
Running Time
Director William Foster
Cast
Country
Language
Donor Code 2853 - Packard Humanities Institute: Sabucat Collection
Collection

Format & Technical

Format Size 16
Format Type SAFETY
Element Info PRINT
Film Base
Color Format COL.
Sound Format SI.^^^^
Item Holdings 1
Total Reels 1

Condition

Deterioration 0

Notes

pallet 44- 20753 - Pyramid Films, Santa Monica, Ca ^^Narrated - Jonathan Winters^Special Effects - Robert A. Mattey^^All about how to make Special Effects for Film.^^Film Scenes as follows...^^Footage of simulated earthquake, buildings falling, people in a crumbling restaraunt running out, building exploding.^^Dracula and a woman faints in bed, he goes to bite her neck, sits up and coughs smoke.^^Man on fire^^Man walking in rain with an umbrella and blown over by wind.^^Ma and Pa in a cabin, snow storm outside, Pa opens door and snow blows at him.^^Black and White Silent Movie footage, buildings blowing over, building lifts off the foundation, man in in a bed sick, bed with man in it blowing down the street, bed blows away, front of a house falls on the man, he is not hit as he's standing where the window is.^^Man Sneezing and a man pulling a rope to dump water on his head as he sneezes.^^(End of Film Scenes)^^1. Fans, bushes with wires attached to them to make them move, flash bulbs fixed in sequence with a nail board.^^2. Plastic snow thrown over a wind machine by a man on a ladder in front of a house creating a blizzard.^^3. White sheets, limestone gravel and cotton used to simulate snow.^^4. Epsom salt and beer mixture to create frost on windows.^^5. House covered in snow^^6. Dry ice wrapped in cheesecloth, put in a pail of water to make fog.^^7. Insecticide can.^^8. "Artificial Charcoal" Cathedral Candle Box of Charcoal. "Wizard" can of lighter fluid. Filling a Bee Smoker.^^9. Fog maker, insecticide gun to make fog.^^10. Man with a gun coming out of fog in Western Attire. Nail gun, shots, bullet hits stuck to a window.^^11. Horse capsules to fire, gun being loaded to fire capsules. Western scene of cowboys and Indians in gunfights being filmed, shows a film crew and cameras.^^12. Man with flaming arrow through his head, man turns around to show device behind his back that operates the arrows.^^13. Air valve blow guns used to shoot flaming arrows. Steel back pads being worn to protect man from arrows shot at him.^^14. Celetex? soaked in boiling paraffin, attaching celetex to a fence, lighting it on fire. Butane Gas Fire. People putting out the fire.^^Film footage^^Shed labeled "Explosives" is on fire and explodes.^^Man golfing and swings club and there is an explosion.^^^

Inventory Items (1)

Reel # Barcode Can Size Reel Size Location Notes
SV0001333574 S217-05B-09