In the wake of the murder of his wife, #SharonTate, & their friends by Manson's followers, #RomanPolanski suspected his "personal trainer" of the crimes.

He believed that a pair of glasses found at the murder scene belonged to one #BruceLee...

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It all begins, so eloquently, with #Chaplin & City Lights (1931), & rarely bettered...

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1978's Superman: The Movie employed every visual effect in the book - & invented a few new ones - but this simple in-camera use of rear-projection allowed #Superman to reappear moments later as Clark Kent in a single "live" take.

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The "jerkiness" of traditional stop-animation has been both its charm & curse, until #ILM improved upon the technique by adding motion-blur - dubbed "go-motion" - with 1980's The Empire Strikes Back.

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#RayHarryhausen #PhilTippet #StarWars

Ever since #OrsonWelles laid down the gauntlet with 1958's single 3 minute-plus opening crane shot from Touch Of Evil, filmmakers have trying to top it in one way or another - such as this clever take from 2016's Que Dios Nos Perdone...

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Everyone cites #StarWars (1977) for THAT opening shot, but equally amazing is the throwaway optical magic the wizards at
#ILM conjured up for the close of #RaidersOfTheLostArk (1981).

A live element walks "into" & "behind" a matte painting.

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