Distributed by Imax Corporation, Special Effects reveals the method behind the magic of the movies, and features state-of-the art effects created exclusively for the film in IMAX, from a 1990s ...

What was the first movie to use stop-motion? The answer is either 'The Humpty Dumpty Circus' or 'Le théâtre de Bob,' because records from that era are spotty.

Try answering these questions. Each involves a scene shown in the IMAX film Special Effects, produced by NOVA/WGBH Boston. 1. What special effects technique allowed Moses to lead the Israelites ...

Few people could pull off a bank heist with aplomb. But when a special effects film technician found himself unable to work, he staged a robbery so convincing it could have come straight from a ...

Canadian special effects ... after inventing techniques to create shape-shifting “liquid metal” characters for the 1991 movie Terminator 2. This spring, the classic action film will be ...

To bring strange new worlds and civilizations to life, "Star Trek" leans heavily into visual effects, many of them cutting ...

When people talk about visual effects, the first thing that comes to mind to most people are the fantasy and sci-fi tricks ...

It's a film often regarded as Walt Disney's crowning ... George Méliès, one of the first pioneers in visual effects used a technique known as double exposure mattes to achieve this feat over ...