The Art of Illusion: 100 Years of Hollywood Special Effects
1997•NR•50m•10.0•Released
Documentary
A history of movie magic from 1895 to 1995, showing primitive effects used in such films as "A Trip to the Moon" up to the state of the art effects used in "Apollo 13" and "The Abyss."
Director
Stephen Rocha
Writer
Stephen Rocha
Languages
English
Studio
Simitar Entertainment Inc
Cast
Adrienne Barbeau
Narrator
Production
Company
Simitar Entertainment Inc
Company
Smithsonian Productions
Producer
Lise Romanoff
Recommended
6.8
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022
7.3
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
5.9
One Soldier's Story: The Journey of American Sniper
2015
7.4
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
2011
7.2
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
6.8
Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red
2022
7.4
Above Majestic
2018
6.5
Downloaded
2013
7.8
Being James Bond
2021
7.5
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
2022
7.5
A Plastic Ocean
2016
6.9
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
2014
6.9
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
7.1
I Know That Voice
2014
6.2
Elstree 1976
2015
7
Capturing Avatar
2010
7
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
2022
7.6
Our Planet: Behind the Scenes
2019
6.2
DMT: The Spirit Molecule
2010
8
My Mom Jayne
2025
Similar Movies
7
Coogan's Runner
2003
5
Dans la peau de McWalter
2025
6.4
A Gray State
2017
5.3
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
2024
6.7
The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?
2015
6.3
Overnight
2003
7.1
Filmworker
2018
6.2
Fellinopolis
2021
7
The Five Obstructions
2003
5.8
Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail
2024
Dreyer's Gertrud
2022
Ho! Kanada
1995
6.7
His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th
2010
Manila... A Filipino Film
1975
6.8
Movies by Machine - AI and Cinema
2024
5.8
A Bunch of Amateurs
2022
7.2
Good Chemistry: The Story of Elemental
2023
6.5
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
2007
5.9
Heckler
2007
7.9
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
2003