Linwood G. Dunn

...Citizen Kane, it is likely that while working on the film he would become familiar with the optical printer techniques employed by Linwood Dunn, inventor of the practical optical printer, to produce effects for Citizen Kane ''such as the...

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...branches, and was instrumental in the formation of the Academy's Visual Effects branch. The Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood was named in honor of Dunn and his innovations and contributions to the Motion Picture industry. The...

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...appears in this film. "Carioca" was written for the film by composer Vincent Youmans and lyricists Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn. Linwood Dunn did the special effects for the celebrated airplane-wing-dance sequence at the end of the film.

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...dragon in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1963). In 1963, Danforth was hired by special visual effects pioneer Linwood G. Dunn to animate miniature versions of the comedians in Stanley Kramer's all-star comedy, It's a Mad, Mad,...

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...famous of early attempts. Many shots in King Kong featured optical effects by Linwood G. Dunn, who was RKO's optical technician for decades. Dunn did optical effects on Citizen Kane and the original Star Trek TV series, as well as hundreds...

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...an optical printer is a projector aiming into a camera lens, and it was developed to make copies of films for distribution. Until Linwood G. Dunn, A.S.C. refined the design and use of the optical printer, effects shots were accomplished as...

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...and Kane entering the room in the background) were in-camera composites, meaning the film was exposed twice -another technique that Linwood Dunn perfected. Similarities between ''Citizen Kane'' and ''The Long Voyage Home'' Toland had...

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His career has been shaped by many of the past masters he has met, and he gained particular inspiration from the late Linwood G. Dunn, the opticals genius behind such classics as King Kong '' and ''Citizen Kane. Dunn once told him there were...

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