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MATTE PAINTING REVIEW: A Selection Of Overlooked Films - Part Fourteen
 Greetings folks. It's a fresh year and much has happened in the world - to put it lightly - since we last connected, so the time is ripe indeed for some pleasant and illuminating diversion into the...
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MATTE PAINTING REVIEW: A Selection of Overlooked Films - Part Fifteen
 Hi there fellow fans of traditional hand made special visual effects. It's time for another retrospective journey deep into the cinematic vault of marvellous matte painted and miniature magic,...
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MATTE PAINTING REVIEW: A Selection Of Overlooked Films - Part Sixteen
 ***This post, and all 169 previous blogs known as 'Matte Shot', were originally created by Peter Cook for nzpetesmatteshot with all content, layout and text originally published at...
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EPIC ORIGINAL MATTE PAINTING AUCTION
 Hi there fellow devotees of the magical trick shot world from days gone by, where movie miracles were created by the most modest of mediums by a highly specialised and select assembly of talented...
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The Visual Effects of MIGHTY JOE YOUNG: O'Bie's 9th Wonder of the World
 Pete's Editorial:Welcome once again to another installment of Matte Shot, the venue for devotees of 'old school' movie magic, where we celebrate the practitioners of traditional special visual...
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MATTE TRICK SHOT REVIEW: Scaling The Heights of Excellence
 Hi there friends... and welcome to another edition of NZ Pete's Matte Shot; your veritable 'one stop shop' for all things 'traditional' as far as painted mattes go, as well as other forms of old...
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THE LOST MATTES OF RUSSELL LAWSON
 Hi there fellow enthusiasts of that marvellous, magical and utterly beguiling lost artform of traditional matte painting and old school trick photography. It's that time once again for NZ Pete to...
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INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC: THE MATTE ART - Part One
 Hi there folks. It's a fresh year and it has been a while since I felt compelled enough to put together another gigantic issue of Matte Shot, but here we are at last. It's always difficult to get...
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INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC: THE MATTE ART - Part Two
 Hi there friends, followers and fellow film fanatics. It is, without question, well and truly time to examine more of that utterly magical lost art form of the traditional, hand painted and...
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TRICKERY ON A BUDGET: Special Visual Effects in Low Cost Films
 Greetings friends. It's been a while since we ventured together down those hallowed halls of cinematic wizardry, though I'm quietly confident the extended wait will prove to have been worth the wait....
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KEEP 'EM LAUGHING: Mattes & Trick Shots in Comedy Films - Part One
'Tis the season to be jolly, or so they say, so here we are back again with yet another blog that's absolutely jam packed with cinematic wonderment. My previous blog on low cost film effects proved...
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KEEP 'EM LAUGHING: Mattes & Trick Shots in Comedies - Part Two
Hi there friends and followers of the sublime, lost art form of traditionally rendered matte painted shots and miscellaneous motion picture wizardry. It is indeed that time again,Delays in getting this...
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MATTE & EFFECTS FILMS CELEBRATED: Part One
Greetings friends and myriad enthusiasts of 'old time' traditional special photographic effects, mattes, miniatures, trick shots and all such 'lost' art forms of days gone by. It is time for yet...
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MATTE & EFFECTS FILMS CELEBRATED: Part Two
 Hi Guys and Gals.... it's matte magic time once again, with a healthy round up of films and genres, from a wide spectrum indeed. I've got 'B' grade monsters, big budget Technicolor fantasy, gritty...
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MATTE & EFFECTS FILMS CELEBRATED: Part Three
 Hello there folks. I know it's been an eternity since one of these substantial and value for money(!) blog posts on all great things matte related, but I have had other things to do, such as home...
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MATTE & EFFECTS FILMS CELEBRATED: Part Four
 Greetings to all and sundry, it's now 2024 believe it or not. It sounds so odd when saying it, and even more so when typing in "2024". Shouldn't we all be living like'The Jetsons'(a cool futuristic...
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MATTE & EFFECTS FILMS CELEBRATED: Part Five
 Hi friends... it's autumn here now and the season is turning a different colour 'down under' (sounds like something a medic should promptly look into?) As such, it appears that it is that time again...
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MATTE & EFFECTS FILMS CELEBRATED: Part Six
 Hello again friends and olde timey matte and trick shot enthusiasts. It's that time again for a trip through the cinematic museum of movie wizardry and creativity from the pre-computer era. I call...
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MATTE & EFFECTS FILMS CELEBRATED: Part Seven
 Welcome fans and devotees of old school mattes, models and clever trick photography. It's time once again for another giant of a blog post, and I do emphasize, giant! I never do these things by...
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MATTE & EFFECTS FILMS CELEBRATED: Part Eight
Greetings to all who are particularly partial to the long lost era of traditional, hand painted mattes and other ingenious motion picture 'tricks of the trade'. It is indeed that time again - perhaps...
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