Matte Painting - Significant Matte Painting Shots

Significant Matte Painting Shots

  • The army barracks in All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
  • Count Dracula's castle exteriors in Dracula (1931) and other scenes.
  • Birds flying over Bodega Bay, looking down at the town below, in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963)
  • In Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) shots of the The United Nations building, Mount Rushmore and the Mount Rushmore house.
  • The view of Skull Island in King Kong (1933)
  • Mary Poppins gliding over London with her umbrella (1964), the St Paul's Cathedral and London's rooftops and aerial views.
  • The iconic image of the Statue of Liberty at the end of Planet of the Apes (1968)
  • The rooftops of Portobello Road in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) that won the Academy Award.
  • The city railway line in The Sting (1973)
  • Views of a destroyed Los Angeles in Earthquake (1974) for which Albert Whitlock won an Academy Award
  • The stone column demolished by the locomotive in the Chicago station in the film Silver Streak.
  • The Death Star's laser tunnel in Star Wars (1977)
  • The Starfleet headquarters in Star Trek The Motion Picture (1979)
  • The final scene of the secret government warehouse in Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  • The Batty and Deckard chase scene in Blade Runner (1982)
  • The view of the crashed space ship in The Thing (1982).
  • The view of the OCP tower in RoboCop (1987) and other scenes.

For the technique used in photography and special effects filmmaking to combine two or more image elements into a single, final image see Matte (filmmaking).

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