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Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx

This blog is intended primarily as a tribute to the inventiveness and ingenuity of the craft of the matte painter during Hollywoods' Golden Era.

  • By NZPete
  • Based in New Zealand
  • Roughly five posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2019 8
2020 7
2021 7
2022 4
2023 4
2024 5
2025 0

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

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 a …
On , by NZPete, 9,607 words
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 …
On , by NZPete, 6,778 words
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 this my …
On , by NZPete, 8,188 words