Douglas Trumbull (born April 8, 1942, Los Angeles) is an American film director and special effects supervisor. He was responsible for the special effects of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Blade Runner.
Trumbull's early work at Graphic Films, (a small animation and graphic arts studio that produced a film about spaceflight for the New York World's Fair) caught the attention of director...
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Douglas Trumbull (born April 8, 1942, Los Angeles) is an American film director and special effects supervisor. He was responsible for the special effects of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Blade Runner.
Trumbull's early work at Graphic Films, (a small animation and graphic arts studio that produced a film about spaceflight for the New York World's Fair) caught the attention of director Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick hired director Con Pederson from Graphic Films, and Trumbull then cold-called Kubrick after obtaining the director's home phone number from Pederson. Kubrick hired Trumbull for the production of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Trumbull's outstanding contribution to the film was the "Star Gate" sequence which used a revolutionary camera design (see Slit-scan photography).
In 1971 Trumbull directed the film Silent Running, produced by Universal on a shoestring budget of one million dollars. (By comparison, 2001 cost over $10...
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