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Take Five Minutes To Watch 100 Years Of Visual Effects

11:30AM August 28, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Let’s take a five minute break from Food Week to watch this compilation of some incredible moments in the history of visual effects, from silent films to recent blockbusters. Oh, and pay attention to the background track. The tune’s nice.

The movies included in this clip span over 100 years of cinema history:

  • 1900 – The Enchanted Drawing
  • 1903 – The Great Train Robbery
  • 1923 – The Ten Commandments (Silent)
  • 1927 – Sunrise
  • 1933 – King Kong
  • 1939 – The Wizard of Oz
  • 1940 – The Thief of Baghdad
  • 1954 – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • 1956 – Forbidden Planet
  • 1963 – Jason and the Argonauts
  • 1964 – Mary Poppins
  • 1977 – Star Wars
  • 1982 – Tron
  • 1985 – Back to the Future
  • 1988 – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  • 1989 – The Abyss
  • 1991 – Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • 1992 – The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
  • 1993 – Jurassic Park
  • 2004 – Spider-Man 2
  • 2005 – King Kong
  • 2006 – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
  • 2007 – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
  • 2007 – The Golden Compass
  • 2008 – The Spiderwick Chronicles
  • 2008 – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Did your favourite visual effect get left out? The comments allow for videos and pictures for a reason, so show us! [YouTube]

Comments

  • Russ

    August 28, 2009 at 12:11 PM

    I’m fairly sure the tune is from Outrun 2019…

    Or something else that makes me think of my childhood

  • Russ

    August 28, 2009 at 12:14 PM

    Wait.. I’m completely wrong. Carry on.

  • EzyLee

    August 28, 2009 at 12:54 PM

    No Matrix? Surely the whole freeze and rotate thing was pretty groundbreaking.

  • Kevin Russell

    August 28, 2009 at 1:13 PM

    According to 3D World, The Matrix was voted the greatest 3D/Visual Effects movie ever. It should have been there :(

    Nice to see the history and how the visual effects were produced… over 300 hours rotoscoping that dude out!

  • Ivan Prasad

    August 28, 2009 at 2:29 PM

    What! No Citizen Kane (1941)?

  • dave

    August 30, 2009 at 7:28 PM

    The tune is created by Blue Man Group

  • tim

    August 30, 2009 at 11:09 PM

    yep, according to shazam its called ‘rods and cones’ by Blue Man Group (feat. Tobias)

  • Conrad Davies

    September 4, 2009 at 1:25 PM

    Is it just me or are old movies freakin awesome.

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