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ZORAN PERISIC SPECIAL OPTICAL EFFECTS
In cinematography
Special Optical Effects are playing an
increasingly important role in the film
industry, for example in the making of
such films as Star Wars and Superman,
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Written by one of the world’s leading
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account of how to produce special
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simplest and almost traditional
methods using mirrors and a normal
film camera, to the most sophisticated,
requiring equipment specially devel-
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Anyone involved in film making will
find this book invaluable not only for
the detailed descriptions of specific
effects, but also as a general intro-
duction to the scope available to the
imaginative film maker.
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writer, has gained worldwide recog-
nition for the special optical effects he
created in the film, Superman, and for
which he was awarded an Oscar and
the BAFTA Michael Balcon award.
He is the inventor of the Zoptic special
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a ‘Technical Achievement’ award from
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1940. He studied at both Belgrade and
Birmingham Universities before join-
ing the film industry. He worked on
2001 — A Space Odyssey as special
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1970 he became a television director
and he has worked on over 500 TV and
cinema commercials and many docu-
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the animated TV series The Magic
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