Movies: Douglas Trumbull

A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'...

Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick and released in 1982, is one of the most influential science fiction films ever made. Its depiction of Los Angeles in the year 2019 is oppressively prophetic: climate catastrop...

The making of "The Andromeda Strain"....

A 'cine-ramic' roller-coaster ride through the rise, fall and re-birth of projected film....

Everyone has seen a Trumbull sequence in Stanley Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey", Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" or Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Recognized and respected SFX maestro, he has also directed two full-length fi...

The making of Stanley Kubrick's classic space epic, presented by James Cameron, including unseen footage....

This film is the story of an idealistic flight officer who hijacks her spaceship during an interplanetary cold war, and attempts to escape our solar system in search of other habitable worlds. However, when a small group of soldiers led by Second Lie...

In Search of the Obelisk is the first part of a three part interactive 'show' that played at the Luxor Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. In Search of the Obelisk is a short film in which a team of intrepid archaeologists discover an ancient pyramid in ...

This documentary about "2001: A Space Odyssey" looks at some of the things that seemed fanciful in 1968, which don't seem quite as much anymore....

Traveling from Earth to an overall view of the universe, then zooming down to the atomic scale. Produced and exhibited at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair....

See the full spectrum of the Showscan process. Magic sequences, special effects, miniature photography, high speed thrills and suspense....

Author Arthur C. Clarke and the cast and crew of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" star in this documentary, released in the film's long-anticipated title year. The origins of the production are traced as we see how the early...

A man sets out to photograph UFOs in a scientifically verifiable manner only to get more than he bargained for. Shot by acclaimed visual effects master Douglas Trumbull in a new process called MAGI, 4K 3D at 120 frames per second, to create a powerfu...

An on-set documentary about the making of the classic science fiction film 'Silent Running'....

Fantasies become nightmares and dreams become reality in the spellbinding story of a young boy and his family....

Overview of the visual effects of 2001: A Space Odyssey....