Douglas Trumbull served as the visual effects supervisor, while Carlo Rambaldi designed the aliens.

Douglas Trumbull was the visual effects supervisor, while Carlo Rambaldi designed the aliens.

He is the son of Donald Trumbull who created visual effects for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz as well as later movies including Silent Running and Star Wars.

Trumbull, already deeply involved in Close Encounters, refused, wanting instead to focus his efforts on his patented Showscan process, a high-speed, large-format movie process that provided unprecedented visual clarity.

Trumbull was visual effects supervisor for such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as well as the director of such films as Silent Running and Brainstorm.

In 1995 Cinergi Pictures acquired an effects company from visual effects pioneer Doug Trumbull.

Originally, the show was to be filmed with a special effects camera system developed by Doug Trumbull called Magicam.

If one film could be said to have established a new high-bench mark for special effects, it would be 1968's 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, who assembled his own effects team ( Douglas Trumbull, Tom Howard, Con Pedersen and Wally Veevers ) rather than use an in-house effects unit.

That same year, Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind boasted a finale with impressive special effects by 2001 veteran Douglas Trumbull.

Stanley Kubrick won his only Oscar ever, in this category, in 1969, for 2001: A Space Odyssey ( The film's credits list four effects contributors, including Douglas Trumbull.

After discovering that the in-house effects department at 20th Century Fox was no longer operational, Lucas approached Douglas Trumbull, famous for the effects on 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Silent Running is a 1972 environmentally-themed American science fiction film starring Bruce Dern and directed by Douglas Trumbull, who had previously worked as a special effects supervisor on science fiction films including 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Andromeda Strain.

Trumbull had been involved with creating effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Donald Edmund Trumbull ( May 27, 1909 – June 7, 2004 ) was a pioneer in the field of motion picture special effects.

Douglas Huntley Trumbull ( born April 8, 1942 ) is an American film director, special effects supervisor, and inventor.

Having returned to Hollywood, Trumbull set up his own company and subsequently bid on the job to produce special effects for the science-fiction film The Andromeda Strain.

The film used a number of special effects techniques that Trumbull had helped develop.

" Unable to live on development fees alone and needing money, Trumbull returned to creating special effects, including some uncredited work using blue screen techniques on the 1974 film The Towering Inferno, a huge commercial hit.

In 1975, Trumbull turned down an offer to provide the effects for George Lucas ' Star Wars due to other commitments, but in 1977 he contributed effects to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

In August 1978, with rumors of an impending meltdown at Abel swirling, Trumbull approached Paramount offering to step in and do the effects with partner Richard Yuricich.

Paramount approached Trumbull to take over effects production, which Trumbull did after securing an agreement to be released from his contract at Paramount upon completion of the film.

" Trumbull reassembled his Future General team, rebuilt his facility which Paramount had nearly gutted, and with a mere five months to create the hundreds of effects shots needed, worked virtually around the clock for months.

In a second effort at compromise, Trumbull presented for Johnson's signature the first Civil Rights Bill, which sought to grant citizenship to the freedmen.

The Tigers constructed Bennett Park at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Trumbull Avenue and began playing there in 1896.

In 1895, owner George Vanderbeck decided to build Bennett Park at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull Avenues, which would remain their base of operations for the next 104 seasons.

Tiger Stadium ( Detroit ) | Tiger Stadium, home of the Detroit Tigers from 1912 – 1999 at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull in the Corktown, Detroit | Corktown district of Detroit.

General George Washington at Trenton by John Trumbull, Yale University Art Gallery ( 1792 ).

Abbadie had also written, at the request of the king, Histoire de la dernière Conspiration d ' Angleterre, 1696, a history of the conspiracy of 1696, which was reprinted in Holland and translated into English, and for which the Earl of Portland and Secretary Sir William Trumbull placed original documents at the author's disposal.

However, concerning children born in the United States to parents who are not U. S. citizens ( and not foreign diplomats ), three Senators, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lyman Trumbull, the author of the Civil Rights Act, as well as President Andrew Johnson, asserted that both the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment would confer citizenship on them at birth, and no Senator offered a contrary opinion.

British general John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga ( 1777 ), painting by John Trumbull 1822

Douglas Trumbull, who undertook experiments with different frame rates that led to the Showscan film format, found that emotional impact peaked at 72 FPS for viewers.

Surrender of Cornwallis to French ( left ) and American ( right ) troops, at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, by John Trumbull.

Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, leader of the moderate Republicans, took affront at the black codes.

However, according to the rules of the Academy in effect at the time, only three persons could be nominated for their work on a single film, which would have resulted in the omission of either Trumbull, Tom Howard, Con Pederson or Wally Veevers.

* Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. ( 1710 – 1785 ), governor of Connecticut, father of Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., and a strong supporter of Washington during the American Revolutionary War, studied theology in Lebanon and later died in the town, where he is buried ( portrait at right )

Willoughby is the only town in America that has belonged, at one time or other, to six counties ( Washington, Jefferson, Trumbull, Geauga, Cuyahoga, and Lake ).

Trumbull is located at 40 ° 40 ' 45 " North, 98 ° 16 ' 28 " West ( 40. 679114 ,-98. 274411 ).

Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown by John Trumbull, 1820.

Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton by John Trumbull

Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, by John Trumbull

* Trumbull County was proclaimed July 10, 1800 out of the Western Reserve portion of Jefferson and Wayne Counties, with its county seat at Warren, chosen over rivals Cleveland and Youngstown.

He is prominently depicted in the painting of the Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga by John Trumbull.

John Trumbull told Dunlap that in 1771, being then a student at Harvard College, he called on Copley, who " was dressed on the occasion in a suit of crimson velvet with gold buttons, and the elegance displayed by Copley in his style of living, added to his high repute as an artist, made a permanent impression on Trumbull in favor of the life of a painter.