The salvage yard at M. Maselli & Sons, in Petaluma, California, is made up of six acres of angle irons, block pulleys, doorplates, digging tools, motors, fencing, tubing, reels, spools, and rusted ...

Though they may seem a recent phenomenon, special-effects driven movies have been with us since the dawn of cinema. From the moment filmmakers realized that the camera and the editing room offered the ...

Reprinted by permission of "The Big Frame." Distributed by Imax Corporation, Special Effects reveals the method behind the magic of the movies, and features state-of-the art effects created ...

When Mufasa in The Lion King has something to say, everybody listens. Especially when he roars. It's the job of special effects sound makers to make sure that roar sounds real. They call themselves ...

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The former 'SNL' cast member breaks a lot of glass and generates a lot of laughs on his new album, but is everything meant to be funny? By Frank DiGiacomo Editor Fred Armisen has few equals when it ...