Movies: Douglas Trumbull

Discover the UFO phenomenon like never before, with insights from NASA, CNES, Oxford, compelling firsthand witnesses, and even the possible viewpoint of extraterrestrial visitors....

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

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....

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

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 ...

Documentary celebrating the centenary of cinema which looks at how technological innovations - from widescreen to 3D, Cinerama to Showscan and IMAX - have shaped our perception of reality. Featuring exclusive footage of the making of Hollywood's firs...

A documentary on Terrence Malick and the making of his film "The Tree of Life."...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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....

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

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