The first special effect came in an 1895 Edison Film ... local weather person predict the future with a cool interactive map behind them. But how the heck did they do these types of things ...

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 ...

The special effect is done with a process called chroma ... it appear as if the announcer is standing in front of a weather map. In reality, the announcer is in front of a blue (or sometimes ...

For about as long as there have been movies, there have been special effects. That’s no exaggeration: The medium was only a few years old when people began finding ways to toy with the reality ...