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    • Douglas Hunt Trumbull was an American film director and visual effects supervisor, who pioneered innovative methods in special effects. He created scenes for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner and The Tree of Life, and directed the movies Silent Running and Brainstorm. … See more

    BornDouglas Hunt Trumbull · April 8, 1942 · Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    DiedFebruary 7, 2022 (aged 79) · Albany, New York, U.S.
    Occupation(s)Film director, producer, writer, special effects supervisor, inventor
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    Trumbull was born in Los Angeles. His father was an aerospace engineer who had briefly worked in Hollywood creating visual effects for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz.; his mother, who died when Trumbull was 7, was an a… See more

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    Douglas Trumbull's early work was at Graphic Films in Los Angeles. The small animation and graphic arts studio produced a film called To the Moon and Beyond about spaceflight for the 1964 New York World's Fair. … See more

    Personal life and death

    Trumbull was married three times and had two children. He was in poor health for the last two years of his life, due to complications from a stroke and cancer. He died from mesothelioma at a hospital in Albany, Ne… See more

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    • The Starlost – a 1973 TV series for which Trumbull was executive producer
    • FMX Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Interactive Media (German Wikipedia) at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg… See more

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    Legendary filmmaker and visual effects pioneer, Douglas Trumbull, was one of the Special Photographic Effects Supervisors for 2001: A Space Odyssey …

    • Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Death Place: Albany, New York, USA

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    Feb 9, 2022 · Douglas Trumbull was a visual effects legend and filmmaker who created groundbreaking effects for films including “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Blade Runner.”

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    In late 1978, Trumbull's Future General Corporation, a research/special effects house that was funded by Gulf + Western and Paramount Pictures, was offered the job to produce the special effects for Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

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    Why did Trumbull make '2001' so immersive?
    Trumbull was proud of the immersive effect achieved by Kubrick and the effects team on '2001', with the audience made to feel that they were on the ship with the characters. Trumbull long sought to wield technology to create a more immersive form of cinema than that offered by Hollywood.

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    What happened to Harry Trumbull?
    His early 1980s virtual-reality movie Brainstorm was supposed to be a showcase for innovation, but theater owners balked at paying for the equipment. Trying to persuade Hollywood to take chances exhausted Trumbull and he mostly retired from moviemaking.

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    What did Douglas Trumbull do in 2001 A Space Odyssey?
    One of Douglas Trumbull's jobs on 2001: A Space Odyssey was animated technical graphics for the computer screens. I was amazed to learn he had created the animation with tables and graphs from technical journals to create dozens of screens. His ingenuity was an inspiration to me. pic.twitter.com/YrJjyoyxAG

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    Why did Trumbull refuse to produce 'close encounters'?
    As work was progressing on Close Encounters, Paramount offered to bankroll his studio and asked him to produce the effects for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Trumbull initially turned down the offer, causing much consternation from Paramount Pictures.

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    Feb 10, 2022 · I am shattered to learn that visual effects legend Douglas Trumbull has passed away. Trumbull worked on 2001, Close Encounters, Star Trek: TMP, Blade Runner, and more.

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    Feb 8, 2022 · Douglas Trumbull, who was created visual effects on 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade Runner, has died.

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    Feb 8, 2022 · Douglas Trumbull, a visual effects master who showed movie audiences indelible images of the future and of space in films like “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Blade Runner,” has died.

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    Feb 10, 2022 · Douglas Trumbull, a visual effects master who showed movie audiences indelible images of the future and of space in films like “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Blade Runner,” has died.

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