Movies: Douglas Trumbull

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 ...

This documentary about "2001: A Space Odyssey" looks at some of the things that seemed fanciful in 1968, which don't seem quite as much anymore....

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...

The making of "The Andromeda Strain"....

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

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....

Long before satellites would journey to planets and deep-space telescopes would photograph distant galaxies, there was an artist whose dazzling visions of planets and stars would capture the imagination of all who beheld them. Before that, he was an ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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