The Bearded Trio

Douglas Trumbull and Steven Spielberg. Today an extra long video of an interview with Douglas Trumbull, the VFX wizard behind films like 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, BLADE RUNNER, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3RD KIND or STAR TREK, and the inventor of the "Showscan" process, in conversation with Wolfram Hannemann (www.laserhotline.de).  The interview took place on May 10, 2012, in Stuttgart, Germany. Sit back and enjoy listening to one of the (last true) Masters of Effects. Ronny. The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and John Williams THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON GEORGE LUCAS CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON JOHN WILLIAMS

Legendary filmmaker and visual effects pioneer Douglas Huntley Trumbull was b orn on this day April 8, 1942 in Los Angeles.  He is son of Donald Trumbull, who created the visual effects for The Wizard of Oz in 1939. Douglas Trumbull contributed to, or was responsible for, the special photographic effects of 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 (1972) and Brainstorm (1983) (he quit directing feature films after actress Nathalie Wood died during the filming of Brainstorm under suspicious circumstances). He also directed Back to the Future...The Ride (1991) and other special format films. He received Academy Award Nominations but did not win for his work on Close Encounters , Star Trek and Blade Runner , and was awarded the Scientific and Engineering Award in 1993 and the Gordon E. Sawyer Award in 2013. Nowadays he spends...