Trick effects were made possible by elaborate mechanical devices.
Ned Mann's trick effects and Harold Rosson's photography worked some cute miracles, and the players, from Mr. Young on down, have done a generally satisfactory job.
The resulting trick effects, provoking a sense of mystery from the everyday, pay fitting tribute to the artist brought to life in the book's pages.
special-effects department worked on "Kane"; roughly eighty per cent of the film was not merely printed but reprinted, in order to add trick effects and blend in painted sets and bits of stock footage.
He also conceived, with the help of the new reel-to-reel tape recorder, the trick effects of "sound-on-sound" (overdubbing), slapback echo and speed-changing, which he would deploy in his duets with Ford, who joined him in 1947, recommended by Gene Autry.
Their performances made a great feature of trick effects: there was the dissecting skeleton, whose limbs came apart and then came together again; the Grand Turk, whose arms and legs dropped off to turn into a brood of children while his body turned into their mother; the crinolined lady, who turned into a balloon; the Scaramouch, with three heads; and a host of jugglers and acrobats.
This will be illustrated by lighting and visual cues and trick effects: Perhaps a clock's hands begin to spin around, slow at first, then faster.
But the acting is secondary to the tricks, effects, dances and allusions.
Great place to show off tricks, effects, techniques, or new games and apps, without taking up too much time.
By using the Poisson summation formula with Ewald's trick the effect of image vortices can be calculated efficiently.
