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From: davidl@orca.UUCP (David Levine)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: RETURN TO OZ
Message-ID: <1583@orca.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 14:20:16 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 14:20:16 1985
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Summary: 

I, too, loved /Return to Oz/.  This is a film with the texture of a dream,
believable and lovable.  

> ... -- the free-fall scenes looked SUPERMANish).

This is because they were done by Zoltan Persic (sp?), whose "Zoptic" process 
was first used in /Superman/.  Zoltan was in the credits, and the Zoptic logo
appeared at the end of the credits.  

There were more different special-effects techniques in this film than any 
other I've seen.  Muppet-style creature effects (producer Gary Kurtz also
produced /The Dark Crystal/), Claymation, Disney matte paintings, traveling
matte work from Superman, and complex mechanicals using Lucasfilm technology
all blended into a consistent fantasy universe combining dream and nightmare.
The characters (even a talking chicken!) became real characters, despite the 
fact that most of them were not actually living beings.

Disney has a real winner with this one.  Now let's see /The Black Cauldron/...

David D. Levine  (...decvax!tektronix!orca!davidl)          [UUCP]
                 (orca!davidl.tektronix@csnet-relay.csnet)  [ARPA]

(P.S.  Anybody know exactly what the "Special thanks to George Lucas"
       at the end was for?)