Cinemagic #18 (1982)

AbO\l'e : Managing Edltol John Clayton sQueeled oN Ihls shalla demonsuale the effect plQiluted by Edmund SCientific's Holi>glaphlc Rainbow Film This speclalliitel hIS ovel your camera lens. POInI hght sources become brilliant star bUlsts 01 every color of Ihe spectrum ThiS shot IS a lime e.posure of car headlighlS coming around a cornel The Edmund Scientific Holographic Rarnbow Film con enhance sill scan effects See Ihe GJlP Kit section on page 20

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Left: Paul Mandel aOi mates puppets for A Summer Ram Dance, whldi was a segment of th e Children's TeleVISion Workshop ailed on PBS. The armatures were made by Dave Allen and Tom Sl. Amand. TIe-down hol es were drilled through Ihe hard day surface Into heavy masonite board. See Mandel's article on tie-downs on page 14. Above : John Dods has his hands full with the monster he created for The Deadly Spawn. See Dods' handy gUide to making monsters l or the movies on page 6

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Editor's Shoes For Bench _ _ _ _ 4 Dinosaurs? Making Monsters ___ 6

Issue "18

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GripKit _ _ 20

Useful accessories for filmmakers.

Cinemagic Marketplace _ _ _ 21 to making monsters for the movies as he explains how he made the spawns for The Deadly Spawn in this step· by-step cover story.

Classified advertising and

announcements. Writer/filmmaker Paul Mandel discusses tie-downs for animation models.

Producers' Filmmakers' Forum _ _ _ 12 Bulletin Board _ _ _ 18

Electronic Special Effects _ __

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Chris Stevens has re-designed his sound effects generator to improve its performance and get the "bugs" out. This "&x Full of Sound, II" is the "sequel" to the sound effects generator that was described in CINEMAGIC # 14 .

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" Prize winner AI Magliochetti talks the making of his

A regular d~partment devoted to readers' comments and correspondence about

fantasy filmmaki ng.

Latest news of our readers' productions.

John

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BENCH Issue #18 PubUsben Norman JacobsfKerry O'Quinn

Assod.teI Publisher Rita Eisenstein

CIrc:u1.UOD Director Richard Browne

EdIto, David Hutchison

Art DIrector Steven J. Plunkett

Man.glng Editor John Clayton

SenIor DesIgner Neil Holmes

E4J.torUaJ. Contributor-. John Dods AI Magliochetti Chris E. Stevens

D ......-. Diane Cook Shelly Marks Deborah Kelman

ProducUon Au.lstants Joan Baetz Eileen Dempsey Norma Garcia Cindy Levine Sue Oster

Founder of ClftEMAGIC Don Dohler

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About the cover: An alien monster gobbles down the last few morsels of its meal of human flesh. Special Effects Artist John Dods created this hideous creature for the Almline Communications production, The Deadly Spawn. Thafs Dods' hand in the spawn's mouth. See Dod's arti _ _ "'" not ~ ~ by ONEWIGIC. and 1 I n ) ' ' - ~ 11\ _ (P1"" not n.ecKSorily i:t>w 0( ONEMAGIC. SuM.:11ption $9.96 lor one iuuesl_ed k"l1Ile 0.5.. c...- end ~

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