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Inventor, producer, artist Douglas Trumbull embodies the polymath spirit of cinema’s earliest pioneers—Georges Méliès, in particular—and has left his own indelible mark on cinema’s past, present and future. Trumbull made his auspicious behind-the-scenes debut on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), for which he developed the slit-scan technique used to create the film’s legendary “Stargate” sequence. He went on to top himself again and again as a visual and photographic effects supervisor, contributing iconic imagery to some of the biggest films of the modern era, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1980), Blade Runner (1982) and most recently, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life (2011). Trumbull’s restless pursuit of technical innovation, including his development of the Showscan system in 1993, has always been driven by a desire to expand the cinema’s visual vocabulary.
As a director himself, Trumbull also revealed a deeply humanist concern for technology’s impact on society, the environment and our relationships with one another. The Archive is pleased to join with the Visual Effects Society and Universal Pictures to celebrate Trumbull’s career and legacy with a special screening of the digitally restored Silent Running (1972) on the eve of his receiving the Gordon E. Sawyer Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Special thanks to: Douglas Trumbull; Gene Kozicki—Visual Effects Society; Paul Ginsburg—Universal Pictures.
