George Melies
French born magician and filmmaker credited with creating many new film techniques. These techniques include substitution splices, multiple exposures of film, time lapse, live action stop motion, dissolves and fades, hand painted color film and stop frames.
These techniques can still be seen today, with techniques such as dissolves and cross fades still being common methods of changing scene in modern cinema. His use of live action stop motion would eventually give rise to stop motion animation and claymation and use of time lapse is now wide spread.
Out of my "Top 10 movie" list many have been influenced by Melies work in some way. Melies work in stop motion lead to the create of the style used in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. Melies had a heavy influence in the creation of the Science fiction genre of films with movie such as "A trip to the movie. The Science fiction would later create four of my favourite films "Donnie Darko", "Looper", "Predistation" and "Ex Machina". Films such as "American Beauty", "Green Mile", "Into the wild", "Tucker and Dale vs. Evil" and "Boyhood" all use editing and special effect techniques pioneered by George Melies.
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