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The Ellenshaw Museum: 20,000 Leagues (1954)
I spent the afternoon at Passamaquoddy’s Ellenshaw Museum. Appropriately, the biggest draw in the museum was paintings from “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, based on Jules Verne’s classic novel. This was one of the earliest collections of work with Disney and Ellenshaw, and its beautiful stuff. Most interestingly, many of the earlier matte paintings were actually painted on glass on location. The camera placed behind the sheet of glass with the distant image merging with the painting a few feet away.
In the above sample, the live action is in the center while the ships docked “in the distance” are actually painted on glass close to the camera… In the second shot, everyting above the first floor is painted.
Amazing work…
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