Colour era

The development of blush photography appropriate greater clarification of furnishings techniques. Colour enabled the development of such travelling matte techniques as bluescreen and the sodium breath process. Many films became landmarks in special-effects accomplishments: Forbidden Planet acclimated matte paintings, animation, and miniature assignment to actualize amazing conflicting environments. In The Ten Commandments, Paramount's John P. Fulton, A.S.C., assorted the crowds of account in the Exodus scenes with accurate compositing, depicted the massive constructions of Rameses with models, and breach the Red Sea in a still-impressive aggregate of travelling mattes and baptize tanks. Ray Harryhausen continued the art of stop-motion action with his appropriate techniques of compositing to actualize amazing fantasy adventures such as Jason and the Argonauts (whose climax, a brand action with seven activated skeletons, is advised a battleground in appropriate effects).