Saturday, 31 October 2015

A sense of Scale - a DVD documentary review

Berton Pierce has made a movie miniature fan's dream documentary. It is full of the legendary modelmakers of the 70's, 80's and 90's talking about their work on the blockbuster movies of the period. You get from watching the DVD a deep sense of the hand crafted nature of visual effects in those days and it is a joy to watch.  Thoroughly recommended.




Below is the trailer for the film.





The DVD can be purchased via this link

amazon.com Sense of Scale Documentary

There is also a Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/SenseOfScaleDocumentary/

and a Youtube channel that has a bunch of great clips that didn't make it into the Documentary

piercefilm

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1 comment:

  1. Henry2 November 2016 at 21:18

    Hello

    When I clicked on the website link given (http://www.senseofscalefilm.com/) I got a "Server not found" error.

    It seems Amazon does have the dvd but unfortunately offer limited shipping options since they don't ship to Australia where I live:

    https://www.amazon.com/Berton-Pierces-Sense-Scale-Documentary/dp/B00B2AGW18

    However I found one contribution from the documentary at:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlI8M3g4ik4

    And Berton Pierce has a YouTube channel with lots of videos:

    https://www.youtube.com/user/piercefilm

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