Complete show notes (with links) available at http://opticalpodcast.com/episode/022

We talk about The Right Stuff with Joel Page, where at the height of excellent motion control camera work, the USFX team took the shots of supersonic jets and crashing capsules, and went in an entirely different direction.

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• The Right Stuff (1983)

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• Joel Page, Local know-it-all

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Research Materials

• Cinefex 14 — October 1993, also available in the Cinefex iPad app

• Revisiting Cinefex (14): The Right Stuff, Brainstorm, Twilight Zone by Graham Edwards

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