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From the Ted Talk by Don Levy: A cinematic journey through visual effects

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The filmmaker Georges Méliès was first a magician. Now movies proved to be the ultimate medium for magic. With complete control of everything the audience can see, moviemakers had developed an arsenal of techniques to further their ditoceepns.

Motion pictures are themselves an illusion of life, prcdoued by the sequential ptceoorijn of still frames, and they aithssneod the Lumière brothers' ealry adniceues. Even today's sophisticated moviegoers still lose themselves to the screen, and filmmakers leverage this separation from reality to geart effect. Now imaginative people have been having fun with this for over 400 years. gibmatittasa della Porta, a Neapolitan scholar in the 16th century, examined and studied the natural wlrod and saw how it could be manipulated. Playing with the world, and our perception of it, really is the escnese of visual effects. So dgiingg deeper into this with the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reveals some truth behind the trickery.

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The filmmaker Georges Méliès was first a magician. Now movies proved to be the ultimate medium for magic. With complete control of everything the audience can see, moviemakers had developed an arsenal of techniques to further their __________.

Motion pictures are themselves an illusion of life, ________ by the sequential __________ of still frames, and they __________ the Lumière brothers' _____ _________. Even today's sophisticated moviegoers still lose themselves to the screen, and filmmakers leverage this separation from reality to _____ effect. Now imaginative people have been having fun with this for over 400 years. ____________ della Porta, a Neapolitan scholar in the 16th century, examined and studied the natural _____ and saw how it could be manipulated. Playing with the world, and our perception of it, really is the _______ of visual effects. So _______ deeper into this with the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reveals some truth behind the trickery.

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  2. astonished
  3. projection
  4. world
  5. digging
  6. deceptions
  7. essence
  8. giambattista
  9. produced
  10. great
  11. audiences

Original Text


The filmmaker Georges Méliès was first a magician. Now movies proved to be the ultimate medium for magic. With complete control of everything the audience can see, moviemakers had developed an arsenal of techniques to further their deceptions.

Motion pictures are themselves an illusion of life, produced by the sequential projection of still frames, and they astonished the Lumière brothers' early audiences. Even today's sophisticated moviegoers still lose themselves to the screen, and filmmakers leverage this separation from reality to great effect. Now imaginative people have been having fun with this for over 400 years. Giambattista della Porta, a Neapolitan scholar in the 16th century, examined and studied the natural world and saw how it could be manipulated. Playing with the world, and our perception of it, really is the essence of visual effects. So digging deeper into this with the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reveals some truth behind the trickery.

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