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TREASURE ISLAND ('50) TREASURE ISLAND ('50) English 8x10 OR search current auctions Auction History Result 6w296 TREASURE ISLAND set of 2 English 4.75x5 comparison photos 1950 ships added to city skyline! Date Sold 6/13/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Set of 2 Original Vintage 4 3/4" x 5" [12 x 13 cm] English Movie Comparison Photos (Learn More) Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, the 1950 Byron Haskin English/U.S. Walt Disney family historical pirate adventure thriller ("Greatest Adventure of All!"; "a young cabin boy, a roguish buccaneer... match wits in a swashbuckling adventure!"; "A great ACTION picture ALIVE with excitement!"; "Walt Disney captures every heart-rushing thrill of fiction's mightiest adventure!"; from the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson) starring Bobby Driscoll ("as Jim Hawkins"), Robert Newton ("as Long John Silver"), Basil Sydney ("as Captain Smollett"), Walter Fitzgerald, and Denis O'Dea. Note that this movie included sequences involving many sailing ships, but the budget did not allow for construction of enough ships, so several extra ships were judiciously added using matte paintings! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is a pair of "comparison photographs", which shows a candid image of the set of this movie as it actually appeared during a key scene, and then a second image of the same scene with a matte painting overlaid over part of the scene! This pair of photographs show the partially constructed set on which filming took place and the final shot after the addition of the matte painting which alters the skyline to include several ships and extension of the buildings. This matte painting was executed by Peter Ellenshaw at Denham Studios, London, England, who went solo for Disney's first entirely live action picture following the relocation of his mentor Walter Percy Day to Shepperton Studios. This type of matte shot would become quintessential Ellenshaw and Treasure Island would prove to be his big break going on to head the Walt Disney matte department for over a decade and winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. What is a matte painting? It is a special visual effects element used in the production of motion pictures enabling filmmakers to add environments to films which are not possible to achieve practically on location or in a studio. A fixture in filmmaking since the birth of cinema common uses for matte paintings include the extension of landscapes and structures which would be either impossible to build or prohibitively expensive and time consuming, they are also useful in the creation of fantasy pictures to portray situations which do not exist in reality giving the filmmaker free reign to bring his vision to the screen, these paintings are combined with live action footage to produce impressive shots which when perfectly executed can trick the audience in to believing what they seeing is real. We were consigned twelve "matching pairs" of these comparison photographs, which came from the estate of an English special effects artist who collected them from colleagues in the effects industry who worked on these movies including Les Bowie with whom he served as an apprentice at Bowie Films during the 1950's & 1960's. They clearly show the painted additions which have taken place at the hands of the various artists involved and would have originated from the Technicolor laboratory in West Drayton, London, England which was located in close proximity to the major British studios, it was here where these matte shots were processed. We have never before auctioned even one pair of these comparison photographs, and we were consigned twelve pairs, which are in twelve separate auctions! Condition: good to very good. These comparison photographs were glued to an album and there is paper residue on the back, which has slightly creased the front of each (see our images of the fronts and backs of each). Learn More about condition grades 
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