Matte Painting

Extraterrestrial headpiece worn in Alien (1979)

'Le Parvo' 35mm Cine Camera, 1908

Cinerama camera and slate, 1954 | Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

'Laterna de Orient No 209 Märchen 1001 Nacht,' Germany, 1890

Page from Gregory Peck's annotated script of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

French Grande release poster for À la conquête du Pôle / The Conquest of the Pole (1912)

Typewriter Joseph Stefano used to write the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)

Shirley Temple's tap shoes and practice steps used during filming of The Little Colonel (1935)

Study for a matte painting of Charles Foster Kane's Xanadu mansion in Citizen Kane (1941)

Cowardly Lion's Mane worn by Bert Lahr in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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Tyrannosaurus rex Dinosaur Input Device for Jurassic Park (1993). Photos by Joshua White/JW Pictures

Dinosaur Input Device

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Extraterrestrial headpiece worn in Alien (1979). Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Photo by Joshua White, JWPictures/©A.M.P.A.S.

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