Ben Burtt Movies
- 2006

Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
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A documentary about the making of, and legacy of, the Forbidden Planet movie.
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- 1986

Star Wars: Droids - The Great Heep
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C-3PO and R2-D2 are on their way to Biitu to meet their new master, Mungo Baobab, when their ship is attacked and they are taken prisoner. Biitu has...
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- 1991

The True Story of Glory Continues
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Morgan Freeman narrates this documentary that explores the 54th Massachusetts regiment that is the basis of the motion picture, "Glory".
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- 2006

Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon
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A short documentary about Robby the Robot.
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- 2002

Films Are Not Released, They Escape
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Ben Burtt and his team explain the process of creating the sound for Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) in the all-new documentary...
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- 1970

A Bucket of Water and a Glass Matte
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In this 2010 program, Craig Barron and Ben Burtt, leading experts in the fields of visual and sound effects, respectively, discuss the techniques...
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- 2002

Manassas: End of Innocence
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As the first major land battle of the American Civil War, the First Battle of Manassas, fought on July 21, 1861, shocked a nation expecting a short...
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- 2007

The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
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Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by...
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- 1992

The American Gangster
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They fixed the World Series. They built Las Vegas. They terrorized America with their vicious murders and fearless robberies. They are men named...
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- 2012

Wings: Grandeur in the Sky
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A making-of featurette for the first Academy Award winning film "Wings" (1927), with plenty of rare photographs and the participation of William...
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- 2002

State of the Art: The Pre-Visualization of 'Episode II'
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Documentary breaking down the planning of the film's set pieces particularly the aerial car chase, conveyor-belt fight and climactic Clone War battle.
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- 1980

Porklips Now
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This spoof of 'Apocalypse Now' has health inspector Will Dullard travelling by car "uptown" with two friends to have a meeting with a certain Mertz,...
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- 1975

Recorded Live
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A man arrives at a TV studio to interview for a managerial position, only to find mysterious videotape reels who seem to have a life of their own.
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- 2014

EditDroid: Rise and Fall
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Filmmaker George Lucas, spiritual father of the successful Star Wars series decided to invest 40 million dollars to develop a new editing system....
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- 1996

Behind the Scenes with King Kong in Special Effects
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Making of documentary for the King Kong segment of the in the 1996 IMAX movie 'Special Effects: Anything Can Happen', featuring stop-motion animation...
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