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Lot 38W
A Buck Rogers in the 25th Century matte painting by Dan Curry
8 December 2021, 10:00 PST
Los AngelesUS$1,000 - US$2,000
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A Buck Rogers in the 25th Century matte painting by Dan Curry
NBC, 1979-81. Oil on board, double-sided, signed ("By Dan Curry - Buck Rogers") to upper left, depicting a mountainous landscape at sunset on one side. With the original production frame.
Provenance: Dan Curry.
46 x 58.5 x 1.5 in.
Provenance: Dan Curry.
46 x 58.5 x 1.5 in.
Footnotes
This piece was the back layer of a multiplane matte shot of "Trebor's Palace." Foreground layers including the palace itself were painted on clear glass to create the illusion of parallax, or changing perspective, in camera moves. This is the only surviving layer from the complex matte shot. The foreground layers on glass were accidentally destroyed when the Universal Hartland Visual Effects Facility ceased operations. The reverse side is a painting by late matte artist Jenna Holman, depicting a mountain in a desert landscape against a sky of blue. The black area is where the live action portion of the shot appears using latent image original negative in-camera compositing.
Filmmaker and fine artist Dan Curry, V.E.S., served as visual-effects supervisor/producer, title designer, director, conceptual designer, and martial arts choreographer for Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise. He is a 7-time Emmy Award® winner and veteran of over 100 feature films and TV productions. A book about Dan's work titled, Star Trek: The Artistry of Dan Curry, published by Titan Books, was published in December 2020.