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Lot 39W
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, signed ("Dan Curry & Jenna Holman") to lower left, featuring a brown building against a cloudy blue sky, framed.
Provenance: Dan Curry.
46 x 58.5 x 1.5 in.
Provenance: Dan Curry.
46 x 58.5 x 1.5 in.
Footnotes
The black area on this piece is where the live action portion of the shot appears using the meticulous process of latent image original negative in-camera compositing. For many years this was the highest quality method of combining live-action footage with a painting as it kept both elements on the same first-generation negative without the image quality loss resulting from duplicating an image on film. The technique was complicated, time consuming, and stressful because, after repeated testing, there was only one chance to get the composite of the chosen take done correctly. This shot took six weeks to complete for a few seconds of screen time. With the original production frame.
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.