Pictures gallery from the film:
History
of the World: Part I (1981)
Director: Mel Brooks
Cinematography: Woody Omens
Film Editing : John C. Howard
Art Direction : Harold Michelson
Special Photographic effects :
Albert Whitlock
Matte photography: Dennis Glouner
/Bill Taylor
Assistant matte painter:
Syd Dutton
Matte camera operator: Mike
Moramarco
Matte crew: Henry Schoessler
Matte camera loader: Mark
Whitlock
Video captures from the documentary
"Albert Whitlock: Master of Illusions" courtesy of Peter Cook
Images from the film courtesy of
Thomas Thiemeyer
Syd Dutton helping Whitlock with
the matte out elements during the filming at Universal Studios.
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Albert Whitlock painting Rome.
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The original plate and the matted
out black areas for the painting.
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Original plate folemd at Universal,
and the matte out elementes
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The original filmed image and the
matted out elements, to be cover by the painting.
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