THE  ALBERT  WHITLOCK´S  ARCHIVES.
 

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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