PETER  ELLENSHAW  TRIBUTE 

Pictures gallery from the film:   Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
 

Director:  Ken Anakinn
Dir Photography: Harry Waxman 
Production Design: John Howell
Special Effects: Danny Lee / Walter Stones / Les Bowie
Matte painting supervisor:  Peter Ellenshaw
 

At right Peter Ellenshaw painting on glass at Tobago island. at left, the final image with the painted elements.

 


 


 

" We had rented the larg tank at Associated Britsh Pictures Studio, with the wave machines in the tank,
six Spitfire propeller engines along one side (to create the hurricane-force winds) and a huge backing painted with black clouds"
From the book: "Ellenshaw under glass" by Peter Ellenshaw.


 

The shipwreck as seen on the film.