-
Taras Bulba (1962)
Production: United artist - Harold
Hecht Productions
Producer: Harold Hetch
Director: J.Lee Thompson
Screenplay: Waldo salt
Cinematography:Joseph MacDonald
Production Design.Edward Carrere
Matte artist: Rusell
Lawson
Special Photographic effects: Howard
Anderson
Aditional Photografic effects:
Butler- Glouner
Some views of Kiev:
-
-
The Cossack army in front of the deep chasm. Two warriors had to jump over the gorge, until the fall of one of them.
-
-
-
-
-
Howard A. Anderson Junior,
was in charge of creating the miniature gorge, and the models of
the warriors and horses for the jump. " The bodies were built to a scale
of six inches to one foot. The jointed armatures were made of wood, with
skins of latex. the costume of the rider was extremely detailed to match
that worn by the actor. The face and hands of the actor were duplicated
as well, including his Tartar-style moustache and swarthy skin coloring.
the models were eeighted to give them the proper "heft" to react as a real
body would"
- 
At the final battle the imperial army was driven off a high cliff to their deaths by the Cossacks.
-
Howard A. Anderson Jr " the stunt riders took over up to a point, but for the actual falls we used miniature figures tumbling over a cliff made of fiberglass. These were scaled one inch to the foot, and were made of rubber over jointed armatures. Again, all costuming, libery and other details were added with scrupulous attention to detail. A high craking speed of 120 frames per second, carefully planned camera angles and Fraz Waxman´s magnificient musical score combined to make the sequence a dramatic highlight of the film..."
Text and black and white pictures
from (The ASC Treasury of Visual Effects)