| CUT OUT PAINTED MINIATURES |
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A variation of glass shot. Instead of painting on a sheet of glass, it use a cut out piece of aluminum painted and placed close to the camera.
Emilio Ruiz del Rio began his career in 1942, as set decorator assistant.
He soon specialized in painting backdrops and in early 50 he started
to paint miniatures on glass.
It was during the production of the film "Cruz de Mayo" 1954
when he used for the first time the cut out method. The art department
had already build the first floor of some buildings for a cityscape shot.
They got a sheet of glass with the painting but the day of the shooting
the glass got broken and Emilio needed a fast replacement , so they cut
out the shape of the painting buildings on a fine wood plate and he painted
the cityscape.
Later on he reemplaced the wood by a fine aluminum sheet and became
an expert in the use of this technique.
Emilio Ruiz worked in most of Ray Harryhausen movies filmed in Spain.
In the first picture you can see Emilio with Ray in front of
a cutout painted miniature.
The film is "The golden voyage of sinbad"(74) Dir: Gordon Hessler
The city at the right, and part of the sea, is a cutout painted by Emilio
Ruiz, placed close to the camera
This is a nice picture of a cutout painted boat, suspended with horizontal
wires. At the first image, the camera was not in position, so the boat
looks like flying. On the second picture we see the poles supporting
an invisible wire which keeps the boat at the horizont line.The movie is
"Mystery on Monster Island"(80) Directed by Juan Piquer. Miniature by Emilio
Ruiz.
Another cut out paint. As you can imagine, the upper portion is painted
on aluminum, and placed in front of the camera. The movie is "Sea Devils"
(81) Dir: Juan Piquer. The fantasy landscape painted by Emilio Ruiz.
Here it is the cut out painting
The last example of cut out miniatures. That was made for a TV serie
"Fortunata y Jacinta"(79)
The art department built the first floor, Emilio Ruiz did the
rest.
Another exemple of cut out miniature made for the film Tai-pan (1986)
