Pictures gallery from the film: Bear island (1979)

Director: Don Sharp
Cinematography:  Alan Hume
Production Design:  Harry Pottle
Special effects:  David Harris / Roy Whybrow
Miniature and matte painting supervisor: Cliff Culley
Model maker: Terry Adlam
Matte and miniature camera: Neil Culley
 

Information thanks to Terry Adlam

   1. "Cliff Culley matte painting for the ceiling of the cave, including part od the rope ladder."

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  2. and 3. "This sequence was shot with miniatures on the backlot at Pinewood.  All the huts, including a breakaway one that the mast falls on,
 were built in Cliff's workshop and were about a meter long and about 31 cm high.  The mast was made from strips of brass and
 stood about 2 - 3 meters high and once again made in Cliff's workshop.   The mountains and the land were tables and wooden struts
 shaped into peaks, covered with canvas and then covered with salt to give the impression of snow"

  4." This is a smaller miniature shot in Cliff's studio and with the binocular mask added on optically."
  
 

   5. "This is a miniature, well quite a big miniature actually, about 3 meters high that we built in the car park outside Cliff's office.
    The rock faces were painted fibreglass strapped to a scaffold and once again dressed with salt,  The huts on top of the cliff were
    once again models."
   

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