Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!ucbcad!notes From: notes@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Special Effects in The Right Stuff - (nf) Message-ID: <688@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Nov-83 01:05:02 EST Article-I.D.: ucbcad.688 Posted: Fri Nov 11 01:05:02 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Nov-83 21:52:50 EST Sender: notes@ucbcad.UUCP Organization: UC Berkeley CAD Group Lines: 11 #R:allegra:-193300:ucbcad:19500004:000:348 ucbcad!kalash Nov 4 08:52:00 1983 The most interesting thing (at least to me) about the effects for "The Right Stuff" is that ILM originaly did them, but they were all scrapped because they were "too good". They would have looked very different then the rest of the movie, and interfered with the story. As a result, $1 million in special effects fall on the floor. Joe Kalash