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MATTE PAINTINGS



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                 process can yield the best results.
                 However, as Huston points out:
                 “It’s risky, because if something
                 happens to the original negative,
                 you’re out of luck. Supervisors
                 didn’t like to have undeveloped

                 film sitting for months in the
                 closet in the matte department.”
                    Despite these risks, the original
                 negative method found further
                 use after Return of the Jedi in the
                 two made-for-television Ewok
                 movies, Caravan of Courage
                 (1984), also known as The Ewok
                 Adventure, and The Battle
                 for Endor (1985). “The Ewok
                 movies were less under the gun,”
                 recalls Huston, who was a matte
                 photographer on the fi lms, and



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