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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 films, and

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