More Behind The Scenes Photos From Movies

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Setting up models of vehicles.

Face/Off (1997)

John Travolta insert torso used for skin removal scene.

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Model maker Michael Lynch cut 450,000 Q-tips, painted them and inserted them into a mesh to fill the stands. To make it seem like the crowd was moving, the crew placed fans underneath.

The Hunt For Red October (1990)

Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin on the set.

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Wes Anderson directing Ralph Fiennes who's looking through the window of a “train.”

Jurassic Park (1993)

The life size T-Rex animatronic on the set.

Raise The Titanic (1980)

55-foot scale model of the Titanic being positioned by a diver.

True Lies (1994)

A shot from filming the helicopter scenes for the 1994 action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis. For the movie, the US Government supplied three Marine Harriers and their pilots for a fee of $100,736.

Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (1989)

A giant robotic bee that was used to film the bee ride scene. In the post-production of the movie, some digital effects were also added.

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Steven Spielberg with a camera that's covered in a white cloth with two holes in it. It was used to get the point of view shots for E.T.

Escape From New York (1981)

The '80s action flick features a scene in which police officers are looking at a digital map of the city. At the time, technology was not advanced enough to create the actual digital graphics so a real-life model was built instead.

Alien³ (1992)

Bolaji Badejo, a Nigerian student who wore the Alien suit in his only film role, sitting down for a rest during a break. Filming was extremely physically taxing for him as the costume was made from latex that made breathing very hard.

Goldfinger (1964)

To film this scene, a special effects man was under the table with an acetylene torch cutting through the table from beneath.

Labyrinth (1986)

In order to film the "Helping Hands" scene, the creators made over 100 pairs of latex hands.

Back To The Future Part II (1989)

The effects crew working on creating the auto-adjusting and auto-drying jacket effect.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

To make it seem like the pen was floating, Stanley Kubrick instructed the crew to glue it to a large sheet of glass, which was then rotated around to give the impression of free-floating.

The Matrix (1999)

In the scene where Neo is reaching for a doorknob, there was no proper way to hide the camera so the director of photography disguised it with a coat and tie matching the ones Morpheus is wearing.

Corpse Bride (2005)

Setting up the set with models.

The Shining (1980)

Stanley Kubrick shooting the famous hotel's maze.

Independence Day (1996)

The highest grossing movie of 1996 used a mixture of models and CGI for the effects shots. Around 80% of effects were models (like the large-scale model below) while the other 20% were created digitally.

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001)

A prop used for close ups of the ring.

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