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DOUGLAS TRUMBULL 1942-2022

Director and special effects visionary

“I think very visually,” declared Douglas Trumbull, with cosmic understatement. “I understand high technology, but as an artist.”

Born in Los Angeles, Trumbull had illusion in. After considering a career in architecture, he joined Graphic Films in LA, creating animated features for NASA: screened at New York’s World Fair in 1964. Impressed, Stanley Kubrick recruited Trumbull for .

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