BRINGING UP BABY leopard special effects video

In the classic 1938 comedy Bringing Up Baby, Cary Grant is a mild-mannered paleontologist whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of an eccentric young beauty (Katherine Hepburn) and a leopard named Baby. Clever special effects were used to make it look like Grant and Hepburn were on the same set as the leopard, but in reality they rarely were. This video walks you through the various techniques used. Even if you're not a fan of the film, this is fascinating stuff. Crude though the effects were, they were so effective that you'd never notice them. (Although at the 1:06 mark there's a shot where you can spot a pretty clear reflection of Grant's stand-in's legs in the glass used to separate Hepburn from the leopard.)

(Via News From Me.)



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