Clarence Slifer

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Clarence WD Slifer ( February 1912 ; † 1993 in Grundy Center , Iowa ) was an American camera assistant and film technician who was once awarded the Oscar for best special effects and was nominated again for the Oscar.

Life

Slifer began his career in the film industry in Hollywood as a camera assistant in 1931 with that of Edward H. Griffith staged Drama rebound with Ina Claire , Robert Ames and Myrna Loy in the lead roles. After working as a camera assistant in four other films such as Um eine Fürstenkrone ( A Woman Commands , 1932) and King Kong's Son ( The Son of Kong , 1933), he switched to film technology in the mid-1930s and was initially a specialist for many years visual effects in films such as The garden of Allah ( The garden of Allah , 1936) and Gone with the wind ( Gone with the wind , 1939).

For his first collaboration as a special effects artist, Slifer was nominated for the Oscar for Best Special Effects at the 1944 Academy Awards , together with Ray Binger and Thomas T. Moulton for the Lewis Milestone- directed war film The North Star (1943) with Anne Baxter , Dana Andrews and Walter Huston .

In 1949 , Slifer, along with Paul Eagler , J. McMillan Johnson , Russell Shearman , Charles L. Freeman and James G. Stewart, won the Oscar for best special effects for Jenny ( Portrait of Jennie , 1948), a film directed by William Dieterle and starring Jennifer Jones , Starring Joseph Cotten and Ethel Barrymore .

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SURNAME Slifer, Clarence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Slifer, Clarence WD
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American camera assistant and film technician
DATE OF BIRTH February 1912
DATE OF DEATH 1993
Place of death Grundy Center , Iowa