Linwood G. Dunn

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Linwood Gale Dunn (born December 27, 1904 in Brooklyn , New York City , New York , † May 20, 1998 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American special effects artist .

Life

Dunn began his career as a projectionist in the silent film era in 1923 . Two years later he became a camera assistant at Pathé and founded the International Photographers Guild in 1928 . From 1929 he was initially employed as a cameraman at RKO Pictures ; after developing his first automatic camera dissolve, he became head of the photographic special effects department. In total, Dunn worked for RKO Pictures for 28 years and was involved in films such as King Kong and the White Woman and Citizen Kane . After RKO Pictures ended in 1957, he concentrated on his own company, Film Effects of Hollywood , which he had founded in 1946 . With this he marketed his invention Acme-Dunn , the first commercially available optical printer , for whose development he had received the Oscar . In 1965 Dunn worked for Desilu on the television series Starship Enterprise . Most of the exterior shots of the spaceship were made by Dunn himself.

In 1985 Dunn sold his company and retired. For his technical achievements, he has been awarded the Oscar, the John A. Bonner Medal , the Gordon E. Sawyer Award and the Technical Academy Award of Merit twice. Between 1976 and 1977 he was President of the American Society of Cinematographers .

Dunn was married and had four children.

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SURNAME Dunn, Linwood G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunn, Linwood Gale (full name); Dunn, Linwood
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American special effects artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1998
Place of death Los Angeles , California