Green Screen Tricks: Award-Winning Films & TV Series that Have Made Magic with Green Screens

Wolf of Wall Street

Even in this simple shot, a green screen made it all the more realistic for Leo and the gang. Massive budget aside, the cast and crew had to get creative at times.

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The More You Know

  • In Home Alone, Buzz's girlfriend is actually a boy in a wig. The director thought it would be too mean to ask a girl to be in the film this way.
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first American film to have a soundtrack.
  • The names of the taxi driver and the policeman in everybody’s favourite Yuletide outing, It’s A Wonderful Life, are Bert and Ernie. The writers working on Sesame Street at the time claim it’s merely a coincidence.
  • "E.T." and "Poltergeist" started from the same script.
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