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

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The infamous gray suit strikes again. The aliens were played by actors on stilts in order to make their walk look strange and inhuman.

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.
On the set of one of the Pirates of the Carribbean films, Johnny Depp spent £40,000 on 500 coats for the cast and crew.
Often derided as a mega-flop, Waterworld actually took home nearly $90m more in worldwide box office than its estimated budget.
Darth Vader only has 12 minutes of screen time in the original Star Wars.