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

The Great Gatsby

New York City in the 1920s is sadly just a thing of the past, so, The Great Gatsby relied heavily on CGI and green screen usage to recreate the time period.

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The More You Know

  • 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.
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first American film to have a soundtrack.
  • Paul Schrader wrote Taxi Driver in five days. It is rumoured he had a loaded gun by his desk for “inspiration and motivation”.
  • Because they were shooting in black and white and color didn't matter, they used chocolate syrup as blood when shooting Psycho.
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