THE FLY: Mosaic of Terror
It may all have gone pretty quiet on the old FLY front recently, readers: but never fear-------this one is my ultimate pet project, and I have no intentions of ever giving up on it.
The Fly-Guy Andre does not appear in this serving, but we get to see his 'point-of-view' after he is unveiled by his wife HELEYNE, who after removing the vast cloth concealing his mutated head, gets to see his grotesque fly-features for the first time. The 5os sci-fi unmasking is second-only to the world-famous Lon Chaney 1925 Phantom of the Opera definitive , in the minds of many film buffs.
Anyone who has seen the 1958 FLY film will instantly recognize this unmasking scene, of course, very powerful stuff visually it was, although the 'prism' effect of Multiple images of the same viewpoint is scientifically inaccurate: real flies do not see like this, it is reckoned,--but what the Hell, it made for great 50s sci-fi!
Anyway, the technique I have utilized here is my first 'proper' use of Multiple Imagery derived from the same singular cartoon: in the 'olden days' all this would have had to be done on the same single sheet: that approach was very effective, but boy, was it time-consuming........
The Fly-Guy Andre does not appear in this serving, but we get to see his 'point-of-view' after he is unveiled by his wife HELEYNE, who after removing the vast cloth concealing his mutated head, gets to see his grotesque fly-features for the first time. The 5os sci-fi unmasking is second-only to the world-famous Lon Chaney 1925 Phantom of the Opera definitive , in the minds of many film buffs.
Anyone who has seen the 1958 FLY film will instantly recognize this unmasking scene, of course, very powerful stuff visually it was, although the 'prism' effect of Multiple images of the same viewpoint is scientifically inaccurate: real flies do not see like this, it is reckoned,--but what the Hell, it made for great 50s sci-fi!
Anyway, the technique I have utilized here is my first 'proper' use of Multiple Imagery derived from the same singular cartoon: in the 'olden days' all this would have had to be done on the same single sheet: that approach was very effective, but boy, was it time-consuming........
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