The History Of Special FX          Since 1895-1903,movie pioneers such as G.A. Smith, Robert William Paul, the Lumiere Brothers, Georges Melies, and Edwin S .Porter, people who all were involved in motion picture production in some form or fashion. These pioneers all wanted to improve the art of motion picture making. Because of some of the techniques that these men uses: stuntmen, models, double exposures and so on, to there audiences, using these effects were a form of cheating. This all changed during the 1930's when Sci-Fi (Science Fiction) made it debute. During this time audiences no longer considered the thing that movie makers did as cheating. The demand for special effects became very demanding, but not as demanding until the 1980's. During the 80's, the motion picture, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," a Spielberg film, earned an Academy Award because of its special effect. Then in the 90's the special effects industry is not just big explosions and minatures , we have encorperated CGI(computer genereated imagery) to create unreal environments and even totally computer generated characters.          Some directors want the hey element in movies to be a startling illusions to allure audiences . That point wasn’t lost on Edwin S. Porter, director of the 1903 silent classic, The Great Train Robbery. For all his arty experimentation with jump cuts and shifting narrative points of view, Porter chose to end the film with a special effect sequence, irrelevant to the plot, in which a bandit appears to fire his revolver point-blank at the audience. When they gasped and jumped back in their seats, Porter not only created a ticket-selling buzz for his film, but proved that he’d created a fiction so vivid that for a split second, moviegoers had forgotten it wasn’t real. Continue on to Ray Harryhausen