Editing VistaVision (section)

==Special-effects usage==
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In 1975, a small group of artists and technicians (including [[Richard Edlund]], who was to receive two Academy Awards for his work) revived the long-dormant format to create the special effects shots for [[George Lucas]]'s space epic ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]''. A retooled VistaVision camera dubbed the [[Dykstraflex]] (named for special effects master [[John Dykstra]]) was used by the group (later called [[Industrial Light & Magic]]) in complex process shots. For more than two decades after this, VistaVision was often used as an originating and intermediate format for shooting [[special effect]]s because a larger negative area compensates against the increased grain created when shots are optically composited. By the early 21st century, [[computer-generated imagery]], advanced film scanning, [[digital intermediate]] methods and [[film stock]]s with higher resolutions optimized for special effects work had together rendered VistaVision mostly obsolete even for special effects work. Nevertheless, in 2008, ILM was still using the format in some production steps, such as for ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'', and a VistaVision camera was used in the semi-trailer flip scene in ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' because there were not enough IMAX cameras to cover all of the angles needed for the shot. In 2010, certain key sequences of the film ''[[Inception]]'' were shot in VistaVision, and in the film ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'', shots that needed to be optically enlarged were shot in VistaVision.