Editing Special effect (section)

===Color era===
[[File:Madame Nobel - film set at the Embassy of France in Vienna May 2014 08.jpg|thumb|right|A [[period drama]] set in [[Vienna]] uses a [[Chroma key|green screen]] as a backdrop, to allow a background to be added during [[post-production]].]]

The development of color photography required greater refinement of effects techniques. Color enabled the development of such ''travelling matte'' techniques as [[Chroma key|bluescreen]] and the [[sodium vapour process]]. Many films became landmarks in special-effects accomplishments: ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'' used matte paintings, animation, and miniature work to create spectacular alien environments. In ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'', Paramount's [[John P. Fulton]], A.S.C., multiplied the crowds of extras in the Exodus scenes with careful compositing, depicted the massive constructions of Rameses with models, and split the [[Red Sea]] in a still-impressive combination of travelling mattes and water tanks. [[Ray Harryhausen]] extended the art of stop-motion animation with his special techniques of compositing to create spectacular fantasy adventures such as [[Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)|''Jason and the Argonauts'']] (whose climax, a sword battle with seven animated skeletons, is considered a landmark in special effects).