How The Original Star Wars Trilogy Fooled Everyone With Matte Paintings

The first Star Wars trilogy used detailed matte paintings as backgrounds in the movies that were so realistic they tricked everybody. (A matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that is not present at the filming location.) Click image to enlarge.

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