Forty years ago, BBC Horizon released a documentary called "๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—™๐—ถ๐—น๐—บ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—œ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ."

They visited Industrial Light & Magic to show how the magic was made.

In this segment, you get a step-by-step look at optical compositing for a spaceship shot, why alignment within ๐˜๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜๐—ต๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ต matters, and how being off by a hair creates those telltale ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜€ around the edges.

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