Niagara Oscar winner made Superman fly

From the Niagara Falls Review: In a way, Colin Chilvers owes his Oscar-winning film career to a pipe that wouldn’t explode… Within a decade, Chilvers faced a much more difficult task as the special effects supervisor on Superman: The Movie. For the film to work, Christopher Reeve’s Superman had to appear to actually fly. In…

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Niagara Falls’ two weeks with Marilyn

From Niagara This Week: Some 60 years before Nik Wallenda walked a tightrope and focused attention from across the world on Niagara Falls; nearly two decades before the Christopher Reeve’s Superman made his famous flight over the mighty cataract to save a young boy’s life in 1979, Marilyn Monroe brought the bright lights of Hollywood…

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