{"id":17325,"date":"2016-03-07T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17325"},"modified":"2016-03-02T21:33:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T02:33:46","slug":"niagara-oscar-winner-made-superman-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/07\/niagara-oscar-winner-made-superman-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Oscar winner made Superman fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/02\/28\/niagara-oscar-winner-made-superman-fly\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a way, Colin Chilvers owes his Oscar-winning film career to a pipe that wouldn\u2019t explode&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Within a decade, Chilvers faced a much more difficult task as the special effects supervisor on Superman: The Movie.<\/p>\n<p>For the film to work, Christopher Reeve\u2019s Superman had to appear to actually fly. In an age before digital effects, past attempts to make a live action Superman, including the George Reeves TV show, were unable to do it well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, when I first got the script for Superman, I thought \u2018How in the hell are we going to make this work?\u2019\u201d Chilvers said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: In a way, Colin Chilvers owes his Oscar-winning film career to a pipe that wouldn\u2019t explode&#8230; 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\u2019s Superman had to appear to actually fly. In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,78],"tags":[6875,10613,2276,1139,5593,6379,7787],"class_list":["post-17325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-in-pop-culture","tag-christopher-reeve","tag-colin-chilvers","tag-movie","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-oscar","tag-special-effects","tag-superman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}