Doug Trumbull, Special Effects Guru and UFO Hunter

Open Minds UAP News

Alejandro Rojas

Documentary, Government, Society & Culture, Science

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2014

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Doug Trumbull is listed on IMDb as a "Legendary filmmaker and visual effects pioneer." Among others, he was a special effects supervisor for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Movie, and Blade Runner. All some of the biggest classics in science fiction movie history. However, what is less known is that Doug is also a UFO hunter. He has labeled his UFO hunting efforts the UFOTOG project (a meshing of the words UFO and photography). This has included a Hummer decked out with photographic equipment, and a short film about a man searching for UFOs. We talk to Doug about UFOs and special effects, and his UFOTOG project. We are also joined by MUFON chief photo analyst, Marc Dantonio, who has been assisting Trumbull with the UFOTOG project. You can read more about Trumbull at his website, www.DouglasTrumbull.com.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to Open Minds Radio.
0:44.0	I am your host, Alejandro Rojas, and I have Jason Super Califragilistic, expialidocious McClellan on with me. Hello Alejandro and sometimes I like to
0:58.2	recite back to you the nice names you give me every week but I'm not going to do that one. Well you know
1:04.8	probably because I did it slowly I'm surprised I got it right. I will applaud you for that. That is very good of you, but in the interest
1:13.2	of saving time, I won't do it as well. I thought for sure I was going to stumble. So anyways,
1:18.6	we have a super exciting show today. It is a we always do, and I always say that, but this is like a
1:26.7	landmark for me. This is like a landmark for me.
1:28.2	This is like a big deal because I finally got to interview Doug Trumbull, who is a sci-fi guru, a director, and he did, or I mean a special effects guru and sci-fi.
1:46.7	And he did the special effects for some of my literally absolute favorite movies.
1:53.4	If you were to ask me, what was my favorite movie?
1:56.8	Just like most people would be really hard to say what my favorite movie is.
2:01.0	But two of them that would come to mind would be 2001 and Close Encounters.
2:06.5	And he did the special effects for those movies, Jason.
2:12.3	Yeah, I was going to take a guess at your favorite movies because you've told me over the years,
2:18.4	but in that list, I may have replaced one of those that you mentioned with a Clockwork Orange.
2:24.8	Not Clockwork Orange, but Kubrick, who we talk about, because he did 2001, is probably my favorite director, certainly one of them.
2:38.9	And I love, you know um the dr strange love is another one of my favorites clackwork orange is is up there there's some stuff that's weird on
2:45.1	there but there's some really cool stuff too but uh yeah so i'm super excited i mean and i'll i think close encounters is the movie and i
2:54.6	told i'll say this talked about it in the interview i've watched the most of my life if there's
2:59.7	one movie i've watched over and over again the most it's probably close encounters
3:03.3	followed by the lego movie ha ha. I love the mate Lego movie.
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