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Stuff You Should Know

Special Effects: A Short History

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Special effects have been around since the first movies. In fact, the techniques the earliest filmmakers created are still around today, we just use computers to do them faster and cheaper. Put on your beret and get ready for SYSK film class.

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:30.6

Hello, stuff you should know listeners.

0:32.5

If you want to come see us live, you've only got a couple of more cities this year that

0:36.7

still have tickets and that is Orlando and New Orleans.

0:39.7

Yeah, we'll be in Orlando on October 9th at the Plaza Live and we'll be in New Orleans

0:44.3

at the Civic Theater the following night, October 10th.

0:47.9

Some friends like Chuck said you better go get your tickets.

0:59.6

Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.

1:06.8

Hey and welcome to The Podcast.

1:11.2

I'm Josh Clark.

1:12.2

There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant wearing his stone tumble pilot hat.

1:15.8

And there's Jerry over there.

1:17.9

She's not wearing any hats.

1:18.9

She's got really cool hair.

1:20.5

This is not stone tumble pilots.

1:22.4

It is too.

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