Slaves of Babylon (1953) another film produced by Columbia pictures. A weird biblical- adventure pastiche movie
directed by William Castle. Low budget
sets and lots of matte paintings.
Jack
Erickson credited for special effects. Matte paintings are again uncredited and
no idea who was the painter on that show, but I think these attractive and colourful
paintings are worth a look.
Matte
paintings from Columbia Pictures remains a mystery, with only a handful of artist known to have painted on its films during the
40´s. The odds are that during the 50´s
and 60´s they may have hire freelance matte painters or artists from other
Studios.
Most
certainly the same artist who paint
mattes for Serpent of the Nile.
Domingo
10- May -2013