That Lewis
Mileston Drama War film have many wonderful miniatures and matte paintings shots, as many
of the Sam Goldwyn films, with Clarence Slifer and Ray Binger credited for the Photographic
effects.
In praise of the impressive visual and artistic imagery on that film we shouldn't
forget the name of production designer William Cameron Menzies who is credited as
associate producer.
Matte
camera operator Clarence Slifer was head
of photographic effect unit at many films produced by David Oselznick during the 30´s and 40´s, but
also share his duties with Sam Goldwyn films.
Ray Binger was another special effects cinematographer who worked also very often for
Sam Goldwyn productions.
Although
there is not matte painter credited at "The North Star" Clarence Sliffer used to work frequently with the same group of artists as Jack Cosgrove , Albert
Simpson, Jack Shaw, and Fitch Fulton. I can only guess that the excellent
matte work on that films was made by some of those artist.
Some wonderful miniature shots made for the war scenes.
