ABSTRACT
A great development in visual effects was the latent-image matte process. This technique involves the use of mattes to selectively obscure a portion of the frame, enabling this unexposed section to contain a new element shot at a later time. A matte is any form of art work or photographic element designed to prevent exposure in a selected area of a photographed image. The ability to spread out the task of compositing elements over time was a vast improvement over the foreground miniature and glass shots, in which everything had to work all at once.
