“Bruce Logan, The Special Effects Pioneer and Cinematographer Whose Credits Include Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Bllowing up to the Death Star In Star Wars: Episode Iv. HE WAS 78. Logan Died on April 10 in Los Angeles After A Short Illness, His Wife, Mariana Camps-Logan, ConfirMed to”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Logan Died on April 10 in Los Angeles After A Short Illness, His Wife, Mariana Campos-Logan, ConfirMed to The Hollywood Reporter.
In An Instagram Post, Logan’s Daughter, Mary Grace Logan, Paid Tribute to Her Late Father: “Before Cgi Ruled the Screen, There Were Visionaries Who Lit.11. My Dad Didn’t Justk on Movies -He Made Magic.
Durying A Five Decade Career, Starting in Britain and Ten in Hollywood, Logan Worked with Directors Like Stanley Kubrick, John Huston, Robert Wise, John Frankene, Jillie. Demme, Joel Schumacher and Terry Gilliam.
He Was Born May 15, 1946, in Bushey Heath, England, and Educeted at Merchant Taylor’s Guild School. Having Never Gone Directly to Film School, Logan Learnt Much from His Father, Campbell Logan, A BBC Classical Drama Director.
“My Father Told Me That Ever Frame of A Film Should Be A Perfect Picture. He Told Me How To Do MY FIRST SPECIAL EFILES Introducing me to the Films of All the Great Directors of the Day, Including Stanley Kubrick, ”Logan Recalled in A 2014 Star Wars Tribute Profile.
As a self-tagght animator, Logan from the Age of 14 Began Making Animated Films, Who in Time Led Him Into Visual Effects. At 19, Logan Received His First Screen Credit Who He Was Hireed by Stanley Kubrick to Work for Over Two Years Under Douglas Trumbull – The Legendary Film Direor. 2001: A Space Odyssey for mgm.
In a 2020 Profile by the Los Angels Post Production Group, Logan Recalled The Baptism of Fire Faced Faced Working Alongside Trumbull to Create Visual Visual Effects of Technic. Directed All The Special Photographic Effects.
“I was hired by the douglas trumbl and he had the run of the studio. SO as his assistant i got to do live action, miniatures as well as animation while For Three Years. years. Logan Recalled of His Work on 2001: A Space OdysseyA Classic Hollywood Movie About Space Exploration and Man’s First Encounter with Extracterrestrial Life.
Trumbull ALSO HIRED LOGAN TO WORK ON MICHELALALngelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point in 1968. His Other Memorable Eye-Filling Visual Effects Work, and More Specifically Miniature Explosions, Included Blowing Up The Death for Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope For George Lucas. The Challenge Was Creating An Explosion to Simulate What would happen in Zero gravity Space, and doing so from a los angeles Soundstage Back on Earth.
In a 2019 interview with the manhattan Edit workshop, Logan Recounced Having to Shoot with High Speed Cameras Directly Upwards at the Explosion Overhead, With Only a Plank Of Wot. Serve as Protection for the Camera Crew – One of Whom Held A Fire Extinguisher in Hand.
The Multi-Layer Bomb Explosion ITSELF WAS CAUSED BY A BLACK POWDER AND SIlt Bag and Yet Another Bag Field with Napalm. “I do remember wiping some burning Napalm Off One of My Arm After One of the Explosions While Walking Away. Simpler Days,” Logan Recalled of a Bygone Hollywood.
His work on vfx eventualally lad to a Celebrated Career as a Cinematographer. Logan Arrived in Los Angeles in 1968 and His Special Effect Photography and DOP Credits Included the 1980 Satire Airplane, Firefox, High Road to China, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, I Never Promisened You A Rose Garden, Big Bad MamA and Jackson County Jail.
A major Milestone for Logan Came in 1982 WHEN HE WAS The CINEMATOGRAPHER ON Disney Studio’s TRONDirector Steven LisberGer’s Sci-Fi Accuter that Was Among the FIRST HOLLYWOOD FILMS to USE Computer Generated animation in itts creative process. In a 2019 Interview for ProductionHub, Logan Recalled How The Computer After TRON an Jurassic Park Slowly, Yet Surely, Became A Key Tool for Creating Visual Effects.
“Well Clearly The Biggest Change in the Industry Has Been The Addition of the Computer As a Tool for Filmmaking. I have to say that the Basic elements of Scissors.
In 1986, he directed the Prison Action Film Vendetta. Another Milestone Came When Logan Produced Madonna’s Second Music Video for Borderlinewhoh was mary lambert.
Logan is a Two Two Time Emmy Award-Winning Writer and Director, and Is Also A Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Director Cinematography.