Special Effects: Wire Tape and Rubber Band Style, by L. B. Abbott - SIGNED

Special Effects: Wire Tape and Rubber Band Style, by L. B. Abbott. 1984 first printing hardcover. 241 pages, very nice condition. Rare & Out of Print. SIGNED by L. B. “Bill” Abbott to Austin McKinney.

An engrossing volume by the Hollywood special effects legend, with wonderful color photos from the sets of such films as The Day the Earth Stood Still, Logan's Run, Fantastic Voyage, Cleopatra, and other classics.

Lenwood Ballard "Bill" Abbott (1908 – 1985), also known as L. B. Abbott was a special effects expert, cinematographer, and cameraman. He became the head of the Special Effects Department at 20th Century Fox in 1957, a post he held until retirement in 1970. Elmo Williams was an American film and television editor, producer, director and executive. Among the films he worked on are The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961 film), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea TV series (1964-1968), Lost in Space (TV Series 1965–1968), The Sound of Music (1965), The Time Tunnel TV series (1966-1967), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Planet of the Apes (1968), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Patton (1970), M*A*S*H (1972), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974), Logan's Run (1976), and The Swarm (1978). He was four times a winner or co-winner of an Academy Special Achievement Award for visual effects for Doctor Dolittle in 1968, Tora! Tora! Tora! in 1971, The Poseidon Adventure in 1972, and Logan's Run in 1976.

The book is signed to cinematographer and visual effects artist Austin McKinney. Mckinney worked on films such as The Wizard of Mars (1965), Monsters Crash the Pajama Party (1965), House of Evil (1968), Isle of the Snake People (1971), Escape from New York (1981), Jaws 3-D (1983), The Terminator (1984), Beastmaster 2 (1991), and many others.