Special effects design; the camcorder; film cameras; animation stand camerawork;stop-frame film animation; the computer; computerized effects; fifty-fifty mirrors; mirrored effects; periscopes; polystyrene fabrication and modelling; plastic forming machines; plaster of paris; plaster turning; mould making; flexible moulds; latex casting; glass fibre lay-ups anad casting resin; models and miniatures; action miniatures; hanging miniatures; hanging miniatures - applications; model landscapes, ships, seas; scenic projection; chroma key - colour separation overlay; optical printing; underwater sequences; water in the studio; dry ice generators; radar and oscilloscopes; laboratory and chemical effects; ray guns and blasters; robots and monsters; the smoke gun; pyrotechnic and other smokes; flames; fire effects in the studio, in the open; fires and furnaces; hot and molten metal; explosives; firing boxes and explosives; pyrotechnics - in the studio, in the open; safe studio explosions; pyrofuses and bullet hits; bullet effects in scenery, on vases and bottles, in glass and mirrors, on people, using compressed air; safety precautions; arrows; knives; swords and daggers; prosthetics; breaking windows, bottles, crockery and chairs; breaking and collapsing scenery; lava, quicksand and swamps; gunge and custard pies; dirt and decay; cobwebs; wind and blizzards; snow, frost and ice; fog and mist; rain in the studio, in the open; radio control; remote control; destruction of automobiles; automobile crashes; special lighting devices; projected light effects; some special plants; popping corks and shaking equipment; sparks and flashes; photographs on the screen; scoring devices and game shows; personal equipment.