Emmett, EH - Emmett

Japanese: エメット,E.H. - えめっと
Emmett, EH - Emmett

...In other words, it is a famous "legend" that he accidentally discovered the stop-motion filming technique that produces the same disappearance/transformation effect as magic. Also, EH Emmett filmed the naval battle of Santiago in the Spanish-American War in 1898 with miniatures and released it as "actual action shot by moonlight from six miles away," but no one suspected anything. Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery (1903) is also historic as the first film to incorporate realistic special effects.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Emmett, EH" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…つまり,偶然によって手品と同じ消去=変身の効果を生むストップモーション撮影法を発見したというのは有名な〈伝説〉である。また,E.H.エメットは,98年に起きた米西戦争のサンチャゴ軍港の海戦をミニチュアで撮影し,〈6マイル離れた場所から月明りで撮った実写〉と称して公開したが,だれひとり疑わなかったという。エドウィン・S.ポーター監督の《大列車強盗》(1903)は,リアルな特撮をとり入れた最初の作品としても歴史的である。…

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