film Silver Streak. The Death Star's laser tunnel in Star Wars (1977). The Starfleet headquarters in Star Trek The Motion Picture (1979). The background for all scenes featuring Imperial walkers in The Empire Strikes Back (1980). The final scene of the secret government warehouse in Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). The Roy and Deckard chase scene in Blade Runner (1982). The view of the crashed space ship in The Thing (1982). The view of the OCP tower in RoboCop (1987) and other scenes. Gotham City street scene in Batman (1989). The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in Contact (1997). The Magic Railroad in Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000). The cityscape behind the Barnums' first apartment in The Greatest Showman (2017). Notable matte painters and technicians Michael Pangrazio Walter Percy Day Norman Dawn Linwood G. Dunn Emilio Ruiz del Rio Harrison Ellenshaw Peter Ellenshaw Albert Whitlock Matthew Yuricich Fréderic St-Arnaud See also Bipack Chroma key Compositing Video matting Digital matte artist Optical printing References Books Peter Ellenshaw; Ellenshaw Under Glass – Going to the Matte for Disney Richard Rickitt: Special Effects: The History and Technique. Billboard Books; 2nd edition, 2007; (Chapter 5 covers the history and techniques of movie matte painting.) Film and video technology Cinematic techniques Background artists Painting techniques Optical illusions