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# How They Did Early Special Effects: Indian in the Cupboard
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/how-they-did-early-special-effects-indian-in-the-cupboard/
- Published: 2020-08-31T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-08-31T12:00:00.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[Miniaturization Secrets: Eric Brvig on Indian in the Cupboard - Before and Afters](https://beforesandafters.com/2020/07/18/miniaturization-secrets-eric-brevig-on-the-indian-in-the-cupboard/?ref=birchtree.me)

> And so that was the first time I had to really wrap my head around how you shoot mixed scale characters like that so that the perspective is correct and so forth. And since that was a 70mm 3D, meaning stereo 3D, project, there was much less tolerance for cheating things like scale and perspective.

In retrospect, it wasn’t a great movie, but I was at exactly the right age to be excited about Indian in the Cupboard and I love it at the time. This GIF gives me some serious nostalgia.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/31/25312b2a-2d5b-4d01-ba92-e6755efc202c/content/images/2020/08/indian1.gif)