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Film Director and special effects innovator Douglas Trumbull - in memoriam

By Sarah LaDuke
Published February 9, 2022 at 11:10 AM EST
Awards and plaques in Doug Trumbull's screening room in the Berkshires
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Berkshire-based film director and technical effects genius Doug Trumbull died on February 7 at the age of 79.

Sarah LaDuke spoke with him in 2011 when The Berkshire International Film Festival chose him as their honoree.

Web-text from 2011 original post: The Berkshire International Film Festival's will honor FX wizard Douglas Trumbull this weekend. Berkshire resident, Douglas Trumbull's legendary career includes the Special Photographic Effects Supervisor for 2001: A Space Odyssey; Visual Effects Supervisor for such classics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and Blade Runner. Pictures from Doug's screening room.

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Sarah LaDuke
Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.
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