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| Academy Award winner George Gibbs has
supervised the special effects for more than 40 films since 1980, creating some of the
most spectacular effects in the making of motion pictures.
• Blowing off the wing of an actual US C123 transporter plane as it was landing, for the film Air America. (above image) • A mine-car chase built full size at Elstree Studios. This sequence was made together with models produced by Industrial Light and Magic. • A ship's propeller, specially built by engineers, which chopped up the speed boat actually driven by Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The propeller weighed over 8 tons and was driven by hydraulic motors. • The World War One army tank built for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (constructed from steel plate weighing 25 tons, to look authentic for the film). • An oversize road roller built from steel, to squash Kevin Kline into fresh concrete for the film A Fish Called Wanda. The stunt was performed by stuntman Chris Webb, and was shot on location at London Heathrow Airport. • Building a rope bridge across a ravine 440 feet wide and 100 feet deep, for the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, to be cut in half by Indy.
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