Fantastic Cinema in the Years Before CGI

For nearly 100 years, spanning the greater part of cinema history, filmmakers had to make do without the aid of digitization: computer guided cameras, editing, enhanced coloring and tone, and especially for films of the fantastic, computer generated imagery or CGI. In a relatively short time, CGI special effects have come to completely dominate fantastic films eclipsing the "hands on" FX once created by experienced craftsmen. So ubiquitous has CGI become that the process threatens to overwh...