Clarence Slifer
Clarence Slifer WD (* February 1912, † 1993 in Grundy Center, Iowa ) was an American film camera assistant and technician, who was once awarded the Oscar for Best Special Effects and was nominated a second time for the Oscar.
Life
Slifer began his career in the Hollywood film industry as a camera assistant in 1931 at the staged by Edward H. Griffith Drama Rebound with Ina Claire, Robert Ames and Myrna Loy in the lead roles. After he had worked on four other films such as To a prince's crown ( A Woman Commands, 1932) and King Kong's son ( The Son of Kong, 1933) as a camera assistant, he joined the mid-1930s in film technology and was initially over many years specialist visual effects in films such as The Garden of Allah ( The Garden of Allah, 1936) and the Wind ( Gone with the Wind, 1939) Gone.
For his first staff as a special effects artist Slifer was nominated for the Academy Awards in 1944 the same for the Oscar for best special effects, either together with Ray Binger and Thomas T. Moulton for the directed by Lewis Milestone romantic musical drama The North Star (1943 ) with Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, and Walter Huston.
1949 won Slifer along with Paul eagler, J. McMillan Johnson, Russell Shearman, Charles L. Freeman and James G. Stewart the Oscar for best special effects for Jenny ( Portrait of Jennie, 1948), a rotated by William Dieterle film with Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten and Ethel Barrymore in the lead roles.