This week on Nerdist Channel‘s Ain’t it Cool with Harry Knowles, it’s a second session with director (Silent Running, Brainstorm) and special effects legend (2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner) Douglas Trumbull, who joins Harry to show off his Massachusetts facility and talk computer graphics and miniatures. There’s also the matter of the secret behind the effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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