John P. Fulton
| John P. Fulton, A.S.C. | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 4, 1902 Beatrice, Nebraska, United States |
| Died | July 5, 1966 (aged 63) Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Special effects artist |
| Years active | 1928–1966 |
| Title | A.S.C. |
John P. Fulton, A.S.C. (November 1902, Nebraska — July 1966, London, England) was an American special effects supervisor and cinematographer. Decades before companies like Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) were even imagined, John P. Fulton was writing the book on movie special effects, creating visuals that still dazzle viewers several decades later. Among other remarkable feats in the course of a career that spanned almost 40 years, he allowed Moses to part the Red Sea in The Ten Commandments (1956) and made millions of filmgoers believe that they had "seen" an invisible man.
Though Fulton began his adult life as a surveyor, he became involved in the movie industry after accepting a job as an assistant cameraman with the D. W. Griffith Company. This led to a job at the Frank D. Williams Studio in Los Angeles, where Fulton learned the basics of optical composites and traveling matte photography, which would serve him so well for the rest of his career. In time he became a camera operator and acted as cinematographer in his first official credit in 1929 with the early sound drama She Goes to War. His experiments and experience with camerawork eventually lead him to the special effects department at Universal Pictures, assisting in the special effects of the landmark horror film Frankenstein in 1931. Fulton eventually became head of the special effects department at Universal.
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