Sky Bandits
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Sky Bandits is a 1986
British
adventure film about two outlaws from the Wild West, drafted to the battlefields of WWI, who enlist in the fledgling Royal Air Force
flying early warplanes called gunbuses.
The film was directed by effects wizard Zoran Perisic and made extensive use of the Zoptics
technique he had developed for the flying sequences on Superman. The production holds the record for the largest film crew on a fiction film (582).
1986 in film
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British
United Kingdom
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adventure film about two outlaws from the Wild West, drafted to the battlefields of WWI, who enlist in the fledgling Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...
flying early warplanes called gunbuses.
The film was directed by effects wizard Zoran Perisic and made extensive use of the Zoptics
Front projection effect
A front projection effect is an in-camera visual effects process in film production for combining foreground performance with pre-filmed background footage...
technique he had developed for the flying sequences on Superman. The production holds the record for the largest film crew on a fiction film (582).