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Blue screen was indeed in use for ANH and ESB. ROTJ was the first movie to make extensive use of green screen, which was found to produce better edges around the elements in front of it.

...or that it's just one of the several mistakes in the VS. In fact, this one wouldn't surprise me -- there is another instance in the VS (I don't hav eit in front of me) where it appears that ship specs were cut and pasted from the previous entry, and not changed.

Mmmmm. I suddenly feel...hungry. :)

Erm, the P-38 LIghtening was well into development before the US obtained a Zero. I think the US aircraft you are looking for that was developed solely to counter the Zero, is the F6F Hellcat. Though preliminary designs were already being considered for a fighter to replace the F4F Wildcat...

Hmmm. You know, I'm a red-blooded American, but I see a serious problem with the comment above. You see, I seem to recall a little aircraft called the SPITFIRE, that is generally regarded as one of the finest fighters of WWII. And it served from day one through the end of hostilities. Second...

I disagree with this as the "most major" reason. While it's true that the Japanese divided their operation into three arcs, the BULK of their fleet was at Midway, not a mere third. Of the eight Japanese carriers (four heavy, four light), all four heavies - the AKAGI, KAGA, SORYU, and HIRYU -...

I don't care WHERE you got it, it's incorrect. Nonsense. The whole point of the Midway Operation was to eradicate the US fleet in one fell swoop. The Japanese knew they had a massive numerical and experience superiority. There was never any intention to divide the US fleet, only to bring it...

Nope, she was in SanDiego getting repaired from a submarine torpedo hit. The Japanese used the RYUHO in the Aleutians, and the ZUIHO was back with the main battle fleet some 700 miles behind the carriers. The HOSHO was in New Guinea. All of these were light carriers (the HOSHO carried, in...

'Fraid you are very mistaken on your history, there. First, the Emperor had nothing at all to do with the Battle of Midway; indeed, the emperor had little to do with the Japanese military at all. The entire Midway campaign, including the Aleutians, was the brain-child of Yammamoto. Second...

In the case of the Coral Sea, it was a STRATEGIC and MORAL victory for the U.S, in that they stopped the Japanese advance in the Southern Pacific. It was a TACTICAL victory for the Japanese, as they inflicted more damage on the U.S. forces (one heavy carrier, destoyer, tanker sunk and one heavy...

No, he doesn't "clearly die". While I don't have the book handy for an exact excerpt, it's somethig to the effect of Vagabond reaching for the ejection handle, hoping he wasn't too late.

Well, now, I never said they weren't "useful". I'm merely pointing out that 1) battleships haven't held the title of most vital naval ship for some time, and 2) they don't really do anything that other ships cannot do. That said, I love the power projection that battleships offer, as well as...

It's only powerful enough to destroy any other ship if it gets close enough. Carriers and their air wings negate that advantage. Ask yourself... In the 20's and into the 30's the battleship was the queen of the seas, the object around which countries built their fleets. Why then, in WWII was...

It wasn't a torpedo magazine, but the torpedos ready for, and already loaded into, the tubes. The HOOD was an older WWI design (where larger ships carried torp tubes), and still retained her's. Most of the the evidence points to these torps exploding as a result of a nearby fire, setting off a...

Actually, that's not entirely accurate about the HOOD. Most of the evidence points to a 8-inch shell from the PRINZ EUGEN (BISMARCK's escort) setting a fire amidships. The fire spread to the nearby torpedo storage area, which caused the explosion, not shell or powder magazines. Eyewitnesses...

Birthday? Why, yes, it is... :)

I personally find the PLUNKET-class the most intriguing of the late WC capships. Heavily-armed (though not as much as a true battleship), but fast due to lower armor ratings. Much akin to the ol' battlecruiser concept -- outgun what you can't outrun, and outrun what you can't outgun.

Now why would I thank YOU for work that I did? And while I appreciate the unsolicited plug, the least you could do is point people to my current site, instead of the old, very outdated one: http://www.interimag.com/~kscholl/wcps/index.html It is also mirrored on SolSector.net...

Not sure. I'd have to look into exactly how the digital watermark works. But my suspiscion is that, no, it wouldn't, beause the digital watermark affects the bitstream, and likely is protected from alteration. I used a fixed set of changes, so I only had to remember a few.

It's not a digital mark. I actually put something into the image to identify it. Now, I use a transparent logo, which is very plain to see and very difficult to remove. See the WC movie caps on my site for an example of this. But back when I capped that pic, it was more a matter of adding...