Farciot Edouart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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motion picture special effects artist
Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1894
Place of Birth: California, United States
Date of Death: 17-Mar-1980
Profession: special effects artist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Farciot Edouart
- Farciot Edouart, ASC (born Alexander Farciot Edouart; November 5, 1894 – March 17, 1980) was a motion picture special effects artist and innovator, a recognized specialist and innovator in the area of "process photography", also known as rear projection. In a career beginning in 1915, Farciot won a total of ten Academy Awards: two competitive (1942 and 1943), seven technical and scientific awards (1938, 1940, 2 in 1944, 1948, and 2 in 1956), and an honorary award for special effects (1939). He worked on approximately 350 films, the last one being Rosemary's Baby in 1968.
- Leonard Maltin wrote "The master of process-screen photography is Farciot Edouart."Edouart was born in Northern California, the son of a portrait photographer, and began working as a cameraman while still a teenager at the production company of Hobart Bosworth.
- By way of mergers and acquisitions Edouart became an employee of Paramount Pictures where he started to specialise on optical effects in the mid-1920s.
- He worked for Paramount until his department was closed on short notice in 1967.
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