death_date birth_place other_names article_title birth_date employer name occupation death_cause
26 september 1969 havana , cuba `` babe '' lydecker brothers
 8 june 1911 republic pictures howard lydecker special effects cerebral hemorrhage
lydecker brothers

howard and theodore lydecker , always known -- and billed -- as such , were howard `` babe '' lydecker -lrb- june 8 , 1911-september 26 , 1969 -rrb- and theodore lydecker -lrb- november 7 , 1908-may 25 , 1990 -rrb- , a special effects team primarily working as contract staff members of republic pictures .
they are best remembered as the producers and photographers of some of the best miniature effects of their time .
they both worked at republic from its creation in 1935 until the company could no longer afford to maintain full-time contract players and behind-the-camera artists in the middle 1950s , after which they went freelance and found themselves in significant demand for both film and television work .
their miniature effects made republic serials the best for visual effects , far outstripping their competitors at universal -lrb- where special effects maestro john p. fulton , asc was forbidden from working on serials -rrb- and columbia pictures .
their success came from building large , detailed models and filming them in natural light , often in forced perspective to create realistic impressions that they were in fact life-size in relation to other objects and people in a shot , instead of the small models used by others , and the use of slow motion to give the models the appearance of realistic weight when in motion .
for instance , in `` the adventures of captain marvel '' , the visuals of captain marvel flying appear to be an actual man in flight , not a matted or superimposed image .
they were nominated for an best visual effects oscar in 1941 for `` women in war '' and howard was nominated again in 1943 for `` flying tigers '' .
later they worked in feature films and irwin allen productions such as `` lost in space '' and `` voyage to the bottom of the sea '' .
in 1966 howard won the emmy for `` individual achievement in cinematography '' with l. b. abbott for `` voyage to the bottom of the sea '' .
