2003 37c American Filmmaking: Special Effects
# 3772i FDC - 2003 37c American Filmmaking: Special Effects
$2.25 - $3.20
U.S. #3772i
37¢ Special Effects –
American Filmmaking Set
37¢ Special Effects –
American Filmmaking Set
Issue Date: February 25, 2003
City: Beverly Hills, CA
Quantity: 7,000,000
Printed By: American Packaging Corp. for Sennett Security Products
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 11 horizontally
Color: Multicolored
Quantity: 7,000,000
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 11 horizontally
Color: Multicolored
Behind-the-scenes talents and skills that combine to make a motion picture successful are spotlighted on this souvenir sheet. The stamps were issued to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927. The Academy is most famous for its annual awards of merit.
The role of producer, exemplified by Cecil B. DeMille, is honored on the selvage. He is shown on the set of his 1934 epic, Cleopatra. Explanatory text about each of the other filmmaking crafts appears on the back of the stamps.
On this Special Effects stamp, Mark Siegel sculpts a small model of the alien for Universal Studios’ popular E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
U.S. #3772i
37¢ Special Effects –
American Filmmaking Set
37¢ Special Effects –
American Filmmaking Set
Issue Date: February 25, 2003
City: Beverly Hills, CA
Quantity: 7,000,000
Printed By: American Packaging Corp. for Sennett Security Products
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 11 horizontally
Color: Multicolored
Quantity: 7,000,000
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 11 horizontally
Color: Multicolored
Behind-the-scenes talents and skills that combine to make a motion picture successful are spotlighted on this souvenir sheet. The stamps were issued to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927. The Academy is most famous for its annual awards of merit.
The role of producer, exemplified by Cecil B. DeMille, is honored on the selvage. He is shown on the set of his 1934 epic, Cleopatra. Explanatory text about each of the other filmmaking crafts appears on the back of the stamps.
On this Special Effects stamp, Mark Siegel sculpts a small model of the alien for Universal Studios’ popular E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.