Cinefex

 I had most of the Cinefix issues.  I gave those away a few years ago.

The papers on the left are very early reprints.  Cinefex would sell back issues and in the very early days they sent you these paper manuscripts.  Now all of Cinefex is available in an app.

What I loved about Cinefex was the articles where people did clever physical effects.  For instance, James Cameron mounted an airplane on top of a tall building so that he could shoot around it from certain angles and it looked like it was flying over the city (that was in True Lies).  He did a similar thing with his 9/10th's scale model of the Titanic - it was built next to the ocean in Mexico so that from many angles you would see the real ocean stretching out in the distance.  No CGI necessary!

And the early days of CGI were interesting but pretty soon it all became more of the same - just more computer horsepower.  So I lost interest.

But Cinefix in its prime ... glorious!