Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Began working with special photographic effects on THE ROBE (1953, uncredited). Other notable non-nominated special effects credits include THE FLY (1958, uncredited), HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS and THE BLUE ANGEL (both 1959), THE LOST WORLD and FROM THE TERRACE (both 1960), THE MASK (1961), HAWAII (1966) and his last film, AIRPORT (1970). Gordon also contributed photographic effects to IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD (1963), THE GREAT RACE (1965) and WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE WAR, DADDY? (1966).  Scientific or Technical Awards (Class II) 1950: For the design and development of a multiple film viewer.  Nominated for Special Effects 1959: JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH - Visual (w. L. B. Abbott)  Scientific or Technical Awards (Class II) 1961: For a system of decompressing and recomposing CinemaScope pictures for conventional aspect ratios. (w. 20th Century-Fox Research Department, Earl I. Sponable, Herbert E. Bragg of Deluxe Laboratories Inc., F.D. Leslie, R.D. Whitmore, A.A. Alden, Endel Pool) 1 nomination, 2 Scientific/Technical Awards