A company opened in 1927 by effects artist Howard A. Anderson, The Howard Anderson Company was an established optical effects studio that worked on many TV shows and movies, most noticeably the original Star Trek series, King Dinosaur and 12 to the Moon. The latter two eventually gaining infamy after airing on seasons two & five of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
See also Industrial Light & Magic and Illusion Arts; two studios that also worked on Star Trek and Visual Concept Engineering; another company who's work was featured in MST3Knote .
A fairly complete list can be seen online
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Other works The Howard Anderson Company did include:
- The A-Team (titles)
- The Addams Family (titles)
- Angie
- Airplane!
- The Amazing Transparent Man (another film riffed on MST3K)
- Anaconda
- Bad Santa
- Barb Wire
- The Bat People
- Battlefield Earth
- Boss Nigger
- The Brady Bunch (titles)
- The 'Burbs
- Charlie's Angels (titles)
- Cheers (titles)
- Children of Dune
- Class of 1999
- Clockstoppers
- Columbo
- Cradle 2 the Grave
- Day of The Animals
- Dogma
- Earth II
- Eight Crazy Nights (with Bardel Entertainment, Tama Productions and others)
- Erin Brockovich
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes
- The Fast and the Furious
- 2 Fast 2 Furious
- FernGully: The Last Rainforest (with Rough Draft Studios, Wang Film Productions, Saerom, Available Light Productions, Luk Film, Pacific Title and others)
- Friday the 13th Part III
- From Justin to Kelly
- The Fugitive
- Get Smart (titles)
- Godzilla (1998)
- Godzilla Raids Againnote
- Gothika
- The Greatest American Hero
- Happy Days (titles)
- Happy Gilmore
- Hardcastle and McCormick
- Hart to Hart
- I Spy (titles)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Invasion of the Saucer Men
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
- Jetsons: The Movie (with Wang, Fil-Cartoons, Pacific Title and Perpetual Motion Pictures)
- L.A. Confidential
- Laverne & Shirley
- Law & Order
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Legally Blonde
- Little House on the Prairie (titles)
- The Long Kiss Goodnight
- Love, American Style (titles)
- The Love Boat (titles)
- Mean Girls
- Mercury Rising
- Metropolis (2001) (Production Assistance)
- Miami Vice
- Mimic
- Mission: Impossible (titles)
- The Mod Squad
- Muppets from Space
- Murder, She Wrote (titles)
- My Favorite Martian
- Night of the Lepus
- October Sky
- Paycheck
- Predator
- Predator 2
- Project UFO
- The Punisher (2004)
- Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (with Tama, Studio Junio and others)
- Reindeer Games
- Rush Hour
- Satan's Triangle
- The Shadow
- Species
- Spectreman (American dub; titles)
- Spider-Man
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (uncredited)
- Star Trek: Nemesis
- Superman (titles, with R/Greenberg Associates)
- The Sum of All Fears
- Team America: World Police
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (Opticals, with Pacific Title)
- The Texan
- That Girl
- Timestalkers
- The Underground Man
- The Untouchables (the 1959 TV series)
- Van Helsing
- Weekend of Terror
- White Chicks
- Wisdom
- X-15
- Zoolander
