Farciot Edouart, ASC (born Alexander Farciot Edouart; November 5, 1884 – March 17, 1980) was a film special-effects artist and innovator perhaps best known for his work with process photography, also known as rear projection.
He began working as a cameraman while still a teenager at the production company of Hobart Bosworth.
By way of mergers and acquisitions, Edouart became an employee of Paramount Pictures, where he began to specialize on optical effects in the mid-1920s.
[1] He worked for Paramount until his department was abruptly closed in 1967.
Leonard Maltin wrote: "The master of process-screen photography is Farciot Edouart.