Albert Whitlock
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Albert J Whitlock (September 15, 1915 in London -
October 26, 1999) was an English motion picture matteartist best known for his work with Disney and Universal Studios.
His crowning achievement is the creation of over 70 individual matte paintings for the 1974 disaster film, Earthquake, which earned him an Academy Award.
In addition to his film work, Whilock also created the matte painting used to establish the huge exterior of the Delta Vega lithium cracking station in Star Trek (1966). The painting was later modified and reused as the Tantalus penal colony from the Star Trek episode "Dagger of the Mind".
