Businessman. He was a special effects guru who literally started the special effects business in themed attractions. His handiwork has been enjoyed by hundreds of millions of people. He helped begin Disney Imagineering, oversaw the special effects in Epcot Center and Tokyo Disney. He started his own company, Art & Technology, that created numerous special effects in major themed parks worldwide. Mr. Novey died much to early in life due to cancer, but the industry he helped create lives on.∼He was an American special effects guru in Hollywood, Head of Special Effects at Walt Disney Imagineering in the 1970s, and co-founder of Art & Technology, Inc. with Disney executive Joe Garlington in the 1980s. At Disney, Novey was tasked with overseeing 6000 special effects in the Epcot Center near Orlando, Florida and Tokyo Disneyland. He invented over 300 projectors and helped inspire a new wave of special effects and technological innovations including the first use of holograms and vector-scanning laser projections in a theme park. He was born William E. Novey in 1948 in Downers Grove, Illinois.
Businessman. He was a special effects guru who literally started the special effects business in themed attractions. His handiwork has been enjoyed by hundreds of millions of people. He helped begin Disney Imagineering, oversaw the special effects in Epcot Center and Tokyo Disney. He started his own company, Art & Technology, that created numerous special effects in major themed parks worldwide. Mr. Novey died much to early in life due to cancer, but the industry he helped create lives on.∼He was an American special effects guru in Hollywood, Head of Special Effects at Walt Disney Imagineering in the 1970s, and co-founder of Art & Technology, Inc. with Disney executive Joe Garlington in the 1980s. At Disney, Novey was tasked with overseeing 6000 special effects in the Epcot Center near Orlando, Florida and Tokyo Disneyland. He invented over 300 projectors and helped inspire a new wave of special effects and technological innovations including the first use of holograms and vector-scanning laser projections in a theme park. He was born William E. Novey in 1948 in Downers Grove, Illinois.
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William Edward Novey
In Loving Memory
1948 ✡ 1991
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