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   The director was the first in film history to use a computer special effect called morphing, which briefly appeared in his film The Abyss but flourished in Terminator 2, where Robert Patrick repeatedly and smoothly transforms into the T-1000 terminator.

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   The first director in the history of cinema to receive budgets of 100 and 200 million dollars for his films.

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   James's father was an electrical engineer, and his mother was an artist. James was the eldest of five children.

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   James Cameron and Vince Pace are the founders of the 3D company Cameron-Pace Group.

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   Full name: James Francis Cameron.

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   In 1993, Cameron, together with Stan Winston (with whom he devised the appearance of the predator from the film of the same name) and Scott Ross, and with the financial support of IBM, founded the company Digital Domain, which went on to specialize in digital special effects.

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   Cameron owns the company Lightstorm Entertainment together with his partner Larry Kasanoff, the founder and CEO of Vestron studio.

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   James Cameron has always been a proponent of all kinds of innovations in the film industry. He was one of the first to adopt the LaserDisc format and, following VHS, released all his films on LaserDisc as well, personally overseeing the transfer process. For this, in 1995 he received the Laser Beam Award from the Laser Disc Association (LDA).

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   The design of the alien queen's womb was made by James Cameron himself. He also drew in detail the head and other anatomical details of the "queen."

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    He is left-handed.

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    Cameron is the first director whose two consecutive films each grossed more than 1.5 billion dollars at the worldwide box office.

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    On March 26, 2012, director James Cameron became the third person in history to reach the deepest point of the world's oceans — the bottom of the Mariana Trench — in the one-person submersible Deepsea Challenger, equipped with everything necessary for photo and video recording; the filming was done in 3D, for which the submersible was fitted with special lighting equipment. Cameron reached "Challenger Deep" — a section of the trench at a depth of 10,898 meters. Cameron took samples of rocks and living organisms and carried out filming.

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    James Cameron bought the rights to use the word "Avatar."

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    Cameron learned the art of filmmaking from Roger Corman, who hired him in 1977 to create special effects and build sets for his films.

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    The director is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers.

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    Together with cinematographer Vince Pace, he developed an HD video system, which they later used in Ghosts of the Abyss (2003). In addition, Cameron developed a next-generation stereo camera called FUSION 3D.