A Matte painting is a type of technique used in films to represent a landscape,set or a distant location that allows film-makers create an illusion of an open environment that doesn't exist or would be too expensive/impossible to shoot at.
Matte Painting is a very old technique that dates back to the Lumière brothers, and an early example of Matte painting was the creation of the train robbery back in 1903 where the technique was used to create the background for the outside of the window in the ticket office and later on in the film while the train was moving.
The first major use of the Matte painting was used by Norman Dawn ASC in the early 1900's. He had put seamless woven glass shoots into many of his films, and used glass shots to revolutionize the in-camera matte. Then in the 1920s the film stock began to rise and during this time a new technique known as Bi-pack camera method was introduced. Then in 1940 a major leap was made for Matting technique with the Thief of Bagdad which also introduced the blue-screen technique, then in 1977 there was a huge jump for matte painting when the first ever Star Wars move came out, A New Hope used Matte painting to make the Death Star scenery while Luke was piloting the X-wing. The final product for the Star Wars was a masterpiece in my view, the Death Star's laser tunnels were well made and still seem so realistic, the piece is very convincing, the artists who did this were extremely skilled.
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