National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Universal Pictures released Jurassic Park in June 1993, directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Michael Crichton's novel. The film represented a turning point in visual effects history, blending practical animatronics with pioneering computer-generated imagery to bring dinosaurs convincingly to life. It became the highest-grossing film of its time and remains a landmark of blockbuster filmmaking, influencing the industry's approach to digital production for decades.

This three-frame cell captures Lex Murphy in a tense, dimly lit moment, holding a small green object as her gaze fixes on something beyond the frame. The continuous action across all three frames gives the strip a quiet, sustained quality, preserving a single unbroken instant from actress Ariana Richards's performance in one of the film's more atmospheric sequences.