The Revolt of Mamie Stover 1956

This film has a sequence depicting the attack on Pearl Harbor that features a number of miniature ships on fire and with explosions going off. A large rectangular piece of sheet metal appears to blow off one of the miniatures in one shot which would be the entire front side of the ship in scale.

There are a couple of matte paintings of the distant harbor, one split screen with distant explosions going off and at least one shot of a model aircraft that has been put over a background plate of people running away.

Visual Effects supervised by Ray Kellogg at 20th Century Fox.

 

 

The Sea Chase 1955

 This John Wayne, Lana Turner film has a few shots with a miniature ship in it. While most of the exterior action takes place on a full size cargo ship, a miniature is used for night shots in fog, in a storm and features in a close up on the bow during the opening credits. A British naval vessel also appears as a miniature or possibly only a flat cutout as it is only seen as a silhouette in a couple of distant shots.

The miniatures were supervised by H.F. (Fred) Koenekamp ASC.