◗ Old-School Thrills Top and middle: Cast and crew work at the Atlanta set that was employed for much of the footage at March's house. Bottom: The crew preps a greenscreen stage. the Seventies, and if they did move, they were likely huge and unlikely to be hanging in someone's home." The film's other major set piece is the 1978 Los Angeles Auto Show, a flashy exhibition filmed on the thirdfloor pool deck of the Hilton Hotel in downtown Atlanta. "Philippe wanted color and light everywhere, so our lights needed to be part of the set," says Stern. "We built our LEDs into the set in an indirect manner - under bars, behind diffusion panels. There was a lot of chrome and vinyl and shiny Mylar surfaces, and we took every opportunity we could get to reflect the light." Stern also researched commercial lighting of the 1970s and learned that a big car show might have featured a handful of Sky Tracker xenon searchlights, which prompted him to order two controllable four-xenon pods that were built into both ends of the convention set. Hundreds of glitzy 7-watt candelabra carnival lights were attached to the step faces of rotating platforms where the latest automobiles sat on display, and both sides of the hoops that arched over them were lined with hundreds of 11watt carnival lights. Set decorator Danielle Berman built 7' mirrored towers of clear 40-watt vanity bulbs and placed them around the convention floor 80 June 2016 American Cinematographer