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from raising the cranes any higher than
65' for fear of blinding the facility's
actual air-traffic controllers.
To re-create the rotating light of
an airport tower, the crew placed two
Martin Mac III Profile moving lights on
a Condor to the side of the plane. "One
[light] swept through the scene while
the other was resetting," says Phillips.
"Once dimmer-board operator Desiree
Lidon programmed the movements, she
could let it run all night."
Meanwhile, a Condor carrying
two Nine-light Maxi-Brutes, each
gelled with Industrial Vapor, was placed
in front of the plane's nose, and four
construction cranes with four 1K metalhalide lamps were scattered around the
tarmac to provide backlight and to play
in the frame. "They looked like tarmac
lights," Varese says. "They belonged."
The crew also set up a 600' row of L&E
MR-16 Mini-Strips, gelled with VS
Yellow, on the north side of the plane to
represent runway lights that Lidon
programmed to provide a sense of
movement.
To suggest the menacing presence
aboard the dormant aircraft, Del Toro
wanted the plane's underbelly to be illuminated with a pulsing "heartbeat" light.
The effect was achieved with 20 1K

Top left: Pilot director and series executive producer Guillermo Del Toro steps in front
of the camera to assist with an autopsy. Right, top to bottom: Through visual effects,
the victim's heart is permeated with parasitic worms as another doctor examines it.

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