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but he understood immediately
how important this was.
"A lot of the lighting in
the two labs comes from lighting
units that were actually designed
in and built into our set," Laszlo
continues. "Jim Spencer, our pro¬
duction designer, and Bill Mat¬

thews, our art director, are two
talented people, and we dis¬

very

cussed for hours on end how we
could utilize and live with the

lighting

we

into the

set.

all wanted to design
Also, Jim and Bill de¬
signed both of these sets with four
walls and a full ceiling, so that un¬
like traditional movie sets, they
were
actually practical locations.
The walls could be removed, but
the ceilings had to remain."
Filming the miniaturiza¬
tion process as

labs

it

occurs

in both

just the beginning of the
physical effects that charac¬

was

on-set

terized

some

aspects

of the shoot. While

of the

more

difficult
most

of the miniaturization process in
the bad guys's lab occurs almost

off-screen, Dante wanted to show
the entire involved metamorphosis
on-screen as good
guy astronaut
Dennis Quaid is reduced to micro¬
scopic size along with his transpor¬
tation throughout the arterial
freeways: a modified aquatic pod.
The process begins when
the full-sized pod and its occupant
are

loaded into what Laszlo and

company

affectionately call "the

cooker,"

a

huge miniaturization
gold aerospace

chamber lined with

foil, which

commences

to

close

hydraulically, sealing the pod in

a

chamber. "After the
doors of the cooker close," Laszlo
vacuum

recalls, "the pod begins its minia¬
turization phase. The miniaturiza¬
tion maneuver involves the pod

spinning faster and faster until it
reaches a certain velocity, at which
time what we call 'the laser burst,'
a blast of brilliant
light, can minia¬
turize it. In photographic terms,
we had to create a
'space shot
countdown' type atmosphere, and
we had to create the illusion that
the
rate

pod

scopic.

American

Cinematographer

August 1987

was

that its

spinning at such a fast
image became strobo¬



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