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filled with running water and
thousands of little red blood cells
that we made from a silicon com¬

Top: Urethane sleeve
inside plexiglass
water

tank creates

views inside the

pound, each the size of

bloodstream. Camera

dollar. We had
move the water

and model pod were

giant

a

silver

pump to

through the pipe
fast clip. The pipe wasn't
straight, it curved around a large
section of our stage floor. The en¬
tire thing was waterproof. Its sides
were built out of plexiglass so we
could light it from the outside.

hung inside during
shooting. Below:

at a

Pete Kozachik and
Bob

a

Cooper with

miniature of Short's
throat.

very

Within was a sleeve of urethane
that Bill George and the model-

shop

made that had all the

guys

built into it so that when
we backlit it, it appeared almost
frontlit.
"The urethane sleeve had
texture

ziplock at the top so that it
would stay sealed until our camera
and pod rig passed through any
a

given point

-

then it would unzip

the rods supporting the camera
and the pod model from above
as

went

by, then zip back

their wake. The

up

again in

camera was

in

a

waterproof container. It took our
cameraman John Fante many takes
to get everything coordinated
properly: the blood cells racing
along, the camera moving at the
right speed and the whole thing lit
correctly. That was quite an oper¬
ation. Our stagehands did a won¬
derful job on this Him. They were
called on to solve dozens of prob¬
lems a day. Because many shots
done in the camera, that's
where the buck stopped."
One of the film's key sus¬

were

takes place in the
Artery Raceway as Tuck finds
himself suddenly pulled towards
the heart where the pressure is so
great he will be destroyed. For this
sequence, the set consisted of the
Raceway and a beating heart valve
pense sequences

model that was about a foot in
diameter. "The beating of the
valve was handled by a couple of

to

do

as

Because Muren wanted

eling

moves

of the Artery Race¬

went

from

many

he could, using
the miniature pod in an aquatic
environment, a set had to be built
way

shots live

as

that would allow for

68

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Cinematographer

lengthy

with the pod

one

other. "The

destination

as

it

to an¬

about 40

feet
in length and about 18 inches in
diameter," Muren says. "It was
set was

good stagehands directly operat¬
ing it with rods," Muren recalls.
"It was all rigged from behind, and
we experimented with three differ¬
ent designs before we got what we
wanted. The shot

plex

-

we

motion

August 1987

to

real

com¬

to get the right
the blood cells and the

right beating action
We had

trav¬

to

was

wanted

to the valve.
shoot it three times be-



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