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flying car scenes are spectacular
because there were cars all over
the place in a sort of aerial free¬
way with lane markers floating in
mid-air. All of this was locked
into

Germany (69) 38080 81

Rental

miniature. It was tricky to
match the miniature's size exactly
to the size of the full scale car.
The motion controlled
a

major shot of the court¬
This is preceded by a
long flight through clouds by the
a

house

MBF

area.

now-famous DeLorean.
Some of the largest

chal¬
lenges for the special effects team
concerned the vast amount of

makeup wizardry

essential to
split screen
sequences. These included scenes
some

so
of the elaborate

where Tom Wilson as old Biff
meets Tom Wilson as young Biff,
or when a middle
aged Michael

J. Fox

as

aged Marty McFly has

dinner with his children and all of
them are played by Fox!
"The
performances
within these split shots had to be
so
precise to make the shot
work," Ralston says, "and it took
a

lot of effort to concentrate

on

the

set, because there were always
distractions and problems.
Once we programmed the cam¬
era moves on the
Vistaglide sys¬

tem, the actors would have to
lock their performances down

precisely, and we'd just shoot till
it worked."

The Adventures

of Baron

Munchhausen, created at Cinecitta
in Rome and Pinewood Sudios in

England, was also nominated for
its effects work with Richard

Conway and Kent Houston
named. In this film too, much use
made of miniatures and also
of a 30'x60' blue screen at

was

Cinecitta, where the production
occupied as many as seven stages
at one time, plus outdoor loca¬
tions in

Spain.
Conway, who has
worked with Terry Gilliam on
Time Bandits and Brazil, has a

philosophy about model work
that believes

an abundance of
detailed action is what makes a

miniature
never

30

convincing. "It almost

works to look at

one

spe-



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