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- From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: That T2 motorcycle jump... Not real, just magic
- Message-ID: <BD.93Jan21133232@bd.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:32:32 GMT
- References: <C15t3M.4Fy@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH
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- In-Reply-To: weaver@castor.cs.uga.edu's message of Wed, 20 Jan 1993 15:45:21 GMT
-
- weaver@castor.cs.uga.edu (Mike Weaver) writes:
-
- >No they didn't trash the bike in the movie. The jump was indeed bullshit.
- >They had guy wires on the bike to guide it gently to the ground. They then
- >digitally edited the frames and wiped out the wires. Just another example
- >of the use of computers in mainstream movies.
-
- What? They used computers in T2? You mean that guy wasn't
- really made of liquid metal?
-
- Damn!
-