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Now came the moment of truth...
the fall.
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There was no equipment
such as you have today.
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There were no graphics.
There were no computers.
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Just a camera and a piece of scenery.
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They built a platform
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and had a hole in it.
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And the camera could shoot
through that hole.
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And this platform was suspended
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from the top of the stage.
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This was a black-and-white film.
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Today, you would probably, if it was
in colour, you would have used,
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blue or green screen for the effects,
but there we used black.
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So, when Norman Lloyd fell,
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he was on a...
he was sitting on a swivel chair.
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Which was really not a chair.
It was like a saddle on a pipe.
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Painted black
against a black background.
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That didn't expose on the film,
so we put in matte shots.
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This platform, with the camera
and the hand attached
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and my lying on it,
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went up into the air through the roof.
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I believe it was around 40 feet high,
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and the camera just went like that.
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Leaving me seated on this saddle
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doing various balletic movements
as if I was falling.
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I don't know if I could do it today,
but anyway,
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all those movements of falling
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and, of course, the great scream.
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Kane!
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lt was interesting that
people for years asked me,
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''How was that ever done?''