RE: sit-down space war

> Another tidbit I'm curious about is the light fixture, or absence of
> one in
> Space War. Mine doesn't have one. Yet the one on the movie Tron
> clearly has
> the marquee lit up. I find it weird that someone would have rigged a
> fixture
> for this, but I guess it's possible.
>
I wouldn't doubt it-- they do all sorts of weirdness to appease film
cameras. About four (five?) years ago we were exhibiting at Macworld
when they were filming "The Net" (the movie). The liked our booth and
ended up shooting a bunch of scenes in there. (My claim to fame-- I'm
in a couple shots for few hundred milliseconds... ;-) The weird thing
was that all of our backlit "duratran" signs and logos freaked out the
movie cameras. They ended up draping everything with black mosquito
netting to "dim" it down. You can't see it at all in the movie, but our
booth looked like it was fortified to defend against an attack of giant
mosquitos all day...

-Clay
Received on Tue Jan 5 11:30:35 1999