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Old 08-08-2008, 06:13 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by lashbear View Post
The "Moveable Type" segment of the opening was just Gobsmacking.

We had our chins sitting in our lap the whole time !!! (no, not each other's lap...)
The "Moveable Type" segment was totally awesome...and has a clever illusion at the end:

Spoiler:


At the end of the segment, several hundred Chinese folk reveal themselves from beneath the field of "type" blocks, inferring that they had been driving the entire mechanism by themselves manually.

Given the huge amount of synchronisation, and the precise acceleration and deceleration to maintain the surface contours (and given that each individual could not see the patterns) I figure it was computer driven until the folks appeared at the end.

Either way...it was awesome to watch.



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