On Tue, 01 Feb 2000 00:30:06 GMT, amonroe@earth1.net (R. Alan Monroe) wrote:
>In article <3895CEF7.C9B07CAA@nidlink.com>, "Jason M. Granat" wrote:
>>Hey can anyone tell me how the commercials like 'The Gap' do the slow

>That question has been beaten to death but here's one I HAVEN'T seen
>asked: What did they use to create the Lincoln car commercial in which
>the point of view starts inside the car, flies outside to the top of a
>castle, which is actually the top of a mere chess piece, which is on a
>chessboard in a moving train, which is actually just a toy train, etc.
>Definitive answers preferred to guesses. :^)

This was (briefly) covered in some TV show somewhere
(definitive enough? ;-) I saw... Lotsa "blue-screen",
of models, both small and life-size; lotsa background
footage shot (in six[?] countries); some computer work
(though they made a point of saying that most of the
subject material was "real"...); lotsa time; and one
enormous amount of money were used... With eight
camcorders to my name, I've toyed (briefly!) with
thoughts of playing with the "suspended while rotated"
effect, but the "Lincoln-effect" is too time-intensive
to consider for me...;-)