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From: bobr@zeus.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Why did the six-million dollar man run so slowly?
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Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 15:36:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 15:36:28 1987
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Reply-To: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed)
Organization: CAE Systems Division, Tektronix Inc., Beaverton OR
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Because it was cheaper to take slow motion footage to show SOMETHING was
happening than to make a believable high speed effect.  Of course, they
could taken blue screen shots of Steve Austin running normally and
composited in a high speed background, but many of the shots involved his
feet.  Making a believable shot under those conditions would have been a lot
more expensive.

It is interesting to note that the recent reunion of the "bionic family"
represented the new generation of bionic technology by having his son blur
(it actually looked like defocused multiple exposures) during the slow
motion "high speed" running shots.
-- 
Robert Reed, Tektronix CAE Systems Division, bobr@zeus.TEK