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-TV12 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Monday, June 8, 1981 Television ooooooooooooooooooooo Magcam Mokes Katt Fly CULBROOK RENTAL You wrviet unlimttad toft wtxm I rental IweoiMi sstf MmoneJ QtS PurdlaeeFutty Automatic I WATER CONDITIONER Lifetime tank guarantee low as VI '39 V- J-VBUY CULLIGAN MARK 27 FULLY AUTOMATIC Set first tor II (4 411 I Commercial Industrial '1 1 mt uim a.Tri, H-wrtk lenai I De-ionizod n.us jjm SCIIOUTEII OPTICAL "The best care in sight" Eyes emmined fof glasses. went to Pasadena to film a trash-filled alley. A computerized camera zoomed out and panned up the alley as if to follow Ralph in the first moments of his flight. The camera moves were recorded into a computer terminal to be duplicated later in the studio. The other harrowing parts of Ralph's first flight were filmed using an exact miniature replica of the alley.

Under controlled conditions, matching the daylight in the Pasadena alley, the camera crew spent two days flying a special lens through the miniature alley to assimilate Ralph's flight from various points of view. The final filming step took place on Stage 29 at Paramount where a blue screen completely filled the stage. The computerized camera, using the same movements filmed in the real alley in Pasadena, followed William Katt, dressed in his red flying suit, as he took his three steps and with the aid of a pulley system leaped into the air. The first sequence was complete. The perspective of the camera movements in the studio matched the camera movements in the original background plate perfectly.

A few months after Stephen Cannell, creator and executive producer of ABC-TV's "The Greatest American Hero," asked the burning question, "Can you make the guy actor William Katt, who plays reluctant hero Ralph, spent five working days dangling in the air while a space-age camera twisted around him. To achieve the illusion of flying, Cannell turned to Magicam, a special visual effects house in Hollywood that welcomed the chance to extend the state of the art. Aerodynamically, our hero Ralph is a failure In his first attempt to fly, he careens down a cluttered alley, barely skimming over the rooftops and scraping around a brick wall before he finally crashed into a building. The first step in filming this sequence was to film the background plates. In this case, a camera crew xl Was Trouble As A Kid' Martin Burbank Growing up in Miami, Florida, as a self-described 'precocious Kiel Martin now owes a debt of thanks to both his mother and father especially the latter who vented his young son's innate rambunctiousness into the more creative direction of acting, which eventually led to his role as the smug, lady-killing undercover cop, Johnny LaRue.

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It made me extremely bad-tempered. I was dragging myself along like Boris Karloff in 'The When Martin resumed his career, he compiled such feature film credits as "The Panic in Needle Park" and "The Lolly Madonna War." He starred in the TV movie, "The Log of the Black Pearl." was a regular in the daytime series. "The Edge of Night" from 1977-78, and appeared in such series as "Delvechio," "Harry-O" and "Paris." Having played several misfits in his career. Martin relishes his new role of LaRue. "It's the first time in my life that I've gotten to play a protracted part of someone who is not psychotic," he said.

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