Forty years ago, BBC Horizon released a documentary called "𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲."

They visited Industrial Light & Magic to show how the magic was made.

In this segment, Steven Spielberg and Dennis Muren reveal how the 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘦 from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was built; a sequence split between two continents, yet cut together as one.

Miniatures.
Stop-motion.
Motion blur.
Light and gravity recreated by hand.
A week of work for two seconds of film.

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