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Spitting tacks onto the posters


I wonder how they did the effect of Dr. Lao spitting the tacks to hold the posters up?

If you look, there are tacks appearing in the corners.
I can think of a few ways it might be done, but I can't tell you if if it's done any of these ways for sure.
I have no idea... really.

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Probably filmed in reverse, with thin nylon fishline pulling them out.

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That's not a bad guess, but if that's how they did it, they did a wonderful job with it. usually you can tell when things are in reverse. There is no sign of reverse I can see.
I will have to watch it again and look.
Thanks.

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It's probably just simple time lapse.

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