Top SFX shots No.20: Things To Come

William Cameron Menzies' loose adaptation of H.G. Wells' vision of Britain's future is a patchy affair both in narrative and SFX terms, but this hanging miniature shot can't be faulted. This is a rather late answer to Metropolis (see #10) but also a more fluid integration of model architecture with real people. Hanging miniatures were used quite extensively in Aliens, providing both the upper 'alien-ised' architecture of the reactor centre and also 75% of the Sulaco's hangar bay.

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