With the possible exception of the old Topper movie, there hasn't been anything like this show before or since. One fantastic episode had Daniel offer his mask as an escape for a person he had to smuggle out of the enemy headquarters and he simply walks out beside him invisible. The show offered no camp, no humour, and no sexual bickering. But the show worked marvelously, relying on the moving camera either letting you know where Daniel was or giving his eye view as he approached a person or area. A government killer is on the loose, and hes invisible. But theres no excuse for having Slater stand in for Bacon in this dull sequel to HOLLOW MAN. Sort of like Jeff Daniels and Bill Pullman. Craig Stevens statue presence rounds it out nicely. Kevin Bacon and Christian Slater worked their way up in the Hollywood ranks at roughly the same time. Fee as his cooperative scientist wife, who isn't a Charlies Angel in behaviour but is most definitely in looks, plays well off watching her husband disappear as he disrobes. I remembered this show from its brief original run, and caught a half dozen episodes off Sci Fi Network a few years back and they are a marvel to behold. Played by David MacCallum with longer hair that is blonde, he looks nothing like his character on the Man From Uncle. Daniel Westin is turned invisible from an experiment, he must now don a mask and gloves when he walks among people. However, the downside was that as the two images were filmed and recorded live, there were limited options for the editing crews to use and sometimes the quality of the merged video images appeared a bit fake (for example skin tones often did not look right) and it was impossible to correct due to the technical limitations of electronic television camera & videotape technology of the time. This not only saved a considerable amount of time in post production but also saved money. Coming 20 years after the last big-screen attempt to adapt the storyPaul Verhoeven’s 2000 Kevin Bacon vehicle, Hollow ManThe Invisible Man succeeds where its predecessor fails, injecting. The camera crew superimposed him in real time onto the live other scene using the chroma key technique (similar to how weather forecasters work when standing in front of a blue/green screen whilst the data appears behind them). A camera would be set up and locked off in a studio where the scene was supposedly taking place whilst David McCallum would be filmed in the opposite corner of the same studio wearing a blue body suit against a blue background watching the action live and interacting appropriately with the rest of the actors on the other set. Due to a tight filming schedule many of the special effects scenes of where Dr Westin would undress on camera by removing or putting on his 'synthetic skin' adornments were actually done live on set.
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