The popular scene of Hungry Joe (Seth Allen) being cut in two by the airplane and falling into the water was done in two steps. (1) A plane runs into a breakaway dummy that was rigged to spray blood. After a cutaway, the second shot shows an actor or stuntman in front of the sky, holding a mirror in front of him angled to reflect more sky to match what is in back of him, making the top part of his body disappear. He then falls backwards into the water making the trick become visible to the camera. Albert Whitlock did the post-production work and rotoscope-matted in more water and horizon around the legs and waist to hide the mirror and top part of the body when it was exposed (look for the patch of slightly different colored water that appears and disappears as the legs fall in). In the commentary, Mike Nichols remembered the part about using the mirror, but was unaware of, or forgot about, the post-production finishing of the scene.

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