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This shot of the Harkonnen ship and the Atreides ship, Emilio Ruiz did the model
And both of these were shot down at the Aztec Stadium car park in Mexico city
And the foreground model which is what Emilio had built
was stuck up on a tower of scaffold
and tucked down in the middle of the car park area was the full size set
I would include small dolls
among real people
When placed near the camera
at a precise distance
the dolls looked the same size
as the characters placed in the background
We placed other ships in the background
to create the illusion
that it was an airport
And then I built a tower
a scale model was placed there
that aligned with the camera
And from there, through a hole
you could see the door in the background
that aligned with the ship in the foreground
Well, Emilio you know, comes from that old school
You would have a wall that's a real wall built full size,
and then he would come up and do his little tiny wall with all the detail
Now one is right here, next to the camera, one is down there,
but your eye is going to put them together
But it takes an eye to do that.