The scene where the Baron gets very
excited and punches his chest
which causes him to levitate
rapidly into the air.
He flies up maybe 20, 25 feet.
Basically I was the man on
the counter weight system,
which through a series
of pulleys and harnesses
allowed the Baron to make
the rapid levitation effect.
And then he begins to fly down,
and there is a cut
they cut to another set,
and another apparatus
he goes to a ground based parallelogram
where he's basically standing on a platform
and then the parallelogram arm is swung
into place underneath the shower head.
There would be no way for wires to work because
they would interfere with the shower assembly.
An additional change was the Baron
flying around this shower of steam.
That was an entirely different
rig that I conceived and built
specifically for that scene
and that scene only.
The Baron had to make several
revolutions around the shower.
Basically it was an arm like this,
and there was a wheel assembly here
with the ability to drop wires
down to attach to the Baron.
This part swivelled and
this whole arm swivelled.
The operator sat on a chair
and held onto the steering wheel
and basically pulled himself around very
much like the teacup ride at Disney Land.
