Max Headroom

At 07:06 PM 8/19/99 +1, Hans Franke wrote: I had the pleasure of visiting the Max Headroom set to interview Richard Lewis for Amazing Computing magazine, an Amiga magazine. Stop me if I've told this story here already. Amigas were used to generate all sorts of low-rent video effects for the show: Videoscape for 3D-ish effects, Deluxe Paint anims for others. I think I interviewed the teen who played Bryce. Amanda Pays wasn't around, sadly. :-) I did get to play on several of the sets - Reg's bus, Theora's apartment, Bryce's hangout, the network board room, a fun false-perspective hallway. I watched them shoot a few scenes. I think I still have the press kit around here Somewhere. It was my first exposure to Hollywood. What struck me was how utterly tenuous it was. In a few weeks after my visit, the show was cancelled and everything disappears: people, sets, props. Techies like Lewis were whipping up effects in the most meager digs that gave me the impression they were temporary buildings erected in the 1940s but that had been fortified only by layers of paint over the years. I think those sound stages were once part of MGM, so perhaps Max was filmed on the same stage as the Wizard of Oz. (Extra credit given to anyone who can name the connection between the movie and my teen hometown of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.) - John