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Show es The Salt LakeTribune MONDAY/M Daybre nedNESey BIRDING | BY EAR CD-ROMs Teach Novices Howto Recognize Songs BY KEVIN MCMANUS the ec > si i oro is walk in the p com ment From a leafy canopy comes a high-pitched chick-a-dee-dee-dee — and the qu ee ted vet eran reports. “Carolina t two-note: Thanks to technology, Fred Astaire dances with Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner. hands. Magallonandhis partner, Greg Strom, also had to tone the image of the vacuumcleaner down, so the ‘90s film stock matched the older Astaire foot age. “The idea that we had was that we cannot alter Fred’s movements, or make the product sso yourself that birdi skill to aequir: only mivchint hint the ng or a handy n call is often the ting species ai is ne: ee So you buy lise containingscoresof bird nut Tk Then yo! ju vird sor songs. y You |I )r ( 30 minutes. stop the CD, asking yourse coud ousiliimabaoebiaarniieh iad ; : : conspicuous that it dilutes Fred’s dancing.” he . said ; Magallon and Holtkamp reported enthusias tie responseto the ads, which debuted during the Super Bowl. Someviewers — the same ones who flinched at the Diet Coke ads that featured Paula Abdul dancing with Gene Kelly and Elton John jamming with Louis Armstrong — plained about a dead celebrity shillix cleane Holtkamp defendsusing Astaire’s image by say ing the company had the support ofthe dancer's “Mrs. widow. Jabba the Hutt madehis film debut in “Star Wars” long after the film was in the theaters. Astaire’s feeling was that this is ESSENSE: ore »roducts off and also show Fred's talent,” said 5tertain: of Strom Magallon Magalion g ment, which created the spots something Fred would have gottena kick out of Holtkampsaid But others in mediacireles see potential pitf in image-manipulation technology. “The softwar is so seductive Craig Denton: professorof communications at the Uni UtahA $s publications getting of tion are everywhere. A computer-gene Jabba the Hutt interacted with Harrison Ford in there-released “Star Wars.” Forrest Gump shook hands with JFK and LBJ The Astaire’s routines did under s arvacuums were held sometimes b: matures, othertimes by a dancerclad head- to-toe in green(a color that can beelectronically erased, east over the Wasatch Mountains, The New York tabloid Newsday put Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan onthe same ice rink whenno such inci dent occurred. Time was accusedof racism for rough cuts were assembledof Astaire’s footage. Photo Technology Creates paris re he danced withprops. look at scenes that would not A RealityThat’s NotTheres ME > THE SALT LAKE Pictures never lie. right? N Computer graphics and di And. in an ad campaign that has delighted some viewers and made movie buffs cring ad Stuire does something he neverdid while he was alive: He dances with a m cleaner. Astaire’s footwork The second step wasto film the products —an upright vacuum, a hand-held model anda broom1m — moving the same way the props in lik so only the product appearsonfilm) Filming an low-tech, (1948) and “Royal Wed. rted images of various compared with creating a 3-D image Lucas did with within a computer — as George“Star But Wars.” Jabba the Hutt in the revised mple way toshow I howeasy it is to use our products,” said Deborah Holtkamp. 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