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Photo-Shopping Fireworks?

By The Daily Dish
Aug 11 2008, 10:17 AM ET

Fallows on the suspicious aspects of China's pomo Triumph Of The Will spectacular:

It turns out -- apparently -- that the event producers were worried enough about visibility and other practical concerns that they produced computer-graphic simulations of how the timed explosions should look, and then spliced that info into what was shown on the big screen inside the Bird's Nest and to billions of viewers world wide.



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