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Wire removal erases the cables holding actors

Riggers fly a performer on thin cables and post-production paints them out Flying stunts use steel cables, harnesses and pulleys that are hidden from the camera angle but rarely invisible. Artists track the wire frame by frame and rebuild the background behind it. The safety line stays in place during the stunt; only the image is cleaned. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Riggers fly a performer on thin cables and post-production paints them out. The figure is taken from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.