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As you may have expected the opening of Temple of Doom presented Steven Spielberg with a great opportunity. He explains that he had always been a frustrated musical director and that "You can't help doffing your cap at Busby Berkley whenever you have a line of dancing girls with beautiful legs in sequin costumes in a kind of syncopated rhythm...it's impossible...". He would employ an effect as old as film itself when he simply ran the dancer's split in reverse to get them back on their feet.
The difficult half of the question regards the snakes guarding the Ark. While panning over the floor of the Well of Souls you can still see it, snakes tied head to tail like linked sausages being pulled along in one of the most low tech effects that you'll ever see. Pay special attention to the unusual movements of the snake moving to the torch Indy drops.
Even though he wasn't a fan of the not so special effect, the brief moment made the cut as Spielberg describes the fake snakes as June Taylor dancers on a string in Star Wars Insider 54, the Double sided Raiders Anniversary Issue.
The difficult half of the question regards the snakes guarding the Ark. While panning over the floor of the Well of Souls you can still see it, snakes tied head to tail like linked sausages being pulled along in one of the most low tech effects that you'll ever see. Pay special attention to the unusual movements of the snake moving to the torch Indy drops.
Even though he wasn't a fan of the not so special effect, the brief moment made the cut as Spielberg describes the fake snakes as June Taylor dancers on a string in Star Wars Insider 54, the Double sided Raiders Anniversary Issue.