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Dead ringers: performance cloning enables filmmakers to reconstruct famous faces from the past and give life to a new form of documentary.
Adolf Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill shaped world history more than 60 years ago. Yet even today, these stalwart figures are immediately recognizable, thanks largely to their unique, bold features-Hitler, with his pinched face, abbreviated mustache, and comb-over hairstyle; Roosevelt, with his deep-set, squinty eyes and extended jawline; and Churchill, with his busy eyebrows, bulbous nose, and fleshy jowls. However, when the Discovery Channel set out to make a new type of film--a simulated documentary--featuring these men, their famous faces posed a problem.
The concept of a simulated documentary is similar to that of a regular documentary-to ...
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