michael-jacksonRemember the video for “Smooth Criminal?”

Remember that gravity defying lean from the video?

Ever get to see it live and, noticing a lack of wires, wonder how they did it?

Long before CGI, film producers could employ techniques like the use of wires to create unreal effects on screen – props in production that where carefully obscured or hidden for the polished final piece – but that’s not what Michael Jackson wanted when it was time to take this particular routine on the road …

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