Visible crew/equipment: When Riggs first starts shadowing Rudd, he cuts off Rudd's car with his truck. They go to the close up shot of Riggs and when he drives away you can see in the reflection of the trucks window, the PANAV on the hood of the Panavision camera. (00:48:35)
Visible crew/equipment: When Riggs is thrown off the tow truck and rolls across the ground a camera peeks in from the right. (00:37:25)
Visible crew/equipment: When the BMW flips over and slides across the pavement, a rope is briefly visible towing it along right before making contact with and destroying the storefront. (00:06:15)
Visible crew/equipment: On the Alba Varden, just before Riggs gets hit in the leg by a knife, a shadow from the camera, as it moves backwards, can be seen on the orange container to the right of screen. (01:42:30)
Visible crew/equipment: There's a shadow of a crew member moving across the lighted trees when Rudd asks Rita in front of the embassy whether she understood what had happened today. (00:44:10)
Visible crew/equipment: When the hotel waiter aims his gun and takes a second shot at Riggs through the flatbed's rear window, a camera truck makes a brief appearance on the right. (00:40:50)
Visible crew/equipment: When Riggs turns up at the house as the pool cleaner you can see the reflection of the camera crew in the window as he walks along the balcony.
Visible crew/equipment: When they fall out of the hotel and into the pool the side shot shows two dark things under the water - this is the under water crew filming the close ups of the actors. The crew cannot be seen in any other scenes around the pool, only on the entry scene.
Chosen answer: 'Mandrake the Magician' was a comic strip that was popular (at least in Australia) in the 1970s. It featured the title character that was able to perform very elaborate magic tricks (including disappearing acts).
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