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ings could be illuminated almost
exclusively with practical. "Peter's

giant balloon. Biddle shot the lowkey scene with 5279 and employed a
favorite gadget of his own, a minia¬
ture Dedo light. Using Bond's illumi¬
nated watch

as

Biddle served

his ostensible

as a

done
what

a

lot of that stuff and knows

practicals to use," Biddle says. "I
a bit with
my lamps,
basically used the practicals. All

enhanced those

source,

but I

lamp operator and

mimicked actor Pierce Brosnan's

of the Kino Flos, little bulbs and flash¬

keep the glowing

ing lights in the sub had to be water¬
proofed, though, because the set
literally went underwater."
While Biddle generally found
that he was rarely short of the time or
money he needed to practice his craft
on The World Is Not
Enough, he and
Michael Apted were being pressured
to complete the picture by the time
they began shooting the submarine

arm

movements to

watch face consistent with the Dedo's
beam

on

the

two actors.

"I

use

Dedos

lot for eyelights and things

quite

a

like

that," Biddle reveals. "The

company's got all these different
and you can flag
things up just with the barn doors on
them. You can also hold a Dedo right
in your hand, which is what I did for
this scene. I just floated it around,
bouncing the light off the inner
surface of the ball. It was really easy."

versions of them,

confined space
reserved for the film's climax,
An

was

even more

which takes

place almost entirely in
and around a sinking nuclear subma¬
rine. The vessel's main control

room

climax. "It

was near

the end of

built on a gimbal so the inte¬
rior could rise in the air and tip over

set was

90

degrees. For his lighting, Biddle
on production designer Peter
Lamont
his old colleague from
Aliens
to insure that the proceed¬
relied

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scenes, everything had to be bolted
set

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down because when it went

over

then down, everyone was

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