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lot tour how it was really done – and that wasby having the crime-fighting duo supposedly“scaling tall buildings”… by merely havingthem crawling along a wall-like structure laidflat and safely on the studio floor.

Furthermore a picture of the supposed sky-scrapers of Gotham City around them wasactually projected horizontally on a screenbehind them, and while Batman’s capelooked like it was hanging street-wards fromhis shoulders as he appeared to be climbingvertically, it was simply pulled horizontallyfrom off-screen.

Finally to complete the trick, the moviecamera was mounted at 90-degrees to thenorm.

The Warner Bros Studios tour also show-cases original Batman and Robin costumes,props, artworks and the famous Bat-Cave.

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■ In his continuing search for the more weird,wacky and wondrous in the world of travel,David Ellis says an old mate who has been anear life-long devotee of Batman and Robincomics and movies, has not been the samesince

doing a tour earlier this year of the Warner BrosStudios in Burbank, California.

Because he’d always thought that those whoplayed The Caped Crusader and his juvenileside-kick in the first Batman movies in the

side-kick in the first Batman movies in the1960s really did scale the outsides of tall build-ings for the sake of Saturday afternoon movie-going kids like himself.

Thus he was horrified to see on his movie-

Holy special effects, Batman

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