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$7 MILLION VIDEO
1995 Scream wasn’t designed to be quiet. Michael and Janet appeared together in a futuristic short film directed by Mark Romanek: sharp, strange, playful, angry and completely unlike almost anything else on television at the time. The reported cost: $7 million. Guinness World Records listed it as the most expensive music video and the film went on to receive an extraordinary eleven nominations at the MTV Video Music Award winning Best Dance Video, Best Choreography and Best
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problem : Physics
PROBLEM: PHYSICS. There are performance problems.And then there are problems that apparently require a United States patent. The anti-gravity lean had already become one of the most impossible-looking moments associated with Smooth Criminal. On film, illusion could do part of the work. On stage, Michael wanted something that could work live. So the answer wasn’t simply choreography. It was engineering. On June 29, 1992, Michael J. Jackson, Michael L. Bush and Dennis Tompkins
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