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Forty-four separate hobbit-holes were constructed at different scales, to make the human actors playing wizards, dwarves and hobbits look different sizes.
The 75-year-old actor, who plays wizard Gandalf in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings films, spoke about Peter Jackson's franchises at The Battle of the Five Armies premiere on Monday night.
"Plastic Haircut" (1963) is a 15-minute film built around a mesmerizing, rapid-fire series of kooky visual images involving an actor in a wizard's cap, brief clips of a nude woman, geometric shapes and several constructed objects, including a pyramid and a swinging eye.
The Harry Potter rumour mill has been going into overdrive this week, with the news that the makers of the picture appear set to brave the wrath of a legion of fans by casting an American actor as the child wizard.
After the show's original 14-year run, Mr. Herbert, an Air Force veteran and former actor, kept the "Mr. Wizard" franchise alive with frequent talk-show appearances and revived the show twice, on NBC in 1971 and on Nickelodeon from 1983 to 1990.
Anderson is a wizard with actors, and this time he specialises in the kind of offbeat casting that grips your attention whenever a noteworthy star pops up in a "Wow!
We've learned much about asbestos since the days when this cancer-causing substance was used as fake snow and breathed in by actors in movies — The Wizard of Oz poppy field scene, for one.
The British actor, who also played the wizard in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, said that details of the plot eluded him while he was in the thick of the action.
He conveyed the earnestness and anxiety of the unlikely king, flush with dreams of a world where might does not make but is right, yet still in the thrall of his surrogate father, the wizard Merlyn (the actor Stacy Keach).
