Joshua and Jacob Rips

JT's seat belt was knocked lose during the accident. so he was no longer buckled in the back seat of the car. He was calm at first, just sitting there looking around. He was trying to get his pacifer back in his mouth, then the car began to rock back and forth. Joshua as JT. {5/21/01}

Jennifer was trying to use the rear-view mirror to get a glimpse of him. When the car started to move, JT began to cry and dropped his pacifer too. As soon as the car was still again he was fine. {5/21/01}

JT was OK in his carseat but Jennifer couldn't see him. Jack arrived to help and he couldn't see where JT was either. When they finally showed the whole car, we could see the back door was open and JT's car seat was hanging out. {5/21/01}

JT started to cry again as the car rocked and then he stopped as the car stopped. Then Jennifer reached back to close JT's door. {5/21/01}

As Jenn moved, the car rocked again and JT fell out of the car and landed in the Salem River below the bridge. Falling out of the car was done with a green screen. There was a green screen on all sides of the room. There was a carseat mounted on a pedestal in the center of the room. Joshua was strapped in and then a camera on a really tall pole twirled and spun around him.The camera zoomed out so JT seemed to be getting smaller and smaller as he got farther away. In the middle of the "fall," the film was cut and a doll was substituted, which actually hit the water. {5/21/01}

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