composited imagery as the following example shows. In  one scene, Natalie Portman (qv)s best take had been take seven  while Jake Lloyd (I) (qv)s was take one. The two takes were  spliced together. However, Lloyds mouth at the end of the scene is  still gaped open, so the same segment from take fifteen (in which  his mouth is closed) is patched in. Furthermore, when Portman  appears to look down from Lloyd instead of up, those few seconds  were run backwards, which unexpectedly caused steam in the  background to rise in reverse. The problem was fixed by flipping the  steam backwards. All these fixes resulted in a seamless scene. This  technique prompted Liam Neeson (qv), upon the films release, to  complain thus, "We are basically puppets. I dont think I can live  with the inauthenticity of movies anymore."