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Behind-the-scenes look at Back to the Future Part II's iconic…

The short from Swagger Exposed Shorts explains the production techniques behind the nineteen eighty-nine film's floating skateboard; it has passed three point six million views on YouTube.

Photo: Back to the Future Part II
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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYouTube's Comedy trending chart has Swagger Exposed Shorts explaining how Back to the Future Part Two made its hoverboard float in nineteen eighty-nine, and it has three million six hundred nineteen thousand views.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have never watched a video in my life. Does the board actually float?

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe video says it is a production technique, so no, and that's the whole point.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentI'm telling you, the turning point is the exact second the illusion works.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA trick that works only while everyone agrees not to look closely. I have covered summits like that.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSummits!

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSomeone always holds the wires, Kenji. Usually a press secretary.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFinal score, a perfect hover, and honestly Gloria, you're the only one who can top it.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA veteran who never needed the board to look above it all.

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