Amiga in the movies

[psxphill]

Notice how the Amiga badge is taped over, which, I would guess, means that Commodore did not pay for product placement, rather that the production designers or someone on the crew wanted an Amiga on the set regardless.

The Amiga was probably genlocked to the camera to avoid flicker, it was probably the cheapest way of doing it at the time.

[psxphill]

That's a really good theory (makes sense) - but weren't most 1980s shows still using film cameras (i.e. Panavision)? I know Star Trek TNG was all filmed using Panavision cameras, although the visual effects were later edited on video.

Film cameras are affected as well. You often see "24-frame video playback" in movie credits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sync_box_(filmmaking)
 
It would be interesting whether movies had Amiga's generating the displays in the late 80's and early 90's, or whether they used custom hardware. It would certainly be cheaper to just have an A500 and some extra circuitry. Although FMV would be a problem.
 
Running at 24fps might have been a problem until ECS though.
 
Some episodes of Miami Vice appear to have been shot using film.
 
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZH3SyNsCj_EC&pg=PT41&lpg=PT41&dq=miami+vice+filmed+on+video+tape&source=bl&ots=GeM9tc2Kvc&sig=cUB6SEzEtFfXOvnkAVBJ1OsYTcE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7YQBUeehCoaG0AX20IDgDA&ved=0CGMQ6AEwCQ