An early Michael Crichton sci-fi/thriller, "Looker," had the unique distinction of being the first Hollywood feature film to include a 3D-shaded model of a human actor (Susan Dey). Kind of hokey by today's standards, but I always thought the ideas in the film were interesting and actually became the inspiration for one of my early short films shot with a Hitachi SK80/Sony BVU800 way back in 1981. My short included a model (a fellow CalArts film student), photographed with wind-blown hair, torn-up fashion magazines, and flash-cuts of feminine-hygene products shot on a backlit Plexiglas cove.

Stylized female beauty and consumer product marketing were always personal topics of interest (including the luxurious 1979 Ridley Scott-lensed Chanel No. 5 commercial, "Share the Fantasy," linked below), and so I just remembered the film and looked it up, then just bought it on Amazon Prime Video for $7.99. Again, the tech and filmmaking style seem very dated now (including the laughably executed robotic-camera sequence), but I keep returning to these themes even now (i.e., female beauty, consumer advertising, etc.). There's even a computer "mug-shot" sequence of Susan Dey which mimics the visual-trope we see so often in modern sci-films (which I also tried to emulate in my two most-recent Vegas clips).

Ridley Scott's 1979 Chanel No. 5 commercial:

Oriiginal version.

Alternate version.