BRmovie.com: Blade Runner Souvenir Magazine - Official Collector's Edition

For Chew's laboratory we found a large meat packing plant in Downey. Before we began fliming, they had to start to lower the temperature because if you just turn the thermostat down to zero or six degrees, the concrete walls crack, all sorts of funny things happen. So you have to turn it down gradually. Over a period of about two weeks the owner turned it down to about four degrees below zero. We put up the set about four days before. For the next couple of days, we sent and effects crew down there with spray cans and they proceeded to ice up the walls. We not only iced up the walls, but wound up having icicles two feet long, real icicles, hanging from the ceiling and real ice. It was cold!
- LAWRENCE G.PAULL

Above: Deckard zooms in for a closer look at the results of his probe with the Esper machine.

Left: Phone base and headset design by Syd Mead for Deckard's apartment.

Top Right: Syd Mead's production painting of Deckard's one bedroom apartment was used as a reference in building the elaborate set.