Rendez-vous in Montreal

The main purpose of Rendez-vous in Montreal was to show that true synthetic actors can be created.

They come down from a starry sky into the Bonsecours Market; we hear footsteps and the sounds of the city in the background.

The most important parts of the software developed was: The facial animation is based on 3 levels: The film premiered in May 1987 at the Engineering Institute of Canada Centennial Convention, which was attended by about 3000 delegates; excerpts were shown on six television channels the same week.

Outside Canada, the first show was at Computer Graphics International '87 at Karuirawa, in Japan, and large excerpts were shown on the News Watch 9 program (NHK).

It was shown throughout the summer of 1987 at Montreal's EXPOTECH, the largest scientific exhibition ever held in Canada.

Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart in Rendez-vous in Montreal are considered as the first celebrities (Virtual actors) to be digitally duplicated.

[10] The movie had also a legal impact as some lawyers started to discuss the postmortem rights of digitized celebrities [11][12] asking questions as: "How do you protect imaginary humans?