The House Hippo—an adorable miniature hippopotamous domesticated in Canada and the U.S.!—set out to teach cable TV viewers a lesson in identifying fake news a generation ago.
The hippo was portrayed with the use of modified stock footage: video from "various sources" was rotoscoped with Commotion software filling in between frames.
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