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"Inset: The fireworks as they appeared on NBC's TV broadcast. (Image Courtesy of NBC)"
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Popular Mechanics’ S.E. Kramer writes:
“One person who certainly didn’t know about the CGI mix-in was M. Philip Butler, a vice president at Fireworks by Grucci who calls himself “Chief Operating Brother-in-Law” of the company. (His wife, Donna Grucci, is its president.) Fireworks by Grucci is one of the country’s pre-eminent fireworks innovators; the company was hired by the Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee to help engineer the presentation.