The film required large and ambitious sets to be constructed, from the Shaft of Hands to the rambling, distorted Goblin City where the film's climactic battle takes place. The Shaft of Hands sequence was filmed on a rig that was thirty feet high, with a camera mounted on a forty-foot vertical camera track. Of the many grey, scaly hands integral to the scene, 150 were live hands supplied by 75 performers, augmented by an additional 200 foam-rubber hands. Connelly was strapped into a harness when shooting the scene, and would spend time between takes suspended midway up the shaft.