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Why infomercial products keep breaking on camera

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The miracle hoses and unbreakable flashlights pitched on screen are often complete garbage. Crews constantly have to stop rolling because the prototypes shatter in the host's hands mid-sentence. It takes dozens of careful attempts to capture a single uninterrupted demonstration.

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