Remo Saraceni, a sculptor, toy inventor and technological fantasist best known for creating the Walking Piano that Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia danced on in a beloved scene of the hit 1988 movie “Big,” died on June 3 in Swarthmore, Pa.
Mr. Saraceni died at Mr. Medaugh’s home, where he had been living in recent years.
Mr. Saraceni’s specialty was “interactive electronics,” he told New York magazine in 1976.
All were powered by what Mr. Saraceni (pronounced SAR-ah-SAY-nee) called “people energy”: the voice, touch and heat of the human body.
The power of this sort of technology to enchant its users became a pivotal plot element of “Big,” and in turn the central prop in one of the most fondly recalled scenes in recent movie history.
Persons:
Remo Saraceni, Tom Hanks, Robert Loggia, ”, Benjamin Medaugh, Saraceni, Medaugh’s
Organizations:
Mr, New York
Locations:
Swarthmore, Pa