Spielberg directs Tintin with a supersized game controller

In the film adaptation of the beloved children's book series Tintin, Steven Spielberg says he used a giant game controller to direct the animation onscreen (pictured above). Just imagine trying to play the new Call of Duty game with this unwieldy thing.

See the controller in action (skip to 1:47) and learn more about the film in the video featurette below.

> How Spielberg directed Tintin [Roger Ebert, Chicago-Sun Times]