Actually, I had both shots in mind -- going up and then falling down, bouncing a bit along the way, both seemingly from the same set-up. And something about the "weight" of that figure, going both up and down, always suggested to me something shot in "real time."

I suspect we have opened what could become a Kong-sized can of worms, the kind of which would have felt right at home down in that spider pit. But I think its one very worthy of discussing.