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A Band Called Death, a documentary. “One day the world’s gonna come looking for the Death master tapes.”
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Old school special effects documentary from Industrial Light and Magic. Behind the scenes of some FX classics like Star Wars and Indiana Jones. This is all optical, incamera techniques not the digital shit.
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Reformat the Planet. FULL documentary on chip tune, crazy electronic music made with lo-fi digital hardware like Game Boys and Atari consoles.
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original video. futuristic.
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The King of Kong, awesome retro arcade documentary, in full for free.
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First three parts of Once Upon Atari, a documentary about ATARI! You can watch all the episodes on the IGN website. I don’t know why they don’t just make them all available on youtube.
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Another good video for all you digital retrophiles out there.
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“The combined energy of The Road Warrior, Robocop and The Terminator.”
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VHS Trailer Remix, Hobo With A Shotgun : The director of Hobo With A Shotgun, Jason Eisener, had mentioned in the comments of the feature trailer on YouTube that they had left the faux film grunge out (film bleed, dust and scratches etc. that other grindhouse throwback films have) because he wanted it to be more of a “modern day exploitation flick” minus any retroesque styling. He then mentioned that he would, however, like to see what it would look like on VHS.
I had been trying a bunch of my own lo-fi video stuff at the time, immediately I thought this would be really cool and eventually got around to actually trying it. I recut the unrated trailer and then processed it through VHS, messing with the tracking and even hitting the deck a few times. The audio was basically faked though with digital filters and stuff because VHS does not degrade audio in quite the same way as it does with visuals, it just makes it sort of quiet and hissy. I thought the filmmakers and fans of Hobo With a Shotgun could appreciate it, or anybody who has grown up watching movies that looked just like this.
This was just a creative experiment. I do not own the copyright to this video, it was done for educational purposes only.
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The Dream Machine: Do you know what Scanimate is? Its an awesome machine made to make graphics and special effects for television back in the 70s and 80s. These guys were pioneering engineers and visual artists working with hardcore analogue electronics before motion graphics became the huge industry it is today.
“We sold a lot of terrible stuff for way to much money.”
Some of it was terrible sure but sometimes Scanimate was capable of some pretty cool imagery . You can buy the full documentary on DVD and read a bunch more about the history of Scanimate from the guy who owns the last functioning Scanimate system himself at scanimate.net. I’d like to see the entire documentary some time but I’d LOVE to try this thing out and make some of my own scanimations.
