One of the best examples I know of a "high power, tight sync" opening. Definitely one of my favorites. Can you spot the syntax error? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2PoXfZdYVU
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@lauren I watched S1:E1 and all I gotta say is, "Wow, those are some lame effects :-)" I know I'm spoiled and I suspect a very limited budget. Seeing all the 70's assumptions about technology carrying on into the future is always wild, CRTs, tape drives, walls of switches, buttons, and lights.
@ChuckMcManis @lauren Well it was made in 1970 but the setting was 1980 so it wasn’t that far into the future. I remember using half-inch reel tape well into the 1980s.
Question: “you eff oh” or “you foh”?
@stuartmarks @ChuckMcManis At least at SHADO they pretty consistently called them u-foes.
@lauren @ChuckMcManis The only place I ever heard u-foe is the TV series. I thought they were consistent about it, but they weren’t. I started watching S1E1 and 11 minutes in, Freeman says you eff oh and not 30 seconds later Straker says u-foe! I thought it was an American/British English thing but maybe not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=XoQkKSX3ALtchMAg&t=660&v=HHPlfucFsKI&feature=youtu.be
@ChuckMcManis You obviously don't understand Gerry's legacy of Thunderbirds and the other amazing Supermarionation series that proceeded it. These were all tabletop practical effects, including all of the explosions and other seemingly massive pyrotechnics. If you're going to concentrate on comparing those handcrafted effects to the endless blight of modern CGI, you've completely missed the point. I say this as someone who worked on the first Trek film, "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in an effects division.
@lauren You might be surprised how much I understand, then again you might not.
I suspect you know, or have at least met, Mike Okuda. Mike attended BayCon in 1990 and got involved in a couple of really interesting discussions (one at lunch and one at a private event). The root of that discussion was being futuristic while still being recognizable. Gerry's work and that of H.R. Giger and J. Lancaster came up. It all depends on the goal of the director, and 'campy' can be a goal.
@ChuckMcManis Really the only point here is that at the time the most reasonable (and yes, cost effective, given this was ITC!) way to handle the effects was to use the same miniature effects that had been used for Supermarionation. The CRTs and blinking lights and switches and stuff were of course S.O.P. for the era.
@weaselx86 Yep. Bugged me even when I saw it first run in 1970.
