'1884' Terry Gilliam presents '1884 Yesterdays Future'... Animation test..

[@Digscomics]

I love the whole style of this film. It feels a bit like what Gerry Anderson might have done if he'd got into steampunk, there's a real charm to it. Also, AIR TRAMS!

[@aidanbiddiscombe3604]

This is too bloody brilliant to be an animation test!

[@frglovr]

Brilliant as always Terry!

[@jnelson4765]

Terry Gilliam doing steampunk. A childhood dream I never knew I had has been fulfilled.

[@wooohaaa77]

To all the people that criticize the "logic" of flying bikes with wheels or an anchor in space, etc. etc.... you CLEARLY missed the point of a "futuristic" film envisioned from the standpoint of the 1800's and have no clue of history or the "logic" that you dare speak of. GOOD FILM!!! GOOD JOB!!! IMAGINATIVE ANIMATION STYLE!!!

[@gabrielaubry1334]

"Tha mune is now a colony of Gweat Bwitain!"

[@peeteyweety]

I can remember Tim working on this way back in the mid 1980s, before "Steam Punk" was even a thing! Tim invented this style single handed. Glad it's finally getting somewhere. What an amazing artist he is.

[@l.t.reeves4139]

I absolutely LOVE this....I can watch it over and over...I wish I could be there Full steam ahead!!!!!

[@ultimateSpagety]

it just goes to show, no matter what time period you come from, people always imagine the future with flying cars.

[@jeremyshafer6720]

“Good evening, ladies and gentle-MEN.” In the 10+ years since I first saw this short, Ive probably thought of this line at least once a month.

[@artstrader7954]

"The moon is now a colony of Gwait Bwitain!" So awesome! Please! Will someone make a full length animated movie from this? 0:31; "Ladies and gentle-MEN!" And when the guy's monocle pops off his eye when he hears the word, 'horrify'! Is anyone else watching this in 2018?

[@OasisFae]

That was adorable! Loved the animation. :)

[@ateliercreosote4589]

Beautiful work!

[@hankrearden20]

Terry and Tim Burton should get together on this one.

[@darwinprophet]

most delightful, and i love the pig n whistle airship pub :) i'm posting with giddy jubilation.

[@ShadowOfMachines]

Love the animation style.

[@bowerfilms]

Totally wonderful!

[@occamsrayzor]

Superb. Terry Gilliam is one of the few true artists of the film industry, in my opinion.

[@johnneedham1056]

The final funding is being put in place and we hope to begin production with a full head of steam very shortly. It's been a long haul but the moon wasn't conquered in a day after all.

[@kefta4ever219]

Just Beautiful!

[@martynadams9942]

Brilliant!

[@welllazvdo2216]

The mouth 👄 moving along with the sound, which is known as voice work or lipsynching, whatever... Is top notch! 😍

[@HonoluluPickles]

Wow, this was really good! I enjoyed every second of it :)

[@mysteron007]

Great Stuff , Keep Puppets and Models Alive :)

[@BuckyDK]

I like how 1000 years after we still aint got nothing even close to this stuff...cept the blimps and spacecraft

[@videojeff01]

This was great! I love these "retro-future" ideas!

[@Wolfen443]

Nicely done, I love the old fashioned Marionettes as characters. -

[@seanstark4312]

That Master of Ceremonies character reminds me of Steve Oedekerk's Thumb movies

[@nigelcarren]

Thank you stranger, this is the first time I had heard of this??? Best wishes from one one maker of miniature marvels to another... SUBSCRIBED! 🏆⚒️🇬🇧

[@Audrey7648]

Love it!!! More Please!!

[@KOGR11]

very Georges Méliès type, well done.

[@guitarmdpittsburgh7139]

WOW! The future looks AMAZING! Thanks Terry!

[@EpicLuigi24]

I like this kind of steampunk. Not everything is dark and gothic. That's something I've never understood. The Victorian Era was all about optimism for the future, but almost all steampunk media is gloomy.

[@hdes937119]

Victorian Era isn't all about glory and sunshine, to working class and lower who lived in filth and contaminated environment(like somewhere in China now), they can't share the happiness this era posses.

[@EpicLuigi24]

Jasan Chou I know, but even the darker parts of steampunk media don't focus on the poor. It's usually just a plain "dark" story about a "dark" person.....being "dark". Rarely the poor. That would actually be interesting..... What I'm trying to say is that it seems to not focus on the actual time period, just antique ascetics. Just look up "steampunk" in Google images. Do any of those people look like lower class workers or jolly adventurers? The factory workers or the pith-hatted colonizers? All I can see are models in improbable dresses.

[@netwolfe]

EpicLuigi24 First I want to say that both you and Jasan Chou make value points. Now if you like I can suggest (and provide links for) a steampunk web comic and/or a steampunk short film that is available on KZbin. Both are of a lighter side of steampunk I think you are looking for, but I will make the suggestions if you are interested.

[@EpicLuigi24]

netwolfe Sure, sounds interesting.

[@netwolfe]

EpicLuigi24 Okay. The short film is called Tea Time, (Full title of the Video: "Tea Time" Steampunk Short Film) it’s about eight and thirty-six seconds long. To avoid spoiling too much I’ll just say the plot is about an inventor. The video was posted by the KZbin channel J. Derek Howard. Here is the link. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iovEZXeelKasb6M The webcomic I would recommend is Girl Genius. Follows the adventure of woman who is a mad scientist. Okay, the term they use is that is a spark, but for all intents and purposes, sparks are mad scientists. But she’s a good mad scientist that helps people. www.girlgeniusonline.com/

[@SB111058]

absolutely spot-on observation!!...

[@vendettajames3080]

OMG I STILL LOVE THIS

[@guntherthequizmaster9515]

Outstanding dieselpunk short film you have there!

[@Authenictruthoid]

This was GREAT ! Did you know that phonograph needle goes back to 1878 and film is 1885. They used glass before film to make picture's.

[@CaptGage]

Dazzling! A celebration of the imagination! That's what it's all about!

[@maxevry]

Amazing! So charming, wondrous!

[@edgleason8918]

The coal powered projector reminded me of when I started teaching.

[@diasirea]

Great video

[@TKuja1]

cool, i'm glad to know the history of the moon colony i live in

[@johndeggendorf7826]

... hey, you look kind of familiar. Didn’t we meet on the moon colony?

[@TinkerUSB]

ausome keep up the good work, love it!

[@TubbiusMaximus]

Anyone else reminded of H. G. Well's The First Men in the Moon from this.

[@radioman970]

In The Adv of Baron Munchhausen they sailed to the moon. SAILED! Imagine that? Takes some special something to fully appreciate the anchor you mentioned and the concept of sailing from Earth to moon on a ship... nobody does this kind of fantasy anymore.

[@Jimvanhise]

I guess this film needs a guardian angel because studios may be shying away from Gilliam as his last few films have all bombed badly (like opening and closing in a week in spite of Gilliam promoting them himself). Terry needs a breath of fresh air like this.

[@bluemoonsenshi]

very amusing :) and I like the animation style, the way the people move reminds me of marionettes, or those antique wind-up toys (like the cymbol-clanking monkey and others)

[@SB111058]

It was the 'Steam Motion Projection Transmission Engineers' back then... ...

[@radioman970]

Tell her to make one then and upload it so we can see. Because so far Mr. Gilliam is the winner.

[@moonbeamchaos]

"terry gilliam". well,......there you have it.

[@TeslaLightningSeeds]

BRILLIANT. . .

[@snarkus63]

If Aardman had done "Jasper Morello"... (seriously,this is fantastic.It should be a feature!)

[@nhull55]

Awesome

[@RansomBackus7]

Terry Gilliam has done a lot of steampunk: Baron Munchausen, Brazil, Erik The Viking, Time Bandits...to name a few. When I think of steampunk in movies I first think of him.

[@ed2bob]

This is beautiful.

[@zillaje]

i've never seen anything like this. i love it.

[@JedAnimationStudios]

GOD, I love Alternate History!!!

[@ovician]

Anyone else get recommended this after watching Last Exile? Great recommendation KZbin. I'm ok with this.

[@rcreynolds6186]

cool.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

A masterpiece! I like how the imagined 1884 is but a slight exaggeration of the real 1884.

[@JamesChristopherHill]

love this video. Saw it when it first came out. He's a mad genius!'

[@peeteyweety]

This is Tim Olive's work - totally his. Terry Gilliam has put his name to it to help get it financed.

[@jessemcdonald5124]

Ive never seen this. I LOVE it

[@sneakyrabbits]

looks much better than that other trailer

[@MrReded69]

I hope they really do make this movie!

[@angelincoming]

epic win for art!

[@difficultview]

Terry, you were always a "steam punk" at heart...beginning with BRAZIL, of course! :)

[@wosuh]

@MikeTaylorLives as a huge Gilliam fan ever since Brazil, i am just seriously concerned. he definitely should check out what's been done in Steamboy, a bit childish yet beautifully and masterfully executed animation.

[@luisvelazquez3972]

✨ When this film was made and it was betraying the Victorian era the British empire was very powerful and it seemed they were the ones who are going to pass the American and the other Europeans in the future but the puppet show was my case was short but it was still a good story line and I did enjoy the scenery of the film 🦅

[@horizon592]

fabulous

[@SB111058]

@musketeersteveliddle I recon you hit the nail on the head, sir...

[@SilasMortimer]

I really enjoyed that, but with the allusion to the 1930's "Frankenstein" intro, plus the live actor's mouth on the animated figure, it reminded me of Steve Oedekerks' "Frankenthumb". Not a bad thing, just interesting.

[@AngryVGFur]

funny thing is, a steam-powered space shuttle is actually plausible (in zero gravity, at least)

[@Ephisus]

Really interesting style

[@zenbeer]

fun to watch, wish the story were longer.

[@geomonicdotorg]

I have one critique for this - the 'futurists' of yesteryear generally assumed that the "gadgets, contraptions and vehicles of tomorrow" would be as artistically and ornately advanced as the technology. So, whereas the futurists of the 1950's and '60's all pictured everyone in the future wearing shiny mylar jumpsuits, the Victorian and pre-Victorian futurists envisioned all things technologically advanced being richly baroque. Including fashion designs. I did not see that in the characters.

[@glumpot]

Yesterdays future; as it might have been today!

[@EMBEEization]

nice

[@TheAyeAye1]

I'd buy a ticket to that.

[@SB111058]

That would be nice...

[@sclogse1]

Seems to be a promo...but the end is a bit confusing...and we haven't met any protagonists....but definitely a super production....I hope to see more.

[@MisterTalkingMachine]

Before the wright brothers made their first flight, in 1890, a man called Clément Ader managed to make a steam powered flying machine that flyed about 50 metres, but it was uncontrollable and unuseful.

[@bluemoonsenshi]

Not to us, but imagine yourself as someone from the Victorian era - at that time they still didn't believe man would ever fly, let alone make it off the planet.

[@sylviahacker6695]

Fun!

[@potocrok]

I want to get the complete song which sounds at the start

[@TheNimshew]

That's the myopic humans in a nutshell. We can only foresee a future modeled after what we know. The now isn't at all like it was envisioned to be 60 years ago. And so it will always be.

[@r-cweber2078]

wich nice ideas they have. ist ja unglaublich

[@r-cweber2078]

???????

[@chowdersbuddy]

The Bell scared me in the begining

[@edgleason8918]

I called CarMax. Still no flying cars.

[@MikeTaylorLives]

@wosuh It's a Terry Gilliam work. You know, the guy who did the animated bits for Monty Python and went on to produce "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"? It's a joke in the sense that it's deliberately silly, but Gilliam treats his work quite seriously.

[@hotelelectric6309]

I’m Jesús Gonzàlez, from the Hotel Elèctric association. We are organizing a film screening about Retrofuturism and Steampunk, that will take place next February, 15th, in Barcelona, in the context of the first Retrofuturist Week. We would like to include 1884 in our event. We need for your permission to screen your movie in this event and, if you agree, some information to include in the press kit. Thank you very much for your time

[@GregMcMahan]

I just has a steampunkgasm!

[@electronic_bunny]

Haha this is actually in "steampunk wiki as the first steam punk movie ever released in 1886

[@MrChief101]

Okay, just got here 11/17, now where did this go? C'mon, Gilliam, snap out of it and do more of this. (Or should I be looking up Tim Olliver?)

[@garts66]

Haha,,,how cool.

[@Pelerin985]

When I saw it first, I thought that it would be steampunk remake of the book 1984...

[@Pynaegan]

To some one living in 1848 it could very well have been horrifying.

[@EccentricGentelman]

Anyone know what happened to this film? I've never seen it in cinemas or for sale anywhere.

[@SwordoftheLearned]

Id love to know how this animation was accomplished.

[@yereverluvinuncleber]

Don't be stupid... of course it would, it simply drags into the luminiferous ether and latches onto any pockets of phloginston