I'm an editor and I have to tell you thisfootage is AMAZING and would cut very well. Almost every shot has some golden moments. I am highly impressed with what these guys did with scale planes and wire rigs.
@flyingdutchman4415 жыл бұрын
love those props starting and stopping as well as the sudden 'backwards' flight and bouncing fuselages..great stuff -star wars eat your heart out....
@rotorshawn16 жыл бұрын
What's great is that they had the foresight to keep the camera moving all the time, rather than the typical static camera... in reality, if this were real footage it would have been shot from a moving plane and I appreciate that they took that into consideration. great foreground smoke and matte painting use...
@will4ward15 жыл бұрын
As a VFX artist who worked with miniatures in films in the 90's.This is fantastic! The back drop must have been huge! the models back then were typically 2-3ft long. couldnt see the wires even. Getting depth of field on the models was difficult and required much light. I'm trying to imagine the rig holding all those models up AND moving them around. If you want to see this kind of work closer to our time look at Skotak Bros(Aliens,Terminator2) and "The Right Stuff -CGI today is no fun.
@nibornodrog12 жыл бұрын
Amazing for that era and is better than some modern stuff with all the high tech! Appreciated very much thanks.
@eljefekief15 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Effects today need to make a lot more use of models and miniatures!
@will4ward15 жыл бұрын
You are correct. Judging by the scale of the models(20-30in) the background was probably a long oil/airbrush painting about 100ft by 30ft and the clouds up front were CO2 fog and oil smoke. simply cool.
@swinglamp14 жыл бұрын
Utterly amazing! The added score was perfect.
@kullunkh112 жыл бұрын
Hi, these sequences were done for 'Reach for the Sky.' The give aways are the Me 109's and the squadron codes and type of the Spit model in the last shot.
@rolko5216 жыл бұрын
These are amazing images contrasting the beauty of flight against the backdrop of war.
@WildBillCox135 жыл бұрын
Nice stuff. Toho films would make great use of these effects for years to come.
@Northside77716 жыл бұрын
Beautifully done. The planes swinging backwards then forwards, hanging still then moving and planes with props not yet starting, then suddenly starting to spin are all pre-edits that were meant to be "cut on action." So these are the rushes. This may have been for training purposes or for a British film studio. The WWII Hollywood movie "A Yank in the RAF" though not using these specific scenes has model effects in a very similar style. Well done.
@rollosnook11 жыл бұрын
Carefully edited these scenes become indistinguishable from reality. I used to teach video and for one exercise I marionated the Apollo landing using an Airfix kit and some building materials. After careful editing, I played it to a group of students. One stood up and pulled the DV cassette out of the camera, checked the cables, scratched his head and then asked "where did you get this footage?". It was a really powerful lesson, that you can fool an audience with a budget of £10.
@philsmodelmaking22608 жыл бұрын
wow! i was going to ask what this footage was originally from, but that questions been answered in the comments, i would love to see a behind the scenes documentary about how some of these effects were achieved, especially the aircraft that does a full roll, that was unbelievable!
@rotorshawn16 жыл бұрын
Terrific footage.... Well done.....
@MadDogDucati15 жыл бұрын
wonderful stuff brilliantly done, some very convincing!
@oisiaa16 жыл бұрын
I love it, keep up the FANTASTIC work!
@openfold15 жыл бұрын
That Spit looks like a MkXVI, which was only introduced in '44. The squadron codes are for a glider-towing squadron, though, which may mean a bit of wartime disinformation.... It does resemble 'Reach For The Sky' (1956) but I don't have the whole film to find exact matches.
@carmium13 жыл бұрын
I love those planes turning in a 20-foot radius! 8-)
@georgitushev16 жыл бұрын
Very touching , makes me cry little bit!
@discoman23583 жыл бұрын
Still make you cry 12 years later?
@georgitushev3 жыл бұрын
@@discoman2358 wow, still does 🎬
@horizonflyer916 жыл бұрын
very realistic wow
@studiojulio592915 жыл бұрын
very impressive. tnx for the upload
@FPilotBierce13 жыл бұрын
REACH FOR THE SKY was just on Th¡s Network a little while ago. Yes, they used quite a bit of this exact footage, but they got away with it by using little snippets at a time, combining them with actors in mockup cockpits, intercutting with archive footage, and other tricks.
@derptank33086 жыл бұрын
This is actually pretty damn convincing
@thudar914 жыл бұрын
I believe the 1941 Special effect footage is actually a Motion Picture test reel. As simple as these effects are a test would be required to prove to the effects can be done convincingly. Many films of that era had effects like this. In the movie Casablanca the aircraft at the end is flown on a wire.
@fjbutch15 жыл бұрын
so much work....well done.
@IveeDeeVee16 жыл бұрын
Dude! this is da Bomb!
@SAL73VFX2 жыл бұрын
I´m still wondering if the filmed the models againts in real sky or if it was a huge canvas. Amazing work!
@dave4118416 жыл бұрын
Could be something for 'Reach for the Sky' maybe?
@1616Wildcat9 жыл бұрын
Nice stuff but assuredly not the first. Monogram (US), Republic (US), Universal (US) ... all US studios in fact -- used wire-hung models in many movies long before this -- mostly cheap serials. Republic's technicians were the masters of the bunch with everything from flying wings to rocketships to the Rocket Man/Commando Cody, Captain Marvel and on and on. One of the issues with all wire-hung flying models is that they turn at too flat an angle -- they sort of circle rather than lower a wing and turn pretty tightly. Not a pilot so I don't know precise terms, but these things mostly turned on a single plane, which was a giveaway if there ever was one.
@WildBillCox135 жыл бұрын
It's "Banking". Bank left to turn left. Bank right to turn right.
@JohnyG295 жыл бұрын
Idiotic comment.
@sinisterisrandom85376 ай бұрын
Still really cool.
@Bomberguy16 жыл бұрын
Max Bruch's Violin Concerto 3rd movement
@leondelevita29284 жыл бұрын
Love your video's! do you maybe have a site or some contact information? Keep up.
@B70Valkyrie15 жыл бұрын
WAY cool!!!
@RepublicCommando29videos16 жыл бұрын
must have been tough to control those planes
@LeSPauldude4515 жыл бұрын
lol looked espacially good for 41"
@smurfswacker13 жыл бұрын
This stuff is brilliant. It's awesome how something so simple...swinging models on a wire...can yield such convincing results. By "simple" I don't mean "easy"...as others have pointed out, doing this stuff right was quite difficult. Can someone tell me how they made the plane bank and slip off-screen? I can't figure that one out.
@northside77765 жыл бұрын
With careful editing and 'cutting-on-action,' these sequences would be quite effective. Some of it looks like the model combat scenes in the film "A Yank in the RAF" though I'm not saying it's exactly the same footage.
@FPilotBierce13 жыл бұрын
@smurfswacker Like around 1:30 and subsequent? I figure the model is rigged to a hinged "plate" so the "puppeteer" can use a rod to dip the inside wing down for the bank.
@matrox15 жыл бұрын
Thats 1941 CGI computer graphics.
@Bruno4760214 жыл бұрын
Is a Death Dance...
@metalrod2316 жыл бұрын
At 4:08 the He-111s threw it in reverse.
@gingerbeer315 жыл бұрын
vrooooom!!!!!!!
@Threetails13 жыл бұрын
Airfix's contribution to the war effort?
@reticulan515 жыл бұрын
beats CGI shit anyday
@dougie27515 жыл бұрын
its from reach for the sky. angles one five (great film) used real Hurrie's not models
@LostCloudx415 жыл бұрын
lol funny and cool! Least u don't have to muck about painting the models ;)