Designing the 80s #2 - Early 80s entertainment

Having explored the rise of computer graphics and music videos in the previous episode, now it's time to focus on design within 80s movies and cartoons. Exploring the new trends and opportunities that emerged in the entertainment industry. Resulting in new pop-culture icons from Dragon's Lair, Tron to He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
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//Narration by Betsy Winchester
//Music and Sources
For the complete track-listing with time-codes skip to the end of the video. Sources used for this video are also listed there.
//Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:51 Home Video market
02:43 Laser Disc
04:43 Tron
06:55 Syd Mead
08:25 Star Wars
11:20 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
13:34 New animated shows
17:00 End

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Can't wait for the next part! Mid-80s, LET'S GOOO!! I was born in '84 so it should be an even bigger nostalgia bomb than this one! LaserDiscs have a special place in my heart. Remember kids, LaserDiscs were the analog verison of DVDs. They were the size of a regular vinyl, had sound and video on both sides (you had to take it out of the player and flip it lol), they had simple chapter/scene menus for you to navigate, and of course you could fast forward, rewind, and pause. The covers they came in would have the numbered chapters on the back with text, because on the TV only the numbers showed. Sometimes there were multiple discs for the movies that required bigger space. Also sometimes, they had special editions with special features just like how you got on DVDs and Blu-Rays today: extended cuts, interviews, commentary, documentaries, etc. Someone mentioned simply accepting Tron's visual effects as-is, and y'know what? I get it. We already had something similar with Star Wars. I remember being absolutely amazed when I first saw the original Tron. It was playing on TV, and I instantly wondered how in the heck they managed to do all those digital visuals! It never occurred to me it was computers, because at the time our own family computer was a Compaq PC-Compatible that ran MS-DOS. At that age I had no idea so much was possible. ...That was an unexpectedly long wall of text. Thank you so much for the video, strafefox!

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I had no idea that Inspector Gadget and The Smurfs animated show were even older than me- I saw them in reruns as a kid and just presumed they were contemporary. Still, cool to see this era even if it's something I've read about more than Ive seen it, as the explosion of new stories and franchises came and changed the landscape... even if it couldn't change it to the point where we got all the cool things we'd ever want, like that Wild Things-movie. And man, japanese (and probably korean) studios really got a lot of mileage out of Europe wanting it's stories as animated shows. I didn't even know we had an animated version of Nils Holgerson, I only knew of the live-action show.

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Extremely interesting! As small kid in the late 80's, early 90's I didn't even think about all the effort and project machinery behind all these productions. I just took them as is. Like, it was just around the late 2000's that I learned that Tron was revolutionary upon release. Transformers from USA, Nils from Sweden, Maya from Germany (at least the original comic/book was from there), many Chech and Slovakian, as well as Hungarian products and at that time I thought the actual drawing of each frame was the only hardship. Back to Tron, I thought at that time that it was possible "to make anything with computer graphics anyway". Of course, since then I learned how hard it was to create all these products and I experience during the work hours how hard and near impossible it is to bring something from the idea to stable live use. This channels helps much to learn even more details.

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Ja, hij mocht natuurlijk niet ontbreken in deze video ;)

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