Earthquake Mirror

[@RustyKeys72]

The Curiosity Show still delivers great entertainment and knowledge all these years later. Brilliant.

[@CuriosityShow]

Thanks for your kind remarks. Please tell your friends about the Curiosity Show KZbin channel. Deane.

[@CaptainGreyboots]

Deane! That was Academy Award material, bravo! Besterest actoring since the cast of Neigbours, Home And Away et al. Author author sir!!

[@bbbbbzzzzzzzzzz5431]

Oy !

[@peter_castle]

I'm glad you uploaded this segment. Your show connects me with Australia, the 1980s, with you two, and with curiosity.

[@steviebboy69]

I loved this show when i was a kid and I guess you learn something every day. I always thought they shook the camera to get the Quake movment,.

[@CuriosityShow]

Tell your friends about our KZbin channel. kzbin.info Deane.

[@steviebboy69]

Yes I will, I really did like this show when it was on the TV.

[@smadaf]

"The place is gonna fall down! That's ridiculous!" The deep things we say during earthquakes!

[@bland9876]

Sounds like a much better idea than just trying to shake the camera around. And definitely cheaper than buying one of those platforms that you stand on that wiggle around which is how I hear they make movie sets.

[@jameshaywood878]

It's amazing how the newspaper knew there was a earthquake coming.

[@bland9876]

Earthquakes are one of the hardest things to predict but if an earthquake usually happens every so often then you can kind of get an idea of one another one will occur you just won't know exactly when.

[@elbee2324]

So why don't you just shake the camera? Two reasons... one, studio cameras tend to be heavy and fixed on to rigs that make them either very stable or only moving in certain directions... two, it's hard to get the minor tremors right while shaking a hand held camera. It tends to over-exaggerate the movement.

[@89horizon]

"So why don't you just shake the camera?" *I'm glad you asked!

[@peter_castle]

Also, back then cameras were tremendously expensive and heavy and fragile, unlike a phone with camera we have today. So, shaking the camera would have been also a tremendously expensive segment.

[@smadaf]

Yet another reason, besides the risk of damage to the camera, is that vibrating the camera can cause electronic distortion in the picture. In 1996, I had an analog NTSC Sony Video8 HandyCam (with a CCD) on a professional wheeled tripod made for smooth, indoor floors. With the camera recording, I rolled the tripod across an asphalt (tarmac) surface outdoors. The picture recorded on tape during the bumpy rolling has big faults in the horizontal hold, with each of the primary colors (red, green, blue) following its own pattern of distortion. Using a mirror, you can get much the same shaking of the scene without electronically distorting the shapes and colors. With a vibrating mirror, you also can record sound optically on film . . .

[@garyp4374]

I keep scrolling past then I go hang on this is Rob and Dean it's probably worth watching, go back and are absolutely delighted that I did

[@hyperintelligentfish3873]

Give that man an Emmy!

[@HxTurtle]

hey, did the replay in the end just reveal a portion of the blueish cardboard to the right? that probably wasn't even visible on a regular TV back then thanks to overscan.

[@kaijuseansy8122]

Curiosity Show inspired me to grow a mustache.

[@carcaridon]

Maybe in the future a portable telephone with its very own camera,that requires no film or electric wires that fits in my pocket could be used to film such things. Maybe even have an application that produces the earthquake effect? A bold prediction yes,but not that crazy

[@SteveFrenchWoodNStuff]

Very clever!

[@uriituw]

Drop all that dirt on the floor and amaze your parents.

[@Maninawig]

Rewatching this, I am wondering if rolling shutter might change the game a bit.

[@sladflob]

The Channel 9 logo on the camera brought back lots of memories.

[@HandyFox333]

Deane: The whole place is going to fall down. That's ridiculous! There's no way.

[@urbanexplorer1754]

Amazing, my dear Deane

[@neilgerace355]

The wavy effect is an artefact of the conversion of the video to digital, isn't it?

[@StowNova]

DANG!! I knew I shouldn't've thrown out my old video recorder and camera....

[@smadaf]

Finally, someone else who writes "shouldn't've"!

[@U014B]

1:04 You invited me mum on set?

[@alkylperchlorate388]

Oscar worthy

[@justindie7543]

But how did the dust fall on his head!?

[@SteveFrenchWoodNStuff]

That was the work of gravity.

[@CuriosityShow]

We had the props boy sitting up in the studio lighting grid tipping flour on me. It was messy but effective. Deane.

[@NoLandMandi]

@@CuriosityShow at the first glance, I thought you used real dirt from the street! I'm glad you mention the flour. I wish they had this program overseas but I'm glad you put it on youtube now! thanks, forget a great job then and now sir, you guys are legends!

[@alderusdmc]

Well, my original guess as to how you made an artificial earthquake in the studio was the set having been built on a large hydraulically-operated platform. Move the hydraulics in a certain way (in front of a fixed camera) to simulate the earthquake.

[@metamech7383]

FCPX says na-uh!

[@HxTurtle]

damn, due to no longer having such brilliant shows, I turned out really stupid. when Dean presented the cardboard, box, and rubber bands, for a brief moment I thought, that's what he gonna use to fix his GoPro with 🤣🤣🤣

[@lordrampenthump422]

or... add camera shake in after effects!

[@SanjayKumar-qh5hl]

Australia doesn't experience earthquakes!

[@ikarikid]

There was a big one in Newcastle in 1989. It was one of our worst natural disasters.

[@AJWRAJWR]

I've felt tremors here.

[@neilgerace355]

In 1968, a M6.5 earthquake flattened Meckering WA, causing so much damage the town had to be moved. Damage also occurred in Perth, 130 km away.

[@ghostman5620]

The 60s Star Trek show is saying... Yeah...that would've been better.

[@smadaf]

Motion-picture cameras and television cameras are significantly different from each other. Building a mirror-image set, and getting actors with mirror-image faces, hairstyles, and costumes, are hard.