HBO: Space Intro Remastered | (60 Fps) HD - 1983

[@robertaccornero7172]

I was part of the creative crew that fabricated this entire city. I was the artist who painted every building, rooftop, roads etc. it took 4 months, 6 days a week! it was a blast!

[@daiviera9569]

That is amazing. For that time to do all that is nothing short of amazing. Thank you for your hard work. To hear this is reminiscing the movies I saw with my Dad back then. When this came on popcorn and soda in hand. Family movie night was officially underway.

[@Drhomelander]

It reminds me of beetlejuice.

[@jenimichelle]

❤❤❤

[@roninpharaoh]

I will carry the memories of this one minute production to my deathbed. One of my earliest memories and only happy memory of my parents not yet divorced was HBO movie night. Definitely saw too many PG13 and R rated movies as a toddler but hey that’s another story

[@mdgraystone]

On behalf of my siblings (and myself!), thank you! for creating a masterpiece and icon that will forever be a fond childhood memory. The 1980's were a special era in time, to say the least.

[@petbull7038]

This intro absolutely fascinated me as a kid and still does 40 years later

[@simpsthreedee3818]

Same here. And still love watching it.

[@ikshugz5016]

One hundred percent. '83 baby here.

[@AstonSubstantive]

Hell yes! They never should have abandoned this intro. It's still the GOAT.

[@disconnected22]

It cannot be said enough how this intro could hype you up if you were a kid back then. Especially if you didn’t have HBO on your own, and you were watching it somewhere else…

[@brandonmaddox4862]

I don’t know why but it felt important

[@simpsthreedee3818]

You knew good shit was about to come on.

[@thomasgriffin2326]

Yup. It would get me so excited to see a movie

[@mas5867]

Kid? I was 20. HBO made some kind of announcement before this came on so you had time to run in grab the remote and turn up the volume. What a different time.

[@elbob17]

I'm fired up now like I was 40 years ago.

[@StephenLella]

I always felt a sense of excitement when the letter O became this awesome, rainbow swirly whooshy graphic. I knew deep down in my core that I was about to witness greatness.

[@nathanshaw9688]

And then Police Academy 3 would start playing...

[@andythefork]

@@nathanshaw9688 Haha exactly. No complaints though

[@manuelalvarado6510]

For the past 40 years, the 12 note HBO fanfare that Ferdinand Jay Smith composed became the signature of the channel.

[@newpageone]

It’ll never get better than this.

[@Variety1985]

From the 80s and even to THIS VERY DAY it's possible for me to say that I am still AMAZED by this television promotion ... the MUSIC (the ORCHESTRA and even the LYRICS from the original song), the MODEL set, the CINEMATOGRAPHY, and, of course, the SPECIAL EFFECTS are all something that I still LOVE ❤

[@andreswade]

The lyrics???

[@WalterJohnson7180]

@@andreswade TIL Not only lyrics (HBO Main Theme, Part II), but an entire album. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGGukoCnlJxompY

[@Variety1985]

@@andreswade There are LYRICS in one of the videos ... did you see it? Not sure if my LINK to you was DELEATED???

[@UnnDunn]

If you saw this ident live, you knew you were about to experience some of the best material that TV had to offer at the time.

[@MillerVanDotTV]

It was great when it was a movie like Raiders of the lost Ark or European Vacation. Not so much when it was romancing the stone or Auther

[@missbleach8767]

​@@MillerVanDotTVtelevision

[@JimmyJaxJellyStax]

Still remember this as a kid, blown away

[@PatrickXIII]

I watched this into so many times as a kid. It would make me feel so excited for whatever movie was about to play. Back when I use to feel something. Now I feel nothing before a movie starts and mostly just think "This will probably suck, how long till I can go to sleep and hope not to wake up".

[@VivaciousVirgO]

Especially after resting your eyes and ears on the graphics and the haunting tone of the tune...and then seeing a Friday the 13th movie next up on the roster. And many times, you would be watching at night! I will NEVER forget the fear of it all. Eerie and amazing it was! #forever80s!

[@Stevannah321]

I remember the first time I saw this how incredible I thought it was! It’s 2024, now 58 & looking back. It still amazes me & how this generation is missing true art with modern technology & everything streaming! Good memories! 👏🏽👏🏽To all creators!

[@shanesauve1721]

This intro is truly epic. You knew you were about to watch something great. Bring it back.

[@rikstang02]

Nostalgia hit so hard 🤜 😢 with this intro that I felt an indescribable feeling in my chest.

[@cassiopeia36]

To this day, the greatest ident for anything, anywhere! I always play this before I watch/listen/play something I'm very hyped for.

[@me_839]

Almost dropped a tear! Whew! The memories of watching this intro on the floor by the heater with my big blanket! Nothing compared! Nothing

[@gfelipe1]

Watching this on a big boxy screen tv in 1984 was epic. Couldnt no one tell us nuthin.

[@michaelgleason1937]

They need to bring back that music!

[@VcrWorld]

I am 100% on board with this comment.

[@mmojdeenettfsavecanadathxt191]

@@VcrWorld stop motion

[@VBaskin2010]

No way Mister or Mistress @@mmojdeenettfsavecanadathxt191! This intro need to be in 3D/CGI, in honor of the 40th anniversary to the "HBO In Space" intro A.K.A. "The Fantasy" in 2023!!

[@VBaskin2010]

You mean "The Fantasy" by Ferdinand Jay Smith?!

[@newmoonsamesun]

This theme leading into House of Dragon s2

[@cecilrichardson2494]

They seriously need to bring this intro back! Easily one of my favorites when I first saw it. Just a shame that they only did it for on-air programming and not home videos, though.

[@luisreyes1963]

Won't be appearing on HBO's streaming service either as they were renamed MAX.

[@teknomax7883]

They used quite a lot on HBO Olé, the latin american division.

[@Laceykat66]

Still gives me a tingle. I miss when HBO was WORTH watching.

[@Torus202]

I get more nostalgic chills from this intro alone than any movie at the time I watched on HBO.

[@booshmcfadden7638]

Damn. Family in front of the TV when we finally got HBO. We went nuts to this intro.

[@sigmafactorial4314]

Seeing this as a two or three year old kid I was always so excited to stay up late for a movie and so freaked out by this intro.

[@brianreardon7700]

You and me both haha

[@missbearlockholmes]

Yeah. Being inside the I was scary...

[@remino]

It’s even more impressive when watching the behind-the-scenes video showing you how every bit of this intro was done and realising that no CG was involved, not even for the logo.

[@benjaminkuhn3688]

April 22nd, 1983 here. Greatest year to be born. Greatest era. I think of the 80's very often till this day. Thank you for sharing this wonderful hidden treasure piece.

[@mrjoe27]

April 22, 1981

[@tomkirby6780]

Man! This brought back ALL the feels!!! I loved this and was fascinated by the city and neighborhood! And it just built anticipation for whatever you waited all month to see!!!

[@MobileTaz]

I was 8 when we got cable with HBO in 1989... This intro was still in regular use and was always my favorite because it always reminded me of the intro to Beetlejuice (which I had just seen in the movies the year before).. Remains my favorite to this day!

[@nothingman3d]

Exactly!! I completely associated it with Beetlejuice when I was a kid, too.

[@frfsolrac77]

F YEAH! You knew you were in for a banger when you sat down to watch this intro. 1989 in the living room with the fam on the “big” tv…25 inch color console from Montgomery Ward.

[@bonsaibrian]

Yes! Montgomery Ward!!!!

[@derekblaustein6013]

Kids nowadays just could never understand! I mean I grew up right in the middle of New York City in the 80's, and even there we only had a total of 7 regular TV channels to choose from. If you included UHF, you'd maybe have 12 to choose from. But hardly anyone watched UHF unless you spoke Spanish or Chinese, or were looking for a late airing a Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers. So in reality most people were choosing among 7 stations, and only 3 were major networks. So when your home suddenly had HBO, or Showtime, or Cinnemax, or anything beyond the regular 7 channels, you literally felt like ROYALTY! You were now living in the lap of luxury. The excitement of hearing this jingle when I was a kid still remains fresh in my mind. I mean I'd hear this and I'd run into the room, and maybe I'd see the beginning of Star Wars or Superman or another movie I loved right after it played. It was a pretty exciting thing. These days there are like 500 channels to choose from on the TV, if you even watch TV at all, because there are so many other ways of watching things. The excitement that we felt seems to be gone nowadays.

[@SongbirdAlom]

Such a beautiful set, such bitchin music, such a dramatic build up, but then the movie was usually Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach.

[@toyvania]

No 3D (besides the logo, that must have cost a fortune back then), the stop-motion, the orchestrated music (no stock crap), the lighting and art direction. The perfect intro.

[@squishmallowfan025]

Even the logo wasn't a 3D render - they made it out of brass! Never would have thought they'd actually BUILD the logo. The multicolored lights there were fibre-optics on a mechanical system......

[@toyvania]

@@squishmallowfan025 Amazing! They really were artists back then.

[@voidFutureVector]

@@squishmallowfan025 And that is why it looks so good. Practical effect > CG

[@robertaccornero7172]

I was part of the team that created the fabricated HBO city. My task was to paint every building , all the weathering, every rooftop, road , and endless details. I used acrylics only and spent 4 months 6 daze a week along with my pals...it was such great fun project!

[@Lupinthe3rd.]

@@robertaccornero7172 how many people worked on the project?

[@es330td]

The 20 Thousand Hertz podcast about this intro is worth listening to. If this brings up feeling of joy and nostalgia the podcast will make your day.

[@DrRogerSanchez]

it's incredible how till this day this add give me chills , and how clear i remember that music

[@shanenolan085]

They should go back to this... 💯💯🔥🔥

[@rickmaldoo4205]

That intro was so exciting as a kid, I'd watch now just for the intro

[@NCRRanger7753]

God damn I loved this intro as a little kid. It was so cool before a movie my family watched together.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

I remember when TV stations used to make awesome stuff like this all the time. Kids today just don't know what they're missing. Except this is here, so I guess they do.

[@gabrielchee8470]

Internet archive: Reminding us younger folks of what life was like

[@richardgadberry8398]

Gives me goosebumps every time I see it.

[@leebryan2316]

HBO Was originally introduced in 1972. This HBO Introduction was Originally introduced in 1982. Whenever they used this musical number it would make me think that a Blockbuster movie was about to start. Star Wars, Superman, Star Trek, Close Encounters of The Third Kind. Etc. I remember when HBO Very first started out in 1972, at first it wasn't a 24-hour Premium service channel. It would go off the air at 12:00am midnight, and would not be on again until 4:00pm the next evening. I Love & Miss this HBO INTRODUCTION WITH MUSIC.Then the start of a Blockbuster movie.

[@bonsaibrian]

As im dying someday, play this intro, and i will feel no pain, feel only complete and utter joy that I'm about to enter the 1980s once again. The golden era. God this intro was amazing

[@luisreyes1963]

An impressive recreation of the HBO logo from the 80's. Bravo! 👏

[@JonesDylan874]

DUDE! NOW THIS LOOKS AMAZING!

[@alexhorton7845]

This is when you knew you better not miss the movie!

[@ZevVolf]

I grew up in the countryside and I so wanted to live in a city that looked like that.

[@digitalbauble]

Amazing... memories of childhood... music makes me hyped!

[@roklucaj]

Every now and then when I feel nostalgic for my childhood, I come back to this video. Man the 80s were great! There will never be a greater decade.

[@marcj9116]

There already was a greater decade, it was called the 70's.

[@roklucaj]

@@marcj9116 I cannot discount the 70s, they were great as well. I was in elementary school thru middle-school in the 70s. Started high school in 81. I listen to music from all decades before the 90s. Everything after the 80s pretty much sucked.

[@zachleblanc3476]

Thank you for this

[@VcrWorld]

You're welcome!

[@jasonthorpe2222]

I agree with everyone here on this amazing opening intro for HBO in the early 80's. Anybody here remember Fraggle Rock kids show that aired on HBO in the early 80's also.

[@pacificrules]

As a kid in the 80s it was such a magical and fun experience and just seeing this brings back so many memories of fun on the living room floor waiting for our movie. It's so nostalgic, brings tears of joy 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@michaelguernsey9685]

This Is Awesome! The Best HBO Intro.

[@vekkerandras]

And maybe the best television intro ever...

[@keltrepes2534]

Who else remembers during this time when this stood for “Hey, Beastmaster’s On!” because The Beastmaster played so much on HBO?

[@marvinsbprealty5760]

The music is absolutely masterful

[@jmar1973]

I used to sit on the floor with my stuffed animals and pretend that I was piloting the Millennium Falcon whenever this intro aired! 😹🐶🙋🏿‍♂️

[@Elsupermayan8870]

This intro alone is more entertaining than anything on Netflix today.

[@TheRenard10]

Getting sentimental over this intro!!

[@cooper4535]

Right after this intro the Tom Selelck movie "Runaway" is expected to play, or "Cannonball Run"

[@RhinoXpress]

The best part about this was the landscape was hand crafted. No CGI crap, just many hours of hands on hard work by a team of skilled people that put that landscape together.

[@missbleach8767]

🦏

[@NordicDan]

Impressive work! Would love to hear your process on the upscale. Sounds like the music was even cleaned up too

[@ZeeZedZee]

Yeah, I distinctly remember distortion during the theme around 0:43, the way I heard it my entire childhood. This is the best quality I’ve ever seen it in.

[@dustinneely]

Totally awesome. The 80s...what a time to be a kid!

[@SovekOnivris]

I spent way too long at 12am trying to remember what this music was from having it stuck in my head and only having vague memories of it being linked to an old vhs recording

[@NicoleSmith-hx1fr]

Wicked!!!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤thank you

[@ralphwiggum3134]

They went from this epic intro to video static with a tone.

[@danielfranceschini1]

The horror

[@MovieFan1912]

“We’re incredible I guess, ahhhh.”

[@missbleach8767]

The Simpsons

[@missbleach8767]

​@@MovieFan1912📽️

[@numb3r5ev3n]

You knew movie night at home was going to be lit when this played.

[@squangan]

Nothing compares to this for a movie intro. There is no other intro or ad that I’ve looked up 40 years after it was on the air just to see if it’s online.

[@TimBorka]

Great work!

[@georgecisneros5281]

For those times when this supremely classic intro was the highlight and draw even more so than the program that followed…🙌👍😆

[@BearOfTheDead]

If I ever make a film worthy of having an HBO premiere, I am forcing them to use the classic 1983 intro for it.

[@christineboyce4076]

I wish they would bring this back.

[@michaelmachung7233]

HBO needs to bring this incredible intro and music back! In fact, I never thought they'd get rid of it.

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

Whatever they’re doing now, there’s no way it’s as cool and memorable as this

[@Pixelated_Moon]

Just as I can never again not hear Game of Thrones' theme following the TV static intro, this one is forever prologue to my Muppets movie memories.

[@RedPolarBearRanger]

They used miniatures to pull this off and it’s beautiful I like this did amazing intro.

[@timothyroberts8347]

talk about great memories . That was a wonderful time to be alive;

[@tiffaniemichelle8499]

Bought back some memories here

[@Mike-gl4wt]

This was my childhood HBO so many memories the new HBO is boring but still a fun channel to watch.

[@robintst]

And with that, HBO pretty much beat every other company intro for anything ever.

[@JayFingers]

NICE! This clip encapsulates my entire childhood! 🤣🤣

[@missbleach8767]

🖐️

[@jonjones487]

The best way to indentfy if the movie you were going to watch was about to be one for the record books

[@robertcarrion4069]

Ah my childhood. This was back when HBO was like "so Spielberg and Elfman think they can have all the fun huh, we'll see about that"

[@JoshFriedlander]

“And now….Road House…”

[@carlitocartel8797]

I remember sitting around the big tv floor model we knew something good was about to come on how the camera moves through the city and countryside was epic Dame I miss being a kid very good times

[@user-gz6ng5cf3c]

I’m gonna use this as a opening on my vacation reel. It’s gonna feel like a movie lol 🎥 🍿

[@edwardrichardson8254]

Exposing countless adolescent boys like myself back then to their first steamy flicks, Amen. After the adults went to bed (or out bowling or something, they were in their early 30s back then), HBO didn't give a F who was watching, HEAVY METAL was going to run.

[@cooper4535]

I hear the music in my head even when the volume is muted.

[@erikerice9068]

So is it weird for me to say that I actually miss this intro

[@markherron1407]

Happy 😁 40th Anniversary HBO! Blessings and Hugs 💖💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕!

[@jaypowell5064]

The Goonies about to come on.

[@ertmnews9159]

This intro is REALLY epic!

[@ZMAN_420]

One of the BEST HBO INTOS TO DATE! 👍🏻🇺🇲

[@MFLMFE]

I remember there was a behind the scenes special about the making of it too

[@sdrob6374]

Minutes before the VCR home rental explosion HBO showed movies first after their theatrical run

[@JB-bo6yf]

Absolutely love that that's like the coolest thing ever and I remember watching that on the Black Box the cable black box back in the day😇😇😇😇👍👍👍👍💖💖💖💖

[@silver06gto]

I can here everyone running like crazy from the kitchen and bathroom to get back to the seats when this came on...bwhahahahahahah

[@jennifermarkovich9392]

I was scared of the HBO theme sound when I was little I would cry every time it came on and my parents would laugh because they dint know why so they old hurry and shut it off or lower the volume. I was also afraid of the unsolved mystery music. Yeah seems silly now but I was only 3

[@kingsnake23]

I miss that intro

[@missbleach8767]

👑 🐍

[@mattcrowley8993]

I would love to see this actually come back, I don’t care if it’s done in CGI.

[@damin9913]

I will always enjoy this so much it was so magical and peaceful😇

[@andythefork]

Need a cigarette every time after this plays and I don't even smoke

[@amit_patel654]

Holy shit I remember this as a 90s kid 😮

[@wildsurfer12]

This should have been played when the first episode of Game of Thrones premiered on TV!

[@missbleach8767]

🏄

[@FarmersAreDummies]

HBO was THE channel to get in the 80's. I really wanted it, but my dad said it was a "rip-off" and we stuck to our roof antenna 😅. Good times.