The Making of "HBO City" - 1983!!

[@xoacatl]

40 years later that intro is still the business! I didn't know it took that long to build that model city. HBO had the vision, talent and budget to pull it off

[@kerzytibok3211]

Millenials and Zoomers will never understand how exciting it was for us young Gen X'ers to see and hear that classic HBO intro. It meant there was a really good movie coming on with NO commercials and that was a special treat in those days. You have to realize that 98% of us only had the three networks channels and PBS, so watching HBO for movies was like a really cool experience. Some of my best memories were watching "Poltergeist" and "Rocky 3" on HBO.

[@THX-C]

There was just something about the very early 80s from MTV to HBO’s 1983 Opening. To this day, I’m still amazed by that city and still think Martha Quinn is the coolest. A lot had changed in 40 years but at least Tom Cruise still packs the theater seats!

[@javacup912]

LOL! I remember just tuning in to HBO just to see this intro, now over 30 years old. How things change. Thanks for posting.

[@anthonyarriaga4915]

Happy 40 Anniversary HBO City 1983 I remember Old HBO 40 Year's Later. This brings me memories.

[@BassGods]

The composer Ferdinand, also composed the popular ABC Star Tunnel intro music, from the early 80s.

[@gemstar3824]

The song in the background is hilarious in the most 80's way.

[@zacharyg9934]

1982-1998 Bring this back guys right NOOOOOWW!!!!!!

[@Lawson578]

You Mean 1982-1997?

[@antoniocantu1424]

Priceless !!!

[@edwardconboy2896]

I remember this as a kid back in the early 80s. It gave me the creeps especially after watching the HBO debut of The Amityville horror 2 : the possession. I don't know why but every time I seen this after that I always associated it with the movie. Just a silly kid I guess.

[@timlois]

Yeah, me to kinda lol. Don't know exactly why. Though, nothing scared me more than the Unsolved Mysteries theme.

[@AmerIndianWarrior]

This was so cool watching it as a kid🙂

[@paschan]

Also as an adult

[@vintageceilingfans]

This is futuristic compared to HBO's modern automated programming.. So much heart and soul put into something to make an illusion.. Such quality HBO programming had back in the day with So much talent put behind it.. Today corporations would rather hire one graphic artist and let a computer and software create something instead of REAL talent by multiple people creating something like this.. This goes to show you that computer technology can't replace what REAL people working together and creating REAL talent.. But then again it's much cheaper to use computers these days instead of buying all that material, and paying all those people.. It's a quantity world these days, quality is gone.. If anything, they should just go back to using this..

[@paschan]

Your're so accurate and right.

[@groovymusic6776]

I wonder where the HBO city is now... The model is a masterwork....

[@JHollowayNetwork]

Later on the camera-pan out was replaced by the smoke-wind effect at the beginning of the open.

[@jessyleppert2]

They had to remake it

[@erwinrogers9470]

Amazing 🔥

[@WPPCProductions]

Wow.Thank you.I seen this when it first came out..

[@SeanmanBand]

Wow, incredible. Thanks!

[@dinahkyle3196]

Welcome to HBO City

[@Lawson578]

Yep

[@kcmaldonado3948]

Now you can probably create this with your smart phone, lol

[@bendon1303]

what happened to it

[@zacharyg9934]

Illusions take alook below before the character judge a book by it's cover