The History Of Special Effects - part 1

[@nhmooytis7058]

I have been fascinated by SFX since the late ‘70s (Star Wars), thanks for this concise doco!

[@guitaro5000]

6:21 when you realize this is an old documentary and they are never going to talk about Adobe After Effects.

[@truBador2]

Good documentary!

[@atwaterpub]

Love these "Behind the Scenes" VFX videos. Thanks for posting. Good job.

[@KronicShade]

Georges Melies is known to have made 531 films (with only about 200 still in existence). As fare as the statement said at around 2:18 where they say he produced some 4000 films in all, I checked and found no evidence of this anywhere online. I have a feeling the original script said something along the lines of "he produced some 4000 hours of film".

[@two_owls]

Some really interesting stuff here, but also some old wives tales. Audiences didn't faint when seeing filmed trains for the first time, nor did any notable number of people think King Cong was real lol!

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

My great-grandmother saw one of the early movies where an African tribesman threw a spear towards the camera. The people really did duck. I think she also saw the train movie. She went on a train trip to NYC during silent film days. People thought a lot of stuff in the movies was real, because they weren't familiar with any of the ways to fake things. By the time my generation came along, these things were common knowledge. There used to be a children's magic show on Saturday mornings with Mark Wilson. He would announce that there were no "camera tricks" during his show.

[@two_owls]

@@bite-sizedshorts9635 I'm willing to bet that "duck" here really means she flinched when something went towards the camera, like we all still do sometimes. That, plus the exaggeration/distortion that often comes with memory (and telling a story multiple times over the years) and you get "It was so real that I ducked to avoid the spear!"

[@complexproductions5525]

William- This is great! I recall seeing this on PBS. Thanks for uploading this, years ago! There is, obviously, more to this- a Part 3? I recall them showing the "Panasonic Glider" (Search YT for this) and an ad for 4-Wheelers in CGI. Just curious, also, if you know the creators of this production? Again - Thanks for the mems- this docu def sparked my interest is some of what I do, even today!

[@lifewithlani2637]

No mention of Ray Harryhausen. Stop-mo and layered shot master. Just watch Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans (1981).

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

They supposedly went to the "beginning" but never mentioned the Lydecker brothers. One of their innovations was to use larger miniatures and film them outside in natural light. They, along with their father earlier, did effects for a ton of films. They did the robots and sets for the 1935 serial "The Phantom Empire." They did effects for the TV shows "Lost in Space" and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea."

[@stopmotionking49]

Im the new master of stopmotion this got me turn on to dtopmotion

[@Eric_Katz]

I also recorded this old documentary, but with lower audio fidelity [LP Speed]. Surprisingly, no footage from this segment is on the ANDROID DVD. Maybe the Blu-ray version will have the behind the scenes footage and extra interviews with the cast and crew.

[@mrwhitemantv]

now history repeats... on KZbin

[@imperialmoh]

Watching this December 8, 2020😒🔥

[@angeloszormpas8427]

12:22 that's how you know it was made in the eighties: sweet space synthesizer rif!

[@niktaronikov]

Thank you for the video from Ukraine. It's very interesting.

[@yank3656]

thanks for sharing William Forsche

[@WilliamForsche2]

You are very welcome, Happy Halloween! :)

[@GidgetLopeman]

Watching this December 8, 2020

[@SethHesio]

Lol... the makers of this documentary clearly had a lot of access to the film Android?!

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

And none of the old Republic and Mascot movies that originated a lot of the techniques. Look up the Lydecker brothers.

[@oobrocks]

"Stop Motion," not "Stop frame animation"

[@arrashidzein6046]

wow

[@losbichosdeaxel]

wow George Melies invented the tokusatsu!!! 2:17

[@yan2292008]

thanks for sharing "WilliamForsche2"

[@SethHesio]

10:24 Klaus Kinski!!

[@jeffking4176]

One of the most important "fx" pioneers was Coy Watson Sr.......never mentioned

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

Neither were the Lydecker brothers.

[@stevemaness2015]

cool brah

[@benjamindbailey]

State of the art scene? ;) Good to see the history, though.

[@mattdawg83686]

I haven’t seen Android in over three decades.

[@mandrake2273]

I know! I do too!

[@tameryigit737]

12:26 gömleğini eşofmanın içine koyan adamı ciddiye alamıyorum

[@biswajitmedhi9070]

I have my answer now.

[@SB111058]

MINI-Ah-Choor.

[@bobrew461]

Whoever made this, needs to go do some more research. Because there were many MANY more pioneers of effects in Europe besides Georges Meliés. What about the Russian sci-fi films of the 1950s and '60s? What about all the British FX technicians of the 1960s and '70s? Why so much on Americans?

[@mef2005]

Where is Fritz Lang's "Metropolis"? The effects were groundbreaking.

[@nhmooytis7058]

bob rew why not make your own, you entitled moron, instead of dissing someone else’s effort? Millenial asshole.

[@nhmooytis7058]

mef2005 you too another asshole.

[@keineken_3281]

Like si lo ves por cadi :v

[@neonblood]

zi

[@sekainiheiwa3650]

7:10 Thats how it was made the first US space walking :)

[@marcmaschal2897]

Pretty outdated now.CGI has replaced most of these technics

[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

But looks faker. Look up the Lydecker brothers and their effects. Theirs looked better because they used larger models and filmed outside in natural light. They could make a real person appear to really fly around outdoors. Later in their careers, they worked on the TV shows "Lost in Space" and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea."

[@DaniellaHaifley]

Thank you for the video from Ukraine. It's very interesting.