This is something pretty neat that I just found at CartoonBrew.com. It's an old HBO mini-doc on the "HBO Starship" thingy that ran before movies in the early 80s. Apparently, it was all done with in-camera optical effects, not CGI. Pretty neat stuff. It makes me miss the feeling from when I was a kid that watching a movie on TV was an event (It's hard for me to recall the last time that even seeing a movie in a theater felt like much of an event). Anyone who was an 80s kid probably has fond memories of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Et_LsxlX8Y...artoonbrew.com/http://www.cartoonbrew.com/advertising/the...-starship-introI think the only thing that gives me a comparable feeling that the movie I'm about to watch is an "event" is an 80s/90s Hong Kong studio logo:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lL2Pmec3KbE Wow, not only do I remember that starship intro, but I even recall seeing this making-of docu about it. Thanks for bringing back the memories!
Fortunately this YouTube machine has brought the song "Illusions" by Jonathan L. Segal back into the public limelight. Surely this will song will be played during every Making-Of featurette from now on. As it was meant to be.
"Illusions! / You're goin' into a trance! / About to fall for that ol' hocus-pocus...!"