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Subject:	Re: Vintage Lego Commercials Online!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general
Date:	Sun, 5 Jun 2005 05:35:59 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote: > In lugnet.general, Eric Strand wrote: > > In a post last September I wondered if the vintage Lego commercials shown at > > some Lego stores were available online. I haven't been able to find a source > > yet, but recently my good friend David Shifflett was able to capture a few on > > videotape. > > > > I've assembled some animated gifs which act as good thumbnails for the movies. > > > > Enjoy: > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=131449 > > > > Deeplinks: > > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/estrand/Vintage-TV/1962uk.gif > > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/estrand/Vintage-TV/flach-bausteine.gif > > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/estrand/Vintage-TV/ideabook.gif > > > > Caution - the last one is fairly large but also contains some of the best > > footage. Reminds me of the ideabook 238 and 239 scenes (hence the title). > > > > If anyone is planning a trip to the Lego store at Downtown Disney in Anaheim > > bring along your videocamera and let me know what you get :) Eventually maybe > > we can get an "online museum" going. I've still got some requests out to Lego > > employees so I'm hoping I can make some progress there too. > > > > Thanks, > > Eric > > > > More vintage goodness here: > > http://home.comcast.net/~strandee/ > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=estrand > > http://www.redshift.com/~shifflett/lego/ > > Between Eric, Dave Shifflett and Clark Stephens.... they keep digging up new > (old) stuff that I was not even aware of.... Awesome! > > Gary Istok Eric, Where do you find the time? What software did you use to pull the images out of the movies? If anyone wants the movies I can email them, or post on my website (for short periods only). But they are large (4 - 21 Mbyte) so be warned. dave

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		Re: Vintage Lego Commercials Online!
(...) I had some extra time at work on Friday. Yeah, that's my excuse. :) Since your movies are in quicktime I used quicktime viewer's "copy" feature to capture screenshots. Then I pasted and cropped each screenshot using a simple image viewer and (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)

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		Re: Vintage Lego Commercials Online!
(...) (old) stuff that I was not even aware of.... Awesome! Gary Istok (21 years ago, 4-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)

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