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Re: Lego Space Animation from the early 80's
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lugnet.space
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Sat, 29 Jan 2000 18:58:31 GMT
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> More than you know!
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> A friend of mine (Daniel Patrick Curtis III, are you out there???) made a test
> liftoff super-8 movie, using the same ship model... the classic 487 Space
> Cruiser! I had a bag of Polyfil that I used to simulate the exhaust. It ALMOST
> looked believable...
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> We also did some test shots of minifigs walking, and Dan had a large robot with
> movable arms and tractor-tread feet that we tried out.
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> I really like your film. You were VERY patient. We tried to keep the action
> slow, but it was really hard not to rush things, particularly because parts are
> so small. Minifigs jogged, more than walked. Our spaceship liftoff was a bit
> too fast.
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> Thanks for the walk down Memory Lane!
Thank you for your kind words. Yeah, I HAD to be patient. There were times
(more than once) where I was in the middle of a shot that I had been working on
for a few hours and I'd accidentally bump the camera -- so had started the shot
over. This happened in the opening shot where the minifig drives up to the gas
station (the beginning of which is not in the movie. When I retransferred the
super-8 film to video tape recently, the transfer house cut off the first few
seconds for some bizarre reason. Since I had given the film to a friend to
transfer, I only noticed the loss when I screened the tape -- by that time, the
piece was irretrievably lost)...
Marc
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| (...) More than you know! A friend of mine (Daniel Patrick Curtis III, are you out there???) made a test liftoff super-8 movie, using the same ship model... the classic 487 Space Cruiser! I had a bag of Polyfil that I used to simulate the exhaust. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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