12:45 Corridor Crew did an episode on the Sodium Vapor technique about a week ago. Apparently it's not that difficult to recreate if instead of a very special prism filtering the colors before they get to the camera, you use modern tech to filter the color after. Still has the advantage over greenscreen of not losing any fine details
Young Sherlock Holmes doesn't get enough love. I loved that movie as a kid and still love it. I often forget that that scene was groundbreaking though.
Green screens are used daily in news and weather reports on tv. The weather reporter appears to be in front of a weather map but in reality the reporter is in front of a green screen and the map is being photographed by a separate camera and the two images are blended together.
Hello, be amazed. I found the voice-over artist for your videos, but he doesn't mention you. he's been doing this for eight months now. his channel is called xpert media and it is quite popular.
BE AMAZED inspires me.. My parents said if i get 100M likes on my vid They'd buy me a professional toilet for pooping..begging u guys , literally Begging..
Gemini man had some absolutely brutal CGI at the very end when Will met his younger clone at college and they were just chatting about what's next. You could tell they couldn't make the de-aging work in such a bright location and the clones face looked like it was glitching out lol. My wife started laughing out loud it was so obvious and outrageous.
I never really much appreciation for old classics like Jason & The Argonauts back when I was younger, but seeing this has made me appreciate them now. I might just look up some of these old classics to watch now. Definitely a great topic to make a video for and hope this becomes a multi-part series.
Ray Harryhausen was a big part of my childhood, I'm an 80's baby and fell in love with his Captivating movie style. I still watch them now if I happen upon them while channel surfing. Iconic cinematography and cosy nostalgia.
One of the reason why the blue was used as the first "green screen" background is because you can generate a relatively easy cutout pass of it via light culling which is something that has existed a long time before filming. (Heavily used in theaters from as far as the mid-1800's) By filming a black & white film projected onto a white surface with a specific tint of transparent glass, you can filter out the red and green light and basically have a grayscale film of the blue color of a film. In fact, this process was also used in black & white movies even before the color films was available. The issue though was the cost of this process as you would require to 3x the amount of film band per moment where it's used. Then, by filming, again, a projection onto a white screen twice, but once with the grayscale of the blue color blocking one of the 2 projection, you end up with a composite of 2 layers of movies. It's basically the manual/mechanical equivalent of using 2 layers in Photoshop and putting a black & white mask onto the top layer.
As a fan of The Mandalorian and the cute "baby Yoda" (as I call him, or more properly, "Grogu"), I wondered how they did the show. Today, as amazing and groundbreaking as Lucas's original incarnation of the Star Wars franchise was, beginning at Episode 4 (I was told, but have not myself personally been able to confirm, that it was because he didn't have the tech to do 1 thru 3 at the time, and seeing the story lines, that makes sense), there are parts of it that are down right hokey when you watch an old VHS tape today (which I fortunately still have). The graphics in The Mandalorian are so captivating that I even commented to the neighbor I was watching with that it seemed as if the camera turned in any direction, there would be a different story that is just as interesting because the how vivid the characters, backgrounds, and worlds they created are. Now I know that it is because "This Is The Way" that they are made (🥁 bah dum tiss 🥁). I'm still in the episode after those freaky scary giant spider thingie s in Season 2 and have some catching up to do, but I hope that the late Mr. Weathers, R.I.P., as Grief Carga (sp?), isn't deep faked into the episodes after his passing. I've heard that there was litigation between George Carlin's family and the content producers that created a computer generated work that seemingly brings him back for one last performance. I'm not entirely sure of the technique used or the minute details of the incident. However, it raises an interesting question. Man has wished and quested for secular immortality ever since--- and skip the parenthesis for my own personal soap box on the religious aspect, if you wish--- we got kicked out of The Garden of Eden (and I comically joke that should I meet Adam in Heaven, he'd better have extra padded shin guards to protect him from the enormous kick in the shins I want to give him for being the first to sin and bringing all this death crap on us to begin with by the string of sins that led to the expulsion from The Garden, beginning with by lying to Eve when he said that you couldn't touch the tree/fruit either, by letting the Seraphim/serpant into The Garden to begin with, when it was good job to keep it out, using her as a guinea pig to see what would happen to her when she ate of the fruit, knowing he wasn't supposed to eat of it and deliberately choosing to do so anyway, even though he knew what G-d had _actually_ said about it--- nothing happened to Ever because hers was a sin of ignorance, but the same cannot be said of Adam--- to not only blaming "the woman that Thou gavest me", and, the big kicker, not taking the escape clause, the out that G-d have him, because even though it hadn't been written down yet, G-d gave The Law to Adam and in Deut 19 we see a witness of 2 or of 3 is required to say something of something like that and when G-d said "who told you that you were naked?" HE was giving Adam an out, because HE could see Adam was naked, but if he'd said "no one did", he'd have been off the hook, but no! Stupid, there, had to say that he figured it out himself and _he_ said he was naked (paraphrasing), he was the second witness, convicting himself and condemning the rest of us to all this morbid death crap), well my soap box aside, ever since then we have wanted to do away with death and get our immortality back in a secular manner and now that we have the technology, it raised some interesting ethical questions, which is _actually_ the point of my bringing it up. Now that we have the tech for a great performer to continue to perform posthumously, do we have the right to do so without having asked that person before they died if they consented to it? Who had the right to the money earned from such a thing? Now that we have the tech, we can ask consent, and they can become the basis for such a work prior to death, contribute to it, help shape their lasting legacy in ways never before possible. But, even if we consent to such a thing, do we have the right to play god and do it? The point to doing such a thing for a performer is to monetize it somehow. We might think the point of the multi-billion dollar entertainment industry is the amusement of the audience, or as MGM said in Latin "art for art's sake." But let's face it egotistical megalomaniacal monsters like Harvey Weinstein did it for the money and the power that money buys. My dad passed away in December, at home, after painful ailment. The butt ton of condolences only help in knowing I'm not alone. His last words to me before continuing to The Next Phase of Life were "I love you!" As a practicing Roman Catholic, that's been the biggest comfort is that he's just simply left his body for The Next Phase of Life. However, not everybody believes as I do. Regardless, of what you believe--- including exercising your right not to believe anything in particular--- nobody can deny that as I've recently seen with the evidence of my own 2 eyes, you can't take it with you (as even in cultures like Egypt at the time of the Pharoah and the Great Pyramid of Giza that believe wealth, possessions, etc., _can_ be taken with you agreed on it that at the moment of the physical death itself, you leave it all here and it's our job to make sure it's ritually prepared to go separately). I know that I would be freaked out, angry, and generally beyond words in a negative way if a wonder of modern technology called me on the telephone or video chatted me one final conversation pretending to be my dad. As an autistic person, I still cannot be in the apartment when my mom goes into the room we cared for him in to do some cleaning. If THAT happened, I think I would have a mental break down and need to be committed to an institution. So, I can only imagine what George Carlin's family is going through. In this @BeAmazed video, "Jurassic Park" is mentioned. In a way, that's one of the whole points of the movie: just because we can, we need to stop and ask if we should before this goes any further. I'm all for science, tech, and advancement. I would love to see the food replicator from Star Trek TNG, and afterwards, become a real thing. It could solve a LOT of problems, if used ethically, to feed the hungry, quench the thirst of the thirsty, clothe the involuntarily exposed, shelter the involuntarily homeless, give medicine and medical care to the sick, infirm, injured, etc.. I would love to see Warp Drive (or other propulsion system serving the same purpose of making space travel practical by mitigating the barrier imposed by the enormous distances involved taking equally enormous lengths of time to travel). As a Christian, I know that G-d is not wasteful and it is therefore logical to conclude that if we were not meant to eventually utilize the vastness of the cosmos, in some fashion, it wouldn't have been created and these are lofty, ethical goals. By what methodology do we achieve those goals? Science and technology; however, with this posthumous performance technology, I personally think we are playing with fire. Just because we can doesn't mean we should and we _should_ be wise enough as a society to _occasionally_ know when to quit. Tobacco is one such example; we occasionally know where to quit, though some of us have a hard time adopting that, practically speaking. I just hope that with this, we are wise enough to quit while we are ahead. The lines between reality and fiction are blurred enough as it is; the last thing we need is to deliberately exacerbate it by blurring the line between life and death in an unhealthy and (in my opinion) unethical manner. A final thing: while I write this comment in the hope of legitimately contributing to the discussion, I know that I've gone off and not only stood atop multiple soap boxes, but potentially I've stepped on a few of society's figurative sacred cows. I truly hope that I haven't offended anybody and I can say that without any reservation whatever, I have zero intention of starting an argument. And So, please accept my apologies now, if I've given offense to anyone. I just want to make people go "hmm, I hadn't thought about that" and "hmm, I hadn't looked at it that way" and make them think, as it's made me stop and think & question. I had to get off social media, esp. Twitter, because it had gotten so ugly, so unhealthy it affected me negatively and physically. And so, I write this in the hope I can share an opinion without that happening again, as it has taken 4 years to be able too get back into the conversation at all and I would hate to have to crawl back under the figurative rock from whence I came.......
6:51 Crazy how he has to act without any reference. Today, when an actor has to act with an animated creature, they need a person covered in green. Goes to show the simpler times we live in
8:05 Fun fact: Since this technique (which was often called "traveling mat") was used consistently in Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock, one of the main characters was coincidentally named Uncle Traveling Matt.😉
I love the early pioneers who invented the practical in camera effects. Some of those early films still look amazing and most people wouldn’t be able to figure out how they were made! Great video
One interesting development is CGI motion capture for concerts, such as the ABBA Arrival show in London. ILM helped develop it. Uses both motion capture and de-aging and is a huge success.
21:56 The rotoscope was also the same technology that Toho used in the 1960s for Godzilla’s atomic breathe and King Ghidorah’s gravity beams. They also used an optical printer to make The Peanuts (who played Mothra’s twin fairies, The Shobijin) appear small next to the actors and props.
Odd mistake on the Invisible Man. If I remembered correctly, he had to be naked to be invisible (people could see any clothing he wore) but the footprints in the snow are clearly "shoe" shaped instead of barefoot!
24:04 Is that what Mr. Rabbit was really up to all those years ago? Trying to do motion capture on Capt. Kangaroo? To what end? Replace him with a computer duplicate? Never trust a rabbit who wears glasses!
The fact that I'm always seeing your 20min videos just wanting to watch like 5min and bounce only to end up watching the whole thing without knowing says a lot about your content quality....nice one
I really loved this episode! I grew up in the 70s-90s and I absolutely loved the old films you talked about in the beginning !! I am a photographer and have used depth of field to force perception of the audience it’s cool! When I was a kid I wanted to learn their tricks! How did they do that!!! I’d think! It’s fun to see the method behind the magic!! I love building realistic miniatures and dioramas to photograph!! Please do more special FX and videos about cinematography/photography! I love it!
Buster Kenton’s most dangerous stunt is usually considered the front of a barn falling on him and he was not hurt because his body was precisely where the loft door was. It is said that the entire crew, including the camera operator, all turned away. They couldn’t watch, because if Buster was off the mark by several inches, he would have been crushed to a pulp. The front of the barn wasn’t a prop, it was a full lumber frame made with 2x4s, not balsa wood or other lighter framing material. They literally pried the nails out of the front of the barn, then calculated where Buster needed to stand and then let the whole front fall. Buster was supposed to be trying to survive a hurricane. He had many daring stunts for that movie, but the barn falling, which weighed a couple of tons, could have squashed him like an insect if the frame would have just shifted a few inches. Even Tom Cruises wouldn’t do something so dangerous, nor would the underwriter for the completion bond would ever let the star do such a dangerous stunt. Buster didn’t even use a stunt man or stand in. He risked his own life for one shot.
I couldn’t help but to really stop and think of how amazing it is(even if I know it’s obvious) seeing the technology of today being used to replicate/demonstrate the past. I’m sure there may have been old stills or clips used in parts, but others where say the actors are cut out and placed elsewhere(green/yellow/blue screen or other random background, blending older techniques with more modern with today’s tech). Really does make you wonder what those older innovators would’ve been able to do, or what 60+ years from now they’ll think of today’s methods.
You can see a lot of the precursors and origins to stop/start animation WHICH LATER EVOLVED INTO THE USE OF "VIDEO LUNCHBOXES" , USED, FOR EXAMPLE BY "WIL VINTON STUDIOS" FOR THINGS LIKE "THE CALIFORNIA RAISINS"😂🎉❤
Hello Be Amazed. Great video you've got here. You covered the evolution of cinema magic and special effects. Now let's see one covered the evolution of video games. From the earliest consoles to the latest names and titles. Pretty please 🥺. Thanks.
As a pro photographer, I've been shooting Green, Blue and now Grey screen for two decades. (Grey is my fav) But I see AI blowing it all away. Just what Adobe has done in the past 2 years has surpassed just about everything before. And YES, more cinema 'Amazed' videos please.
@BeAmazed I really enjoyed this evolution. I enjoyed The Irishman but, I thought "Bobby D's " being blue was distracting. I watched it a second time and felt the scene when he's in war was unessary. I have been a huge fan of you guys. I listen to your Be amazed videos to go to sleep. I chose a playlist to sleep too. I started to become a fan around the pandemic. I was pretty sure there was at least four different voices. anyway, thanks for the content.
It took me a few moments to recognise who that was at the end 😂😂😂 What a really fabulous video, I'm not really one for films but Tron is one of the first I do recall seeing as the effects seemed to be insane to me seeing it on the big screen in a tiny cinema. I also remember glow in the dark stickers for Tron that came with a toothpaste and getting told off for sticking them on the bathroom mirror 😂😂 I'd never seen glow in the dark stickers either. Film effects are really fascinating especially the much older ones, like the Charlie Chaplin painted floor drop on glass. Definitely do another like this please 😊
I understand that you want to see his face but the reason why he's staying Anonymous is because he doesn't want to give his identity up to hackers and I don't want that to happen to be amazed either that's why he's staying anonymous
This is a really awesome addition to your list of great videos. I have always been curious about how many of the early special effects were done. Thanks for not only explaining those but demonstrating them, too. I never knew they had earlier blue and yellow screen backgrounds, either. And I had never heard of some of the newest effects like the reverse aging. Thanks! Other comments: -- Hated Tron. I saw it in the theater when it first came out and it was stupid. They made a Tron II? -- WHY does no one do a remake of Jason and the Argonauts? It's an awesome film and would even greater with modern CGI. I actually found it on TH-cam last fall and re-watched it. It was just as good as I remember. I wish James Cameron or Steven Spielberg would take that on. -- The reason DeNiro doesn't look quite right is because, when he was young, he was very thin. Just watch Godfather II, where he played a young Don Corleone.
omg I’ve seen the King Kong movie several times and I was amazed by how cool the giant monster sized gorilla 🦍 looked I always thought it would’ve been terrifying to be cast in that movie with the giant gorilla with me but it’s amazing how much special effects go into making a movie like that mind blown 🤯
Another thing about 70s special effects was Paramount Pictures filmed a King Kong remake, and in order to make the giant ape look real, they used a man in a suit and a gigantic animatronic, but then the animatronic had a malfunction.
Special effects were also used in the iconic gunbarrel opening in the 60s James bond movies .You could have explained that .The inside of a gunbarrel and the realistic blood effects hold up still 50 years later
This may be one of my favorites! I'm personally quite a fan of special effects, and how some of them still feel off even wuth mkdern technology. Like, the reason I believe the Lion King "live action" movie didn't work well was due to the animals not showing realistic emotions from that particular animal, like how cats backs arch when they are angry, or their eyes widen and ears flatten back when they are frightened. In that movie, the animals showed no particular emotion to that wffect, making them feel robotic and soulless, and why the original holds up so much better. It might look great, but without life studies of real animals when animating, they left out what made the original Lion King so magical.
12:45 Corridor Crew did an episode on the Sodium Vapor technique about a week ago. Apparently it's not that difficult to recreate if instead of a very special prism filtering the colors before they get to the camera, you use modern tech to filter the color after. Still has the advantage over greenscreen of not losing any fine details
Niko can finally see a clown get married on mars
yes its a lost technology, I bet this channel got the idea from them
literally i was going to coment this
@@omglife5orignal me too
@@coolestgamerking7156 i guess we are corridor crew fans
It is NOT the subject. It is YOU.
You have such exceptional way of presenting that any subject would do!!!!!!
More cinema history, please! This is so interesting to me.
I watch BE AMAZED, and like always I am amazed. I love history and learning new stuff.
Yes, please! More episodes about movies!
Young Sherlock Holmes doesn't get enough love. I loved that movie as a kid and still love it. I often forget that that scene was groundbreaking though.
Should i watch it?
@@Zuri_Riot Obviously, I think yes 🙂
@@Terahnee Ok i will! i just need to finish my movie (im creating a gacha one
It inspired Harry Potter. And of course Chris Columbus who wrote YSH directed the first two HP films.
14:57 "Who put Ed's mustache on Fred's forehead? CUTTT!!!"
Green screens are used daily in news and weather reports on tv. The weather reporter appears to be in front of a weather map but in reality the reporter is in front of a green screen and the map is being photographed by a separate camera and the two images are blended together.
Which makes it funny when the Weather Guesser is pointing to the wrong thing, or they accidentally put in the wrong background scene. 😅
The corridor crew has now recreated the amber screen prism effect with computers, so yellow screen is now available widely.
I will never grow bored of this channel
Edit: thank you all for the likes ❤️
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The sheer range of topics makes me always look forward to the next one!
@@martypowell116 exactly!
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I had to pause the video and watch The Abyss!!! It was so good! I'm 38 and id never seen it! Thank you for this video!
Hello, be amazed. I found the voice-over artist for your videos, but he doesn't mention you. he's been doing this for eight months now. his channel is called xpert media and it is quite popular.
BE AMAZED inspires me.. My parents said if i get 100M likes on my vid They'd buy me a professional toilet for pooping..begging u guys , literally
Begging..
@@FirstLast-kr6ekwtf
I'm parodying those annoying bots
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I thought it was Warren Blackie. Unless you mean the clips and images in the video.
Gemini man had some absolutely brutal CGI at the very end when Will met his younger clone at college and they were just chatting about what's next. You could tell they couldn't make the de-aging work in such a bright location and the clones face looked like it was glitching out lol. My wife started laughing out loud it was so obvious and outrageous.
Harry Housen? Whoa, that's an Easter Egg in Monsters, Inc. The exclusive dining establishment the monster Mike takes his date to is Harry Housen's.
We need more filmmaking vids!
Also the real sodium vapor camera from the movies is in the walt Disney museum in San Francisco, California
Who agrees Be Amazed should be an everything teacher?
No. This is littered with inaccuracies. It's absolute garbage.
@@TroubleAtMillius it's not garbage
Im a SFX and VFX artist, and.. alot of this is incorrect; yet alot of it is somewhat correct. mostly garbage.
Stop saying nonsense. You've never even been a teacher before. Do you know how hard it is?
@@DatDawgDev with a pfp and description like that, what you on about?
Bride of Frankenstein from 1931 have some great tricks. The people in the glass bottles for example.
Yes,.more videos like this one. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you for putting it together.
CGI is one of the best and one of the worst , it can be used for pretty suspicious things too😂😂
I never really much appreciation for old classics like Jason & The Argonauts back when I was younger, but seeing this has made me appreciate them now. I might just look up some of these old classics to watch now. Definitely a great topic to make a video for and hope this becomes a multi-part series.
Ray Harryhausen was a big part of my childhood, I'm an 80's baby and fell in love with his Captivating movie style. I still watch them now if I happen upon them while channel surfing. Iconic cinematography and cosy nostalgia.
wow, it's amazing that people can capture these moments on camera!
One of the reason why the blue was used as the first "green screen" background is because you can generate a relatively easy cutout pass of it via light culling which is something that has existed a long time before filming. (Heavily used in theaters from as far as the mid-1800's)
By filming a black & white film projected onto a white surface with a specific tint of transparent glass, you can filter out the red and green light and basically have a grayscale film of the blue color of a film. In fact, this process was also used in black & white movies even before the color films was available. The issue though was the cost of this process as you would require to 3x the amount of film band per moment where it's used.
Then, by filming, again, a projection onto a white screen twice, but once with the grayscale of the blue color blocking one of the 2 projection, you end up with a composite of 2 layers of movies. It's basically the manual/mechanical equivalent of using 2 layers in Photoshop and putting a black & white mask onto the top layer.
I actually watched the Ten Commandments with my family on Good Friday once. It was amazing.
The evolution of this channel alone is amazing
As a fan of The Mandalorian and the cute "baby Yoda" (as I call him, or more properly, "Grogu"), I wondered how they did the show. Today, as amazing and groundbreaking as Lucas's original incarnation of the Star Wars franchise was, beginning at Episode 4 (I was told, but have not myself personally been able to confirm, that it was because he didn't have the tech to do 1 thru 3 at the time, and seeing the story lines, that makes sense), there are parts of it that are down right hokey when you watch an old VHS tape today (which I fortunately still have). The graphics in The Mandalorian are so captivating that I even commented to the neighbor I was watching with that it seemed as if the camera turned in any direction, there would be a different story that is just as interesting because the how vivid the characters, backgrounds, and worlds they created are. Now I know that it is because "This Is The Way" that they are made (🥁 bah dum tiss 🥁). I'm still in the episode after those freaky scary giant spider thingie
s in Season 2 and have some catching up to do, but I hope that the late Mr. Weathers, R.I.P., as Grief Carga (sp?), isn't deep faked into the episodes after his passing. I've heard that there was litigation between George Carlin's family and the content producers that created a computer generated work that seemingly brings him back for one last performance. I'm not entirely sure of the technique used or the minute details of the incident. However, it raises an interesting question. Man has wished and quested for secular immortality ever since--- and skip the parenthesis for my own personal soap box on the religious aspect, if you wish--- we got kicked out of The Garden of Eden (and I comically joke that should I meet Adam in Heaven, he'd better have extra padded shin guards to protect him from the enormous kick in the shins I want to give him for being the first to sin and bringing all this death crap on us to begin with by the string of sins that led to the expulsion from The Garden, beginning with by lying to Eve when he said that you couldn't touch the tree/fruit either, by letting the Seraphim/serpant into The Garden to begin with, when it was good job to keep it out, using her as a guinea pig to see what would happen to her when she ate of the fruit, knowing he wasn't supposed to eat of it and deliberately choosing to do so anyway, even though he knew what G-d had _actually_ said about it--- nothing happened to Ever because hers was a sin of ignorance, but the same cannot be said of Adam--- to not only blaming "the woman that Thou gavest me", and, the big kicker, not taking the escape clause, the out that G-d have him, because even though it hadn't been written down yet, G-d gave The Law to Adam and in Deut 19 we see a witness of 2 or of 3 is required to say something of something like that and when G-d said "who told you that you were naked?" HE was giving Adam an out, because HE could see Adam was naked, but if he'd said "no one did", he'd have been off the hook, but no! Stupid, there, had to say that he figured it out himself and _he_ said he was naked (paraphrasing), he was the second witness, convicting himself and condemning the rest of us to all this morbid death crap), well my soap box aside, ever since then we have wanted to do away with death and get our immortality back in a secular manner and now that we have the technology, it raised some interesting ethical questions, which is _actually_ the point of my bringing it up. Now that we have the tech for a great performer to continue to perform posthumously, do we have the right to do so without having asked that person before they died if they consented to it? Who had the right to the money earned from such a thing? Now that we have the tech, we can ask consent, and they can become the basis for such a work prior to death, contribute to it, help shape their lasting legacy in ways never before possible. But, even if we consent to such a thing, do we have the right to play god and do it? The point to doing such a thing for a performer is to monetize it somehow. We might think the point of the multi-billion dollar entertainment industry is the amusement of the audience, or as MGM said in Latin "art for art's sake." But let's face it egotistical megalomaniacal monsters like Harvey Weinstein did it for the money and the power that money buys. My dad passed away in December, at home, after painful ailment. The butt ton of condolences only help in knowing I'm not alone. His last words to me before continuing to The Next Phase of Life were "I love you!" As a practicing Roman Catholic, that's been the biggest comfort is that he's just simply left his body for The Next Phase of Life. However, not everybody believes as I do. Regardless, of what you believe--- including exercising your right not to believe anything in particular--- nobody can deny that as I've recently seen with the evidence of my own 2 eyes, you can't take it with you (as even in cultures like Egypt at the time of the Pharoah and the Great Pyramid of Giza that believe wealth, possessions, etc., _can_ be taken with you agreed on it that at the moment of the physical death itself, you leave it all here and it's our job to make sure it's ritually prepared to go separately). I know that I would be freaked out, angry, and generally beyond words in a negative way if a wonder of modern technology called me on the telephone or video chatted me one final conversation pretending to be my dad. As an autistic person, I still cannot be in the apartment when my mom goes into the room we cared for him in to do some cleaning. If THAT happened, I think I would have a mental break down and need to be committed to an institution. So, I can only imagine what George Carlin's family is going through. In this @BeAmazed video, "Jurassic Park" is mentioned. In a way, that's one of the whole points of the movie: just because we can, we need to stop and ask if we should before this goes any further. I'm all for science, tech, and advancement. I would love to see the food replicator from Star Trek TNG, and afterwards, become a real thing. It could solve a LOT of problems, if used ethically, to feed the hungry, quench the thirst of the thirsty, clothe the involuntarily exposed, shelter the involuntarily homeless, give medicine and medical care to the sick, infirm, injured, etc.. I would love to see Warp Drive (or other propulsion system serving the same purpose of making space travel practical by mitigating the barrier imposed by the enormous distances involved taking equally enormous lengths of time to travel). As a Christian, I know that G-d is not wasteful and it is therefore logical to conclude that if we were not meant to eventually utilize the vastness of the cosmos, in some fashion, it wouldn't have been created and these are lofty, ethical goals. By what methodology do we achieve those goals? Science and technology; however, with this posthumous performance technology, I personally think we are playing with fire. Just because we can doesn't mean we should and we _should_ be wise enough as a society to _occasionally_ know when to quit. Tobacco is one such example; we occasionally know where to quit, though some of us have a hard time adopting that, practically speaking. I just hope that with this, we are wise enough to quit while we are ahead. The lines between reality and fiction are blurred enough as it is; the last thing we need is to deliberately exacerbate it by blurring the line between life and death in an unhealthy and (in my opinion) unethical manner.
A final thing: while I write this comment in the hope of legitimately contributing to the discussion, I know that I've gone off and not only stood atop multiple soap boxes, but potentially I've stepped on a few of society's figurative sacred cows. I truly hope that I haven't offended anybody and I can say that without any reservation whatever, I have zero intention of starting an argument. And So, please accept my apologies now, if I've given offense to anyone. I just want to make people go "hmm, I hadn't thought about that" and "hmm, I hadn't looked at it that way" and make them think, as it's made me stop and think & question. I had to get off social media, esp. Twitter, because it had gotten so ugly, so unhealthy it affected me negatively and physically. And so, I write this in the hope I can share an opinion without that happening again, as it has taken 4 years to be able too get back into the conversation at all and I would hate to have to crawl back under the figurative rock from whence I came.......
You have to give the old films just dues. They really knew how to entertain without computers.
Best episode yet.
So Vertigo, is the first.
6:51 Crazy how he has to act without any reference. Today, when an actor has to act with an animated creature, they need a person covered in green. Goes to show the simpler times we live in
8:05 Fun fact: Since this technique (which was often called "traveling mat") was used consistently in Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock, one of the main characters was coincidentally named Uncle Traveling Matt.😉
I reamber when i was younger i used to watch be amazed all the time. Now i came back and im loving it
The camera never lies.
I'm in my 70s.
I've always been fascinated by special effects.
I wish I'd known how to get into it when I was young.
I love the early pioneers who invented the practical in camera effects. Some of those early films still look amazing and most people wouldn’t be able to figure out how they were made! Great video
Love this type of content! 😍
BA- thanks for the memories. I watched every film you mentioned until the 2000’s. Gonna go watch Tron. What a great movie!
Much better content than normally.👍
One interesting development is CGI motion capture for concerts, such as the ABBA Arrival show in London. ILM helped develop it. Uses both motion capture and de-aging and is a huge success.
21:56 The rotoscope was also the same technology that Toho used in the 1960s for Godzilla’s atomic breathe and King Ghidorah’s gravity beams. They also used an optical printer to make The Peanuts (who played Mothra’s twin fairies, The Shobijin) appear small next to the actors and props.
Love your videos ❤
Odd mistake on the Invisible Man. If I remembered correctly, he had to be naked to be invisible (people could see any clothing he wore) but the footprints in the snow are clearly "shoe" shaped instead of barefoot!
Working in the field, I can truly say it is always a cool experience seeing how the recorded material is altered.
24:04 Is that what Mr. Rabbit was really up to all those years ago? Trying to do motion capture on Capt. Kangaroo? To what end? Replace him with a computer duplicate? Never trust a rabbit who wears glasses!
Thanks
Really interesting video, keep them coming
I'm still a massive fan of the old stop motion films like The 7th voyage of Sinbad.
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The fact that I'm always seeing your 20min videos just wanting to watch like 5min and bounce only to end up watching the whole thing without knowing says a lot about your content quality....nice one
Great subject, well recaped, nice hit on life action remakes. Do more film related content!
I want more of this because it’s awesome
I really loved this episode! I grew up in the 70s-90s and I absolutely loved the old films you talked about in the beginning !! I am a photographer and have used depth of field to force perception of the audience it’s cool! When I was a kid I wanted to learn their tricks! How did they do that!!! I’d think! It’s fun to see the method behind the magic!! I love building realistic miniatures and dioramas to photograph!! Please do more special FX and videos about cinematography/photography! I love it!
great as always
Buster Kenton’s most dangerous stunt is usually considered the front of a barn falling on him and he was not hurt because his body was precisely where the loft door was. It is said that the entire crew, including the camera operator, all turned away. They couldn’t watch, because if Buster was off the mark by several inches, he would have been crushed to a pulp.
The front of the barn wasn’t a prop, it was a full lumber frame made with 2x4s, not balsa wood or other lighter framing material. They literally pried the nails out of the front of the barn, then calculated where Buster needed to stand and then let the whole front fall.
Buster was supposed to be trying to survive a hurricane. He had many daring stunts for that movie, but the barn falling, which weighed a couple of tons, could have squashed him like an insect if the frame would have just shifted a few inches. Even Tom Cruises wouldn’t do something so dangerous, nor would the underwriter for the completion bond would ever let the star do such a dangerous stunt. Buster didn’t even use a stunt man or stand in. He risked his own life for one shot.
This is a well-made and researched documentary. Should be shown on the TCM, Discovery, or History channel.
What a fascinating educative vid. Thanks. Enjoyed it.
I couldn’t help but to really stop and think of how amazing it is(even if I know it’s obvious) seeing the technology of today being used to replicate/demonstrate the past. I’m sure there may have been old stills or clips used in parts, but others where say the actors are cut out and placed elsewhere(green/yellow/blue screen or other random background, blending older techniques with more modern with today’s tech).
Really does make you wonder what those older innovators would’ve been able to do, or what 60+ years from now they’ll think of today’s methods.
This was so interesting! 👏🏼
You can see a lot of the precursors and origins to stop/start animation WHICH LATER EVOLVED INTO THE USE OF "VIDEO LUNCHBOXES" , USED, FOR EXAMPLE BY "WIL VINTON STUDIOS" FOR THINGS LIKE "THE CALIFORNIA RAISINS"😂🎉❤
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The way they did it the old days was more impressive and more interesting. 🎥🎬
Hello Be Amazed. Great video you've got here. You covered the evolution of cinema magic and special effects. Now let's see one covered the evolution of video games. From the earliest consoles to the latest names and titles. Pretty please 🥺. Thanks.
As a pro photographer, I've been shooting Green, Blue and now Grey screen for two decades. (Grey is my fav) But I see AI blowing it all away. Just what Adobe has done in the past 2 years has surpassed just about everything before. And YES, more cinema 'Amazed' videos please.
Nice video! Very educational! All the more for me to learn as a Graphic Designer! 🎥🤩♥
I was starting to fall asleep but the narrator invigorated me with this amazing video.
@BeAmazed I really enjoyed this evolution. I enjoyed The Irishman but, I thought "Bobby D's " being blue was distracting. I watched it a second time and felt the scene when he's in war was unessary. I have been a huge fan of you guys. I listen to your Be amazed videos to go to sleep. I chose a playlist to sleep too. I started to become a fan around the pandemic. I was pretty sure there was at least four different voices. anyway, thanks for the content.
The black velvet technique was also used for a sequence in Jim Henson's Labyrinth where Sarah meets The Wild Things.
Loved the video !!
Yep. I think you're gunna have to create a whole new channel lol. Love it
Love your video. Be Amazed and keep up the great work you are awesome
It took me a few moments to recognise who that was at the end 😂😂😂 What a really fabulous video, I'm not really one for films but Tron is one of the first I do recall seeing as the effects seemed to be insane to me seeing it on the big screen in a tiny cinema. I also remember glow in the dark stickers for Tron that came with a toothpaste and getting told off for sticking them on the bathroom mirror 😂😂 I'd never seen glow in the dark stickers either. Film effects are really fascinating especially the much older ones, like the Charlie Chaplin painted floor drop on glass. Definitely do another like this please 😊
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I understand that you want to see his face but the reason why he's staying Anonymous is because he doesn't want to give his identity up to hackers and I don't want that to happen to be amazed either that's why he's staying anonymous
Where?
i watch a guy make the same prism from the Mary Poppins movie and it works perfectly so Disney needs to hire him
Back in my day, monsters were guys in big, heavy, rubber, life-like suits. Now, everything is just CGI flying.
It's sad how people do CGI now and not actual talent
This is a really awesome addition to your list of great videos. I have always been curious about how many of the early special effects were done. Thanks for not only explaining those but demonstrating them, too. I never knew they had earlier blue and yellow screen backgrounds, either. And I had never heard of some of the newest effects like the reverse aging. Thanks!
Other comments:
-- Hated Tron. I saw it in the theater when it first came out and it was stupid. They made a Tron II?
-- WHY does no one do a remake of Jason and the Argonauts? It's an awesome film and would even greater with modern CGI. I actually found it on TH-cam last fall and re-watched it. It was just as good as I remember. I wish James Cameron or Steven Spielberg would take that on.
-- The reason DeNiro doesn't look quite right is because, when he was young, he was very thin. Just watch Godfather II, where he played a young Don Corleone.
You guys blew right past one of the most UNDERATED CG films - The Last Starfighter...
I left the BE AMAZED channel just to come back and be amazed again. 🎉😅
Amazing video .. enjoyed
omg I’ve seen the King Kong movie several times and I was amazed by how cool the giant monster sized gorilla 🦍 looked I always thought it would’ve been terrifying to be cast in that movie with the giant gorilla with me but it’s amazing how much special effects go into making a movie like that mind blown 🤯
Awesome video, please bring back the power of time series.
Very interesting video! Thanks; I'm so glad I'm a subscriber.
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We need more of this.
Another thing about 70s special effects was Paramount Pictures filmed a King Kong remake, and in order to make the giant ape look real, they used a man in a suit and a gigantic animatronic, but then the animatronic had a malfunction.
Thanks for the cool video. 🙂👍
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Special effects were also used in the iconic gunbarrel opening in the 60s James bond movies .You could have explained that .The inside of a gunbarrel and the realistic blood effects hold up still 50 years later
I watched your videos every night untill i fellsleep 😊
12:14 the original spirograph
FX have come a long way and I get amazed at the realism that can be created, but I confess I sometimes miss miniatures and models.
Keep up the work be amazed also i got here at 2 hours after you posted the video also your videos are great
We really need more practical stuff because many things can go wrong with cgi and if that happens whoever made the movie will not hear the end of it.
I would like it if Be Amazed would make a video on the evolution of animation.
I will always admire special effects and clay♡
Yellow is my favorite color! HE SAID IT! HE SAID IT!
Surprised 2001 wasnt featured. It still holds up today.
1:34 That is NOT charlie chaplin bro. Thats a person who would cause a war!!
Very interesting!
see this is why I like practical effects over CGI. With some clever artistry you can do something CGI can't.
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This may be one of my favorites! I'm personally quite a fan of special effects, and how some of them still feel off even wuth mkdern technology. Like, the reason I believe the Lion King "live action" movie didn't work well was due to the animals not showing realistic emotions from that particular animal, like how cats backs arch when they are angry, or their eyes widen and ears flatten back when they are frightened. In that movie, the animals showed no particular emotion to that wffect, making them feel robotic and soulless, and why the original holds up so much better. It might look great, but without life studies of real animals when animating, they left out what made the original Lion King so magical.