The History of Brickfilms: 1970s & 1980s - More LEGO animations than you might think!
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- For the other videos in this history series, see this playlist: • The History of Brickfilms
See also "We interviewed the FIRST Brickfilmer..." on the Bricks in Motion channel: • We interviewed the FIR...
Many people know about a handful of 70s and 80s brickfilms such as Journey to the Moon, LEGO Wars, LEGO Sport Champions and The Magic Portal, but this video aims to provide a more comprehensive overview of the surprisingly large amount of brickfilms that can be found from the era, as well as covering the history of the most notable films.
Visit www.bricksinmotion.com/ and brickfilms.wikia.com/wiki/Bric... to learn more.
This video was created as part of Brickfilm Day 2018. Here is the link to the playlist of all films created for the event:
• Brickfilm Day 2018 Videos
Here are the films and other videos included in this video, in order of appearance:
Intro:
"Retro-Lego" (mid 80s, from Sweden): • Retro-Lego
1970s:
Journey to the Moon: • En rejse til månen (Jo...
LEGO ferie 1973: • Lego ferie 1973
The Great LEGO Train Crash Disaster: • The Great Lego Train C...
The House That Jack Built: • House that Jack built ...
LEGO ferie 1976: • Lego ferie jul 1976
Legokaupunki: • Legokaupunki 1977, Le...
Untitled (minifigs emerging from the ground): timestamp 21;40 • NeeBrell productions -...
LEGO Animaatiot77 80: • Lego Animaatiot77 80
LEGO City: • Video
Untitled (cop in traffic): timestamp 29;02 • NeeBrell productions -...
LEGO Animaatiot77 80: • Lego Animaatiot77 80
LEGOLAND Town ad: • 1970s Legoland Town Co...
LEGO Mephisto ad: • Video
German LEGOLAND Town ad: • LEGO Town_1978US
LEGO Space ad: • Lego commercial (1979)
Battle of the Future: timestamp 33;15 • NeeBrell productions -...
One Day at a Drive-Inn: timestamp 16;01 • NeeBrell productions -...
Star Wars: timestamp 31;19 • NeeBrell productions -...
Superman?: timestamp 22;16 • NeeBrell productions -...
Untitled (guy on van): • NeeBrell productions -...
The Construction Site: timestamp 10;16 • NeeBrell productions -...
One Day on a Battlefield: timestamp 34;30 • NeeBrell productions -...
1980s:
Basis Reggae: • Basis Reggae
920: • Space Lego 920
2002: A Moon Odyssey: • LEGO Animation on the ...
Prove Tecniche: • Stop motion in Super 8...
Untitled (Karl Johanson): • Lego Animation
Untitled (SonyFMAM): • Space Lego Movie 1983
Road Warrior in Space: • Road Warrior in Space ...
Cold War in Space: • Cold War in Space (RWI...
LEGO Wars: • VERY 1st Lego Wars LEG...
L.A.N.: • Lego Movies
GULP!: • GULP! - 1982, by David...
Time: • Time - 1984
(Scenes from) Projekt RH: • Scenes From Projekt RH...
The Adventures of LEGO: • The Adventures of Lego
Voyage to Saturn: • Lego Star Wars Movie, ...
Lift-off!: vimeo.com/110311846
The Original Movie: drive.google.com/file/d/0B0kf...
LEGO Wars: • DKP - LEGO Wars - Part 1
It's a Crazy Day: • Lego music video It's ...
Untitled (Guy Dauchet): • Video
Building Blocks: • Really Short Science F...
New Toy Every Day LEGO ad: • Lego 1982
The House That Jack Built LEGO ad: • Lego - The House That ...
Kipper: • Lego commercial - Kipper
LEGO Sport Champions: / legosports
Edward and Friends: • Video
The Magic Portal: • The Magic Portal
Oh Well: drive.google.com/file/d/0B0kf...
The Pirates: • Lego Pirates 1989 Stop...
Aardman LEGO Pirates ad: • Lego Legoland Piraten
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:31 Journey to the Moon
1:34 Later 1970s brickfilms
2:49 Earliest located Star Wars and superhero brickfilms
3:44 A Lego Experience (lost film)
4:25 Classic Space
5:08 Other 1980s brickfilms
5:59 Lift-off!
6:30 VHS cameras
6:49 LEGO commercials and LEGO Sport Champions
7:59 The Magic Portal
9:34 Oh Well starring Biff and Mario
10:20 1989 LEGO Pirates commercial releases
11:14 Ending - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Phenomenal, for such a long time I've wanted someone to make a comprehensive yet concise history of brickfilming and the community that's sprung up around it. I cannot wait to see the delve into the 90's, and would love to see continuation into the 00's, and even the 10's if there isn't too much of an information overload at that point (even so, there are still general themes and through lines you could pick up on, as well as interviews with many of the influential brickfilmers). Excellent work man.
And if you do continue a series, you'd have a serious documentary on your hands. Keep it up dude!
Thank you very much. I do plan to continue into the 2000s, and depending on time I might split the early years into two videos, one covering LEGO Studios plus its contest and the other covering the early years of the community. By the time TH-cam gets into full swing, it all becomes a bit more sprawling, but I'm sure it could be segmented and figured out. For the 2000s and 2010s, I think it will be better to cover specific areas individually rather than try to go through everything chronologically. There is still plenty to do before I get there so I will have to see closer to the time. I know brickfilmers can be bad for announcing grand plans that never come to fruition and I'm no exception, but I think I will be able to continue this as a series, as I already have years of research documented on the Brickfilms Wiki, particularly for the earlier years.
Thx for the video. I swore it was a dream that i saw. Back in the mid 80s early 90s i was around maybe 4 to 6yrs old. Me and my dad watched a stop motion lego episode. It was the long nosed drag racing cars. Perhaps u have or seen this?
Nicely done! A nice overview of animations way before the golden age.
2:52 its crazy to think about people making star wars brickfilms way back when the original trilogy was still being produced
If I didn't watch this video, I would of legit thought that "The Magic Portal" WAS the first lego-stopmotion.
You genuinely deserve more subscribers for your quality content
Thanks for including our humble movie in there! I didn't know this video series existed until this weekend.
I remember in '84 when we made ours that we weren't the first to do a Lego stop-motion video, but we hadn't seen any others before the made ours. We just heard about them.
Oh, and we also received a 'cease and desist' letter from the Lego company after we were done :)
Very nicely done on the research and history!
Thanks for the comment. That is very interesting; could you please elaborate on that? How did the LEGO company find your film? Did you try to get it on TV or something?
@@sillypenta heres a vid I just made detailing how TLC got a copy of our Movie. th-cam.com/video/aagDEmx28Q8/w-d-xo.html
Nice to see Biff and Mario getting the attention they deserve. Great video as always, thanks for all the effort and hard work you put into this. It was really informative.
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You're welcome man.
I can't believe I hadn't seen this until now, but this is some fantastic work. It must have taken a lot of time and effort to research and catalogue so many of the less well-known or forgotten pre-internet Brickfilms, and it shows. You really went the extra mile to showcase the ones that weren't Journey to The Moon or The Magic Portal, and I'm glad to see that we have a much wider selection from this era than we realised. I also really appreciate the extra effort and polish put into the video itself, especially delightful animation and voice-over. I'll be checking out some of these, and I can't wait to see what you've found on 90s.
Penta this is a magnificent showing and presentation of the history of Brickfilms. Well done!!
Huh, never knew there were that many films prior to The Magic Portal. Great job at compiling and showing all this information! :)
Thats like saying "wow, I didn't know there were many films before Star Wars"...
Obviously there were brickfilms before it... How would such a technically competent thing have been made without things coming before it.
@@timewarpdrive77No, that's not at all what that's like, as having a camera in the home was a luxury in those days, so not "obviously." This was even brought up in the video. Also mentioned in the video was that many of these films were not made widely available until relatively recently, so people like one above might not be aware that they exist, whereas hundreds of films before Star Wars were released to the general public.
I have never seen that Aardman commercial, that is insane!
Thanks! Yeah, I was practically dumbfounded when I first came across that one. There are actually a small number of others in the same style from the beginning of the 90s.
Wow! I thought there were only 3 brickfilms from the 1970s-1980s!
I'd say most people do, which was a big part of my motivation to create this video
This is awesome. I had made a few research about early brickfilms a few years ago, but you made me discover so many more!
This video is really useful and should be shown in all brickfilm schools over the world.
I Love videos like this
Fantastic! There were quite a few innovative films in there that I hadn't heard of. This was a joy to watch.
Man, awesome, fascinating, and super informative. Thanks for this. I was always surprised hearing The Magic Portal was the first brickfilm and I feel foolish for thinking so now. Those LEGO Sport Champions shorts are amazing, and awesome to find out Aardman did a short for LEGO. The face dissolve animation was so suave.
Thanks. There's no need to feel foolish about thinking The Magic Portal was first because most people do or at least did at some point
It's just such a massive film in terms of scope and length, of course there would have been much more experimentation beforeheand. Looking forward to the 90's :)
The magic portal is actually fire 🔥 ngl
WOW. I did NOT know there were so many animations this early
Heeeey it's you :D
bigrickmachine hey bro, I miss your channel a lot, you inspired me :)
This is a really cool, much more easily digested look into brickfilm history, a really cool supplement to the wiki. I'm looking forward to seeing more.
great video and really thanks for the listing of films in the description. There is a lot of interesting brickfilms I didn't even heard about. Thank you.
Thanks For putting one of my father’s legofilms in this Great work , Sillypenta
Glad it's appreciated; I would love to see the full film, if you could upload it
Sure! I’ll upload the whole lego film it’s probably in my basement , I’ll upload it to my channel , Thanks For responding!
Great Video! This was very informative of the history of Lego animations something I have a soft spot for. I'm definitely going to check out these forums and watch some of these animations
This was awesome Penta! Well done!
Cool vid Penta! I really like your animation has a certain charm to it!
Thank you! I really enjoy browsing earlier brickfilms on the brickfilms wiki, but this was a lot of fun to watch!
Thank you; I'm glad you enjoy making use of the wiki
I loved this! Thank you for this video! I did not know there were so many early brickfilms, I need to watch these!
Terrific work! How long did it take to research and discover the mentioned films?
I've kept a list since 2014, and added to it whenever I found anything new. The bulk of it would have been found in the first few days of making the list by going through many TH-cam and Google searches such as "lego movie [year]", "lego animation [year]", all sorts of combinations. Others have been found by chance, and some found by researching something else, like Projekt RH which I found while collecting the films from the first Brickfilms film directory active from 2000 - 2003.
Great video 👏👏👏
really interested in more of this
keep it up
Nice video bro! The information you provide and how you explain it is amazing. Greetings!
Nice work!
Great video! Before watching this, I only knew about Journey to the Moon and The Magic Portal. Now, I have a lot to catch up on.
i have been waiting for this since you anounced it on twitter
(im the guy who replied saying yay)
also i have a feeling this video is going to make the channel blow up
I come back every now and then to watch these, they are amazing
This is great!
awesome work
You got me hooked, when is part 2 coming out :o?
I learned so much!
Very interesting video! Thank You for it! Good luck You in everything!
You're a legend man.
Really creative and great!
I don’t know if you know about this but theres this really great brick film called Space Adventure made by Christian Sage
Thanks so much for the heads-up! I did not know about that one, and I see it is quite a substantial one indeed. I will add it to my collection.
Awesome video
great video and I like the use of Neu at the beginning
Nice transitions
Very nice man
Very impressive!!
Everything is awesome!!!
Amazing!
This is wonderful! I hope one day we'll see part three!
I have released four parts, but I am currently working on the fifth, and have about 50 minutes edited
@@sillypenta for some reason I don't see parts three and four on your channel.
@@ilya.kudesnik They might be blocked in Russia; nowadays videos with copyrighted music have a tendency to be blocked only in Russia, and sometimes one or two other countries
@@sillypenta Oh, I didn't know that. Now I see them. Thanks a lot!
0:01 Wow! Your animation look smooth!
I'm glad this exists
Great video! I was just wondering what music you used in this video, as i recognized some NEU! at the beginning
The magic portal is an awesome video to see
I love this info my information about the journey to the moon
Love learning more about brickfilm history. :)
Are all these films in the archive for safe keeping?
Well, I download everything pre-2000 I find
Just checking because my external hdd is still an archive backup ready to help.
Cool! I've seen the Magic Portal
This is such an underrated vid, wish it had more views 10/10
When I made this, I never thought a video about brickfilm history could get anywhere close to 100k views
Cool vid
Underrated vid
You are the BEST 👍👍👍👍
Very good
Eat Carpet on SBS was where I first saw The Magic Portal.
I know I saw this already when it released, that was the only time i watched it. I came to revisit this finely crafted, wonderfull, amazing brickfilmumentry.
The Review: The absolute smoothness of the animation is just the right amount of smoothness to not look like a smooth mess. The animation for what I presume Johnny Thunder and his wonderfull partner Timmy are quick, and amazing. The maps and pictures in their house adds a lovely homie design. The projection of an old brickfilm has been added carefully, not a slight mistake was there. The Fabuland chairs are a wonderfull edition to this house. Timmy and Johnny make a perfect duo, even Henri and Edmond are blushing seeing these guys. The nice redesign for Timmy and Johnny work just wonderfully. The voiceacting is nothing short but wonderfull. That was the intro to this amazing documentry, and now onto the actual documentry.
The amount of diging to find the right year was just dedication. Finding these old brickfilms is even harder. How you have even reaserched about old cameras was stunning. The explanation for these brickfilms was nice too. Even finely crafted sites with the biggest explanations couldn't surpass you (and I do not count Brickfilms wiki, cause I think you made it) The little drama, and how you explained it in here was well thought out and simple. The search for who may have made the films is incredible. How you explained movies like Oh Well and The Magic Portal was just perfect, and well thought out aswell. The amount of time possibly taken to find this stuff is just dedication, and I respect that.
The ending to this short Brickfilmumentry is a really nice one, with Timmy getting bored of it (Timmy must be very dumb if he doesn't think that this is interesting.)
And Johnny teasing a 2nd part was another great addition. Thank you for making this amazing documentry, with that, I conclude this review.
Well uhh I'm glad you liked it this much, especially because I think this one is rushed lol
@@sillypenta My favourite has to be the 3rd one, this is my least favorite one, but this one's still amazing, wait till you see my review of the 3rd one.
@@cromofilms Yes; the Studios one will probably always remain as the best one
Thanks
thank you.
this video deserves unending love and attention. to me it seems that a lot of lego history has been obscured to time and this video does an amazing job of documenting a slice of that history
Thank you for this great reply. I agree that LEGO history is quite poorly documented. I hope to make a video covering LEGO Studios and the LEGO Studios Moviemaking Contest, which is incredibly obscure, but I have managed to talk to a winner who provided me with lots of rare information and images.
This was intresting
On TH-cam there is a lego stop motion called space adventure, it was made from 1983 to 89 it uses practical effects and has awesome audio I recommend you give it a look up because it really encapsulates that 80s feel you get from old movies
Cool!
cool!
Links to watch the films included in this video can be found in the video description. Also see the other videos in this history series in this playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLiWw9dElHOz2scI5PVgn2PZ6H0WGkp7XU.html
2023 edit: Also see the interview that Chris Wynn and I recorded with the co-creator of Journey to the Moon, on the Bricks in Motion channel: th-cam.com/video/Cx5wuuDYz40/w-d-xo.html
classic space is my favorite lego theme
Impressive
I know there were some old newgrounds lego animations made in the early 2000s but some were lost to time.
I actually managed to dig them up and compiled them into a video that is available on this channel that I am commenting from now
- sillypenta
@@BrickfilmsWiki Thanks
10:55 fun fact: that was the first minifigure in have more than the smiley face
i miss captain redbeard,i hope he comes back
Oh hey Gary Numan music
Well spotted. I love the early Gary Numan albums
Cool.
Looking at these old films makes me want to remaster them. Don’t ask.
Well how about that. Was just chatting with a coworker about this, never knew it went back this far. First one I ever heard of was back in the days just before you tube, when you still had to visit the website to see the video. I think it was a star wars scene redone in lego.
11:13 Bernard Cribbins doing the narration
oh my god this oldest lego city SO IS COOL
My dad, with his brother and sister made a lego animation in the 80s or 90s
You should put it on TH-cam if you can get it
Yeah I will, I think it was filmed in 1995 but I'm going to check
Junior’s faceprint should have been vaulted forever, because, he has a nose. No regular sized Minifigures used a nose on a face.
Do you think Magic Portal was inspired by TRON?
do a history of benny n lee !!!
I could actually make a history of dynamic duo series' video
sillypenta nice !!!
2:25 we need build a wall and we will make the monster they mention in the commercial pay for it
Stop Motion Lore: oh look dancing insect puppet. Lego Stop Motion Lore: Ok.. Sooooo... There where 2 cousins and...
The old brickfilms are actually very good.
We're golden
the magic portal has doctor who references!
I was always curious, did keshen8 himself actually make the magic portal? It was uploaded on his channel, so I assume so
No; he just asked the original creator (Lindsay Fleay) if he could upload on his channel. I assume he felt a kinship with it since it is also Australian
@@sillypenta thank you, I've been wondering about that for so long. Also I left another comment, I was hoping you could do a video on the history of the most nostalgic and popular stop motions and channels from the early days of TH-cam. Like forrestfire101, keshen8, michaelhickox, etc
@@ghostbusterdal1 It's possible. I am going chronologically, and it is taking me a long time, so I really can't say if I ever will actually get to the early years of TH-cam, but I would prefer to cover everything that happened before TH-cam, because it is more at risk of being forgotten
I have seen the magic portal before
I think The Magic Portal was released in the Spring of 1989. Or the Christmas season of 1989.
You forgot the Robot Chicken parodies!
Didn’t realise Australia was such an important innovator in brickflms
10:55 have that set lol
*kids make a quick lego short*
Lego: "omg amazing"
*film student makes a professional lego short film with government funding*
Lego: "erm kinda cringe, we might have to sue"
better history lesson than the ones they teach at school.
“The House That Jack Built” Oh no…
Too bad, the one I saw in the late 70s ist not in the list :( Looking for it since 40 years.
It was really great made. Some kind of Space Monster attack. Blue Space Basis with regular Astronauts Spaceships and Maschines and Moon-surface. Desert Sand and so on.
Then these monster made of dough attacked the basis with kind of flash-effekts which came out of they eyes. The flashes were made of Mikado-Sticks which came from their eyes. Very nice effect.
I think I remember there was also sound and talking in the movie and it was in german language. So either it was a german made movie or it was translated by the tv-station.
As far as I remember it was shown in the WDR. West Deutscher Rundfunk at the Students make movies show. (Studenten machen Filme):
It must be sometime between 1975 and 1984.
Anybody ever heard of this movie ?
Closest thing I can think of th-cam.com/video/TETVNYj811Y/w-d-xo.html