How the hell did they film this so well? You’d swear this manufacturing process was actually how they made the movie props. Man they do NOT make movies like this anymore.
In case you were wondering exactly what you were looking at: 0:11 CNC lathe tail stock retract button depressed, probably to allow material to be inserted into the chuck for machining. 0:12 Oscilloscope with a sawtooth pattern 0:18 CNC machine single block switch, used to "step" through a program one operation at a time for making adjustments 0:19 CNC lathe, about to cut a part on the back side (they usually don't sound like that; it's usually more of a deep hum) 0:22 CNC milling machine cutting a part, with coolant flowing to keep the part cool and clear chips of material 0:26 CNC lathe turning a part and producing a string instead of a chips 0:29 Code being manually inputted into a CNC machine's computer 0:30 CNC milling machine head position display. Relative means the position relative to the last location of the cutter, and absolute means the position relative to a common starting point. 0:32 Some kind of incremental positioning system I don't recognize 0:35 Number Five's wrist being tested 0:39 Number Five's neck cylinders being tested 0:41 CNC machine start button 0:42 Number Five's tracks being laid out for installation 0:45 Angle grinder being used to grind down and polish a steel weld (steel because of the color of the sparks) 0:50 Number Five's tool arm being tested 0:58 Laser beam directional mechanism lens insertion and servo testing 1:01 100 ohm resistors being cut from a ribbon by a "bend, cut, and form" machine in preparation for insertion into a circuit board and soldering. 1:05 220 ohm resistor being soldered (the wrong way; it's against J-Std-001 to solder from the top of the board like this) 1:08 Transistors (the silver cans), Diode arrays (the red "combs"), and ICs being visually inspected 1:11 CNC machine fine movement dial being turned 1:14 Number Five's wrist being tested 1:18 ICs being improperly stored, then inserted into a circuit board for soldering (Interestingly, they're marked "Eng Sample", which means these are engineering samples, and they're typically beta versions of integrated circuits that are meant to be used for compatibility qualification or as demonstrators. These ICs are made by General Instruments, but I can't find the part number for them so they're likely no longer made) 1:20 Milspec round connector with empty holes 1:21 Ribbon connector, PETA-type 1:25 Number Five's eye lens being installed 1:28 Number Five's head installed and voltage-tested 1:34 Main circuit board insertion on their rails 1:36 "Eyebrow" flap servo motor testing 1:41 Camera diaphragm and lens servo testing 1:44 Right side upper arm installation 1:47 Left hand installation and finger servo testing (not the same as on the full prop, as the fingers would curl when retracted and these fingers don't do that) 1:51 Final test readout for the diagnostic test station that runs system tests on the fully assembled robot 1:56 Mechanical press, using an unconventional lever action (usually mechanical presses like this use a rotational mechanism, but this one looks cooler on camera) 1:58 Finished ID plate after enamel coating the logo and lettering, then bolted to the robot's frame using cap head machine screws (the coolest of all screws)
Awesome breakdown dude, this movie really pushed my intrest for electronics, machining and computers when I was a kid. I ended up doing CNC machining for a few years, before everything got sold off to China. We did some parts for General Dynamics, GE Areospace and some other small DOD stuff. I would like to think some of them ended up in Robots a Drone or maybe on a DARPA project. I was in 3/4/5 Axis Milling.
@@Albertalorian Same. It definitely inspired me to pester my parents for the Lego Robotics Invention System as a kid and try and get into robotics. I eventually became an electronics technician and currently build cables for aircraft and weapons, but hopefully I can find a robotics company to work for to fulfill the dream.
Altough I was born in 2004 i still remember watching this movie as a child i had a vivid memory of how cool it was and 10 years later it still is cool !
I was a little kid back then. Maybe 10 years old. I had huge interest in robots, such as other kids at that time. Then this move came out. I was in heaven when I knew about this movie. A robot that gets self-awereness by accident and learns the world. What a great story. And additionally that magnificent soundtrack from David Shire. Both Story and score go hand in hand. It was a great movie back then, when I was a kid. And it is a great movie for all kids nowadays. What a time to be alive :) That intro scene with the sountrack music gave me the chills back then, and it gives me the chills right now. This soundtrack is and was ahead of its time :) And much love to this intro scene , too. I was already in tune, when I watched the intro. Johnny 5 I miss you :'(
As a kid I loved this movie so much I got obsessed with mechanics and building robots. I wanted to become a robot builder. I think I must have watched this intro sequence countless times and tried to imitate it myself with lego and shit.
My favorite scenes of Short Circuit: The Opening assembly scene The demonstration of the S.A.I.N.T.S. Number Five getting hit by lightning surge Number Five escaping 'WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO BE A PEPPER TOO' Number Five and Stephanie dancing Number Five disassembling Frank's car Number Five melting Frank's belt buckle Number Five reprogramming Number's One,Two and Three to act like the Three Stooges Crosby finally understanding what happened to Number 5 Number Five,Stephanie and Crosby heading for Montana The birth of Johnny Five The ending music score.
I just noticed that right after being built, Number 5 lacks the extra kibble that the other SAINT prototypes have, despite Johnny having the pieces before he is blasted by the lightning. Such as the mouthguard and hat.
If you go back and rewatch the film he has the mouth guard and top piece, they just don't show it in the intro sequence. When he gets struck by lightning you can see both. He only loses both when he falls out of the garbage truck outside of Nova robotics
Can’t explain it, but the first time I saw this (Feb 1992 on TV, so I would have been just short of 7) I thought it was awesome. Then when I watched it again a few months later the music scared me, plus having seen both movies and knowing the character arc of Johnny Five, seeing him being built creeped me out in some primal way that I can’t quite explain. For many years I would skip the intro if I wanted to see the movie. But 31 years later I’m back to thinking this is awesome and I can’t stop watching and rewatching it.
So that's the process of the production of the Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transport (SAINT). The "clank" of the stamp finishing the job is the icing on the cake.
As a little kid on the Autism Spectrum, this opening sequence of the assembling of Johnny Five scared me but I like this now! This is one of my favorite movies from the 80s.
I have ADHD and loved this film and was obsessed with robots when I was little, but my parents told me and I can kinda remember it that I just needed to hear the start of the intro and would run away crying every time, but obviously loved the rest when this was over. Now im wondering what is it about our types of brains that made this scene so terrifying when young?
Who knows but the music score by David Shire going along with the close up shots of Johnny Five being assembled in the factory is kinda discomforting for a young child who is on the Autism Spectrum or even someone with ADHD. I also thought that the tank treads suddenly running over the flowers before the demonstration sequence scared me a bit, too. I thought they were train wheels as a kid. Also I was scared of the robot's optic sensors turning red as well!
@@samuelfawley646 It is interesting... I always wondered if it was either the music or the scenes that set me off, I guess it's a combination of both, thinking about it again even though I would leave each time from just the start I have something in my head telling me that peak discomfort from this whole scene is when the treads are laid out at the same time the bass line starts... hmm that's funny because I remember just thinking the fight scene with the nova robots was cool and weirdly liking their creepy voices, tho I did always love the way battle droids from Star Wars sounded haha
I remember watching this as a kid and becoming fascinated by electronics
Omg me too! I loved it sooooo much that my dad burned at a disc to play on my MP3 player, so many memories
This was what did it for me too man. I became absolutely obsessed.
And look at us now lol
It's one of the reasons I want to be an electrical engineer.
How the hell did they film this so well? You’d swear this manufacturing process was actually how they made the movie props. Man they do NOT make movies like this anymore.
Certainly not anymore in this environment that is modern entertainment.
Too much corporatizing.
Easy... with a camera
@@thatgermanicguy man you said it
trial and error...also, practical effects people were wizards
As a child of the 80s and a huge fan of this movie, I've literally put this track on loop while building desktop computers. Feels very appropriate.
I loop it all the time whenever I'm at work building electronics and cables. It feels really appropriate to me, too!
this movie is one of my favorites
I did it too on VHS recorder. So it wasnt easy task , and some time tape got tangelt in recorder so tape must be cerfuly put out of recorder 🙂
In case you were wondering exactly what you were looking at:
0:11 CNC lathe tail stock retract button depressed, probably to allow material to be inserted into the chuck for machining.
0:12 Oscilloscope with a sawtooth pattern
0:18 CNC machine single block switch, used to "step" through a program one operation at a time for making adjustments
0:19 CNC lathe, about to cut a part on the back side (they usually don't sound like that; it's usually more of a deep hum)
0:22 CNC milling machine cutting a part, with coolant flowing to keep the part cool and clear chips of material
0:26 CNC lathe turning a part and producing a string instead of a chips
0:29 Code being manually inputted into a CNC machine's computer
0:30 CNC milling machine head position display. Relative means the position relative to the last location of the cutter, and absolute means the position relative to a common starting point.
0:32 Some kind of incremental positioning system I don't recognize
0:35 Number Five's wrist being tested
0:39 Number Five's neck cylinders being tested
0:41 CNC machine start button
0:42 Number Five's tracks being laid out for installation
0:45 Angle grinder being used to grind down and polish a steel weld (steel because of the color of the sparks)
0:50 Number Five's tool arm being tested
0:58 Laser beam directional mechanism lens insertion and servo testing
1:01 100 ohm resistors being cut from a ribbon by a "bend, cut, and form" machine in preparation for insertion into a circuit board and soldering.
1:05 220 ohm resistor being soldered (the wrong way; it's against J-Std-001 to solder from the top of the board like this)
1:08 Transistors (the silver cans), Diode arrays (the red "combs"), and ICs being visually inspected
1:11 CNC machine fine movement dial being turned
1:14 Number Five's wrist being tested
1:18 ICs being improperly stored, then inserted into a circuit board for soldering (Interestingly, they're marked "Eng Sample", which means these are engineering samples, and they're typically beta versions of integrated circuits that are meant to be used for compatibility qualification or as demonstrators. These ICs are made by General Instruments, but I can't find the part number for them so they're likely no longer made)
1:20 Milspec round connector with empty holes
1:21 Ribbon connector, PETA-type
1:25 Number Five's eye lens being installed
1:28 Number Five's head installed and voltage-tested
1:34 Main circuit board insertion on their rails
1:36 "Eyebrow" flap servo motor testing
1:41 Camera diaphragm and lens servo testing
1:44 Right side upper arm installation
1:47 Left hand installation and finger servo testing (not the same as on the full prop, as the fingers would curl when retracted and these fingers don't do that)
1:51 Final test readout for the diagnostic test station that runs system tests on the fully assembled robot
1:56 Mechanical press, using an unconventional lever action (usually mechanical presses like this use a rotational mechanism, but this one looks cooler on camera)
1:58 Finished ID plate after enamel coating the logo and lettering, then bolted to the robot's frame using cap head machine screws (the coolest of all screws)
🤓🤓
Awesome breakdown dude, this movie really pushed my intrest for electronics, machining and computers when I was a kid. I ended up doing CNC machining for a few years, before everything got sold off to China. We did some parts for General Dynamics, GE Areospace and some other small DOD stuff. I would like to think some of them ended up in Robots a Drone or maybe on a DARPA project. I was in 3/4/5 Axis Milling.
@@Albertalorian Same. It definitely inspired me to pester my parents for the Lego Robotics Invention System as a kid and try and get into robotics. I eventually became an electronics technician and currently build cables for aircraft and weapons, but hopefully I can find a robotics company to work for to fulfill the dream.
DAMN YOU REALLY KNOW ELECTRONICS
I love your geekout. Hat's off to your nerdy detail!
A great piece of music that perfectly captures the wonder and terror of watching a Steve Guttenberg movie.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I LOVED this movie as a kid! And I still love it as a grown-up man :')
Altough I was born in 2004 i still remember watching this movie as a child i had a vivid memory of how cool it was and 10 years later it still is cool !
I love how they brand the killer nuclear robots SAINT prototypes. No small irony, which makes it simply wonderful.
I was a little kid back then. Maybe 10 years old. I had huge interest in robots, such as other kids at that time. Then this move came out. I was in heaven when I knew about this movie. A robot that gets self-awereness by accident and learns the world. What a great story. And additionally that magnificent soundtrack from David Shire. Both Story and score go hand in hand. It was a great movie back then, when I was a kid. And it is a great movie for all kids nowadays. What a time to be alive :) That intro scene with the sountrack music gave me the chills back then, and it gives me the chills right now. This soundtrack is and was ahead of its time :) And much love to this intro scene , too. I was already in tune, when I watched the intro. Johnny 5 I miss you :'(
i like the opening when i was 8 years old and now i'm 9
I'm curious what you do now. Do you work in robotics?
Just a sh!t load of nostalgia
Little did they knew, They were creating the first Robotic US Citizen
As a kid I loved this movie so much I got obsessed with mechanics and building robots. I wanted to become a robot builder. I think I must have watched this intro sequence countless times and tried to imitate it myself with lego and shit.
This is one of the first movies I saw that sparked my fascination for robots.
And there's the Terminator and RoboCop and Tron and Renegade and EVE
@@okamijubei I saw ALL of those.
How it felt building Lego as a kid
My favorite scenes of Short Circuit:
The Opening assembly scene
The demonstration of the S.A.I.N.T.S.
Number Five getting hit by lightning surge
Number Five escaping
'WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO BE A PEPPER TOO'
Number Five and Stephanie dancing
Number Five disassembling Frank's car
Number Five melting Frank's belt buckle
Number Five reprogramming Number's One,Two and Three to act like the Three Stooges
Crosby finally understanding what happened to Number 5
Number Five,Stephanie and Crosby heading for Montana
The birth of Johnny Five
The ending music score.
I want the 80s BACK 😢
I just noticed that right after being built, Number 5 lacks the extra kibble that the other SAINT prototypes have, despite Johnny having the pieces before he is blasted by the lightning. Such as the mouthguard and hat.
If you go back and rewatch the film he has the mouth guard and top piece, they just don't show it in the intro sequence. When he gets struck by lightning you can see both. He only loses both when he falls out of the garbage truck outside of Nova robotics
@@Mileza-ASMR Yes I know that I am just pointing out it's weird to show his primary look before the extra pieces were removed.
Proper 80's!Thanks for the upload
In an alternate universe, this whole sequence is in an episode of 'How It's Made'
Dude, I remember making a joke with my dad when he first showed me this scene and I said the same thing
Can’t explain it, but the first time I saw this (Feb 1992 on TV, so I would have been just short of 7) I thought it was awesome. Then when I watched it again a few months later the music scared me, plus having seen both movies and knowing the character arc of Johnny Five, seeing him being built creeped me out in some primal way that I can’t quite explain. For many years I would skip the intro if I wanted to see the movie. But 31 years later I’m back to thinking this is awesome and I can’t stop watching and rewatching it.
You and me are the same age. I saw this on TV in February 1992
Movies nowdays: we don't have a high enough budget to do complex things 🗣️
Movies then:
So that's the process of the production of the Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transport (SAINT). The "clank" of the stamp finishing the job is the icing on the cake.
This is my favorite movie
Mine too
I allways loved machines. Programming, manufacturing, you name it. So this intro is kinda like my wet dream. 😂😂
Movies that encourage kids to investigate and question authority: I'll take "Things that no longer exist" for 1000 Alex.
It was made during the Reagan era.
Almost 100% certain Valve was inspired by this music when composing the "Robots!" Theme for TF2
Awesome film and an Awesome sound track and "Scape"
Love this movie
As a little kid on the Autism Spectrum, this opening sequence of the assembling of Johnny Five scared me but I like this now! This is one of my favorite movies from the 80s.
I have ADHD and loved this film and was obsessed with robots when I was little, but my parents told me and I can kinda remember it that I just needed to hear the start of the intro and would run away crying every time, but obviously loved the rest when this was over. Now im wondering what is it about our types of brains that made this scene so terrifying when young?
Who knows but the music score by David Shire going along with the close up shots of Johnny Five being assembled in the factory is kinda discomforting for a young child who is on the Autism Spectrum or even someone with ADHD. I also thought that the tank treads suddenly running over the flowers before the demonstration sequence scared me a bit, too. I thought they were train wheels as a kid. Also I was scared of the robot's optic sensors turning red as well!
@@samuelfawley646 It is interesting... I always wondered if it was either the music or the scenes that set me off, I guess it's a combination of both, thinking about it again even though I would leave each time from just the start I have something in my head telling me that peak discomfort from this whole scene is when the treads are laid out at the same time the bass line starts... hmm that's funny because I remember just thinking the fight scene with the nova robots was cool and weirdly liking their creepy voices, tho I did always love the way battle droids from Star Wars sounded haha
This is how the department of defense assembled Mark Zuckerberg 😂
I ran old school CNC lathes (FANUC) for years- that screen is NOT supposed to look like that..
It's funny that each of the S.A.I.N.T. Robots cost over $11 Million dollars each they cost more than the jewels from the sequel.
Sounds like Dr Octavius building his actuators. The power of the sun!
I love the beginning 😁
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I dunno why but that "22!!!!!!!!" on the monitor always kills me for some reason 💀💀💀
its surprising there are no blueprints on the internet
Lol I just finished watching this movie I really like the music in the beginning part
Edit: I'd watch this scene for the music alone on loop 😆
I'ma tell my kids this is how babies are made 😜
I think, that Nova robotics logo was inspiration for institute logo in Fallout 4 All of them are robotic Vitruvian man
*I'm gen z (2005) and this movie on DVD got me into robotics (years later robotics class) UwU*
ayy 2005 gang
@@alienextraterrestrial113 *2005 Here Indeed :D*
how i feel building a pc
Classic.
Goes so hard.
How It's Made: S.A.I.N.T. UNIT #5
Now I kinda wanna see a building montage for WALL-E.
1:56 Where exactly on his body is the plaque located on?
Está debajo entre los peldaños.
@@CarlosEsparza1138 Muchas gracias.
Epic!
I Watched That Science Fiction Movie When I Was 13.
Considering there is another robot to be built after him....
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You could at least explain more on why are to showing parts in the intro. Is it the build processes your are showing?
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Washington is home to Microsoft and Boeing makes sense it would be home to more technology.
This song need a drop so bad.
It's amazing how well this movie's held up.
Siempre recuerdo esta escena.
This fuckin scared me
Everything from the 80’s is scary when you think about it.
As quoted by Dr. Newton Crosby PhD aka Steve Guttenberg, You and me both!
@@jayhead000 The music gave me nightmares
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