How Blade Runner's Badge Was Made!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ส.ค. 2023
- One of the artifacts uncovered at the Earl Hays Press is the original print blocks for Deckard's police badge in Blade Runner! Adam couldn't resist the opportunity to get this block back in a printing press to perfectly recreate this iconic hand prop exactly as it was made for the film--using the same tools that were originally used to make it!
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I dont think ive ever seen Adam get this emotional about making a prop replica. Watching Adam getting to work with people who care as much about authenticity as he does is a real treat.
At this point do we call it a replica? At least to me this is a sibling to the original props as it comes from the same provenance.
@@MonsieurAuContraireIt's still replication based on the original, just with the original equipment for part of it. It's not that far removed from how some prop companies sell prop replicas using the original molds.
@@Merennulli Yah, it's not made for the movie, it's a replica. But it is a very cool thing regardless.
I was getting emotional too haha,
His enthusiasm is infectious.
I'm not one for hyperbole but as a blade runner fan and ex-printer / graphic designer that was genuinely one of the most satisfying and wonderful videos I've seen.
Right there with you man. This video was satisfying on soooo many levels. Classis printing techniques, classic machines, old-school graphic design, and Blade Runner. Pheww...
Same here! I am a graphic designer that learned graphic design to replicate old bicycle graphics and decals back in the early 2000's and I am just fascinated by the machinery and old school printing processes. I would love to have all of this equipment!
That little *gasp* as he realizes what is going on 😊
As a college instructor of graphic design I can't say ditto enough. Wow.
@@covrtdesign5279For me blade runner is basically a holy movie. I worked in movie industry for half of my life. Tho when I saw process of making a badge I got so immersed , its not Adam s reaction its mine! Had flashbacks of working in movies , don't like this kind of phrases but it was a trip!
And in end when I saw finished badge , I felt this kind of envy , just a fantastic one video! For me its the most special one.
Adam's often said that when he makes a prop, he's looking for the experience that goes with it. It can't get much better than this!
It's not the thing, it's the essence of the thing. The thing doesn't have to be a perfect replica, it has to feel authentic to its source. This isn't a perfect replica, but it could hardly feel more authentic.
@@ZazuYenI mean you can’t really get a more perfect replica of it when he’s using original machines and parts to make it
I hope Adam got to keep the other cards that were printed. A framed display showing each step with the raw pieces would be amazing.
That's a great idea.
I'd be flabbergasted if I found an untouched roll of Amberlith. Amazingly enough when Adam picked up the tube I felt the heft of a full roll of it in the back of my mind, I had the precise synesthetic feel from way back in the early 1990's when I was an intern at the graphic department of the Navy Museum in DC. Man I miss the old analog days…
Indeed.
Seeing that tube lit up some long dark neurons in my squishy lump as well.
@@StubbyPhillips Same. My school printed their own yearbooks when I went there (1970s), and we used amberlith to mask out where the photos were going to go.
graphic arts have an intrinsic quality to them that modern digital presses are not able to replicate - offset press colors and types are beautiful
Hmm I'm getting quite perplexed. From what I'm finding out Amberlith went out of production around 2007 but is supposed to be yellow in color. Rubylith is reddish and is still produced.
@@Bahamuttone not yellow. A deep orange, bordering on vermilion.
Adam's faces of excitement as he learns about what they'll be doing bring me life.
bro looked like he was gonna cry and I felt that. lol
@@NitaKerns And then he was told it was his
I hope this turns out to be a 200 episode series. They sure would have enough interesting stuff to show off.
Amen to that.
I’m sure that if he were allowed Adam would happily set up camp inside the warehouse and spend the next year nerding out over everything in there.
@@ConManAU a reverse protest?
I would love to see a multi episode series just like this one. Showing a prop, explaining how it was made, and then going through all the steps and equipment used to create it.
@@ConManAU He'd just move in and live there
The size of those corner cutter machines compared to how much cutting they're actually doing is absolutely ridiculous. I love it!
They will round the corners of a stack of paper two inches thick. It's a production machine that they are using far below its capacity.
It's made to do a whole bunch of pages at once! Hopefully they baby it, because it's going to be impossible to find dies for it.
My paper cutter has a corner nipper on it, which makes a nice rounded edge, and is great for laminated things. Generally I only nip away the laminate, I think from now on I'm going to do it to the papers before I put them in the pocket too, because wow that looks nice.
I worked at a place that made 3ring binders that had this exact same corner cutter!
@@robertkoestner8081 as did whoever used it to make the original badges
That's what you call: "Old-World Craftsmanship."
Love seeing Adam so happy to receive an unobtainable film prop.
Can’t wait to see more film prop history.
For anyone that doesn't have access to Rubylith or Amberlith, you can approximate it with translucent vinyl. It won't have the light blocking properties but it will look almost identical. Sign shops will often have some, you can also see if they will print a custom color for you on IJ8150 which is a clear vinyl.
They still make Rubylith - a company called Ulano makes it and you can still buy it. Also, 3M makes some equivalent films.
Wow..Rubylith... That takes me waaayyy back to the 80's and making masks for my circuits to be printed and mounted on ceramic.
I would substitute theatrical light filter gel such as ROSCOLUX
@@tomtech4224 That would work too, I suggested translucent vinyl, 3M, Avery or Oracal, since you can cut shapes on a plotter and it has an adhesive back.
@@tomtech4224 Totally new to this classic printing process, but I thought it looked like stage light gels.
This is honestly one of the coolest prop replication videos I've ever seen. This is why I love watching Tested and Adam, they just cater to the exact level of nerd I am!
It's not only interesting to see these things in action to learn how they work, I also think it's so important to make a record of these kinds of historic processes, lest we forget how to make things in different ways, without the need for computers.
interesting point of view - to some extend, they are using up historical artefacts, on the other hand, they make the best use of them by documenting everything they know.
And the whole documentation adds value to the artifacts: if you display them now in a museum with the video, it has meaning and thus value.
too bad the record is on a computer though
I LOVE seeing how a prop was originally made.
Please do more of these if possible. Especially capturing the history behind it. This is an art form that does not need to get lost to time.
This video really hit me in the feels, as a newly graduated graphic designer, it really fascinates and moves me to see how props like this where made. I am happy to see that Adam enjoyed it even more than I did!
The yellow is a little bit bigger around so there's no paper white showing if the colors are slightly misaligned when printing. That's called 'trapping' and it is relatively simple to do in analog line art with an overexposed original slightly out of focus. The real problem was to do it when things began to become digital (we used computers and laser imagesetters-think of a laser printer that uses the laser to expose offset printing film-to create the offset plates from film). By about mid-1990's we had to create all the trapping digitally, at first by adding outlines to the elements in Adobe Illustrator (yes, it is THAT old) in colors that would print in both plates. In this case, we would create a color that was 100% black and 100% yellow on the outside of the yellow part. It was a nightmare to thing through what color would go 'under' which other color (darker colors would keep the same, but lighter colors should grow towards the darker ones) and by how much (it depended on several things, from the size of the piece-larger prints could shift and swell up, so we'd need wider trapping lines near the edges-to the type of paper-newsprint would stretch and shift during a run, so you'd need even wider trapping lines-to the process of printing-offset is more stable, silkscreening shifts A LOT, especially for big things). Man I miss the old early digital days…
Not only that, but the printer pressure could push the rubber stamp and caused spreading. I remember learning all the nuances of how each feel goes from abdick presses while in print classes, and working in a print shop. The memories that this episode causes is crazy, I'm sure you know what I'm saying
@@shable1436 Pretty sure that is a magnesium plate, or it might be an engraving, either way it is rock solid and the press isn't compressing it like it would a rubber stamp. :)
@@kimaboe there is rubber on some rollers, but if you know about offset printing then why argue? For one they aren't magnesium, that's too expensive, but gravure, aluminum, or something handmade by a specific font specialists has made. The rubber sometimes is put on backplate and not on front, there's many ways to do things and keep the electrons from building up
@@shable1436 Sure, but the press in the video isn't an offset press, even though Adam uses the word a few times to refer to the type of printing they do here (I'm assuming they do in fact run tons of offset work, just not in this specific instance).
This press is a simple relief proof press, with a single steel impression roller. The paper being printed is hitting the relief plate directly, the image is not offset onto a rubber roller and then transferred to the paper as in offset lithography. The packing on the roller is just enough to protect the press, but should be so hard that it has zero give under normal operation.
So, the trapping in this specific instance is only for registration due to plate positioning and to reduce the need for time consuming makeready, not to account for image "squeeze" as you see with other printing methods. Easy distinction to make for us, since we are familiar with the tech, but nice to be specific for anyone learning from the vid :)
And fwiw, magnesium cuts are fairly cheap, I buy them all the time for hot foiling purposes. It would be my first choice for something like this, and you'd get those two plates mailed in a day for about $75. I doubt you'd get an aluminium plate for that same price unless you were doing it inhouse?
I wanted to mention it was trap, which for something like this would be huge. No one wants to spend time lining up the colors or registering the impressions, especially for something the end customer (the movie audience) is never going to get a good look at.
Unless you have tints or halftones you could still burn a fatty on a plate using acetate and frost with film from an imagesetter. Although I do love how easy to do InDesign made it. As someone who still runs an AccuSet 1000, my advice is: Don't miss it too hard. 😅
So... actually Adam IS cutting corners when producing movie replicas ;)
Ha! and or course he's using a 800 pound piece of cast iron to do it with
My face hurts of smiling looking at Adam being so happy and excited for this prop
as far as all the reproductions Adam has done, nothing could be more authentic that doing it with the OG machines and process.
Thumbs-up if you noticed the spelling mistakes. On the back at 20:18 "Penal Coed" not Penal Code and "Probhibits" instead of Prohibits!
- Also, that's NOT Deckard's ID Number, his is "B 263-54"
Yep, the proofreader was on vacation that day, either physically or mentally lol.
@@DwellerBenthos LOL
@DwellerBenthos Was it like that in the movie too?
I was thinking the whole time "They have to give him one of those. They just have to..." and they did! What a great day for Adam.
The joy Adam is experiencing is palpable. I hope there are still more Earl Hayes videos coming!
Its so wholesome to see Adam this happy and emotional replicating an Original Prop the way it was made with the Machines and Materials that made it back in the day. As a huge fan of Paper and printed props I have to say, that this will most likely forever be my most favourite Video on this channel.
In the right place, with the right people!
Back in the old days when these were made, they probably used a Polaroid Miniportrait ID camera. These have four lenses that can make 4 pictures on the same sheet of film. These cameras used what is called "peel apart" Polaroid film as opposed to the "integral" film that was used on this replication. So the image would have been much thinner and easier to stick down.
I generally don’t care about “antiques” or “authenticity” of objects personally (even though I am a collector myself - in my case, playing cards), but getting an authentic fabrication experience is something I can relate to and seeing Adam being over the moon through this is warming my heart!
I've recently re-introduced dry transfer lettering to my projects. I was gutted that I couldn't buy Letraset anymore, but gladly there are alternatives.
This is a gift to watch. To know Adam’s love of blade runner, and to duplicate it with original machines is so satisfying to see.
I'm so happy for Adam. I know his love for Blade Runner runs deep. I've watched so many of videos on Blade Runner props. I know this meant the world to him This was so awesome to see.
Congratulations, Adam!
This is like going back in time.
Adam is so excited he is about to cry in several moments and it warms my heart so much
one of the best tested videos ever! Seeing the Early Hayes Press has been amazing, I could watch hours and hours of just showing whats in the shop. Michael Corrie does a great job!
Though I love the new tech, I miss the old processes and materials. This makes me very happy to have still saved a couple old mechanicals with amberlith still attached.
Adam looks so happy, it's infectious.
I've emailed Tested already but seeing Adam's glee at printing processes makes me want to tell them AGAIN to visit the International Printing Museum in Carson CA. It's incredible and I know they'd let him play with all of their (functional!) equipment.
And for anyone anywhere near Carson, with a couple hours to spare, I promise a visit is worth the trip.
Designing with people in mind, acknowledging the typical variations that may occur in manual processes. It's just incredible that no machine can imitate it.
It's not that a machine can't, but there's often no reason for it to. We do humanizing algorithms for a lot of software that produce pseudo random "errors" to give a natural feel. But that's not what most people want from a machine.
The thrill you can see in Adam is priceless. I wish I was as lucky to experience these types of things.
The funny part is no matter how excited Adam is to see all this, he will never be as excited as the dudes who get to show a Mythbuster around the place lol.
Watching Adam geek out over things never fails to be the highlight of my day. Thank you for sharing.
Loved every minute of this! Every Tested in Earl Hayes is magic!
Thanks to Adam, Michael, Kim, Martin and the staff at Earl Hayes this was just brilliant!🙏😀
This series is amazing. Two genuine enthusiasts showing their love of the industry.
A particularly wholesome video.
It would be so cool if the studio would let sell a limited + numbered run if these!
Sometimes they are blind to what would make them money. They just see toy deals
The absolute childish glee at 17:20 with "I didn't realize it was going to be mine!" had me in tears!
It's rare these days in our increasingly digital lives to see someone having an experience and *truly* appreciating it in the moment. I think it's no coincidence that it came doing something so unapologetically NOT digital.
Electric typewriters-the daisywheel kind, not the Electric 'ball' kind-had to locate the index (the 'zero position' of the type wheel) before working. If the sensor is wonky, it may very well think it was 'home' when it was in some other position, and yeah, it would type a weird Caesar cipher (characters moved over some number of places) if left unchecked. Good to know that turning it off and on could get it to work properly.
Thanks for this one; this was a real nostalga trip for me.
Growing up around the family printshop I learned many of the basics as a kid/teen and would often do small projects like this for school. Shop may have closed in '99 but I was just telling stories about it to my niece last night.
Thanks again.
this was so much cooler than I imagined it would be when I read the title
That printing press looks like the swiss-made proofing press we had in high school (I went to high school for printing and paper-making technologies here in my country). Main difference between regular presses and proofing presses is in the way forms are locked on the base plate rather than inside a frame.
I thought it was a Vandercook press
@@rickv1007 Vandercook is correct, and a power-carriage adjustable-bed model too, like a Universal III.
@@rickv1007 It's possible. But definitely a proofing press. :)
@@hillside21 Ours was an FAG-120 :) Swiss-made.
@10:31 "edge to edge bleed" is called "trap" or "trapping" - so wonderful to see this process - thanks, Adam!
I think it's wonderful that, for whatever reason, there are people in this world that are keeping the old ways running. We might need them sooner than we think. Brilliant stuff as ever.
Adam, this must have been a dream come true for you! Congrats!
Adam had no idea what he was in for. Fantastic!
This video is like the perfect TH-cam video, it’s got blade runner, printing press, prop making, machines that make cool noises, Adam savage just nerding out, amazing informative guest appearances, it’s got it all man
There's nothing better than coming home after a hard days work and having a new Adam video in the feed. Thanks for making my day 100% better.
As a printmaker, watching Adam geek out at this process was especially fulfilling! Print is great!
Man my heart would be sunk in shock wow this is awesome glad you were able to travel 40yrs back.
Among all these genuinely old and fascinating machines, it's funny how much Adam loves the paper cutter at 15:05 - something every high school teacher in the US still uses on a regular basis.
What an incredible experience to be able to make a prop replica using the original techniques on the original equipment. It can't get any more screen accurate than that.
It’s amazing to see people keeping this craft alive!
Thank you Adam for sharing this. I am in my seventies and I worked a similar press process as a young lad. I share your enthusiasm for the process and the memories.
The adding of the bleed on the orange 8 symbol is a deliberate part of the pre-press process. The term we used is a 'spread' or a 'trap'. On any press, particularly a commercial press running at high speed, a spread is necessary in this particular scenario to ensure that misregistration of one solid colour (in this case a 'spot' orange) to another does not result in a visible white gap between the orange and the black. Typically the amount of spread in this case would be somewhere between 0.1 mm and 0.3 mm. So totally correct and deliberate.
You have to make the yellow with extra bleed on purpose. Just in case the printer gets off a little, you won't see any white. I've been a designer in the box making industry for 28 years, and you always have to add bleed to the plate that prints into an area with with another color below it.
I have to say that this has to be the coolest shiz I've seen on this channel man I bet he felt awesome holding that badge at the end of it all.
I love this series of videos at Earl Hays Press! I can’t get enough of it!! Thanks for these videos!! 🙌🙌 Right On! 🙌
3:06 Adam's reaction here makes me so happy.
I must admit I teared up a couple of times. Nice job.
Was it raining? 😁
Is someone cutting onions?
My favorite part of this is that I can imagine Michael as he's discovering this process thinking to himself "I have to bring Adam here and share this with him."
Fun to see. I loved the movie and when I got out of college I worked for the Washington State Department of Printing with all those wonderful presses for four years. Thanks 🔪🎸
Adam reminds me so much of my grandfather. He was an electrician for over 50 years and loved his work and was very good at it. It’s so awesome getting to see the joy in someone’s eyes doing what they love, it reminds me of the enthusiasm my grandfather had while working on any construction based projects (but especially anything with electricity) with my brothers and I. It also helps that Adam shares a resemblance to my grandfather haha. Awesome video, amazing channel!
As wonderful as Adam's reactions throughout this video are, it's Micheal's disposal of the leftover glue at 13:40 that had us going "Hah! Same!!"
Adam, I think I felt some of the excitement you felt in the studio by watching this! Amazing process!
I think that has to be one of the best Tested videos ever. What a perfect host, predicting the level of interest and not just catering for it, but taking it up several levels - original press, original block, vintage printing materials, corner cutter!! Something new introduced to someone so experienced in the world of props and prop replicas but still so in awe of it. This video. This video…
How do you start doing this kind of stuff and what does it take love what you're doing Adam keep up the good work
Never comment on this channel as Adam will never see it. But, Adam, I have never seen you so happy making something so simple. I too would have been in absolute heaven! What an experience. Too think it was with all original equipment and media too!
As a film fan, and a former printer and designer, this video got me proper choked up for some reason. Absolutely wonderful to see this process.
This is so great... Recreating something from the "future" that was made in the past... And all those people working on the same machines through the years...
It's interesting to see the closeup of the back of the badge at 20:20. There is a typo in the English, "American Penal Coed". Perhaps that was an intentional joke.
The Japanese is random words though mostly university names or related. It starts off as "Toyo Art School 3505 B. Chiyoda Japan Kogakuin Specialist School etc." No relation to the English except for the "3505 B".
The nerd-level here is just unbelievable. Really, really cool.
Adams Fascination through the whole process was simply priceless, he's so excited for the seemingly most mundane things, but not in an unpleasant way.
He reminds me of a apprentice who just left school, and gets to see their first workplace, seeing all these new things.
Watching Adam's reaction to the fact that they were going to cut into an untouched roll of a product made exceedingly rare due to the march of time is just so much fun.
was this Adam's birthday present or something? Seems HYPER tailored to him, hah.
That "bleed over" is a trap. Without it, the press operator would have a nightmare of a time registering the yellow within the knockout space.
The magic of cinema is not the movie itself, are all those little details hidden behind the screen, and how hundreds of people on the different realization teams could bring fantastic worlds alive.
I've been watching these couple videos and they have given me chills.
Wow, printing like that is a dying art form. They should make and sell these to help with the cost of cataloging, they would make a fortune also. I'll buy one !
Watching Adam doing the badge feels quite nostalgic. It reminds me of my my high school days, when I (along with a couple of fellow students) was doing all of the student ID cards. I remember the cards being printed by a dye-sublimination printer the school had, then laminated and cut all of the excess out. The trimmer used to cut those excess can cut all the sides and corner all at once, but it needs quite a bit of force from the operator lol.
I love seeing all the old movie props and design of the products that are used for small amount of screen time. Like the 2015 newspaper from Back to the future.
I absolutely LOVE the videos so far in this place, and it makes me wonder what they have from some of MY favorite films. Maybe some stuff from the old Raimi Spider-Man films like a Daily Bugle newspaper or something. That would be awesome to see.
They should've printed Adam's face out on the Polaroid Printer, and have his name written on the ID, that would be so cool for a Deckard-Savage cosplay omg!!!
I can't imagine Adam didn't leave there that day without a badge with a photo of himself from the 80's.
I'm loving Adam on tour through all these places! And the cadence of releasing these videos....just awesome. Keep it up Tested!!!!
I'M one of those people who loves old school tools, so to see this done on the original old machines was an absolute treat. I fully understand why Adam was so excited, I would have been too. :)
Part of me really hopes that they let Adam have one of those badges with his own picture and signature on it.
I just noticed Adam rocking the Seiko SKX. This man is class all around.
I am glad to see Props to History work with Adam on a labor of love in prop history.
This is awesome! Like you said, with replicating something you often want to strive for perfection, but actually walking through the original process and seeing where there was room for errors and imperfections you realise the flaws make them all the more genuine.
Great video, I hope you get the chance to do more stuff like this!
I love Adam so much, I hope I will stay as motivated and passionate about my crafts as he is when I get older. He is such a great role model!
I cannot express the joy that this video brought me. I love old tools and seeing the entire process of this was simply magical. Thank you so much
I love seeing all of this so much. I have always loved movies so this is just awesome to watch.
I am watching this on lunch at work and I am trying not to scream from the joy of all the components of this video.
Thank you to Tested, The Earl Hays Press, & Props To History for all these videos!!!!
Beautiful that they still have the equipment that made prop history and lore!
You can smell the ink!!! Adam's love of the different processes shines through. Bladerunner is and always will be my number one film. As a lithographic artist working in print for over 40 years here in the UK, I used a lot of Rubylith/Amberlith and it's delicate stuff. Adam's video has brought back happy memories. A superb eye-opener, giving insight on prop production at it's best...love it. Thanks Adam.
When movies make a "behind the scenes" featurette for the Blu-Ray, they show how much detail goes into the CGI, its layers etc. We can comprehend the time spent, the skill involved plus more and think old movies where not technical.
But when I see examples of techniques used, the practical effects and props had a very high standard and the skills required were not taught, they had to rob Peter to pay Paul and be a jack of all trades.
Wow, after all these years, one of the first videos on tested I watched was Adam's Blaster recreation. To come back full circle to this prop after all this time is absolutely amazing and a testament to the amazing work of Joey, Norm, Adam and everyone at Tested.