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THE INVADERS TV Series: Hollywood tricks used to make the Invaders burn up when they died
I'm a retired film editor, but I loved THE INVADERS as a kid...especially the wonderful special effects. Quinn Martin didn't skimp on budgets, and this included the optical effects. According to Roy Thinnes, each "immolation" cost about $190-210 which, in 2024 dollars, is about $1800. That made each optical quite expensive, because it involved frame-by-frame rotoscoping, animation cameras, and optical printers. But the results are gorgeous--and haunting.
I do not own any of this footage. I'm presenting here for educational and film/tv history purposes.
I do not own any of this footage. I'm presenting here for educational and film/tv history purposes.
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Peggy Glanville-Hicks Three Gymnopédies MusicaNova Orchestra 3.24.24
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This short 3 movement work is lovely but the rental parts were some of the WORST I've ever seen in 40 years of orchestral playing! Imagine a 10th generation Xerox copy! I spent literally HOURS trying to decipher 4 bars!
Selections from "O How Glorious" Mountain Reformed Church Spring Cantata May 5, 2024
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My church, Mountain Reformed Church in Prescott Valley, AZ has incredibly talented musicians and is one of the most loving churches I've ever experienced. I always LOVE to play harp for their musical specials, and this cantata was no exception! I was moved to tears several times while I was playing! We had a 22 piece orchestra which was superb, and a wonderful church choir as well. It's rare to...
The Triumph of Lester Snapwell Buster Keaton in a Kodak Promotional Film Sound and Image restored!
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Buster Keaton did many promotional films. This is one of his last, in color, he did for Eastman Kodak to promote their new Instamatic cameras. I'm sure he influenced the gags and story structure, as this was a silent comedy film that mimicked his earlier silent films. My friend Greg Kimble and I did an unofficial restoration of this film 14 years after the Laughsmith.com restoration correcting ...
Gloria & Silent Night arr. Dan Forrest Mountain Reformed Church 12.03.23
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These are the final two numbers from our Christmas Cantata on December 3, 2023. Ryan Gastonguay was our conductor. Mountain Reformed Church has grown from about 25 people to over 125 people attending Sunday services in a little over 2 years. Their emphasis is on good music (as opposed to the Praise Band milieu of what my niece calls "7-11 songs: 7 words repeated 11 times"). This church is locat...
Mountain Reformed Church Choir and Orchestra Easter Sunday 4.9.23
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OUTSTANDING music for a small church!
Remembering Paul Snatic
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I made this video to honor my partner and best friend of 28 years, Paul Snatic. Normally we would put out an annual Christmas video, and I started making one last December in CinemaScope, no less! But Alas, it was not to be, other than a truncated version I posted earlier. I didn't get to really create what I wanted due to events. And I know that he's probably looking down right now, asking me ...
Arturo Marquez "Danzon No. 2" MusicaNova Orchestra, Warren Cohen conductor
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This is from a joint concert of MusicaNova and Harmony Project Phoenix Orchestras, as well as the Coro Infantile de Hermosillo Children's Choir on May 7, 2023. My crew and I had 5 cameras going. I absolutely LOVE this piece of music! The rhythms! The luxurious strings! The delicious dissonances! The ability to make you want to get up and dance it's all amazing, and a superb performance by Music...
Unexpected Affinities by Graham Cohen Mvt. 2, "Presto"
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I guess my life has been flashing before my eyes, so to speak, the past 3 months. I came across this piece that I played harp on, in January 2015, the world premiere of, Graham Cohen's UNEXPECTED AFFINITIES for Reed Quintet, String Orchestra, Celeste and Harp. Graham is truly a musical prodigy, and wrote this at age 16! He was accepted into the Julliard School of Music Pre-College Program while...
An Arizona Monsoon 4K CinemaScope
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My favorite memory as a child was sitting on the back porch with my family and watching the Arizona Monsoon storms roll in it was like watching a 4th of July fireworks show! So for years I've wanted to film a monsoon, and this year the weather cooperated and I had a compliment of CinemaScope lenses available! This was filmed July-October 2022.
David & Paul's CinemaScope Christmas Video 2022
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Here is our annual Christmas video but we skipped a year. Great if you're dying of enui, or have severe insomnia. Warning: if you're trying to watch this at work, your snoring will alert your co-workers....
Space X Rocket Launch in 4K as seen from Scottsdale, AZ
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Space X Rocket Launch in 4K as seen from Scottsdale, AZ
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Suite by Bernard Herrmann
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Performed by the Prescott Pops Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ryan Gastonguay, in September 2022. Herrmann's music is sheer genius and difficult! I did my best to play on one harp what was written for two harps! And the violins were "coming to the edge of the fingerboard" in certain spots, and they weren't happy about it! But the end result is definitely worth it. I waited for over 40 years t...
Tribute To The Film Composer arranged by John Williams
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Performed by the Prescott Pops Symphony Orchestra in September 2022, conducted by Ryan Gastonguay. I based the video clips off of a very fuzzy low rez CZcams video, and added more shots as well as the stills of the composers. I also put together a click track so Ryan could sync with the film and it worked like a charm!
Rehearsal with the Prescott Pops Symphony Orchestra “Tribute to the Film Composer” by John Williams
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I put together this video for a concert with the Prescott Pops Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ryan Gastonguay. The video is loosely based on a blurry CZcams video I found that accomplished this tune, arranged by the great John Williams. I used the blurry video as a template, redid it in HD, added more shots and the still photos of the composers, and added a click track. Ryan was wearing headp...
Sirui 35mm 1 33 Anamorphic Arizona Monsoons
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Sirui 35mm 1 33 Anamorphic Arizona Monsoons
Freewell Anamorphic ND16 Lens with Mavic Air 2 Test #2
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Freewell Anamorphic ND16 Lens with Mavic Air 2 Test #2
Apache Trail Short CinemaScope Test with Sirui 35mm Anamorphic
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Apache Trail Short CinemaScope Test with Sirui 35mm Anamorphic
Freewell Anamorphic ND 16 Tests (Cinemascope) Mavic Air 2
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Freewell Anamorphic ND 16 Tests (Cinemascope) Mavic Air 2
"Hooray For Harpywood!" MusicaNova Classical Lounge Series 11.22.2020
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"Hooray For Harpywood!" MusicaNova Classical Lounge Series 11.22.2020
Dealing With Stage Fright with David Ice, principal harp, MusicaNova Orchestra
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Dealing With Stage Fright with David Ice, principal harp, MusicaNova Orchestra
"Lost" Music from Outer Limits "The Borderland" Composed by Dominic Frontiere
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"Lost" Music from Outer Limits "The Borderland" Composed by Dominic Frontiere
"All Or Nothin" from OKLAHOMA--a musical analysis of the mathematics of romantic triads!
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"All Or Nothin" from OKLAHOMA a musical analysis of the mathematics of romantic triads!
Fantastic David! Just wonderful. Where was this? Could I post this, either as a link &/or the video of the performance, to the Marx Brothers Fan Club FB group?
The scenes where aliens vapourise is from the episode 'The Mutation', which featured Suzanne Pleshette playing a good alien & being killed from her own kind.
I remember watching this show whenI was a kid. Always fascinated by the vaporizing alien death scenes. Now I know how it was done. Thanks. :-)
Never seen the show, but it looks neat. I remember doing any kind of optical was a hassle when I started out in this industry...so I don't regret going into computer graphics research early on. The one thing I don't miss from back then; doing optical compositing.
I have a friend who did special effects the "old fashioned way"--on film, with optical printers! He told me nightmare stories about STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE where they were working 24/7, paid to keep the film lab open 24/7 (including weekends!!!!), had motorcycle couriers to run the exposed film back and forth to the lab, and just insane work pressures....i.e. the transporter glow. They would call Paramount and ask, "We can try to use gold colored glitter, or try real gold flakes. Which should we do?" The answer for these questions was always, "JUST DO IT. SCREW THE COSTS." And when the film premiered in Washington DC (if memory serves) Robert Wise had never seen the completed film (with all the opticals)!! Even so, my friend laments the change in attitude. It used to be (working on film) "How can we make this look terriffic and believable?" to the computer era, "How cheaply can we do this in CGI.?" To quote him, "there was a massive change in attitude towards visual effects, and the old-school creativity went down the drain."
Where's number 10 on your list???
That was so beautiful!
The affects of the aliens disintegrating was very impressive especially the last scene with the split screen for it works so well and I think the reason the chickens suddenly appear in the scene is that there must have been a UFO somewhere out there in space that had been examining the chickens on board the space ship and decided to beam the chickens back to where they came from just as the alien is killed 😃.
I always wondered why there were not more "immolations" in the shows, never thought about the cost of each one. LOVE this show, of course I have the total set on DVD.
That of the chickens was a time error, and could happened even nowadays
I really loved the soundtrack!!! Dominic Frontiere was one of the best in its class!!
I got to work once with Dominic Frontiere when I was the sound editor on MODERN PROBLEMS. Alas, they cut a couple of his most impressive cues. He was a nice man and I gushed that I was such a fan of his music on OUTER LIMITS and THE INVADERS. He told me with a wink that even though THE INVADERS never went into syndication (this was in the early 80's) he still got a great royalty every time an episode was shown of OUTER LIMITS: "If you can write the theme for a show, the royalties come in forever!"
This process seems to take weeks to complete
One of my fave shows: just got the entire series on DVD a couple of weeks ago, finally, and only thing I wish is they had with multiple audio, with its classic translation to Spanish made in Mexico at the time
Must be a huge embarrassment for the poor aliens, come half way across the galaxy with super duper ray guns and then get killed by a primitive caveman with a gun powder burning fire stick! Loved the series though!
Hadn't thought about this show in 40 years, nothing wrong with my little finger.
The Invaders had thee best disintegration in sci-fi! I just finished rewatching both seasons and the way the aliens and inanimate objects dissolve are my favourite and more logical than anything at the time and since then!
Chickens are the best
Yes, I also remember the series very vaguely, it ran in Germany in the 70s under the title "Invasion von der Wega"
I started shooting film back in the 50's. Today, when clarity and precision photography is required, I do it via digital technology. When I'm being "artistic" I often use film.
Did anyone bother to explain to the chickens what was expected of them during the filming?
My recollection is that it showed in Australia on Monday night, when my parents were out. I would be terrified!
I met Roy and Lynn Loring in Monterey circa 1970 when he was filming that awful mini series "The Psychiatrist". I was at the then Holiday Inn Motel [newly constructed], and I was essentially just a beach bum kid. Jerry Freeman introduced me to him and he spoke to me like I was actually somebody such was the charm and charisma of Roy. Quite a gentleman. We also share the same birthday. Hope you are still kicking on Roy. In my view, Hollywood never [outside of the Invaders] gave you a role that showed your great talent. Brotherly love from Australia...
Upon the first notes of the theme, it was fingers in ears and running terrified from the room. Scary, scary stuff.
Those darned photobombing 15 seconds of fame chickens !
Not only did they miss the movement in the last example, the rifleman's shadow doesn't move while he's shooting then it does after the immolation effect finishes.
Not only was Mr.Thinnes in this classic TV show which I love (great music too), but he was married to Lynn Loring, one of the most beautiful, most sexy women to ever appear on television, who later became a highly successful TV executive.
I loved THE INVADERS as a kid as well. Excellent TV sci-fi
I always wondered how they did it. Thanks
I loved this series. Can you stream the invaders somewhere?
"No one really knows what they did." Maybe it was space alien technology.
I've seen this series twice. Tons of special guest stars.
Great show! But I remembered another goof when I watched it years ago, which was also revealed in one of the dissolve scenes: What happens to the alien's ray gun when he drops it before disintegrating? Seems like the gun wouldn't burn up and would provide some nice evidence for Vincent to take to the authorities!
As one producer said to me, "you're not supposed to notice those kinds of things!" LOL
Star Trek hand phasers set from "stun" to "kill." Turned glowing red and "dis-integrated".
I loved this show too !!!😊😊
Great show, thanks for posting.
era incrível assistir nas madrugadas aqui no Brasil. Imperdível e um dos meus mais favoritos shows
This was one of my favorite 1960’s shows. Loved Roy Thinnes.
Great show as a kid. This was real TV
I watched this video bc I had a specific memory that Batman and the Invaders premiered on the same night and time slot. The memory was that I watched the Invaders bc I knew Batman was going to be stupid but the next day at school I discovered I was the only boy who had not watched Batman. So I did some research. Wikipedia has every season of TV in separate articles. My 60+ year old memory was wrong. On the evening of 12 January 1966 instead of the Batman premiere I watched the premiere of Lost In Space. The Invaders did not premiere until a year later on 10 Jan 1967. Wow. I have recalled that memory quite often as Batman overcame the incredibly stupid TV series to become a huge revenue generator.
I used to watch this show all the time as a kid. I never forgot the pinky sticking out as the way to spot the aliens.
One other mistake in that last scene shown besides the Chickens moving is that the Alien when he gets shot, throws his own weapon away which lands on the ground. Exactly the kind of evidence that David Vincent was trying to find.......they usually go out of the way to have the weapons or devices dissolve too with it in the hands of the alien. Some scenes even have Aliens trying to grab the evidence just before they die so that they leave nothing behind.
True--but then again, the producers never dreamed that people would have 75" and greater TV screens. Back then, if you had a 23" color picture tube you were sitting pretty--with 1 or 2 5" speakers for sound!
Thanks for posting this! I've seen both seasons of "The Invaders" and never realised how much work went into the disintegration scenes. Might have to indulge in the DVDs.
Bawk!
This looks like a somewhat better version of what happened when things got vaporized by the Martian ray gun in "War of the Worlds"
The chickens were not paid as a result of them ruining the shot. They sued unsuccessfully through their union, AFTRA (American Feathered Television and Radio Artists) and ended up working the craft services table - as entrees.
Thanks for the best laugh I've had all week!
I loved this show when I was young. The immolation was a cool effect. Even by today’s standards, this is still a cool effect given the technology available at the time. Roy Thinnes was a cool actor. 86 years old! It’s a show that could be rebooted today with good scripts and a story arc.
I enjoyed it also and had Aurora's plastic kit of the Invader spacecraft. During that time, there was something called "Glow Juice" made by Kenner's and I used it to paint the lit parts of the spacecraft. During the evenings and in bed I'd "energize" the painted parts with my flashlight when I should have been sleeping. That stuff glowed like crazy and really upped that kit's game.
Interesting...
I loved it. My brother built the model of the flying saucer.
adding this comment .... what was great part of the show was how close he got to exposing the invasion but was thwarted at the last minute when the evidence burnt up.
Always!
I was hooked on this show . Would be great to see it re-imagined using today's FX . The concept of Aliens and UAPs are current again in the media. The idea that if an alien is killed or unmasked they would vaporise without leaving any trace (equipment, spaceships and debris as well) fits with our many sightings and reported encounters but no hard evidence. I remember that the aliens could induce heart attacks on anyone who threatened to expose them by placing a disc on their necks... cool. Yes, please make a new series of the invaders. Especially since I now know what a deserted diner is., I didn't at the time the series first aired.
The vaporizing/vanishing act is on full display on the History Channel's THE SECRET OF SKINWALKER RANCH, which I watch religiously! And that cerebral hemmorage disc--if you watch on a big screen and slow it down, you can see the power cable attached to it! Back then they didn't have LEDs, so they had to use very bright miniature bulbs that required more than 1.5-3 volts....hence the power cable. In a couple of episodes it's very clear--but usually it is running out of the sleeve of a sports coat. I still don't know how they got that spinning crystal to work!! It's clearly sitting on a thumb and held by an index finger--but what makes it spin the the length of a shot, which was occasionally quite long!
That clearly wasn't union-poultry.