Image West Demo Reel (circa 1978)
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2022
- This demo reel for Image West was circulated to TV stations in the late '70s. At this time, this was cutting edge computer animation for broadcast, with a lot of work being done for ABC Sports.
This was sourced from a Betamax recording that I made from the tape that Image West sent out. I believe it was a U-Matic (3/4") as if it had been something better, like quad tape, I would have saved it. As a result, this is not up to my usual standards, but it's the best that I can do. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Nevermind the effects production, I came here for the retro music themes
Honestly, this is pretty high quality. It's so satisfying seeing scanimate footage in such a smooth framerate plus the fact this is all nicely preserved.
And Is That WCVB Channel 5 On Image West?
The (unintentional) boldness of playing the Rockford Files theme over a slew of ABC promos
Right?? Out of all the Mike Post gems out there, they just HAD to pick that.
Oh man yes!!! Always love when previously unseen/higher quality Scanimate footage is uncovered. Thanks for uploading, this reel is awesome!
Huge scanimate fan. This is one of my favorite videos of all time.
This has been posted to YT before from a bad 3/4” copy, and only in 30fps. Always nice to see Scanimate material in 60fps.
Thanks! I wish I’d a 2-inch quad copy of this, but I’d guess since this was a sales tool intended foe viewing in offices, they wouldn’t have sent out any in that format.
@@VPR2B Even Dave Sieg, who worked on a lot of this stuff, and has the last remaining Scanimate machine, has difficulty finding and/or transferring the original 2" tapes. Much of his archive is on 3/4" or VHS. Recently he actually found a 2" copy of one of the Computer Image Corp. reels, but hasn't released that improved copy in full.
@@VectraQS That's good information - thanks. Sad to think how much of this great stuff has been lost.
Thanks for uploading the very smooth animation
At 2:50 is the scanimate animation for the then-ABC Bakersfield, California affiliate KBAK-TV's (now CBS affiliate) "29tv Monday Night Movie" which used ABC's Night Movie theme.
Great video wow!!
10:56 Reminds me of WOR-TV and WGN-TV
5:15 6:36 7:49 I think this is actually from 1977, as January 31 on Monday would only occur on this year. Plus, there was some Montreal 1976 and US Open ident
Very true, but remember this was a demo reel, so it was compiled using material that they had created in the past.
10:57 This is nearly identical in style to the famous "Last Farewell" station ID used by WGN.
I wonder which Library Music is playing at 6:57.
4:00 What did you just call me?
Does anyone know the font used for the American Music Awards advertisement at the end?
I'd like to know what other music was used in these animations other than the two that CZcams was able to detect.
Why do some of these graphics seem much more advanced than what we see now in 2023? o_o
Talent?
A good eye for graphic design and plenty of scanline manipulation and some trickery with the knobs on the machine. Such techniques aren't all that common nowadays since everything is all digital. Everything is all either minimalism or 3D cgi. Though there are still plenty of nice graphic designs out there even now, it's just that the trends have changed.
The voiceover artist sounds like June Foray.
It really does. I wonder if it is?
Now that you mention it, it DOES sound like June Foray. Her natural voice has a certain warmth to it that's pretty recognizable.
By 1978, this was extremely outdated. This seems at home in the late 1960s to early 1970s.
Edit: The WJBK logos are from 1968.
Looked up wjbk on here, and the earliest I can find that still had that same logo was from 1977 and one of the comments did say they remembered the jingle being there in the 70s. The singers used kinda does match up with early 70s at the very least, you often hear that same group in Dr. Seuss tv specials from the 70s, like The Lorax for instance.
If you look at some of the content you can glean the dates. The ABC Olympics for example have "1976" Incorporated into them. Likewise, "Tony Orlando and Dawn Rainbow Hour" premiered in 1976. Or maybe your point was that you believe this animation "looks" like it's from the late '60/early '70s?
It's definitely years' worth of work--and Scanimate had been around for a while: "The Electric Company" was making heavy use of it in 1971. But this stuff was still everywhere in the late 70s, even if it was being superseded.
05:57 - 06:55 Is that the theme from "The Rockford Files?"
It is indeed.
@CalebTV The Logo Editor World Champion? Care to elaborate?
Wot, no Death Star plans?
That wasn't Scanimate, it was actual digital CGI--one of the earliest uses of it in a feature film, though there had been isolated instances slightly earlier.
However, I think Moff Tarkin's targeting display when the rebel base is emerging from behind Yavin was made using some Scanimate-like analog technique.
Re. the ”Switch” open: That likely means Image West did the open for WOR-TV's ”The 4 O'Clock Movie” which used the same graphic pattern, no?