I stumbled upon that video by "accident". I love it! The synth music, the animation, it is well composed all together, can't stop watching it. Now I want such a Radio by Philips
This might be 36 years old but it still looks incredible and futuristic, you can place yourself in the advertisement. If I see another SUV ad with a ukulele backing track I'm gonna go crazy.
Amazing sequence that's fun to watch over and over! Just as amazing; the person who created it uploaded this to YT for the world to enjoy 35 (39) years later!
Mr. Marks, I'm consistently in awe of backlit animation from the late 1960s to the early 80s, far more than any CGI-produced efforts today. Ironically, I'm trying to replicate the aesthetics that you and your contemporaries set back then via digital means such as After Effects, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and other programs, even going so far as to replicate the quirks of the 35mm film stock many of those pieces were shot on. The aesthetics alone just have a personality to them that hyper realism can never close to matching and I choose to do them justice in the best way I can. Thanks to you, Doug Trumbull, Robert Abel (R.I.P), et. al. for giving this millenial something to marvel over.
Thanks KK! This was actually done before After Effects, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and other programs came on the scene. On a visit to Northrop Aviation I saw a man manipulating a line drawing of a fighter plane in perfect 3D using a Hewlett Packard desktop computer. He joined me in the production of this Philips spot which required several thousand sheets of 8x10 film that we backlit. It was a nightmare idea but it worked! Incidentally, the man I met at Northrop who pulled this idea off was Colin Cantwell - a major contributor to the imagery in "2001- A Space Odyssey".
Hello Harry, I'm a fan of your work, thank you. Here's an odd question, do you know who sang the Kmart jingles from 1973 until 1978? "Kmart is the Savings Place". I'm into ad music an animtation. I used to work for JAM Creative Productions in the late 90s. Thanks again, Dave
Yes - totally. We did this in a most bizarre fashion. Photographing printouts from an old HP desktop computer, making large negatives, backlighting the negs with colored gels and shooting the sequences. Incredibly painstaking but it worked and now I still like it.
Yes. Being that it was hand drawn and assembled and filmed frame by frame it took practically my whole staff and a few extras to assemble the 800 large frames by hand. The frames were printed on a HP desktop computer and each frame transferred to sheet film. There was no CGI back then and this was the only way I could see to achieve the effect. It would be so easy today!
I stumbled upon that video by "accident". I love it! The synth music, the animation, it is well composed all together, can't stop watching it.
Now I want such a Radio by Philips
This might be 36 years old but it still looks incredible and futuristic, you can place yourself in the advertisement. If I see another SUV ad with a ukulele backing track I'm gonna go crazy.
Thanks Michael! It's nice to have a comment like yours to start my 85 year old day. By the way, you wouldn't happen to be Mike Lang, THE pianist?
No sorry, I am Mike Lang THE drummer. :) Love your work Mr. Marks!
Thanks again!!!
Thanks Mike Lang THE drummer!
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Amazing sequence that's fun to watch over and over! Just as amazing; the person who created it uploaded this to YT for the world to enjoy 35 (39) years later!
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This is the stuff of dreams. long gone visions of myself siting in front of the TV on that bygone years of my infancy
it get even better when you know you still have that philips radio in the cellar... and working ;-)
Mr. Marks, I'm consistently in awe of backlit animation from the late 1960s to the early 80s, far more than any CGI-produced efforts today. Ironically, I'm trying to replicate the aesthetics that you and your contemporaries set back then via digital means such as After Effects, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and other programs, even going so far as to replicate the quirks of the 35mm film stock many of those pieces were shot on. The aesthetics alone just have a personality to them that hyper realism can never close to matching and I choose to do them justice in the best way I can. Thanks to you, Doug Trumbull, Robert Abel (R.I.P), et. al. for giving this millenial something to marvel over.
Thanks KK! This was actually done before After Effects, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and other programs came on the scene. On a visit to Northrop Aviation I saw a man manipulating a line drawing of a fighter plane in perfect 3D using a Hewlett Packard desktop computer. He joined me in the production of this Philips spot which required several thousand sheets of 8x10 film that we backlit. It was a nightmare idea but it worked! Incidentally, the man I met at Northrop who pulled this idea off was Colin Cantwell - a major contributor to the imagery in "2001- A Space Odyssey".
Harry Marks the way you described the intricacies of the production just makes the end result all the more alluring.
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Possibly my favorite piece of advertising art. This footage belongs in the Smithsonian
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you could call it the father of of vaporwave. I have yet to find something like this from eariler, like with the music, the atmosphere.
I guess the time is Brandenburg concerto 4 in G major iii presto by JS Bach.
I love how this has the melody of one of the Brandenburg concertos.
Which one?
@@nairda55555 it's the last movement from brandenburg 4
@@yumishindou5705 thank you!
i did a bit of research, turns out this is the model 894 advertised in this commercial
is there longer version of this music?
Brandenburg concerto 4 in G major, Try to look for synth versions, close, but not the real "philips" thing.
Hello Harry, I'm a fan of your work, thank you. Here's an odd question, do you know who sang the Kmart jingles from 1973 until 1978? "Kmart is the Savings Place". I'm into ad music an animtation. I used to work for JAM Creative Productions in the late 90s. Thanks again, Dave
Harry sadly passed away in 2019
Wre you involved in any way of making this?
Yes - totally. We did this in a most bizarre fashion. Photographing printouts from an old HP desktop computer, making large negatives, backlighting the negs with colored gels and shooting the sequences. Incredibly painstaking but it worked and now I still like it.
The legendary Harry Marks of Sullivan & Marks himself. You're a huge inspiration, this is one of my favorite sequences!
Yes. Being that it was hand drawn and assembled and filmed frame by frame it took practically my whole staff and a few extras to assemble the 800 large frames by hand. The frames were printed on a HP desktop computer and each frame transferred to sheet film. There was no CGI back then and this was the only way I could see to achieve the effect. It would be so easy today!
@@vintage31 Do you happen to know who made the music? It's so lovely. Synth music is the best and I would love to hear if they made any more
@@nairda55555sadly, Harry Marks (@vintage31) passed away in 2019.
Man! I wish I could create something like this for my own YT channel promo/intro!