Image West Demo Reel (circa 1978)

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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.

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Комментарии : 40

@CJODell12 5 дней назад

60 frames per second is the way that Scanimate deserves to be seen

@tperk Год назад

Nevermind the effects production, I came here for the retro music themes

@VectraQS 2 года назад

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.

@VPR2B 2 года назад

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.

@VectraQS 2 года назад

@@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.

@VPR2B 2 года назад

@@VectraQS That's good information - thanks. Sad to think how much of this great stuff has been lost.

@MadameSomnambule Год назад

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.

@sailormoonrietwilightsunse8666 8 месяцев назад

And Is That WCVB Channel 5 On Image West?

@KKAkuoku Год назад

The (unintentional) boldness of playing the Rockford Files theme over a slew of ABC promos

@HarvestmanMan Год назад

Right?? Out of all the Mike Post gems out there, they just HAD to pick that.

@wigwagstudios2474 Год назад

Huge scanimate fan. This is one of my favorite videos of all time.

@RQBtv 2 года назад

Oh man yes!!! Always love when previously unseen/higher quality Scanimate footage is uncovered. Thanks for uploading, this reel is awesome!

@UWMGraphics Год назад

Thanks for uploading the very smooth animation

@erikpridemore3174 2 месяца назад

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.

@jbvideos6605 Месяц назад

10:56 Reminds me of WOR-TV and WGN-TV

@TheCoreyLight 4 месяца назад

Great video wow!!

@VTSGsRock 9 месяцев назад

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

@billrood7500 9 месяцев назад

Very true, but remember this was a demo reel, so it was compiled using material that they had created in the past.

@americo_san Год назад

I wonder which Library Music is playing at 6:57.

@tkaye2 8 месяцев назад

10:57 This is nearly identical in style to the famous "Last Farewell" station ID used by WGN.

@SigHawk04 2 месяца назад

4:00 What did you just call me?

@joshuafrias2415 Год назад

Does anyone know the font used for the American Music Awards advertisement at the end?

@MadameSomnambule 10 месяцев назад

I'd like to know what other music was used in these animations other than the two that RU-vid was able to detect.

@tedharrington5432 2 года назад

05:57 - 06:55 Is that the theme from "The Rockford Files?"

@VPR2B 2 года назад

It is indeed.

@VPR2B Год назад

@CalebTV The Logo Editor World Champion? Care to elaborate?

@plateshutoverlock Год назад

Why do some of these graphics seem much more advanced than what we see now in 2023? o_o

@VPR2B Год назад

Talent?

@MadameSomnambule 10 месяцев назад

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.

@VintageTVMemories Год назад

The voiceover artist sounds like June Foray.

@VPR2B Год назад

It really does. I wonder if it is?

@MadameSomnambule 10 месяцев назад

Now that you mention it, it DOES sound like June Foray. Her natural voice has a certain warmth to it that's pretty recognizable.

@ryanfroula6479 8 месяцев назад

Wot, no Death Star plans?

@MattMcIrvin 2 месяца назад

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.

@Null_Protogen 10 месяцев назад

By 1978, this was extremely outdated. This seems at home in the late 1960s to early 1970s. Edit: The WJBK logos are from 1968.

@MadameSomnambule 10 месяцев назад

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.

@VPR2B 10 месяцев назад

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?

@MattMcIrvin 2 месяца назад

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.