Sullivan & Marks graphics demo reel 1978 

***** Didn't know that was the HBO theme.. (I grew up during the era when only kids with rich parents had cable.)

theproplady So you didn't know. No need to be snotty about it.

@DmitriLeon2000 yeah but the tone was a little higher

@DmitriLeon2000 What HBO Music IS That?

@@sailormoonrietwilightsunse8666 the 1975 promo

nono youre right

These days cgi is an A.I. generated mess. Back then it was a form of art.

It’s not just you. It’s the little reasons like these that make me want to time travel to the 70s-90s.

Too true Chrissy Cuts.

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I worked with David Moore at Sullivan and Associates at the office on the top of the hill. I did the stop motion photography for ABC Special Presentation. David had a dart board in the office and would get stoned and toss darts. Ha ha

@@MartinSage Yes he was a crazy SOB. I miss the old ways some times but love the speed and quality of the new tools. Are you still doing this type of work.

You guys had a great job, i never thought you guys worked there!

You mean 0:40

Yes, and that proposed series, "Star Trek: Phase II", that was to be the first series aired on Paramount's canceled TV network, already had some production work done before they pulled the plug on it all, which was repurposed to make the first Star Trek movie shortly afterward, IIRC.

Cant be too sure of that, they were not using the market /consumer grade machines or programs that we are familiar today running on a specific operating sys.. they used custom operation modules back then it was all programs they wrote specific to their requirement on high end mediums and magnetic devices.. it was a whole other era. Going by your logic making early classics like Tron 1981 movie or The Abyss and later Terminator 2 would have been next to impossible! 🕶

This was made with scanimate and its analoge. Its not digital Computer gfx just analoge camera effects. Its a Heck of a process but they didnt need to "Render" Frames.

@@worldsendace Apparently this isn't even Scanimate... It's actually super complex cel animation.

Super late but - this is what’s known as backlit animation, which uses black mattes with light shining through them to create the lens flares, which are actual, real life flares produced by the camera as each frame of animation is exposed. Tron is a good example of a film that made heavy use of it, also lots of 80’s era anime like Akira.

Win Schutten I wonder if Scanimate could do it too

Back lit pin registration. No computers at that time on late '70's early 80's

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@@elkamora2469 Why

this was actually more 1960s-1970s.

Kojo Adjin-Tettey They also did the same theme for the defunct Home Theater Network (HTN) in the 1980's.

Nev: Main Channel yes we need the name!

Darude - Sandstorm

@@jimscott2050 .--------.

@@jimscott2050 Seriously?

Ohhh myyyy!

+PIX Promos & More They knew (I was there). The 70's were a little naughty and they had fun with the S&M thing. :)

We did think it through! It was an inside joke based on the way we worked!

"S&M" followed by "WE'RE THE ONE!" Very good. ;-)

They could very well have been skillfully hand-drawn. Some of it might even be real lens flares leaking through, I guess. I too would love to see a _making of_.

It was back lit graphics shot with a 35mm Mitchell on a huge copy stand. How do I know? I worked there as a Cameraman.

Tell me about it sister..

Should be for music videos

This isn't scanimate, it's all slit-scan/backlit optical stuff done on film. More expensive than scanimate.

@@MattMcIrvin What does that mean?

@@MattMcIrvin ooooh, even cooler!

Not that I'm aware of. There was the System IV, but it was in the early 80's. It had digital keyframing and digital 3D animation, but the input was via monochrome video, such as in Scanimate. Unfortunattely I couldn't find more information about System IV, so take this information with a grain of salt.

(Or extended?)

Same as it was too. Both the HBO 1975 and HTN has the same theme.

@@Musicradio77Network what's htn

@@gab2022-bichosbichos Home Theater Network (now called Travel Channel)

I don't think so..

No

It used to be in business a long time ago, but it's booked solid now, so these graphic demo reels are all that's left of it 🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽.

@@MartinSage How do you do? My name is Alex Morrison and I watched the Sullivan & Marks graphics demo reel from 1978 and I understand that it used to be in business a long time ago and now it's booked solid now, so these graphic demo reels are all that's left of it 🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎦🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽📽.

@@lexiconmorrison7902 Did Wendy Vanguard did the 1992 TBN ID and the 1992 TBN Praise the Lord opening and closing credits?

HBO (1975)

medialazystuff2001 / joaquin2007 And then came the HLN (Home Theater Network) theme.

Yep. Nothing Scanimated here, just nice and complex cel animation.

It looks incredible. I assume the reason for the black/starlit backgrounds was because it was easier to animate. Nowadays, they can make a station logo segment in full CG with no problem!

Yes, which were the rostrum cameras.

oh. the hbo 1975 promo theme.

koz. HBO 1975/HTN 1980s music.

1978 was part of the 1970s decade.

@@SuperAV21 Numerically yes. Not in any other way. Culturally and the movements that would be expressed later in the 80s decade plus. I am not numerically contending that.

@@valentine_puppy How come?

@@SuperAV21 cause the 70s are a decade and there are decades but in the culture and the technology and the fashion and other ways the 70's kinda ended in 1976 in that way. It just evolved over that way. You can see the bell bottoms go and the makeup change and the hair styles change. Just it was how it was going.

@@valentine_puppy Okay, then. If that's the way you see things, you do yourself. I was born in 1988, and have turned 33 over a month ago; making myself a kid of the 1990s through the mid-2000s. Am I wrong about it?

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