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From: lee@chinet.UUCP (Lee Morehead)
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.comics
Subject: Re: Exceptional video
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 20:32:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 20:32:02 1985
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Summary: 

In article <1018@hou2h.UUCP> hhs@hou2h.UUCP (H.SHARP) writes:
>I recently went to a movie and the movie house played this video 
>before the movie started.  It was labelled a "ZAP" release and seems
>to be one of a series of videos to be released to be played before
>movies (sort of like cartoons back in the old days).  It looked
>even better on the big screen than on TV.

I recently posted this to net.music alone and didn't cross post it
deliberately. However, there seems to be more activity on this
subject in net.comics than where it belongs in my opinion. so here
goes:

In article <145@rtp47.UUCP> Karl M. Owen writes:
>Has anyone seen the video with the incredible pencil animation?
>
>The bit I saw started off with a couple (drawn in pencil) being chased down
>a corridoor by a couple of thugs with a monkey wrench, [ ]
>
>WHat's the video called, what's the group, and who did the animation?
>-- 
>	Peter da Silva (the mad Australian)
>

     The English group A-ha's video of "Take on Me" was directed by
Steve Barron and Produced by Simon Fields. This team won an American
Video Award a couple of years ago for the Rod Stewart video of "Young
Turks."
     There are obviously line drawings in it and probably some animation
is present but the primary technique used in the video is an old effect
called "rotoscoping." The effect is generated by using the picture of
live actors and tracing them to give the effect of animation. I think
they did an excellent job and I enjoy the video.

-- 

					Lee Morehead
					...!ihnp4!chinet!lee

"NO one expects the Spanish Inquisition!"