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It's called anemoia. I feel it sometimes too and I really love it.☺💗💓

Yea true but i did watch some dated movies and tv shows that had this kind of look but in the 90s and 2000s not when they where current.

me too

You and me both

My Dad, Francis Honey, was VP and lead engineer of CI through 1972. Who was your friend? If from the early days of CI, I probably knew him and his father.

How this is even possible blows my mind

Because they did not use bitmap graphics.

It was analog actually. They used Scanimate.

fun fact. many of the uncanny "early 90s cgi" computer animations are actually from the late 70s and early 80s as tech demos for systems that were the size of rooms

Ikr

You could achieve similar effects with some clever shader works. Might be one of the easier effects to write GLSL shaders from. Its basic is modern shader's 2D Texcoord manipulation.

These days the entire scanimate machine, fully analog and running at 1080p (150MHz pixel clock) from an SDI HD source would fit into a briefcase - and that’s still full analog built out of discrete chips. Op amps are tiny and fast. There are even ways of getting rid of the CRT screen used for rendering and instead use addressable low dispersion recirculating delay lines (admittedly a few hundred of them, and they’d need to be waveguides so not cheap, but still). The user interface with all the knobs and buttons would be bigger than the “guts” of it. So if someone wanted to pay for it, it could be recreated in a form usable in a modern studio, with larger dynamic range, and with more powerful effects such as texture and bump mapping - shaders can be analog, after all, and doing 3D graphics with analog fragment shading is not a big deal. With a few more briefcases of stuff you could have an analog machine that could render Doom, in an entirely analog fashion, with procedural textures (read: user defined 2D function generators aka knobs for tweaking Fourier coefficients). In short: not only we could achieve it today, but it could be massively more useful. And with a custom analog asic or two, you could render basic game console graphics, with geometry and texture data fed in via digital potentiometers and nothing else (thousands of them, but on a chip they are no big deal). I’d go as far as claiming that low power ultra-mobile game consoles could do graphics and lots of game engine physics in an analog fashion with much less power use than digital computers with GPUs. An 8x8 CMOS digital multiplier uses about as many transistors as dozens of good analog multipliers. And the latter will be faster as well. There are ways of merging digital “housekeeping” and analog signal processing at chip scale that can produce modern GPUs at a fraction of the power use. Even analog memories are much denser than DRAM. And so on. The analog future is bright.

@@MakotoIchinose Could you achieve the kind of organic "happy accidents" which analog equipment gives?

I can also create similar effects with my own eyes, through a phenomenon known as Retinal Fatigue.

Yes indeed, they first had to create/distorb those monochromatic images on a scanimate system then colorize it via an analogue colorizer, then they had to record those images via a video camera trough a teleceline process, for more layers,they had to repeat that process and then mix those recordings together via an analogue mixer together, wich was a painfull trial on error and long process,but the results speaches for their selfes, this is amezing mind blowing stuff shown here.

Clients supplied the logos and most of the other visuals. The "scan" part in Scanimate implies just that: scanning and filming materials before having them processed by an analogue computer system, often combining the output with other animation techniques for varied results (traditional film, stop animation, chroma keying etc). As unwieldy as it was, the process itself was no secret. On the contrary, the achievements of the system, from before its inception right to its commercial demise, were extensively reported by specialist publications at the time. Given that there were less than a dozen of such machines in the whole world at the height of Scanimate's popularity, and only two have survived to this day (one of them fully operational and adapted to modern times, i.e. able to communicate with modern workstations), the animation produced is that more unique.

@@johneygd They might have perfected it when SYSTEM IV came out later in the 80s

@@Aleksa_Milicevic I decided to search Scanimate it was very interesting almost like an analog Moog synth but with video and was pretty much real time. Though they did have some digital CGI back then but it had to be printed to film frame by frame.

But an analogue computer is still a computer... still, yeah, extensive use of (mostly analogue) video synthesisers back then, since the expense of computer time and the need for custom software made rendering (in the sense we understand the term today, which already existed back then) fairly expensive.

Would you or anyone know what was used for WPIX' "Harper News" theme at 13:30?

@@wmbrown6 no idea. Sorry. I would also like to know what was used for that first piece.

@@mongofan1 - That makes both of us, then.

You are a legend man! Thanks for carrying on your father's legacy sharing his stories. Merry Christmas to you! 🎄

@@wmbrown6that’s a bad ass tune….so is the moog funk one at 11:00 that sounds like a weird cover of give it up or turn it loose by James Brown.

Dedication my friend. Dedication.

They created the images on paper then placed them in front of a video camera. They ran the camera's feed through various filters to add color, distortion, & motion, then filmed the results.

Scanimate... There's a video here explaining the process.

In addition to the other answers, state of the art tech in the 70s would probably surprise you - just none of that tech would be available (mostly due to a combination of high cost, lack of demand *and* in many cases lack of maturity) for the customer electronics market (save maybe at the highest end) for 5 - 10 years.

it was crasy. Basically an analog frame grabber, and many opamps, were able to render a video signal from a camera into a vector graphic, which could easily be "modified". This was then scanned back into video, and then color could be processed. This was sent to tape, and there you go.

I think nowadays, that kind of transition would be almost impossible to do. And if possible, it would be corny.

Many of these were a few years old already: Mama Cass died in 1974...and that Pontiac Ventura was a '74 or earlier.

@@saxongreen78 Yep. The Cass Elliot special premiered in September 1973

Even in the 1960s. My father was VP and lead engineer of Computer Image Corporation through 1972. I'm guessing that at least some of what is shown here was from the sixties. If not, no different from what I grew up watching.

I’m 22 and this video is pretty much entirely responsible for introducing me to Cass Elliot (the scanimate intro to her tv special is at 11:47). I bought the album that goes with her special because of this video!

The song is "I Won't Be Back", by Joe Farrell.

Logofanatic Ah there we go, thank you!

+kz1000ps Anytime!

it does look a bit modern

256byteram someone should find the reel and reupload it.

Most of what remains are 3/4 inch cassette tapes. They were crappy to begin with. At least you get the idea.

@@royweinstock8738how about film chain 16mm

The song KABC used was "Afternoon of the Rhino" by The Mike Post Coalition.

to make it even scarier I think just a few of these are from the late 60s, that channel 7 6 o'clock movie bumper at 12:41 is from 1967

Um, scanimate was used since the late 60's, so neither was the first, or so i believe

I can see how this is flash

flash animation but instead of being free they cost 10.000$+ to make but have better sound.

The name of the full song is “I Won’t Be Back” by Joe Farrell

I think it's sports related, there's a a running and fencing portion in it as well. But I'm not sure since there's some dancing too. Very curios about what that could be.

it's freaky, isn't it? i worry all the time about how "old" ive already gotten...i was born in 1991. it's so easy to lose track of the reality of age and time... which is to say, there's plenty of time, and aging is slower than we think.

It gets...weirder. Some of the stuff in this video (like the intro to the Cass Elliot special at 11:47) is as old as 1973. And there’s also a Dolphin Productions feel that demos similar scanimate graphics from 1974!

@@benjnavarro28 The CBS Special Presentation graphic at 11:45 came out in 1970, I think, and was already out of use by 1975, having been replaced by the famous "rotating" logo in 1973. Also, if you did the same calculation, I'm now 30 and this video is now 47 years old, so I'd be 77 if I were my current age when this was made, and into my 80s if I were my current age when some of these logos (like the aforementioned CBS Special Presentation) were made! It's sort of depressing to watch '60s/'70s stuff and then realize that if I had actually been an adult to witness that era, I would be elderly now with probably not many years left. But on the same token, it minimizes age differences because me and 80-year-olds have something in common: we were 30-year-olds in a world with computer animation. My grandmother on my dad's side, who now has 3 great-grandchildren, was younger than I am now when this video was made. Computer animation is older than most people think. Most people probably think it came out in very rudimentary form in the 1980s, because that's when computers became affordable for home use. In actuality, there is a computer animation demo reel even older than that Dolphin one; Computer Animation Industries' one from 1972. Some of those animations date back to the late 1960s! And I actually have since found out they offered computer programming classes at the aforementioned Bennett College. They were short-lived and unsuccessful, but the fact they offered COMPUTER PROGRAMMING classes at a college that, as of the time it was torn down last spring, had over half the floors collapsing inside its main building really just does not feel right. The building those classes were actually held in remained structurally stable until it was torn down in September 2021 (as part of the 8-month-long process of tearing the whole abandoned college down) because it had just been built in 1972, but still, the college's main building, Halcyon Hall (a gorgeous, huge building opened in 1893) which was never torched, never hit by a hurricane/tornado, and never extensively vandalized was already most of the way collapsed from natural decay. 1 - Computers are older than we think, they've been prevalent for most living people's entire lives 2 - Natural decay and water damage especially don't move at our timescales. You'll find surprising commonalities with today's things and those in buildings collapsed from natural decay. I've even seen a bowling alley abandoned after I'd already been in my first 2008 or newer Honda Accord that already had a major roof collapse. February 26, 2023 2:14 am

The passage of time'll getcha. Look at me, I'm writing this 5 years in your future.

@@benjnavarro28 The TV show that all this makes me instantly nostalgic for is "The Electric Company", the children's show that probably taught me to read. They made heavy use of Scanimate from the beginning, and that show premiered in 1971 (I watched it from the first episode as a small child).

Nowadays you could create something like that in After Effects. Or, if you want to get fancier, you can write shader codes to be recorded.

same lol

Me too! It’s so catchy!

Electric Company used Scanimate all over. It was the show's signature look.

*w e e d e a t e r*

hi

why did the chicken cross the road?

idk why

@@igp899 weed eater

I'm not sure If HBO had a ratings bump pre-1976?

isn't that WBAL News or WPIX?

Announcer said CB (as in, Citizens' Band radio), not CD, so this ad is from 1975 or earlier. It even says Sight and Sound '75 at the beginning.

More (Theme from Mondo Cane)

Scanimate / System IV analog video processor

@@curcumin417 Analog? Thanks!

+Ian Sherman PM Magazine was launched in 1978. This was 1975. Unlikely to be a retroactive knockoff :).

Is not a logo is a commercial

I would still watch TV if these graphics, idents, and commercials would come back.

Юла XP Професионыл that AK sound...

This has the actual theme which was later used for the defunct Home Theater Network (HTN) in the 1980's. Here is an example. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zs6YY7aDyrOcYnk.html

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j8mcdZBiqdq9lok.html uses the same theme

I know, it looks like Cel animation.

No. Well, apparently it's part of the special opener that they did. I thought that CIC made the CBS Special Presentation logo, but they actually made the scanimate butterfly logo.

Yeah, that actually looks kinda creepy.

I think it may have just been a series of words to demonstrate what they were able to do. I like the Dimension thing best!

@@tonysaladino1062 Yeah, I assumed that wasn't commissioned by anyone, it was just an in-house gag they did as a demo of manipulating text.

Some comments say there's stuff from 1967, maybe some animations were made in CAESAR.

yes

Really? That's what it says?

@@RQBtv Yes.

I think Scanimate or something like it was actually used for one effect in Star Wars: the Death Star's targeting display when they're waiting for the rebel base to come into range.

"Bow bow BOW!"