Actually, I was trying to jump on Ken's point about Buster being the
Jackie Chan of his day, or pre-mainstream Jackie being the Buster of
his, either one.
On a "Greatest Stunts" recap, maybe, but such uses of special effects
were rare enough outside of Melies.


It was a great stunt indeed.

Last night I couldn't find much of anything on "Sherlock, Jr." and
just now I found the whole thing. The clip I was looking for starts
at about 16:40 and basically runs for the rest of the movie, which is
probably why I didn't find it in the form of a clip. It's easy to
slide the slider thingy to 16:40:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8074699069179823154

"Tom" <drso... at (no spam) aol.com> wrote in message

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nick wrote:
On Aug 31, 8:00 pm, Tom <drso... at (no spam) aol.com> wrote:
On Aug 31, 5:59 pm, RichA <rander3... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:

Ken from Chicago wrote:
For your viewing pleasure, why wait for the Oscars to do a montage
of
special fx when it can be done online--and not make you wait for
the
Best
Picture Oscar?
Without further ado, movie effects--from 1900 to 2008:
http://scifiwire.com/2009/08/watch-the-history-of-sci-.php
-- Ken from Chicago (who likes the first one directly showing the
initial
drawing leading up to the effect--a nice reminder that fx are
ultimate made
by people using devices not merely by the devices themselves)
They going to show how they peaked around 1990 and went downhill
from
there?
A normal person would watch it first and then comment.

Tom

A history of visual effects without this?

http://cache.io9.com/assets/resources/2008/02/trip_to_the_moon.jpg

Or this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsyRhRR5Iu4

--
Bill Anderson

I am the Mighty Favog

~Buster Keaton was brilliant and very, very brave.

~Tom

Kinda like Jackie Chan.

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And there was no Terminator
stuff, although I don't think any of that was original by the time the films
were made.

And there was no Terminator
stuff, although I don't think any of that was original by the time the films
were made.

Terminator stuff was shown as the guy morphed through the jail bars.
IIRC, it was original for a mainstream movie.