COSMOS 1999 (1979, 8mm, stop motion)

[Maurice]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbjJsypbfJ0[/yt]​

Published on Aug 25, 2012
Fan film of Space 1999 (season two) created by Yves Lapointe and Sylvain Labrosse when they were 16 years old in 1979. Filmed with a Super 8 camera and with a stop motion technique, this short film is a lost treasure that can finally be seen and discovered 33 years after its making.

This might well be the most action packed episode of 1999 ever.

 

[Wingsley]

Wow. They captured SPACE: 1999's second season perfectly. A little too perfectly. The characters battle a plotting, though stupid, aggressive space monster with designs on their uber-vulnerable power core. And nobody ever needs to say anything!

 

[USS Intrepid]

That was really well done, especially considering when it it was done.

Also, I agree with Wingsley.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Yeah, this is impressive on many levels. It exhibits virtuosity in filmmaking and animation. They use multiple animation techniques and seem to flow effortlessly and naturally from one to the next: stop motion, puppetry (holding the dolls from below and moving them around by hand), live-action stunt throws, using their own hands in the foreground, moving the camera over static sets, I suspect double exposure in the space shots; whatever works. The sets alone are freaking impressive. Pretty clearly a deep love for the show, desires to both tribute and lampoon simultaneously, a great sense of humor, and talent to spare. Genius.

From the comments section of the YouTube page:

slabr0ss8 months ago

Myself and Yves were both students went we produced this short project on Super 8 film stock. The original film is silent and the sound effects and music were indeed added last year. The pictures are from an old VHS transfer but a new digital film transfer was done a few weeks ago, and a remastered version in is preparation with superior image quality.​

 

[DCR]

Wow, brilliantly done

 

[doubleohfive]

That was awesome. I don't know yet if it was good but it was definitely awesome.