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Making of the 1983 HBO intro

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 | Posted by Matt McCorkell

This really brought me back to my childhood after watching the intro on Andrew Kramer’s site.  I wonder what the original effects team that worked on it are up to now?

Check out the Making of the HBO Starship Intro:

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You can watch the intro by itself below:

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  • jamiehardt

    How do I get the song! :)

  • Crystal

    This was great to see. Thanks!

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  • Richard700

    It took three months for the model makers to build the model – I was on the job for about a year.

  • Fzzt

    Excellent find. I loved that opening & music, in the era before dvr’s that was your cue to get your butt in gear and plop down in front of the tv!

  • http://www.josephmenna.com JMenna

    Wow, not only do I remember the intro, I remember this mini-doc! very cool.

  • MV Diablo TV party

    Anthony Lover (the guy with the wall to wall pupils) takes the viewer on a TOUR and FLIGHT as we SWOOP DOWN the streets of the city!

    And James E. Kowalski is the guy who (somewhat somberly, possibly bitterly?) makes this happen, even though people take it for granted. Foliage? You better f***ing believe it.

    And then the guy sings the song about LOOKING CLOSER to WHAT YOU SEE! And his lyrics don’t – have – to – rhyme – that – much.

    And then Anthony tells us that this movie set (filled with glue and smoke and toxic chemicals and guys with bulging crotches and delicate things that could get broken by just staring too long at them) is A GREAT PLACE for children. It’s better than Toyland at Christmastime! (News flash to Anthony: you’re insane.)

    And FYI, that’s not Ferdinand J. Smith, minor composer and connoisseur of classy suits and ties. That’s Marjoe Gortner. (Look it up.)

    Finally, it’s all filmed with a special super duper camera that’s controlled by something called A COMPUTER.

    That’s how it can perform extremely complex moves and motions. Like moving slowly forward…in a straight line…for 14 hours.

    ILLUSIONS…You’re going into a trance! (feel the bassline!) and then there’s the roadie from Journey operating the camera!

    ILLUSIONS….everyone’s wearing Angel’s flight pants!

    ILLUSIONS…check out that nasty matte line!

    But seriously, that music at the end is pretty cool. It was a Pavlovian bell to me when I was a teenager. It was the sound that meant that some movie with exposed breasts was coming on shortly.

    Thanks for the flashback.

    I am now going to Netflix “Roadhouse” and “Ghoulies 2″.

  • http://www.ir-ltd.net Lee Perry-Smith

    This is so cool, thanks for posting. I wish I had seen this in my child hood.

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  • http://www.dustinbrown.com Dustin Brown

    This brings back some great memories from when I was kid. Awesome find.

  • Sadrac Lucio Lovera Yapura

    god job!!!

  • http://www.bestipodtips.info Jack

    I watch it HBO on daily bases. Classic and comedy.

  • geo

    remember the’ wired’ slide tuner box. zzzzzzzip!!!

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