Gettin' Giffy

Some random bits of GIF, thanks to a clumsy archive and a Photoshop tutorial:

Some from the 1984 film "Alpha," originally filmed in Super 8mm and synched to "Life During Wartime" by The Talking Heads

And some from the 1982 film "Daydreams ," meant as a tribute to Winsor McCay and Little Nemo:

And one from a post-high school effort showing that loose cameras make Hitchcock tributes, ca 1973

And something from "A Cereal Symphony" of 1987:

And, in honor of the eclipse on August 18, 2017, this clip from George Melies "The Eclipse" from 1907:

And one last entry, a scene from "The Money Pit" that sums up many a Day In The Life:

Testing An Animated GIF exercise

OK, let's see how this plays in Blogger!

Political Asylum - Work in Progress

Calling it a work in progress is actually optimistic...it's been cluttering space on at least six different PCs since 1999.  If ever completed, it will be a whopping 3 minute opus synchronized to a nice, public domain 1917 recording in my collection.

Part one, created in Autodesk Animator Pro (DOS version!!!) plays with an 1846 photo from the Library of Congress:

Part two, created in Autodesk Animator Pro for Windows 3.11 (beta version), works with multiple layers that had to be sandwiched, optical printer style, in the render that took, as I recall, about 8 minutes...

This third clip is a frame-by-frame reconstruction of some 8mm footage shot in 1973 that may be put to use as well: