NHK World Godzilla's 60th Anniversary The amazing world of Japanese Special Effects (Tokusatsu)

[yuiyoshida]

[The Polack MSgt]

1. All of the Japanese Kaiju and costume movies/shows

Are a special treat for me.

I love the modeling, camera work and physicality of the actors.

Hell I still have Kamen Rider episodes on VHS. Thanks for sharing Yuiyoshida

[yuiyoshida]

2. For me, what made the original 1954 Godzilla

so amazing was the lighting and shadowing of a good black and white movie. You could not fully see him, so your imagination had to fill in the terrifying blanks.

[The Polack MSgt]

3. I saw the "original" Godzilla, with Raymond Burr edited in, for US audiences

But when I was living in Misawa I saw the ORIGINAL, and it was a better movie in every regard. I never realized how much the American version had been cut and mangled.

[yuiyoshida]

4. Yeah I had seen the American version too...

that was released in 1957. The 1954 version was release in the USA not long ago and I went to see it in the theater with English Sub titles. It was far superior than the cut up 1957 version and was pure TOHO at its finest.

[hunter]

5. Back up to the top of the Lounge...

...for people who never experienced the world before digital effects.

I started college wanting to be a television engineer. At the time a digital effects computer that could hold a single field of video cost more than a house.

Older people here will remember the blue halo around people on television when a background scene was inserted behind them, especially on news shows for weather maps and such. The memory of a high end chroma-key machines held just a single line of the picture, and the switching wasn't fast enough to eliminate the halo from the blue background. The less expensive analog machines looked worse.

Film was equally difficult.

That's also one of the absurdities of people who think the Apollo moon landings were faked. The technology to fake it simply didn't exist.

The artists who build the sets in this documentary are masters of their craft. I enjoyed watching this.

[yuiyoshida]

6. good!

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