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Old Jun 27, 2011 | 09:41 AM
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That movie is on my Instant Netflix que. Maybe I'll start it. I watched Mr. Baseball on Saturday. A story based on a NY Yankees player that gets traded to a Japanese Baseball League. Wonderful Stashes, chest hair... amazing movie.
Also (I believe) the first cinematic appearance of the phrase, "so tight you couldn't get a greased BB up their butts."
Old Jun 27, 2011 | 09:42 AM
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A classic line. I loled at it.
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 10:25 AM
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Pop quiz:

What theatrical motion picture was the first to feature a computer-generated digital visual effect?
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 10:44 AM
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no clue. probably something in the late 70s.
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 10:50 AM
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I cheated and I still don't know what answer you're looking for.
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
I still don't know what answer you're looking for.
The correct one.
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 11:14 AM
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Okay, then 1973's feature film Westworld had 2D computer animation.
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 11:50 AM
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We have a winner.

I'm not sure I'd call it "computer animation" per se, but the scenes showing a pixellated display as the android's point-of-view were done by Information International, Inc., by taking film originals, performing optical color separation, scanning the three resultant B&W slides per frame, pixellating them, and then re-composting them back to 70mm color film.

Triple-I, as they are known, later went on to create the Foonly F-1 (an extremely hot-rodded clone of a PDP-10) which was used to create much of the CGI in TRON.


Pop Quiz #2: What theatrical motion picture was the first to feature an animated, three-dimensional computer graphic?
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez

Pop Quiz #2: What theatrical motion picture was the first to feature an animated, three-dimensional computer graphic?
The Princess Bride.
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Pop Quiz #2: What theatrical motion picture was the first to feature an animated, three-dimensional computer graphic?
the sequel-Futureworld.
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by TurboTim
The Princess Bride.
?!?
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Braineack
the sequel-Futureworld.
Look at the big brain on Braineack!

Yup. 1976. Both an articulated wireframe rendering of Dr. Edwin Catmull's left hand (with hidden-line removal) and a rotating solid-model rendering of a face. Very cutting-edge stuff.
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 12:10 PM
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The internet is my brain.
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 12:23 PM
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I've found some conflicting information regarding The Andromeda Strain (1971) as well. Robert Abel & Associates (another CG pioneer which also contributed to TRON) are credited with visual effects, however most sources indicate that the "computer graphics" in this film were produced conventionally and then passed through a telecine process.
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 12:26 PM
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For some reason, The Andromeda Strain really creeped me out.
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 12:31 PM
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http://www.filmsite.org/visualeffects.html

Enjoy Joe.
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 12:38 PM
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Is it normal for one dude to mms another dude a picture of his *******?
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 01:20 PM
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How many connectors/wires etc... are at the starter?

Spank you.
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 01:48 PM
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Overpriced, no?

http://neworleans.craigslist.org/cto/2465898576.html
Old Jun 28, 2011 | 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by pusha
Is it normal for one dude to mms another dude a picture of his *******?
In Florida, it is.



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