It shot the video parts with a Canon G20 camcorder. I edited with Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere. The moving red arrow was animated in Adobe Animate ( Flash).
Old video footage from the 1970s where the “Revered” Jim Jones doesn’t just claim to be a servant of God, or to have a message from God… but that
He IS God
here is a very rough transcript of his sermon;
1st Lady says that Jim Jones healed her child.
2:42 the second woman woman says that Jim Jones made her husbands business take off and that Jones somehow made her cars gas tank fill up on its own!
3:00 she says she has stopped worshipping a “Sky God” but now instead she loves “Father” ( Jones).
( A youtube commenter makes the intriguing but un-provable statement that ” I believe that second speaker is Deanna Mertle (aka Jeannie Mills), who defected in 1976 and was mysteriously murdered, along with her husband and one of their children, 4 years later.”
now we are looking for the key that is in every heart and breast
and I am the key on the Earth. I got the key from the Earth
14:36 now that’s my only purpose in being here
when that transition comes there shall be no need for Gods or any other kind of ideology
ritual tradition old religion. The opiate of the people shall be removed
? should be removed from the consciousness
14:52 should no longer have the need for anything religious
no need for concerns about tomorrows because every day will be heaven.
15 05 we will have the heaven that we have been taught
that we might be able to shine someones shoes in the throne room
but we shall have freedom right here now
marvelous
15 20 but in the meantime I come in the phenomenon of religion to get people out of religion
I have come to make one final dissolution
one final elimination
of all religious fever
eradicate it from the face of the earth
15:53I shall do all miracles that you said
I shall come and heal all the diseases that you pray for that never happened
I gave her a message that saved her childs life.
16:07
You see all the gifts of ? moved down the aisle I told her I command
not only did she walk but she ran around
all that done so that I could command all saviour images
16”39 that there is no God but
16 5 1 God is perfect freedom, justice, equality
the only that that brings perfect freedom, justice equality in all its beauty all that is holiness is Socialism
17:10 in this dispensation I have taken up only my self a body the same one
17:13 and walked in the flames on an re and as Solomon said his hair is as black as a Raven
and as Isaiah said 7:20 Im not shaving with a razor
socialism will have no further need to have any intrusions into the affairs of man
mean are so dastardly what my spirit is
it is necessary for me to become the same and I,
(17:55) I shall show you from time to time proofs of that
and you shall have no further need of religion
because the highest authority
already tells you that you have no further need of it
I have come to do all the things you have ever imagined God to do and never seen done.
you have seen anyone resurrected before your eyes and yet you have seen me do it repeatedly.
29.34 you have never seen anyone shot down as i was before your eyes, with blood spurting from the body,and healed themselves , and yet I the socialist worker did that.
18:32 Its beautiful to know God is a socialist worker. You can Identify with that.
God is a socialist worker.
As one of the people.
Its an instrument of all that you desire.
all the freedom of races
everything that is sensitive of violence, that is what your God is.
And I just say it is a great effort to me,
19:04 in the meantime I shall be god.
and by this I mean
23:39 atmosphereic detetcion
when it comes to hatred I pass that
it onlyu boomerangs
all races surely
economic equality
the world is beginning to say the rich have had it too easy
povrty
where people were starving now they are fed
no drugs no dehabilitation from alcohol
as a common practice from using drugs
if it can work from a 3 dimensional scope
the only one who youve seen turn water into wine
28:52 its a false god and Ill nose that god out
but if you’re holding onto that “Sky God”Ill nose you ten licks at a time
The greatest innovator in American stop motion has unfortunately passed on.
I can remember seeing ads for his ” Rip Van Winkle” movie on HBO ( at my cousins house). I was so happy when I got to see it, it is such a strange and amazing movie.
Vinton went on to what i assume was financial success with his “California Raisins” commercials and TV specials in the 80s. ( I wonder if they actually sold more raisins because of those commercials?).
A lot of MTV’s videos had his animation in them. I say “his” even though Im sure he had dozens, if not hundreds, of assistants at times.
The amazing stop motion movie ” Coraline” was made by the LAIKA company, which was the remnants of Will Vintons old animation company. I don’t know the whole story, apparently Phil Knight, the owner of NIKE sneakers, invested in Vinton productions and for some reason pushed Will himself out and put his (Knights) son in charge.
I feel bad for Will Vinton in that regard, but theres no denying that CORALINE was amazing and I’m glad it was financed and released.
A lyric video of the Rolling Stones ” Thousand Light Years from home”
It has the look of soemthing done with paper cut out stop motion animation, but I highly suspect it was done in Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. They probably used grain filters to make it look like film from the 1960s.
I think this little short film is REALLY well made, really great to look at.
This is amusing as a time capsule and amusing at what Bulls–t it is.
I went to Fort Leonard Wood for Basic in 1988. The brown brick barracks looked the same. Everything else was different.
Drill sergeants are ” Father, friend, big brother”???. Umm no they were drill sergeants. SOB’s but thats what the role is. That BS about the drills hanging out with the recruits ( after hours!) and playing chess and ping pong with them? I can’t picture Drill Sgts EVER doing that in any time frame. I think this is PR propaganda for the parents about to send their sons off. Or maybe this was made to be shown in High Schools to get seniors to sign up.
At 5 25. The closest I ever came to that pool was crawling the woods to the left of screen.
At 23.24 I am almost positive that was MY barracks. It looks identical. BUT then again, all military barracks look almost identical.
This video was made way after my day. Probably also made to recruit High Schoolers.. but its much more realistic:
I saw the new Michael Moore movie “Fahrenheit 11/9 ” last night.
the theater was mostly empty. I’ve heard its a box office bomb. I’ve always liked Moores work, although I’ve heard he often used ethically weaselly editing.
What can I say?
Not much we all didn’t know already. Moore goes on a rant about Michigans governor and the bad water flowing into Flint. He also goes on a rant about The West Virginia teachers strike and the Hawaiian Missile mistake, things ( I don’t think) Trump had any control over. Hillary rigged the Democratic Primaries to steal the nomination from Bernie Sanders? Maybe, but did Trump have anything to do with that?
WOW! This guy put a LOT of thought into this. Maybe even more than Stanley Kubrick or maybe even Stephen King themselves did!
He makes many intriguing points. I respectfully disagree with him on some big issues, but theres no denying he has many fascinating theories that, from his point of view, seem to make some sense.
When wendy looks down at her husbands stack of typed pages she sees
” All Work and No Play makes Jack a Dull Boy” and…. I never noticed before, a few times the words “make Jack adult boy”
For you younguns that grew up with computers always around, the sentence
” All Work and No Play makes Jack a Dull Boy” is an exercise you would often do in High School typing class to learn the keys. ( Do they still teach old school typing? It still works for word processing doesn’t it?) And of course ” The Quick Brown Fox Jumped over the Lazy Dog” ( it has every letter in the alpha bet).
Theres a documentary on the making of the film that discusses how a production assistant had to type up all of those hundreds ( or maybe thousands of pages) AND that that person had to RE type them up repeatedly in different languages. “A dull boy” and “adult boy” fit into his thesis. But not in other languages. And did Kubrick tell his typist ” make most of the lines ‘ dull boy’ but every so often type ‘ adult boy’ “?
The elevator isn’t a geyser of blood, its a geyser of “liquid irresponsibility” ???
I don’t buy it. Early in the film Jack tells Grady ” My wife Wendy is a confirmed horror film addict” and the lobby full or cob web-bey skeletons- purely the type of B movie horror image that would be in Wendys head?
Part of me thinks some of it doesn’t mean anything. Like Luis Bunuels “Un Chien Andalou” and ( I suspect) a lot of David Lynch’s work, weird imagery that one might assume must MEAN something…. but perhaps really doesn’t. In the 1980s there was a LOT of “short art films” made for MTV. They’re called “music videos” ( duh!). The directors of all of those videos had to keep trying to come up with unique imagery. You had to show the band and make them look sexy and exciting. You also had to have what MTVs demographic audience ( teen boys) wanted: sexy girls, cool cars, some violence and explosions. You would think the video would tell the same “story” as the song, but music videos didn’t always do that. They had to put in any odd exciting images they could, and I doubt they always “meant something.”
One would have a right to think that ALL of the odd imagery in THE SHINING means something. It tells the story, it tells us something about the characters and why they behave the way they do.
Theres many essays and even video documentaries on Kubrick’s hidden meaning of the number “237”
I don’t think it means anything.
In the book the evil room is “217” in the movie it is 237.
The not so special meaning behind the change is that the real hotel the story is based on HAS a room 217, and they asked the evil room to be renamed to a room they didn’t have.
They thought guests would be afraid to stay in a room with a bad reputation.
Although these days I think a lot of weirdo tourists would specifically ASK to be in the haunted room. ( I would and I bet you would too!).
One problem with that theory? WHAT hotel asked them to change the number? The hotel in the book was based on the Stanley Hotel. But in the movie its all a set constructed in England. WHO would complain?
In the Timberline Lodge, where they filmed the exterior shots of the hotel, there was a room 217. The hotel managers were afraid that if they used 217 in the film, guests would be too afraid to stay in that room in the future. There was no Room 237 in the hotel, so Stanley Kubrick agreed to use 237 instead.
Ironically, since the movie came out, 217 is the most requested room at the Timberline Lodge.
HA! I knew it!
The maze IN the hotels hallways and the outside hedgerow maze. Sorry the inside ISN’T a maze and the outside maze was created because the filmmakers couldn’t figure out how to make the books hedgerow sculpture animals ( 1980s stop motion would look goofy and not at all scarey) When they did the TV remake they used CGI to make the hedge animals. At the time I thought they looked real but in hindsight, when I watch the remake now the CGI looks terrible:
Dad jack is envious of his sons lack of responsibility? Maybe.
All of the Native American artifacts in the hotel means the hotel is built over a haunted “indian burial ground” ( a very beat to death cliche in contemporary horror)? Maybe. But more likely, Kubrick and his set dressers looked at real Colorado hotels and saw that THAT is how a Colorado hotel would look like. A British hotel would have lots of British stuff in it, a Japanese hotel would have lots of Japanese stuff in it, a Hotel in Mexico would look Mexican… etc… And not all American hotels look the same. A New York City hotel would look very different than on in Arizona- or at least in a movie you would need to show that. Its a Colorado hotel that LOOKS very Colorado- I think thats about it.
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