The Making of: HBO Feature Presentation (1983)
What you’re looking at is one of the most precisely-constructed model cities ever built. It was made as part of HBO’s new on-air look and is one of over sixty visual elements that were combined to create HBO’s new program opens. This film is a peek behind the scenes at how this new look was achieved.
God, that music is still spine-tingling after all these years. If you were a child of the 80s, you may recall the excitement of this intro and the anticipation it built in you, waiting for Ladybugs to start. The image below probably even conjures spacey sound effects (“pew pew, pew pew pew”) and the epic anthem’s climax in the culmination of what HBO refers to as the Stargate Effect, which is my favorite part of the documentary, 5:30 in:
In the finished effect, they appear to be a giant HBO space station floating towards you. It bursts forth following the Stargate Effect…
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