Ron Hays was a dear old friend of mine from the late 60s. So glad to see that you have some of his ground breaking work up on youtube. A total surprise.
"Digit" is written and produced by Frank Serafine, who produced another track on the laserdisc called "Breath". I don't think the track was ever releases outside of this title, i've certainly not been able to track it down anywhere.
After the Midnight Special, after Tom Snyder, there was Ron Hays and MusicVision. I waited up extra late for these music videos. This was 72-74, you know, the good old days.
Now that I watch it again I actually think it's a very early digital system, like on of the Quantel boxes. The boxes and lines sweeps are pretty hard to do with analog hardware on a raster image.
There is a way to do edge detection with analog though. You turn the contrast ALL the way up so you essentiall get monocrome. Then you invert the image and slightly enlarge og shrink it (depending on wheter you want the line in or outside the shape), then you do a delta on the to images and display the difference. Presto! Out lines!
that is cool that We can watch on You tube such as grteat things but .... i diont understand why opeople download on YT such shitty low quality copies -this sucks
Ron Hays was a dear old friend of mine from the late 60s. So glad to see that you have some of his ground breaking work up on youtube. A total surprise.
"Digit" is written and produced by Frank Serafine, who produced another track on the laserdisc called "Breath". I don't think the track was ever releases outside of this title, i've certainly not been able to track it down anywhere.
wow, I was under the impression that this was all prerendered. really impressive for the early 70's!
After the Midnight Special, after Tom Snyder, there was Ron Hays and MusicVision.
I waited up extra late for these music videos. This was 72-74, you know, the good old days.
Now that I watch it again I actually think it's a very early digital system, like on of the Quantel boxes. The boxes and lines sweeps are pretty hard to do with analog hardware on a raster image.
There is a way to do edge detection with analog though.
You turn the contrast ALL the way up so you essentiall get monocrome. Then you invert the image and slightly enlarge og shrink it (depending on wheter you want the line in or outside the shape), then you do a delta on the to images and display the difference. Presto! Out lines!
High contrast images :). The system was essentialy black and white - every was colorized later on.
The exploding star image reminds me of the 1983 opening sequence to both Saturday Supercade and Star Search (Ed McMahon).
Simple and awesome! How the f*ck did they do edge detection on an analog system?!
@oberstadt with coding, check for Cinder, Processing. Search for "flight404's videos on Vimeo", he have good stuff, good luck :)
This must be the inspiration for the new Sufjan Stevens video for "Too Much."
that is cool that We can watch on You tube such as grteat things but .... i diont understand why opeople download on YT such shitty low quality copies -this sucks
this is a rip from a *laserdisc* from nearly 50 years ago, stfu