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Do you still own that Super 8 film? I would be interested to see it.

I do, somewhere. Maybe at some point I'll put it on my channel. It's rather hard to follow though.

Yes, from script and storyboard to execution we started in 1978 and completed the film in November of 1979. It was a lot of work but all fun.

In the end credits, you can read that the original Super 8 film shooting occurred in 1979. Of course this was a silent film then but it was recently digitized, cleaned and stabilized, and a soundtrack was added.

You are absolutely correct, this was indeed inspired from The Beta Cloud episode in Year 2.

We worked on several other scripts and storyboards for more animated films but life kicked in and other priorities took over. Yes, I wish we did more indeed. And today, with all the technology at our disposal, it would be somewhat easier. Super 8 filmaking was hard.

Thank you Peter, this is greatly appreciated. Yves and I had a blast making this fan film. In 1979, we would never imagine showing it to so many people around the world. Social media can be a great thing sometimes.

J'ai rencontré Yves au secondaire et on a débuté par la photographie noir & blanc, plus Ektachrome couleurs, avant de finalement tourner en film Super 8. À noter que le tout début du film est monté avec les bouts les moins ratés de notre première tentative, soit notre version du premier épisode de la série. Le film, tel qu'il existe en Super 8, débute après le générique de la saison 2.

Merci Michel. Venant d'un pro comme toi, c'est un beau commentaire. On a travaillé avec un découpage technique et un stroryboard mais on a quand même peaufiné en post-prod. Après la numérisation de ce film à l'origine tourné en Super 8, j'ai retravaillé légèrement le montage mais c'est surtout l'atmosphère sonore que j'ai amélioré. Extrêmement compliqué en Super 8, le résultat n'a jamais été satisfaisant. Vive le numérique pour le son !

Thank you James. I must be perfectly honest with you. The special effects have been, like the rest of the film, retouched digitally to add stars and to stabilize the images. Super 8 has very poor registration and the whole picture moves when projected. In double exposures, you could see the two objects floats independently, ruining the intended effect, so I fixed this problem by digitally stabilizing everything. The Space: 1999 effects crew used very stable 35 mm camera equipment and everything locked perfectly. That said, this is still the original Super 8 film stock but with minimal image enhancements as I wanted to keep it as close as it was in 1979, minus the annoying imperfections of Super 8.

Thank you. It was done in 1979 so it was still the 70's then. Even if disco was fading out... ;-)

It was definitely the 70's disco era ,I have the Space 1999 year two sound track CD by DERRICK WANDSWORTH and its very disco,Especially the drums and the wonderful 70's Keyboards/synthesizers and spacey sounds on it !! Partly why I loved to series,It was pure 1970s! A great era for television.

And sweat. And a lot of fun too.

Made with more heart than Freiberger put into the entire series 2 !

Thank you. The intent of any film is to be watched and it is nice to know that this short fan film is well received by so many people. Yves and I had a lot of fun making it, that's for sure.

I hope you noticed that we used real hands in some shots... ;-)

Admittedly, as an adult, I much prefer season 1 now but we were kids when we shot those images and we enjoyed season 2 for what it was. Ho well...

I was only 8 when the show first appeared on American TV and I loved it. I was also a fan of horror and a lot of the first season episodes had kind of a creepy quality to them. While I didn't hate the second season, I was disappointed at all the changes they made. I especially hated that they got rid of the Main Mission set and went for a really cramped control room. They could have at least added a line of dialog about it being destroyed by a meteor or something. It didn't help that its scheduling was very erratic with episodes often being cut or not shown at all because of ball games. "Time approximated after ___ball." became my most hated phrase whenever I'd see it in the listings. Followed by "We now join our regularly scheduled program, already in progress." Yeah, thanks for letting me watch the last 15 minutes! I never even got to see the episode that introduced Maya until many years later, so when the second season started, I was wondering where this new alien came from.

Tout à fait le cas pour nous aussi. Beaucoup de travail, en effet, mais surtout énormément de plaisir à produire ce film. Et en passant, il figure sur les DVDs et BluRays de la saison 2, malheureusement seulement disponibles en Europe en ce moment. Une critique de notre film est détaillé sur ce site Fan: catacombs.space1999.net/main/images/fan/cosmos/cosmos1979.html

Admittedly, the introduction is low quality because I salvaged as much from our very first attempt at Stop Motion, plus the fact that the digital film transfer is poor for that part. The real film starts after the main title and quality improves in that section.

The first minute we kept is low quality but it is better than what we are not showing. Our animated version of "Breakaway" simply does not render justice to the episode and Yves and I do not wish to show it. What was kept and is used as the introduction to our second film, L'Enjeu, is to explain to those not familiar with Space: 1999 why the moon travels in space all by itself...

Thank you!