I worked for ABC back then as a Technical Director and this is a fabulous job! The network had a different animated version of the ABC logo every year back in the 70’s and 80’s, would love to see any of those remade.
OMG, this brought tears to my eyes! 😭 Absolutely amazing, fantastic work! Thank you for this tribute to a beloved 80s classic TV intro! ABC should bring this back!
This intro was beautifully done. As a kid, this was my favorite part of the Sunday night movie. I was too young to pay attention to what movie was shown, but the intro was always the best part.
Jesus, you really nailed it. Of course, the music is half of it. But your star tunnel, although slightly different, still captures that catchy old magic. Good job.
First, it looks STUNNING on my 75" (who would've thought back them you'd one day see this SO... massive). Next, who would've known then that one day - 'soon' - the programming choices would become SO fragmented, and one could watch what THEY wanted to - ama nor just that, but to be able to do it without additional... gadgets (i.e., VCR's DVD, Blu-Ray, etc), and you could not only pause something, bus you didn't have to get 'stuck'watching something (instead of found to bed on a school night, or go to work, or whatever, but could CONTINUE watching something the next day, or on a bus, train, etc, ama didn't have to wait 'til it was repeated (that's IF it would be repeated). That's cool. Personally, considering my life, and what I do, people who know me are amazed when they find our I haven't watched ANYthing on network (I don't have cable); I stream everything - have done so since about '08, and I watch an eclectic mix of old TV and films, and it really is FAR better than anything we've lost
I love how the colors in the logo are the red, white, and blue colors of the American flag. Makes me proud to be American. Back when the country was a much better place. :)
@@marks47 Facts. No matter who you are, no matter what country you’re from. As long as you live in America, you will always be American, no matter what. And stuff like this shouldn’t discourage them from that.
Love it! I remember tuning in to see this opening only to find they changed it to a sleepy cabin in the woods. I was so bummed…and it only took 40 years until I could see it again! Thank you!!!
I don't even want to think about how much time and work this must have taken. I remember this intro fondly myself, from years of watching it here in the US. Fantastic job, mate!
I remember this intro in anticipation of the movie of the week prior to Cablevision networks becoming the norm especially when a good movie was going to be shown. GOD AM I OLD!
Wow! my favorite movie theme in the USA in the 80's. I was a near 7 years old when I saw that in 1981. Brings me back memories and it was because of my mom who listen often US TV channels at the time and to help me to learn english as a French speaking Canadian from the Montreal area. With the 4K image, we can see the details that was not possible 40 years ago. Please (Apriceproduction), please do not delete that movie intro theme from UA-cam :) Thanks for that sharing.
Oh your god, this is one of the most amazing things i have ever seen in my life. I have been obsessed with that intro for over 40 years now. It ranks as number 2 of all time. Number one will always be the 1984 LA Olympics opening.
I've been saying for a long time that if this intro was so amazing back then, imagine what it would look like with today's technology. I just said it again LAST WEEK that I would give anything to see what this would look like today. Please don't laugh, but I cried a little when I saw this... my vision came to life... and it's beautiful. Thank you so much for the time you spent on this❤
Yes! It used to give you goose pimples, get you all pumped up and excited…ready to watch your movie, and it still does! Even if there’s no movie to go with it anymore.
Oh man, my stomach still gets tight hearing this. I couldn’t watch the Sunday Night Movie unless I had my homework done, and even then, it sucked that you had to get up the next morning and go to school. Thanks for posting this anyway. Great tv throwback.
_Beautiful!! This is my childhood. Thank You for your excellent work!!_ _This intro/bumper is my favorite. Also the rotating CBS "SPECIAL" bumper always had me and my brothers running and sliding on the Living Room carpet cause we thought Charlie Brown was coming on. xD_ _It's a smaller world than you know cause since the mid 80's (watching late Sat nights on Mtv back then.) I've watched all 12 episodes of "The Young Ones" at least 20times each. I recorded them on my folks VCR and can recite almost every line of every episode. Rest in Peace Rik Mayall._
Great work! I love it. It’s a pity that all of the big networks got rid of these wonderful bumpers that build anticipation for the films that they show. CBS wouldn’t even show their bumper for the Sunday Night Movie, which was brought back last year. I guess it takes away from time that can be used for another commercial. These bumpers really helped build suspense with the announced preview and the powerful music. It would be great if the big networks created some new bumpers for today’s generation. The computer technology that we have now could create bumpers that look so much better. Thanks for sharing this video.
And if ABC does something like this, I'd like for the opening of that to pay homage to the Star Tunnel, as (as I said) quite skillfully done by APRICEPRODUCTION.
I truly love this remake of the classic and iconic ABC Sunday Night movie from the 80s. I would love to see the one from early 90s as that is my all-time favorite.
I just remember this intro yesterday back for my days when I was a kid I used to love the music and the graphics man thank you for uploading this ✌️😇🤛🤛🤜😊☮️
Wow! I clicked on this without reading the description and was thinking this was the cleanest version of this I'd seen. Had no idea I was watching a recreation. Good job!
I shot the original on 35mm film, so you could easily take the original and transfer it to 4k and get that resolution. One of the biggest regrets of my career, was most of the work I created in the 70's and 80's were for TV and were transferred to video (which at the time was 480 interlaced) which by today's standards is stone-age technology, and for a lot of my work, all that exists today is low-res copies of copies. The couple of times I got to screen the originals for clients, in a theater, projected from the original print, the quality was stunning. Anyway, nice job on the recreation - but - The stars were polished brass (as in cut-out of actual metal and hand polished to get a curved edge), not white. In the original you could see the brass color and the reflections of the polished edges. I taped them to a piece of glass and shot 8x10 chromes on red, blue and white backgrounds so they would all register. They were then photographed through a moving slit while the animation camera was moving to achieve the 3D perspective. Each color and each facet of the star was shot separately. It took 108 hours to shoot that part alone. And the white bands I used to transition between the different colors were actually a wipe traveling down the tunnels - yours are more of a flash.
Wow nice to hear someone who worked on the original version, and I have huge respect for you guys who worked to make these fantastic intros pre-dating the era of computers. I love the insight of the hand polished brass for the stars, if that was something I knew at the time, I would have integrated that into the recreation. I love how you explained the process of how you did the tunnel effect back then, using slit photography makes sense, I'm assuming to create the star effect you would animate the camera at 10 different precise angles repeating the animation. Then spliced it altogether in the optical printer to create the illusion of a 3D tunnel effect? Must have been incredibly frustrating all that work only to be transferred to 480p 😢 I bet those original 35mm of the Intro exist somewhere in a vault, assuming they haven't deteriorated by now.
The star facets were shot in pairs, so there were five passes to make a complete five point star. The animation table on the Oxberry was rotated to position each pass at the proper angle, because I was using the peg tracks to move the star transparency on one and the slit on the other. There were separate passes for each color, and for the white wipes. The star tunnel was all shot in camera on one piece of film - it took 108 hours to expose all the passes. Once I made all the artwork, and had all the moves and passes mapped out, it was pretty straight forward to shoot. The a, b and c were shot separately. The stars streaking down and the animating logo were also shot separately. The Kodak color negative film used back then was later found to have a tendency to fade. Ironically, prints from the negatives faded a lot less than the negatives. I worked at a production house in the 1980's where they had all their work archived on the "new" (at that time) one-inch video tape - it was discovered a few years later that all the oxide had dried out and turned to dust. (As shall we one day).
@@richardcoppola5530 Thanks again for explaining the process.... this is why I have such respect for you guys.... You were magicians of the time... Because you had to use techniques that many outside your work would never have known how it was done. Today the magic isn't there anymore as much, because everyone knows it's CGI.
@@APRICEPRODUCTION And even people inside the industry - after I came up with the concept for the star tunnel, I was told it was "too complicated to shoot" - "couldn't be done"
ATSC 3.0 (NextGenTV) is being rolled out in the US (and several other places around the world). It supports 4K. So ABC showing this (or something like it) is possible. ABC has a NextGen TV station close enough to where I live (and my Sony 4K Smart TV gets ATSC 3.0) so I might be able to get it over the air.
This is awesome work. I planned on doing something very similar except instead of ABC, I was going to make it a PLEX pre-roll. You kind of beat me to it. Guess I will work on the 80s HBO Feature Presentation PLEX pre-roll instead. Again, great work, it looks fantastic, just like the real ABC intro from back in the day.
Excellent fantastic they should attach this new opening to the older films they have on UA-cam and maybe on DVDs this is great you did an excellent job. Keep up the good work
This is amazing! So well done. I can almost hear Ernie Anderson saying "Tonight, an ABC premiere presentation. James Bond is back!" Or, "You will believe a man can fly." Soooooo good. Thank you for this. :)
Thank you SO MUCH for doing this!! This was my childhood! We didn't have 500 channels - only 3 Networks and PBS! -- When you HEARD this music - and that famous voice - YOU KNEW something SPECIAL was coming on TV. It great how something so simple can take you back to a wonderful time and place -- thank for letting us ride in your time machine! And YES !! please do edits with the movie intro included -- I think Jaws and Superman are available. That would be awesome -- maybe you could 4K those as well!! Great Job! OHHHHHHHH!!!! and now you need to a 4K version of the famous HBO Feature intro -- I "think" the same guy did the music for both this ABC intro and the HBO intro.
@@APRICEPRODUCTION Here is a whole piece on it - you'll love reading it - www.brandedinthe80s.com/16142/lets-talk-about-that-epic-hbo-feature-presentation-intro-from-the-80s
@@bj3692 I love the video how they made the intro especially the animated effects, just trying to work out in my head whether recreating the city in 3D would be worth it in 4K... with the lighting etc rendering times will probably be insane.
@@APRICEPRODUCTION I agree with you -- If "I" were doing it - I would probably only do the last segment - from roughly :45-1:20 - start with the black star field - HBO flies in - and then go to the Feature Presentation graphic -- this is also the most dynamic part of the music. While it was great for the time period it was produced - we now can have the motion path of the HBO logo perfectly smooth and not suffer from the bumps caused by the tracking of a real miniature. It will be fun to see how it could be cleaned up a little. I also think this would provide a little more challenge for you than the ABC intro -- this seems to be more involved in getting the chrome shading and reflection on the rotating HBO logo and those multi-colored curved rays of light. I hope you do it!!
Me too. I remember the first time I ever saw this intro was with the nuclear movie The Day After in November 1983. I was a freshman in high school. Seems so long ago and also seems like yesterday.
ABC Star Tunnel intro, used 11-1-81 to 1-12-87. and music partially used for the winter cabin background 1-18-87-Feb 1987 and S.F. houses background March-Aug 1987
I LOVE THIS! Man you went all out including the Closed Captioning card. I just thought it was just a 4K upconvert and I was going wow how did you get it to look so good. I thought you actually got a hold of the original print. Great job
The nostalgia is real AF. I can have this on loop all day.
I am so grateful to be alive and young during the 70s and 80s
If you play it on your smart tv? You will feel young agian, only for a moment. 🤩🖥
Fantastic work! All you need now is Ernie Anderson's voice saying, "Tonight, an ABC premiere presentation."
Or for today's audiences, "Guardians of the Galaxy, tonight's ABC Sunday Night Movie, will continue in a moment."
If you ever find the one they did for "Alien" it gives chills!
And before Ernie, Joel Crager (for example over the Star Tunnel intro and Promo for abc's first airing of Star Trek: The Motion Picture).
PT Anderson's dad, right?
@@ickysan Yep!
I worked for ABC back then as a Technical Director and this is a fabulous job! The network had a different animated version of the ABC logo every year back in the 70’s and 80’s, would love to see any of those remade.
Agree. This is very well done. I would love to see the 1977 version, too, which IMHO had better music.
Ernie Anderson had a distinctive voice that you can’t find anymore. Ernie Anderson was really awesome.
He was definitely ABC's primetime voice! Just like Danny Dark was the NBC's primetime voice. The molds were broken when those two were created.
If only we can get everything from the 70's and 80s with such amazing quality. This is awesome!
I'm almost in tears right now!! I miss the 70s and 80s! We didn't realize what we had!!
Wow! That was a 39 second injection of nostalgia! I miss the 80s. :(
OMG, I watched this over and over again. I felt young again. I am 64. I was 24.
OMG, this brought tears to my eyes! 😭 Absolutely amazing, fantastic work! Thank you for this tribute to a beloved 80s classic TV intro! ABC should bring this back!
Fantastic job! I was between 8 and 13 when this was used in the early/mid 80's. Seriously hits me right smack dab in the nostalgic sweet spot.
This intro was beautifully done. As a kid, this was my favorite part of the Sunday night movie. I was too young to pay attention to what movie was shown, but the intro was always the best part.
You turned it into gold! It was a great intro and wish it could be brought back with your restoration!
Wow, amazing work. This puts me in an uncanny valley of alternative retro. As if HDTV technology had developed in the 1970s.
Sad we will never get this experience again. Great times to be a 70's, 80's kid.
You still do. I just played this video. It just brings it back. 🥲🥰
Love love love this. I wish ABC still did this. Miss those days.
Jesus, you really nailed it.
Of course, the music is half of it. But your star tunnel, although slightly different, still captures that catchy old magic. Good job.
Great job. Remember this intro fondly back when ABC aired the Christopher Reeve Superman movies.
Raiders of the Lost Ark, starring Harrison Ford and Karen Allen, next on ABC.
So many Sunday nights I waited with baited breath for them to choose this film to air... so many Sunday nights I was left disappointed.
So many memories of this from growing up...thanks for putting in the work on this.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it, I love these retro style openings...
Amazing job!
This is my favorite bumper, brings back a lot of good memories
I had to play it on my smart tv just to get that flashback. Just an absolute classic. 🖥🥰🤩
I remember this....
Man it brings up memories
This... is absolutely INCREDIBLE! Stunning! You did an incredible job with this. Wow... my mind is blown! Great job, man!
I love it!! I remember Superman and Superman 2 growing up as a kid and this intro is what made it an experience.
"Jaws" , tonight's ABC Sunday Night Movie will return following these messages.
Mom taped it on VHS. I think she still has it.
First, it looks STUNNING on my 75" (who would've thought back them you'd one day see this SO... massive). Next, who would've known then that one day - 'soon' - the programming choices would become SO fragmented, and one could watch what THEY wanted to - ama nor just that, but to be able to do it without additional... gadgets (i.e., VCR's DVD, Blu-Ray, etc), and you could not only pause something, bus you didn't have to get 'stuck'watching something (instead of found to bed on a school night, or go to work, or whatever, but could CONTINUE watching something the next day, or on a bus, train, etc, ama didn't have to wait 'til it was repeated (that's IF it would be repeated). That's cool.
Personally, considering my life, and what I do, people who know me are amazed when they find our I haven't watched ANYthing on network (I don't have cable); I stream everything - have done so since about '08, and I watch an eclectic mix of old TV and films, and it really is FAR better than anything we've lost
I love how the colors in the logo are the red, white, and blue colors of the American flag. Makes me proud to be American. Back when the country was a much better place. :)
America is still an amazing country. It just has bad people
Back when displaying the flag didn't prompt people to whine about excluding people for not being American.
@@adenarrington7607 True that.
@@marks47 Facts. No matter who you are, no matter what country you’re from. As long as you live in America, you will always be American, no matter what. And stuff like this shouldn’t discourage them from that.
That and G.I Joe
This is freakin' amazing! I always loved this intro in the 1980's and you've done an incredible update of it.
THAT was EPIC!!!! Love to see you do the Original ABC Movie of the Week
KICK ASS JOB at recreating that Star Tunnel ABC Movie intro!
Whoever you are, you are tops in my book. This is astonishing.
This Movie of the week theme is Iconic!
Looks great! I remember working at ABC Network promotions. This open always made me feel like I made it as and editor.
Love it! I remember tuning in to see this opening only to find they changed it to a sleepy cabin in the woods. I was so bummed…and it only took 40 years until I could see it again! Thank you!!!
It still gives me shivers
You can see it anytime, it's all over the place
I don't even want to think about how much time and work this must have taken. I remember this intro fondly myself, from years of watching it here in the US. Fantastic job, mate!
I remember this intro in anticipation of the movie of the week prior to Cablevision networks becoming the norm especially when a good movie was going to be shown. GOD AM I OLD!
Wow! my favorite movie theme in the USA in the 80's. I was a near 7 years old when I saw that in 1981. Brings me back memories and it was because of my mom who listen often US TV channels at the time and to help me to learn english as a French speaking Canadian from the Montreal area. With the 4K image, we can see the details that was not possible 40 years ago. Please (Apriceproduction), please do not delete that movie intro theme from UA-cam :) Thanks for that sharing.
You probably made the best 80's intro I've ever seen in my entire life. 100% Accurate/10
I can't get enough of this. Absolutely stunning.
That's exceptional work. I cannot find any flaws.
Oh your god, this is one of the most amazing things i have ever seen in my life. I have been obsessed with that intro for over 40 years now. It ranks as number 2 of all time. Number one will always be the 1984 LA Olympics opening.
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I've been saying for a long time that if this intro was so amazing back then, imagine what it would look like with today's technology. I just said it again LAST WEEK that I would give anything to see what this would look like today. Please don't laugh, but I cried a little when I saw this... my vision came to life... and it's beautiful. Thank you so much for the time you spent on this❤
Yes! It used to give you goose pimples, get you all pumped up and excited…ready to watch your movie, and it still does! Even if there’s no movie to go with it anymore.
I love that theme music and that spectacular intro!! I've been looking for this for so long!! Thanks so much for this great upload!! 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This old Logo from the 80’s looks amazing in 4K! I can see so much detail in the Logo that I couldn’t see back in the day!
WOW!
The quality is better than the tv reception I use to get as a kid!
Oh man, my stomach still gets tight hearing this.
I couldn’t watch the Sunday Night Movie unless I had my homework done, and even then, it sucked that you had to get up the next morning and go to school.
Thanks for posting this anyway. Great tv throwback.
Great job recreating the old school abc movie intro. I love the old intros. They had a lot meaning to them. Thank you so much for this.
_Beautiful!! This is my childhood. Thank You for your excellent work!!_
_This intro/bumper is my favorite. Also the rotating CBS "SPECIAL" bumper always had me and my brothers running and sliding on the Living Room carpet cause we thought Charlie Brown was coming on. xD_
_It's a smaller world than you know cause since the mid 80's (watching late Sat nights on Mtv back then.) I've watched all 12 episodes of "The Young Ones" at least 20times each. I recorded them on my folks VCR and can recite almost every line of every episode. Rest in Peace Rik Mayall._
Great work! I love it. It’s a pity that all of the big networks got rid of these wonderful bumpers that build anticipation for the films that they show. CBS wouldn’t even show their bumper for the Sunday Night Movie, which was brought back last year. I guess it takes away from time that can be used for another commercial. These bumpers really helped build suspense with the announced preview and the powerful music. It would be great if the big networks created some new bumpers for today’s generation. The computer technology that we have now could create bumpers that look so much better. Thanks for sharing this video.
Ok Abc! CBS is bringing back their Sunday night movie presentation during the crisis. Here they go!!! GREAT JOB!!!!
And if ABC does something like this, I'd like for the opening of that to pay homage to the Star Tunnel, as (as I said) quite skillfully done by APRICEPRODUCTION.
RIP Ernie Anderson
Awesome!!!! Brings back memories of when movies on tv were fun and big deals.
I truly love this remake of the classic and iconic ABC Sunday Night movie from the 80s. I would love to see the one from early 90s as that is my all-time favorite.
This is incredible! Please do this for the version for 1978....plus! I love this!
Thank you I might consider it :)
Great job.. nostalgia to the max😉 memories of me watching my fisher brand tv. From zodys department store. stunning digital replica.👍
This brings great family memories as kid. The anticipation for the movie Jaws or Superman.
Thank you so much for doing this, U R awesome...'80s Forever!!
Wow! Phenomenal job, man!! I remember this from when I was a teenager in the 80's! Amazing re-creation!!!!!
Wow! The clarity. I was taken back to a far better time in my life. Thank you!
This is an excellent recreation. It actually almost looks real. Also like the bonus recreation of the closed captioning bumper too.
How did I miss this? I've been waiting for someone to do this. Great work.
I just remember this intro yesterday back for my days when I was a kid I used to love the music and the graphics man thank you for uploading this ✌️😇🤛🤛🤜😊☮️
My lord you hit this out of the damn park!
Well done!
It's funny - when I saw the title of this video, the song started playing in my head even before I watched it. Great memory!
OMG, this is fantastic and brought back so many wonderful memories!!!
And you even included the subtle Tunnel rotation! Great work!!
Holy hell man, you did a great job! WOW! I am old enough to remember this and this is flat out incredible.
You did an amazing job with this, it brings me back memories of my childhood!!!!!!!!!!
Holy smoke! This is flippin' FANTASTIC!! 80s memories in 4K! 😀
Well done, brother. Thanks for remastering my childhood into 4K
This is beautiful work! Thank you for sharing it with the net!
I’m……..so impressed by this recreation: it’s accurate, and crystal clear for 4K.
YOU ABSOLUTELY NAILED IT. BEAUTIFUL. I hope if ABC brings back the Sunday or Monday movie , they will use this intro.
Wow! I clicked on this without reading the description and was thinking this was the cleanest version of this I'd seen. Had no idea I was watching a recreation. Good job!
Wow! Amazing recreation! I thought at first this was just a very good quality clip. This brings back so many childhood memories. Great job!
I shot the original on 35mm film, so you could easily take the original and transfer it to 4k and get that resolution.
One of the biggest regrets of my career, was most of the work I created in the 70's and 80's were for TV and were transferred to video (which at the time was 480 interlaced) which by today's standards is stone-age technology, and for a lot of my work, all that exists today is low-res copies of copies. The couple of times I got to screen the originals for clients, in a theater, projected from the original print, the quality was stunning.
Anyway, nice job on the recreation - but -
The stars were polished brass (as in cut-out of actual metal and hand polished to get a curved edge), not white. In the original you could see the brass color and the reflections of the polished edges. I taped them to a piece of glass and shot 8x10 chromes on red, blue and white backgrounds so they would all register. They were then photographed through a moving slit while the animation camera was moving to achieve the 3D perspective. Each color and each facet of the star was shot separately. It took 108 hours to shoot that part alone.
And the white bands I used to transition between the different colors were actually a wipe traveling down the tunnels - yours are more of a flash.
Wow nice to hear someone who worked on the original version, and I have huge respect for you guys who worked to make these fantastic intros pre-dating the era of computers.
I love the insight of the hand polished brass for the stars, if that was something I knew at the time, I would have integrated that into the recreation.
I love how you explained the process of how you did the tunnel effect back then, using slit photography makes sense, I'm assuming to create the star effect you would animate the camera at 10 different precise angles repeating the animation. Then spliced it altogether in the optical printer to create the illusion of a 3D tunnel effect?
Must have been incredibly frustrating all that work only to be transferred to 480p 😢 I bet those original 35mm of the Intro exist somewhere in a vault, assuming they haven't deteriorated by now.
The star facets were shot in pairs, so there were five passes to make a complete five point star. The animation table on the Oxberry was rotated to position each pass at the proper angle, because I was using the peg tracks to move the star transparency on one and the slit on the other. There were separate passes for each color, and for the white wipes. The star tunnel was all shot in camera on one piece of film - it took 108 hours to expose all the passes. Once I made all the artwork, and had all the moves and passes mapped out, it was pretty straight forward to shoot. The a, b and c were shot separately. The stars streaking down and the animating logo were also shot separately.
The Kodak color negative film used back then was later found to have a tendency to fade.
Ironically, prints from the negatives faded a lot less than the negatives.
I worked at a production house in the 1980's where they had all their work archived on the "new" (at that time) one-inch video tape - it was discovered a few years later that all the oxide had dried out and turned to dust.
(As shall we one day).
@@richardcoppola5530 Thanks again for explaining the process.... this is why I have such respect for you guys.... You were magicians of the time... Because you had to use techniques that many outside your work would never have known how it was done. Today the magic isn't there anymore as much, because everyone knows it's CGI.
@@APRICEPRODUCTION And even people inside the industry - after I came up with the concept for the star tunnel, I was told it was "too complicated to shoot" - "couldn't be done"
wow im 50 this really tugs at the heart
That's impressive, so much clearer
I'm 40 years old, and this is really good. I prefer 1980s TV and 1970s TV to most TV.
:25 When this came up, it took my breath away. Stunningly clear, sharp graphic.
Absolutely incredible.
This is an awesome recreation. Someone should send this to ABC. Have them bring back the Sunday night movies. If CBS can do it, why not ABC?
ABC couldn't show it in 4K.
@@wadebarnett2542 nope only 720
ATSC 3.0 (NextGenTV) is being rolled out in the US (and several other places around the world). It supports 4K. So ABC showing this (or something like it) is possible. ABC has a NextGen TV station close enough to where I live (and my Sony 4K Smart TV gets ATSC 3.0) so I might be able to get it over the air.
Amazing!! So many memories of being a kid during a great time in America!!
THANK YOU MY FRIEND, PURE GENIUS. FOR THE ONES WE KNEW WHO HAVE CROSSED.
This looks so clean.
This is awesome work. I planned on doing something very similar except instead of ABC, I was going to make it a PLEX pre-roll. You kind of beat me to it. Guess I will work on the 80s HBO Feature Presentation PLEX pre-roll instead.
Again, great work, it looks fantastic, just like the real ABC intro from back in the day.
Excellent fantastic they should attach this new opening to the older films they have on UA-cam and maybe on DVDs this is great you did an excellent job. Keep up the good work
Well done! I was immediately 8 years old again. lol This is back when television viewers had a lot more patience.
This is freaking amazing!!
This is amazing! So well done. I can almost hear Ernie Anderson saying "Tonight, an ABC premiere presentation. James Bond is back!" Or, "You will believe a man can fly." Soooooo good. Thank you for this. :)
Great job!
Thank you SO MUCH for doing this!! This was my childhood! We didn't have 500 channels - only 3 Networks and PBS! -- When you HEARD this music - and that famous voice - YOU KNEW something SPECIAL was coming on TV. It great how something so simple can take you back to a wonderful time and place -- thank for letting us ride in your time machine! And YES !! please do edits with the movie intro included -- I think Jaws and Superman are available. That would be awesome -- maybe you could 4K those as well!! Great Job! OHHHHHHHH!!!! and now you need to a 4K version of the famous HBO Feature intro -- I "think" the same guy did the music for both this ABC intro and the HBO intro.
Thank :) which version of the HBO feature intro year?
@@APRICEPRODUCTION Here is a whole piece on it - you'll love reading it -
www.brandedinthe80s.com/16142/lets-talk-about-that-epic-hbo-feature-presentation-intro-from-the-80s
@@bj3692 Owww like that one... definitely could recreate the intro 46 seconds in from when the HBO comes in :)
@@bj3692 I love the video how they made the intro especially the animated effects, just trying to work out in my head whether recreating the city in 3D would be worth it in 4K... with the lighting etc rendering times will probably be insane.
@@APRICEPRODUCTION I agree with you -- If "I" were doing it - I would probably only do the last segment - from roughly :45-1:20 - start with the black star field - HBO flies in - and then go to the Feature Presentation graphic -- this is also the most dynamic part of the music. While it was great for the time period it was produced - we now can have the motion path of the HBO logo perfectly smooth and not suffer from the bumps caused by the tracking of a real miniature. It will be fun to see how it could be cleaned up a little. I also think this would provide a little more challenge for you than the ABC intro -- this seems to be more involved in getting the chrome shading and reflection on the rotating HBO logo and those multi-colored curved rays of light. I hope you do it!!
Takes me back to childhood. Awesome
Me too. I remember the first time I ever saw this intro was with the nuclear movie The Day After in November 1983. I was a freshman in high school. Seems so long ago and also seems like yesterday.
@@jbro8934 I was only 8 when The Day After was on TV. That movie scared the sh@t out of me
This was my childhood too-- back in the day, a lot of things like this were new to my mind, and I was just getting to know the world as the boy I was.
omg amazing work Very cool throwback. Thanks for this!
ABC Star Tunnel intro, used 11-1-81 to 1-12-87. and music partially used for the winter cabin background 1-18-87-Feb 1987 and S.F. houses background March-Aug 1987
Well done. Brilliantly recreated. If only we could make the movies just as good now!
This intro music is outstanding! 👍👍👍
This was FANTASTIC!
I LOVE THIS! Man you went all out including the Closed Captioning card. I just thought it was just a 4K upconvert and I was going wow how did you get it to look so good. I thought you actually got a hold of the original print. Great job
Wow this looks as good if not better than the day it was broadcast!