Originally Posted By Rebekah This topic is for the discussion of the the Hallmark Channel airing of Darby O'Gill and the Little People on Monday evening. <a href="http://www.hallmarkchannel.com/framework.jsp?BODY=program.jsp&CONTENT=DAM_FAM_910262" target="_blank">http://www.hallmarkchannel.com /framework.jsp?BODY=program.jsp&CONTENT=DAM_FAM_910262</a> One of my few behind-the-scenes anecdotes relates to this film...so be sure to come back tomorrow to find out what it is and what others have to say about the film. See you Monday evening. Rebekah.
Originally Posted By arstogas Pay close attention the beautiful forced perspective effects... no computers back then, and it looks better than most of the effects work you see being done today.
Originally Posted By nic_wd_03 yup! i think matte paintings look more realistic than anything dong on a computer! with a matte painting you would never know unless you were told. you can tell if somthing is CG.
Originally Posted By arstogas Well, I agree in principle, but I'm not talking about matte paintings here. There is extensive use of forced perspective in DARBY - enormous sets that required incredible amounts of light... so much so that they blew out the power substations in Burbank while shooting the thing. The leprecauns look perfectly scaled, and of course this was all done in-camera.
Originally Posted By nic_wd_03 i know, but it just the first thing that came to my mind. thats a cool piece of trivia! the gnome-mobils had great effects like that too!
Originally Posted By basil fan Oh, the effects are flawless. This movie is really teriffic. Janet Munro is so cute & spunky. Donald Duck's Family Tree <a href="http://www15.brinkster.com/wtstsalor/donald.html" target="_blank">http://www15.brinkster.com/wts tsalor/donald.html</a>
Originally Posted By brotherdave "Oh, she is my dear, my darling one. Her eyes so sparkly, full of sun. No other, no other, can match the likes of her!....My pretty Irish girl!" One of my favorite Disney songs. And best of all, sung by 007 himself, Sean Connery!
Originally Posted By -em I liked this movie but It isnt one of my favorites- It was fun to watch though -em
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Still a fun movie to watch. Connery was so cool back then. Of course he's still cool. For some reason he bears a slight resemblence to Jim Carrey. At least that's what I thought while watching the movie. One thing though did it look like the lip movements weren't insynch(sp) with the sound at certain points?
Originally Posted By irishfan I always loved this movie when I was young, but the banshee used to scare the life out of me, in some ways she still does!
Originally Posted By arstogas >>>but the banshee used to scare the life out of me, in some ways she still does!<<< Well, that's kind of her job. ;-)
Originally Posted By Doobie Well, arstogas took my behind-the-scenes story. The sets were huge and they used the placement of the individuals to keep items in scale rather than through post-production editing. You see people do this type of thing with a still camera all the time. In order to light such an immense set they ended up knocking out the power to Burbank. I always found that amusing and have wondered how much media coverage it received. Nowadays it would be the lead story on all the local networks here and quite possibly capture a few minutes on CNN or one of those 24 hour stations. Pretty Irish Girl is one of my favorite Disney melodies. The comarderie between the King of the Leprechauns and Darby O'Gil amusing. I thoroughly enjoy the Leprechaun world and would've loved to see a further exploration of it. I wish I had the "I Captured the King of The Leprechauns" tv special on tape. As I recall that special showcased Walt's talent for building anticipation for an upcoming project. Rebekah
Originally Posted By lady_tramp Wasn't forced perspective also used in The Lord of the Rings. I thought I read something where that's how they were able to get shots that showed the various heights of hobbits, men, elves, dwarves. But perhaps I dreamed that somewhere. Anyway, I love Darby O'Gill, an often overlooked Disney masterpiece, and The Gnome-Mobile is equally wonderful, although perhaps a tad too slapstick at times.
Originally Posted By TheMadHatter Nic... If you have a multi-region DVD player, Darby is available in (R2) France. I'm waiting for my copy now, as well as Ugly Dachshund.
Originally Posted By narkspud >>well i dont. << A lot of the cheapest players can be VERY easily converted to multi-region, though. This one, for instance: <a href="http://www.buy.com/retail/clearance/product.asp?sku=70010348&loc=114" target="_blank">http://www.buy.com/retail/clea rance/product.asp?sku=70010348&loc=114</a> just requires entering a code with the remote. Do a little googling on the subject of "region free hacks" and see what you can come up with. A whole new world awaits.
Originally Posted By cheezman20 lady_tramp - surprisingly in the age of computer effects LOTR does rely heavily on traditional effects. The hobbit stuff was mostly done with different sized sets and props. I think it's cool that all the backgrounds were actually models. I love physical special effects so much more than anything done with a computer. There's not enough movies today that take that route (matrix) and opt to make everything digitally (matrix) which, whether or not (matrix2) it's good (LOTR) subconsciously EVERYONE notices and it detaches them from the movie. How many computer special effects movies have been criticized for being cold and emotionless? Then think about the older movies with stop-motion or animated characters and how those were the characters we loved. i loved ED-209 from Robocop or any of Harryhausen's creations... even the original Star Wars trilogy had tons of them (those AT-ST chicken walkers from Jedi had more personality than 90% of the new Star Wars movies). Pixar doesn't count because they don't do special effects... they tell a story in a different medium, but I'd like to see what they would do with a Live Action project though it will never happen. oh yeah... darby o'gill is the greatest! Yet another movie I watched as a kid that made me want to create special effects.
