{"id":37,"date":"2008-04-07T01:52:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T06:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-07-07T20:48:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T03:48:02","slug":"planet-earth-our-response-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/planet-earth-our-response-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Earth: Our Response (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;1950&#8217;s Earth Responds to the Galactic Census Bureau&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This film started as an idea I had in Bellingham in 1998 while experimenting with Super 8 film making and collecting old educational films.  I remember discussing it with Tyson Theroux (aka Space Robot &#8230; aka The Diabolical Dr. Klaw) at the Horseshoe Cafe.  I didn&#8217;t have enough 16mm stock footage to pull it off and I didn&#8217;t feel like I could get the Super 8 and 16mm film to match.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to complete the film until I had access to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/index.php\">Internet Archive<\/a> and all of its public domain footage.  I started collecting and categorizing footage in 2005 and ended up using close to 100 different films.  I finished writing the narration and shooting my own footage in 2007.   <\/p>\n<p>Gideon Klindt produced a convincing alien probe for the effects shots and I composited them in using After Effects.  Gideon also stars in the film as the research scientist in the biosuit.<\/p>\n<p>I posted on the Portland Craigslist to find a 1950&#8217;s car and Herb Shaw was kind enough to let me use his old Packard for the shoot.<\/p>\n<p>~100mb HUGE! and 10 min long &#8211; I suggest streaming for several minutes before watching.<\/p>\n<p>Double Click the image below to play:<\/p>\n<p>[qt:\/blog\/movies\/PEOR.mov \/blog\/movies\/PEOR_poster.mov 480 270]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;1950&#8217;s Earth Responds to the Galactic Census Bureau&#8221; This film started as an idea I had in Bellingham in 1998 while experimenting with Super 8 film making and collecting old educational films. I remember discussing it with Tyson Theroux (aka &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/planet-earth-our-response-2007\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planet Earth: Our Response (2007)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,173],"tags":[75,74,72,73],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-short-film","tag-alien-probes","tag-historical-fiction","tag-planet-earth-our-response","tag-stock-footgage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}