Calling on the Oscar Goldman Phone
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Hysterical. I love anything to do with Oscar Goldman and the Six Million Dollar Man. I have a bootleg set of all the episodes and they're a lot of fun. Were you making the "bzzzzzzz" sound when the doors slide open? Hysterical.
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha! That is great.
I couldn't watch it all day because of the clunky computer at work. I was all "I'll try it from my computer before I tell Jordan it doesn't work." What an awesome surprise.
Thanks, guys!
I was cracking up over this for like months, and I had absolutely forbidden myself to do it (because of the time wastage involved). Finally last night I gave in to the mental torture and decided to do it, but allowed myself just HALF AN HOUR to get the thing done -- not a minute more! Of course it took longer than that (and I welched on my deal my saying that render times "don't count," which means you can go for another ninety minutes just "fixing" things and re-rendering and tell yourself that you've been "finished" for an hour).
Yes, I'm making the sound with my mouth. I was determined to do this (even though I had to repeat the sound a few times). The joke was based on slowing down the door motion as much as possible without it being Tex-Avery ridiculous, and on generating a strip of film of myself of sufficient length in which I don't spontaneously crack up. (I also blinked a lot on purpose.)
The "real" Oscar Goldman phone conversations were pretty much just like this: the screen was over his couch, disguised (Why?) as a map of the world (Why?) and I remember that it took forever for the doors to open on the "screen" and everybody just stood around waiting, including the guy on the phone (usually Steve Austin, squinting, somewhere in the bright sun).
I also loved (and tried to faithfully reproduce) the way that the people making Six Million Dollar Man could not have been less interested in that "screen." They didn't care what kind of screen it was, how it worked or what it looked like. They just went and got the film of the other guy talking and matted it into the picture frame over the couch...I forced myself to do it exactly the same way and just put the image there without any plausible technological explanation.
I was thinking that it must’ve been difficult to keep a straight face. It was so funny when the doors (slowly) opened because I had no idea what to expect.
I was always fascinated with this show as a kid and it’s funny to look at it now as an adult. I have a few of the Kenner toys and it amazes me that they were so lame! They had this really cool franchise but you would never know it from the toy line. Your Oscar telephone reminded me of this play set,
I met Richard Anderson last year at Boston Super Megafest. He seems like a really nice guy.
I just finally watched this! Freakin' GOLD!
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