Some idiot on IMDB stated Saul Bass used computers for the opening of Vertigo.

[shortylickens]

Vertigo: Aus dem Reich der Toten (1958) - Trivia - IMDb

Vertigo: Aus dem Reich der Toten (1958) - Trivia on IMDb: Cameos, Mistakes, Spoilers and more...

www.imdb.com

But I cant seem to find anything elsewhere on the internet suggesting this could possibly be true.

The History Of Visual Effects does not make mention of it, and they seem pretty thorough.

Visual-Special Effects Film Milestones

So WTF?

 

[shortylickens]

Unrelated:

Kim Novak is fucking fine.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

The Googles.

Computers weren't always digital marvels.

 

[Rifter]

in 1958? lmao

 

[pmv]

in 1958? lmao

Did you not click hayabusa's link? Interesting stuff, I thought.

Computers are one of those things that are 'older than you think' (in the tvtropes phrase).

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

in 1958? lmao

It happened. Look at the link in my previous post.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Did you not click hayabusa's link? Interesting stuff, I thought.

Computers are one of those things that are 'older than you think' (in the tvtropes phrase).

We sometimes look at "digital computers" as the only kind, but analog ones were available before that.

 

[Captante]

The Googles.

Computers weren't always digital marvels.

Anyone else excited to see that the computer in question was named the M5?

Computers are one of those things that are 'older than you think'

Difference-Engine

 

[shortylickens]

Depending on who you ask, the oldest computer is the abacus.

Also, IBM cash registers of the 1800's were basic computers.

I was concerned cuz I couldnt find verification of the Vertigo thing. Even on that site which supposedly has good info on special effects.

 

[mpo]

That's pretty cool. They used the motion controller to draw directly on the animation cell, rather than outputting digital raster or vector files.

 

[pmv]

Anyone else excited to see that the computer in question was named the M5?







Difference-Engine

Ego obliges me to point out that I already knew that! (I'm ashamed of having such an insecure ego). I think it was mentioned in lesson-one in 'computer studies' in high-school a scary number of decades ago. I mean, Babbage and Lovelace were British, after all, so of course we were going to be told about them - past glories are all we have.

And of course there's also this - which I believe was used for the SFX of a very early movie of Jason And The Argonauts, circa 100BCE.

Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[RLGL]

Hook, line and sinker LOL

 

[sdifox]

Hook, line and sinker LOL

I don't get what you mean.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I think he means that the OP must bow to the powers of the interwebs and that some sort of computational device was used in the opening credits.