Peter Haas 🌹⚔️🎥 [email protected]

Producer + Editor of film, TV, digital, and immersive media. // Writer, Sci-Fi & Paranormal Enthusiast, Part-time Historical Fencing instructor.

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Maximilian from The Black Hole film (1979), art by Paul Wenzel

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

Evening viewing recommendation? Celebrate the great Richard E. Grant on his birthday with the finest wine and watch his iconic performance in Bruce Robinson’s WITHNAIL AND I (1986) on @criterionchannl! 🍷♥️ https://t.co/DHDNyxujik

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Satan's Satellites (1958). A young Leonard Nimoy is one of the Martian invaders trying to knock Earth from its orbit so Mars can take its place.

If this looks like King of the Rocket Men then you're on to something. Satan's Satellites is an edited down movie version of the earlier Republic serial Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952). That 12 part serial reused the rocket suit from 1949's King of the Rocket Men.

Zombies of the Stratosphere was meant to be the second outing for Republic hero Commando Cody, after Radar Men from the Moon (1952). For some reason Republic swapped out his character from this, instead putting him in 1953's Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, which was intended for TV rather than cinema but not broadcast on NBC until 1955 for contractual reasons following its cinema release.

Commando Cody does sound like Commander Corry, from ABC's Space Patrol, and he was intended as a rival to both Space Patrol and DuMont's Captain Video and His Video Rangers, although both these shows came to an end in 1955, a year before the DuMont network itself folded.

I know, it's complicated. Just enjoy the jet packs!

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Python’s “Marching Up and Down the Square” is pure genius. Michael Palin (83 today) hits notes that only dog whistles and Mariah Carey can match. The “extras” were real Colchester Garrison soldiers, who later said they were “fighting for their lives” not to break. 😂🤣

[All Things Movies @ThatMoviePage]

HOOK is considered one of his lesser works and some outright hate it but it has shot blocking and lighting that look incredible.

[Tim Partridge @Tim_Partridge_]

Mask, starscape and optical visual effects for this sequence by Camera Effects, Ltd.

[johnnyB @agraphafx]

Illusion Arts matte painting work.

Syd Dutton, and Bill Taylor. Albert Whitlock was their mentor.

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[Jake @RealRockatansky]

congrats to my two fave fellas!! This is going to be amazing.

[johnnyB @agraphafx]

Now there’s a room I’d love to be in.

HT Glenn Saviano on FB

[Peter Haas 🌹⚔️🎥 [email protected] @phaas]

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[Remnants of the Past @remnantsofpast]

David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1976

Photo by Steve Schapiro

[Stephen Gibbons @Gibboanxious]

That camera-to-George Lucas transition is gonna live in my brain rent-free till I die.

[Lazy Stardust @LazyStardust5]

David Bowie St, Berlin⚡

[Brad @LoveAndSaucers]

I haven’t felt right since our TimeCave experiment.

[Peter Haas 🌹⚔️🎥 [email protected] @phaas]

@agraphafx Same! Unforgettable visuals and music that still haunts me. Something hypnotic about the experience of watching TBH. "nightmare" vibes indeed; as everyone drifts closer to the titular space anomaly, reality & logic of the film itself begin to fray at the edges.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

In 1991, Patrick Stewart danced and sang on the USS Enterprise-D bridge as a birthday surprise for Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. The clip wasn’t meant to be public but later appeared as a DVD bonus feature.

[David Bowie Official @DavidBowieReal]

LIGHTROOM - LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK

“So deep in your room...”

With the first public day of Lightroom’s David Bowie: You're Not Alone behind us, we’d love to hear what you think of the presentation if you visit over the coming weeks.

Here are a few comments from the UK press following one of the previews...

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“Thrillingly huge” - Guardian 4/5

“A truly spectacular blast of sound and vision” - TimeOut 4/5

“Stunning footage of live performances” - Telegraph 4/5

“A pleasure to be overwhelmed by” - Times 4/5

“A must-do experience” - Immersive Rumours 4/5

“An odyssey of sound and vision” - NME

“A dazzling collage of sound, film and images” - Uncut

“You really get a sense of the late star's power and charisma” - Daily Star

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Please leave your observations in comments.

Book tickets for David Bowie: You're Not Alone here: https://t.co/gXCkQU3rMz

#BowieLightroomLDN

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

🚚♥️ A special announcement featuring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. . .The Criterion Mobile Closet is coming to Portland, Oregon! 🚚♥️

After wildly successful stops in the U.S. and Canada last year, we're going back on the road—and this time we're coming to the Portland Art Museum from Friday, May 29 to Sunday, May 31. https://t.co/p4jmHI5aH9

[johnnyB @agraphafx]

A great video on the making of Star Wars. Different shots for standard blue screen compositing discussion are also used. Great primer on the motion control camera.

#VFXarchaeology

https://t.co/1QlB56Bxxo

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

The word of the day is HABIBI! Happy #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth from Ramy Youssef, Elmo, and all of your friends on Sesame Street!