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Alan Sutcliffe, Landing the Nostromo, Creative Computing Magazine (June 1981) Volume 07 No 06, p. 48-54
"The hardware to be used was a Prime 300 connected to an FR 80 from III which can plot directly onto cine-film. Running on this system at the SRC laboratories in Oxfordshire was the software animation package, Frolic, developed by C.Emmett.
My program was written in Fortran with calls to Frolic subroutines."
The whole project was 14 pages of #Fortran code.
Ripley & Jones.
Both Aliens and Total Recall use flat screens depicting idealistic scenes of nature. These scenes were futuristic for their time.
It's worth noting that something which seemed so futuristic back then have now become commonplace.
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All shot practically using miniatures & lighting
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#alien #lv426 #alienday #miniaturephotography #actionfigurephotography #toyphotography #scifi #aliens #nostromo #film #photography #xenomorph
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In honour of Alien (1979) turning 44 years old, I'll be posting a some clips or random trivia over the next few days.
Did you know that the slime dripping from the alien's mouth was just K-Y jelly? Also, the production crew sued shredded condoms as the tendons in the alien jaws.
