I first saw this at the University of Akron in 1980 it was the pre movie, before the movie. It made me change my major. This reminds me of all the people I have known and lost touch with. But most of all it reminds me that we all need to smile and try to make the world a better place.

@limbdarkening

10 жыл бұрын

What did you change your major to? What are you doing now? I like to hear peoples' stories.

@n1k32h

2 жыл бұрын

Me too I have done many start up companies in my life

We need more stuff like this in the world. We really do.

Each time I watch the movie, I smile and my life is a bit better. Thanks Mike Jittlov.

@davewanamaker3690

Ай бұрын

Well said. I feel that way, too.

My husband met him at a science fiction convention years ago. Jittlov's comment when my husband told him that MJ's work had inspired him to work in movies? "I'm sorry...." Sad indeed, to see such a creative spirit crushed by greed and selfishness. Mike, wherever you are, a lot of us do love you and would happily support your work.

@disneyboy3030

Жыл бұрын

Actually I heard it was due to his mother's help among other things.

3:12. Watching the video you clearly hear him say "wow" and it's like one of the high points of the scene, but look away from the video/just listen to the audio and you might even miss that sound as just a random whoosh effect. Brilliant movie.

Imagine this guy and The Flash in a race?!

One of the last things I remember Jittlov doing was the voice of Han Solo in "Darth Vader's Psychic Hotline." Last film work I can recall was the animation and voices for the spirits in "Ghost."

@Ibushi

9 жыл бұрын

I would think he would be right at home as a youtuber. Was kinda hoping he would be active here :(

At 5:16 you see Forest J. Ackerman sitting behind Jittlove, and I saw the movie in the theaters, loved it!

We are going to release this on Vinyl.

@graciegj63

6 жыл бұрын

John Massari That's really cool. I enjoyed the music to this immensely. :)

@captainhelium

4 жыл бұрын

kool Beenz!

I saw it as child and during years I was remembering just bit fragments but I wasn't able to get the movie or short name. I asked on a forum but nobody answered. I had totally has forgotten it when suddenly a day I received a response alert on my mail. Somebody has responsed, I was unable to remember even I asked it. Was a great surprise when he told me the title. Great work short in step motion for that era.

Haven't seen this since the 80's, thanks for posting !!!.

Wow, I can still remember listening to this for the 1st time!

Mike you inspire me to be happy. Where ever you are, thank you.

Oh god how I love this movie... Inspired me to make all sorts of silly stop-motion films when I was a kid. It's probably just nostalgia talking, but effects like these always seemed to look better in their own way, and be put to so much better use than the stuff they cook up in computers nowadays.

Truly brilliant work. I loved the movie and showed it to so many people over the years.

Thank you soooo much for uploading this. 3 times now people uploaded only half and have been such a tease. A low-budget stop motion movie about making a low-budget stop motion movie....Genius!

I was working at a rent to own store in 1989 and I got a promo package in the mail and took it home. I played it until my VCR ate the tape. Thanks a ton for posting this. How about a special edition DVD and toss some money to Jittlov?? This is a tasty morsel from the good ol' VHS days... Fantastic stop motion in this movie. Thanks to you Mike for hours of joy in the late 80s.

The movie was watchable but this scene blew me away when I first saw it. Brilliant.

Nothing stops the creative spirit!

@dorklymorkly3290

2 жыл бұрын

Do you still have that view over a decade later?

I still love it when he transforms a tank into a Mustang. :-)

Forgot how awesome this is. Well done Mike.

Why do I get the feeling someone at SEGA saw this and went, "We have an intro! Put it in the game!"

5:03 -The astronauts in the space shuttle are stop-motion animator Jim Danforth and his wife! I think Danforth did some animation in this one.

I have met Mike several times in science fiction cons (Oslo, Manchester), and I have enjoyed his stories about his troubles with the feature film. I still have the poster with signature of course! Interesting facts: - he is allergic to US beef, but can eat European! - He played the police dog in one scene of the film!

05:18 - I remember my brother and me lying on the floor laughing!

@gazriley624

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

Great Go-motion!

He did animated lights that had a personality way before pixar and luxo

great flim,,,

A cinematic triumph.

Sonic the hedgehog would go crazy

I went out to his house once, where I met him and his mother. We talked for a couple hours. It was really one of my dreams come true, having grown up on his film as a kid. At the end of the visit, he walked me to where I had parked, looked me dead in the eyes and said "Don't end up like me."

@DJTide

6 жыл бұрын

Ice Block Films was he serious?

@graciegj63

6 жыл бұрын

Ice Block Films That sounds sad. Hollyweird sure knows how to kill people's dreams. But all of his work didn't end in a total loss, because a lot of people got inspired to do their own movie making. Look at kickstarter and other wide funded sites. The guys on Laser unicorns (Kung Fury) must've seen this at some point in their lives too.

This is the only movie that got me interested in video editing

I love this film, of course, with a hero like Mike Jittlov, it's a wonder I'm 32 and have yet to make a feature (although I do have a screenplay contract for a work for hire that's not my idea).

@crazysoccerman14 How sad that some people always make the drug reference whenever they encounter anything remotely out of their tiny, tiny little spectrum of reality.

The song at the beginning reminds me of "Main Street Electrical Parade".

@andersfrihagen3656

3 жыл бұрын

I think he wrote it....

Let's see Mike at W00tstock!

There is one thing I did hear.

Wholly odd!

2:40 - Fucking EPIC.

@dazzlerby Pretty damn big. I'm so glad I had my parents for parents. They took me to art museums, and the theatre, and movies, and they encouraged creativity. I was able to look at talent and be impressed... not recoil from it in terror and accuse the talented of being drug abusers.

Where can I find the music playing during this?

Apart from me how many others did see H G Wells Time Machine.

@TheEudaemonicPlague

4 жыл бұрын

A dumb question, don't you think? Are you somehow under the impression that the various movie and TV versions are only known to a few? I'll go as far as guessing that more non-science fiction fans have seen one or more versions of it than there are in fandom. After all, we're talking Wells, aren't we?

well, a.) he IS a wizard, and b.) if you watched the movie, you would see how evil holly wood really is

Wizard: Allons-y!

This is straight from the movie, I don't know what you are talking about.

Is that a pentagram on the floor?

@UncleMilo how big is your spectrum of reality, pal?

Mike is ALIVE AND WELL and I HOPE upon HOPE that we MAY get him to screen his SHORT at "W00tStock", the brain child of Wil Wheaton, Adam Savage, and Music Duo, Paul & Storm...THAT would be a cool deal...what do YOU think? Tweet about it to Wil, Adam, and Paul & Storm...This guy was a GEEK/NERD before Geek Nerd's were COOL!

the only wizard to beat the shit outa Communism, fuck yeah! 4:23