Back in the day the special effects that we take for granted in movies and TV took MONTHS for what worked out to be about a minute of footage.

In 1982 HBO created an introductory segment for its special movie events and they spared no expense. Check out this mini behind the scenes feature:

Granted, the techniques were “state of the art” and required back then, but it blows my mind how simple it is to do a lot of these effects that they had to labour for ages to do what your average Highschool student can now do on his dog’s website.

Imagine how people will mock what we do now in 25 years?

Computers? Seriously? They used computers for that? I had my virtual reality hologram handle that job for me!!