Yo… can someone explain to me how the hell were Michael Jackson’s editors going THIS crazy back in the 80s with ZERO modern software? 😳

1979*

That was before 1984 goofy that's 1979 🤣😭

The interesting thing, for a 1979 video it’s very high quality. Even the triplicate effect was fancy for the time. The near ending of the video the background is likely green screen with someone shooting marbles among the crystals.

It's not even 1984!! It's late 70s!!!

Right!?? 😅 he was the first artist back then that was making mini movies to songs. And keep in mind MTV didn’t come around till 1981 and even back then the videos were very simple. Check out blame it on the boogie rock with you and can you feel it?

2001: A Space Odyssey => 1968 Star Wars => 1977 Alien => 1979 Tron => 1982 Blade Runner => 1982 The thing => 1982 😑

That’s actually 1979

It was 1979 you cock sucker…

bruh, the people back thens work ethic was different level, they were coming off a WARTIME ERA...i'm telling you everything back then was done better

The one thing that MJ videos do is make you think that back then there was insane technological innovation, because you look at 90% of the other music videos of this period and they looked like they were filmed in a shed costing $24.

rotoscoping? nigga, green screen and ORGANIC fractal lighting practices. yall just be throwing rotoscoping around...

Also, remember, Michael's net worth around 1979 was around 14 million, so he could afford this stuff.

Corridor crew went over how they do stuff like Mary popping back in the day

It´s not 1984, but 1979 :-)

cause it's not a "rotoscope" lmao it's a green screen

It’s really just a blue screen guys. Y’all doing too much!

Green screen and layers upon layers of analog video.

How did they edit back then I’m so confused, no computers

They did it frame by frame, obviously. Haha.

Frame by frame buddy.

green screen, film, and chemicals. that's it

The compositing is done in realtime over an analog video signal, while there is blue color in the line it sends from the wacky background signal, otherwise it sends the signal from filming MJ. It's the same technology that composits the weather man/woman in front of the map.

Thats 79’ man. Dude was rich and can afford that effect.

@grok were there computers in 1979? And were they more for big corporations and especially companies like Walt Disney and George Lucas? How was MJ able to put the special effects like that?

1979 you dipshit. 🙄

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We’ve always had the technology

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Listen the technology used to go to the moon in 1969 was primitive (all UCASE) compared to today, with the onboard computer being less powerful than a modern car key fob, a smart toaster, or a basic school calculator.

with SCISSORS.

Dude thats not a mask they put 2 films on each other. No digital shit was involved

It was a special light bulb they used that they can’t recreate

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