Friday, January 22, 2010

ZIP IT!

When I think of the 1980s -this is the first that comes to my mind.



The Morton Downey Jr Show. It was trashy, outrageous, and full of skinheads, red-baiting, wrestlers, rockers, charlatans.





What struck me most as a kid -and sticks with me decades later -was the opening.

Photo animation created by the great Veronika Soul.



By the time I entered the animation industry, the blue airbrushed background card was on its way out.  But it was a staple of 1980s commercial productions.








 


Morton Downey Jr. may have been the last guy to smoke on TV, but that didn't make him hate Fidel Castro any less!

2 comments:

Sean said...

You must have loved Big Time and Sledgehammer.

Great post by the way. I had almost frgotten about that idiot.

roconnor said...

When I started in this business, there were loads of people with "Big Time" in their portfolio.

It was directed by Peter Wallach.

A friend and hero, Suzan Pitt storyboarded much of it.

I told a friend to "zip it", and I was surprised that she -a child of the 80s -didn't know who Morton Downey Jr. was. Watching some of the shows on YouTube it seems almost quaint.