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:
You must have loved Big Time and Sledgehammer.
Great post by the way. I had almost frgotten about that idiot.
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.
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