Talk:The Works (film)

Just a little curious
On imdb we learn that Tubby the Tuba was made in 1976 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253848/), but the work on "The Works" did not start before 1978 or 1979. And yet those working on the project said it was a relief they had nothing to do with it, that it was traditional animation and not the computer animated movie they were working on:

"We were just a bunch of engineers in a little converted stable on Long Island, and we didn't know the first thing about making movies" said Beier (now technical director for Pacific Data Images). Gradually over a period of time, people became discouraged and left for other places. Smith continues, "It just wasn't happening. We all thought we would take part in making a movie. But at the time it would have been impossible with the speed of the computers." Alex Schure made an animated movie called "Tubby the Tuba" using conventional animation techniques, and it turned out to be very disappointing. "We realized then that he really didn't have what it takes to make a movie," explains Smith. Catmull agrees, "It was awful, it was terrible, half the audience fell asleep at the screening. We walked out of the screening room thinking 'Thank God we didn't have anything to do with it, that computers were not used for anything in that movie!'" The time was ripe for George Lucas." http://hem.passagen.se/des/hocg/hocg_1970.htm

Could this mean that imdb is wrong, or that they project was started earlier than assumed? Either way, it seems a little strange.


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moved Patstuarttalk 20:59, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

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The Works → The Works (film) and The Works (disambiguation) → The Works–I don't think it is necessarily the primary meaning

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Magazine covers
Images from the then still-incomplete movie were featured on the covers of Byte and SIGGRAPH. Should this be mentioned in the article? — Loadmaster (talk) 19:27, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

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