As a friend of mine said, "Wow!". Back in 1979, two French (or French-Canadian?) guys, Yves Lapointe and Sylvain Labrosse, were sixteen years of age when they produced this Super-8 short film on their favourite television series, Space: 1999. I'm specifying "favourite" simply based on viewing their 13-minute homage to the much maligned 1975-1977 science fiction show. In fact, it is the second season (or "second series") that they mimicked, not the first, as many, including moi, would assume. In addition, because it was made by two people who would have seen the French-dubbed version, the title is Cosmos 1999.
All I can say is, "Enjoy!". Watch and admire the effort (and laughs) put forth by messieurs Lapointe and Labrosse. The music cues, authentic ones from the show's second year, are used exactly the way they were on the actual series they obviously know very well.
This film makes one wonder what the filmmakers are doing today?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbjJsypbfJ0
1 comment:
One thing they could not have anticipated is that the stop-motion figures look so much like Robot Chicken skits, but that just makes it funnier. You half expect some Alphan to get hoofed in the groin, bug out their eyes, and collapse.
Wonderful stuff!
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