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ALIENS – ROBOT SENTRY WEAPONS IN ACTION

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This was a cool scene from ” Aliens: The Director’s Cut”.  The Colonial Marines stranded on the Alien planet set up robot sentries in the hallways of the complex where they are trying to survive.  The sentries detect motion and are programmed to fire upon any intruders tripping the sensors.  Needless to say, the ammunition runs out fast as the Marines figure out that they are overrun with deadly Aliens trying every means possible to get to the Marines.  Very effective editing and use of sound effects.  We don’t ever clearly see the Aliens being blasted into smithereens by the hyper firing robot machine guns.  Nice sequence.

SECRET NASA PICTURES FAKED!

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Very mixed bag of items covered photograpically, presumably residing in a super secret NASA vault somewhere.  They have their fingers in every pie!  Here we see underwater pyramids, moon structures, bits and pieces of ancient technology, super structures half buried, excavated alien spaceships, giant human skeletons uncovered, etc.  It appears to me to be wishful thinking.  Photo enhancing may be at play.

NASA ALIEN ANOMALIES ON FILM

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Unidentified space junk floating by the space shuttle, the Russian space station Mir, Skylab, Apollo spacecraft and transiting the Moon’s surface.  Who’s to say what these films truly reveal?  Judging by the abundance of activity displayed, space is one crowded place.

THE THING – 1982

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Very twisted clip from John Carpenter’s The Thing.  A chest that opens up and sports big, jagged fangs?  The better to bite your hands off with!  Ugly.  Outstanding mechanical visual effects by Rob Bottin.  All these monster effects had to be built  from wire frames and then dressed to achieve the required look and then remotely made to function by one or more operators  A lot of motors, wires, cables and what have you brought these monsters to life.  Disney called them animatronics.  They don’t make them like this anymore.  CG is much quicker and cheaper.

THE MONKEES – STAR COLLECTOR

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With the sad passing of Monkees member Davy Jones, I wanted memories of better times and found this freak out from The Monkees LP, “Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.”  Early use of the Moog Synthesizer and Monkee hijinks amid all the pretty flashing lights highlight this promo piece.