Rewind retro video of the day... From Burton Upon Trent, England (UK), here is Joe Jackson with the 1982 song Steppin Out from his album Night and Day. It peaked at #30 in Australia, #28 in Germany, #7 on the US Hot Mainstream Rock chart, #6 in the UK and on the US Hot 100 chart, and #5 in Canada. The song also earned 2 Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male. David Ian Jackson got the nickname Joe due to his resemblance to the puppet Joe McClaine from the 60s British sci-fi TV show Joe 90 (68 - 69). Created by husband-and-wife producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, Joe 90 was the successor to their earlier series Thunderbirds (64 - 66) and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (67 - 68) using the puppetry technique known as Supermarionation. The system used marionettes suspended by thin metal wires. The wires doubled as both suspension/control wires for puppet movement, and to run electrical signals to the electrical components concealed inside their heads. The heads consisted of solenoid motors that created facial movements for dialogue and other functions. Voice synchronization was done through a specially designed audio filter, actuated by the signal from pre-recorded tapes of the voice actors. The filter would convert the voice signal into a series of pulses to the solenoids controlling the puppets lips. With the heads carrying the electronic components, making the bodies proportionate to the heads caused the puppet to become hard to operate. This is why the bodies were abnormally small. South Park (97 - present) creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone would reuse Supermarionation in their movie Team America: World Police (04). Only they would call it Supercrappymation since they intentionally left the wires controlling the puppets visible. youtube/watch?v=SP9twB4duis
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 01:49:11 +0000
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