Aaaaaaw. Das ist der Grund, warum ich das Internet liebe. Der erste Film von Steven Spielberg, nach dem er seine Produktionsfirma benannt hat, nämlich „Amblin“, gibts kompletto auf Youtube.
Largely a silent movie, running at 25 minutes, made and marketed for the even by late-60’s measly sum of $20.000 Amblin’ is the first film the then 22-year-old Spielberg shot on 35mm. And it is a fantastic look at the pure unbridled potential that was and is Steven Spielberg.
Filming started June 6th, 1968, spent a weekend on a set at a soundstage belonging to Cinefx, a company owned by Denis Hoffman, who funded and produced the short film. Here it almost got cancelled, when Spielberg and Allen Daviau (whose work on Amblin’ is wonderful, and who went on to do E.T, Empire of the Sun and The Color Purple with Spielberg) spent three times the allotted 35mm stock. After this, it spent 8 days in the baking melting unbearable heat of the southern California desert, where unpaid crew quit left and right.
Once filming wrapped, Spielberg himself spent 6 weeks of his nights cutting the three hours of footage down to the 25 minute final piece, in a lent editing room, while listening to soundtracks on his record player.
Binary Bonsai hat die ganze Story zu Spielbergs Erstling und zusätzlich einen 350MB-Download als AVI in besserer Qualität. Sagte ich es schon? Ich lieeeebe das Internet.
- Renington Steele •
- Juli 16th, 2008 •
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Largely a silent movie, running at 25 minutes, made and marketed for the even by late-60’s measly sum of $20.000 Amblin’ is the first film the then 22-year-old Spielberg shot on 35mm. And it is a fantastic look at the pure unbridled potential that was and is Steven Spielberg.










































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