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Rube Goldberg Machines
Rube Goldberg machines(which get their namesake from the cartoonist) feature a blend of simple machines meant to work in synchronicity to accomplish a task. From "The Goonies" to "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", multiple 80s movies featured these…
Tags: Rube Goldberg, The Goonies, Visual Gags
"Back to the Future" Time Machine
Above is the time machine used in "Back to the Future", a retrofitted DeLorean DMC-12. Early on, the DMC-12 was marketed as an inexpensive sports car, unfortunately for DeLorean however, the number of presales for the car gave them the idea to hike…
Tags: Automotive, Movie Memorabilia, Pop Culture, Sci-Fi
Humanity vs Machine
The increase in state-of-the-art consumer-grade technology entering the market gave some filmmakers the inspiration to appeal to the Luddites of old. The shot above is from "Superman III"(1983) which features an evil corporate computer that turns…
Tags: Literary Motifs, Man v Machine, Sci-Fi, Superheroes
Early CGI
The 80s saw the emergence of computer-generated imagery(CGI) within films. The first of which to feature large amounts of CGI scenes being "Tron"(1982), a movie perhaps more widely known for the arcade-cabinet game of the same name. Tron has a…
Tags: graphics, Pioneering, Sci-Fi