The LEGO Movie (1994 film)

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The LEGO Movie
A red rectangle covered with Lego studs with the LEGO logo in the centre, and the words "The" and "Movie" in lights
Title cart
Directed byDent-de-Lion du Midi
Music byDent-de-Lion du Midi
Animation by
  • Claude Aebersold
  • Alex Furer
Production
company
Animagica Productions
Release date
  • 26 August 1994 (1994-08-26)[1]
Running time
4 minutes
CountrySwitzerland
LanguageEnglish

The LEGO Movie is a 1994 Swiss animated short film produced by Animagica Production and directed by Dent-de-Lion du Midi.

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Synopsis

The animation opens on a Blacktron base on Planet Lego IV. A Blacktron pilot lands his Star Rider spaceship and is given a device he uses to disassemble his spaceship and suck the pieces up. A danger alarm goes off, and an astronaut from a Radar Patrol gives the pilot a report on a Space Police Hunter ship. The pilot takes off with a jet-pack, followed by a swarm of Blacktron ships. The film cuts to the Space Police fleet, where an officer in one of the ships is being spied on by the Blacktron pilot. The officer switches his monitor between different scenes, of a Space Police Commando ship, a Blacktron Intruder Force ship, a news report by "Larry Lego" of the Spyrius base being attacked by a robot, and finally an asteroid field. The jet-pack pilot appears floating in the asteroid field before transforming into a Star Rider and flying away.

The short film is structured like a film trailer for a non-existent feature film. The film opens with cast run listing fictional LEGO actors supposedly in the film, such as "Arnold Lego" and "Tom Duplo", alongside the production company and director. At the end is a billing block, featuring the same fictional actors but also crediting its animators.

Production

The LEGO Movie by Swiss artist and "renaissance man" Dent-de-Lion "Dandi" du Midi.[2]: 9 

[3][4][5]

Macintosh Quadra 950 with 64 MB of memory. StrataVision 3D for modeling, StrataStudio Pro for animation. Photoshop, Premiere.[6]

Aebersold and Furer each animated and composited about half of the film.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Furer, Alex (2009). "Animagica – The LEGO Movie". Full Frame Studios. Archived from the original on 14 December 2024. Retrieved 14 December 2024. The given date of 26 August 1994 is assumed to be the date the film was completed rather than the date the article was published.
  2. ↑ Crecente, Brian; Vincent, Ethan (March 24, 2021). "Episode 16 – Darwin" (PDF). Bits N' Bricks (Podcast). Participants: Claude Aebersold, Alex Furer, Julian Gómez, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, and Bjarne Tveskov. The LEGO Group. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 11, 2024. Retrieved December 11, 2024. Audio version via YouTube.
  3. ↑ Furer, Alex (February 5, 2014). "Very nice article Julian!". LEGO Darwin (Comment on post "The LEGO Movie (1994)"). Archived from the original on September 28, 2022.
  4. ↑ Gómez, Julian (February 7, 2014). "The LEGO Movie (1994)". LEGO Darwin. Archived from the original on September 28, 2022.
  5. ↑ Robertson, David C.; Breen, Bill (2013). Brick by Brick: How LEGO rewrote the rules of innovation (First ed.). New York: Crown Publishing Group. pp. 53–55. ISBN 978-0-307-95160-1.
  6. ↑ Furer, Alex (October 31, 2011). "LEGO - The Movie". Vimeo (Video description). Archived from the original on February 27, 2016. Retrieved December 15, 2024.

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