Original CGI trailer

[chrisbishop]

While looking for something our friend Colin put a link through on this forum, I found this. And K know that ALL Captain Scarlet fans - regardless of their preferences for original or CGI, will be interested by this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh7HFy4g2ik


I was one of those unfortunate who didn't get to see this trailer. Now I can say I did

Thanks to whoever permitted us to see it online.

[Captain Indigo]

Well done, Chris, for finding this, and thank you . I never thought I would see it. Nice to see that some of the ideas were reused for NCS (Black breaking out of his grave), and lovely to see Cloudbase in CGI.

[Carrie]

Oh, Chris, this is a gem.
Captain Blue LOOKS like he's supposed to, in my books at least... and Ed Bishop's voice still sends shivers down my spine despite the fact he must have been in his 70's (?) when he recorded this.
I also thought Francis Matthews sounded remarkably spry as well in this trailer. Certainly, it's obvious that they didn't change too much for this for this CGI version, although the vehicles are a little more streamlined.
I know the NCS fans will groan at me saying this. but watching this made me pine even more for what 'might have been' with OCS made in CGI-Vision...(sigh)

[Mary]

I consider myself open-minded about the new series, thinking of it as a "CS:TNG" unlike the "OCS-or-bust" crowd, but I must admit I would have liked to see this version pan out rather than what we eventually did get. I am by no means belittling the efforts of the CGI teams; the effort is still IMO very watchable, but you have to admit the original series still has a certain something that drew its fans to it in the first place.

Sad to say I almost didn't recognize Ed Bishop's voice, like one of the YouTube posters I thought it was someone doing an impression of him...

[Skybase Girl]

Interesting to see this, paricularly as it points to Gerry possibly wanting to make the new series more like the original.

I did recognise both Francis Matthews and Ed Bishop - while admittedly sounding a little older, they didn't sound forty years older !

The good bit is that the CGI clearly improved a thousandfold between this trailer and the eventual production.

[RhapsodyAngel8]

Thanks for posting this, Chris. It’s great to see.

Interesting to see this, paricularly as it points to Gerry possibly wanting to make the new series more like the original.

I did recognise both Francis Matthews and Ed Bishop - while admittedly sounding a little older, they didn't sound forty years older !

It certainly would have been interesting to see what route the series may have taken, had this original version of the CGI series been pursued. Like Marion, I prefer the ‘Blue’ in this trailer; whilst I thoroughly enjoy NCS, I feel that GA made a mistake with the final Blue. From the trailer, it would appear that GA’s initial idea was to go with the original Blue; I wonder why it was that he turned out so different – he’s a good character in himself, but just not ‘Blue’. Outside influences perhaps? Had we seen more of this version, I would imagine that other characters that underwent such a radical overhaul for the final NCS (Green, Ochre and Magenta ) – and, to a lesser degree, the Angels, and even Scarlet and Black – would have appeared as per their OCS counterparts.

The good bit is that the CGI clearly improved a thousandfold between this trailer and the eventual production.

I agree whole-heartedly and I’m so pleased that it has – I’m still amazed by so much of the detail in NCS. It wasn’t even just between the trailer and the eventual production that the CGI improved; one can see this after IoD 1&2 where, with the new production company on board, character definition is far better (in my opinion, anyway).

[James. C]

That was incredible!