tech changes, humor doesn't

[cmdr_zoom]

A friend sent me a link to this today. And while it's certainly amusing (at least to me), what I find most interesting about it is that even though it's about movie-making technologies that didn't really exist last century except in the most rudimentary form, it's a difference of detail, not of kind. Fifty years ago, the jokes were about guys in rubber monster costumes; today, they're about mocap suits and face dots. But they're still essentially the same jokes.

It's all very much in the same vein as classic, well-established bits of (faux/meta) humor about the process itself, like "boom mic in the shot", "accidental violence to the camera and/or cameraman" and (as seen, among other places, in the end credits of All the Jackie Chans but genuine) "oops, that's not how that stunt was supposed to go, dude are you okay?"

And going back even further, of course, there's "actor falls off edge of stage"/"gets caught in curtains"/"knocks over painted scenery flat"; and perhaps oldest of all, the immortal "... line?"

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[spawn_of_kong]

All I can think of is this. :P