This morning Bobbi and I were discussing what I might add to the Famous Writers’ Blog. “What about ‘Greece, Tourist Style,’” Bobbi said. Or maybe it was me. I get confused sometimes.
“Good idea,” the other one said. So I dug through my YouTube archives and found it.
I watched it to the end—stopping several times when I couldn’t control my laughter. And at the end I saw this:
This is what we, in the video biz, call “A clue.” It led to this original post in the original WordPress Famous Writers’ blog.
And to the Substack version, imported without the video, and now has it embedded.
The making of the classic
The story of the making of Greece Tourist Style (“GTS” as it’s known to students of video history) was described in that there post. Still, there’s always more to be said, and stand back, I’m about to say more.
If you were too consumed by mirth as you watched the video, you might have missed the technology that GTS used to create what we in the video biz call “titles.”
So let me point out one of the titles:
GTS created their titles using what many people call “magic markers” (even though they are not really magic). The markers were used to make “word” on “pages” in “spiral-bound notebooks.”
This was incredibly advanced technology during what is often called “the good old days” (though they were not particularly good, or not especially old, and included just about as many nights as days.)
Some say that the modern technique, using “computers,” will never be as good. But some others say, “Too many cooks spoil the broth,” and others say, “Make America Great Again,” which only goes to prove.
Greece Tourist Style, Redux
GTS producers are said to be discussing a seven-figure deal to produce an updated version that will combine magic-marker technology with the latest computer technology, even newer, yet-to-be-invented technology, and some technologies that are so advanced that they will violate the laws of physics if they are ever built.
It is of little consequence to these video pioneers that all the figures in the seven-figure deal are zeroes.
Nor does it matter that only the producers of GTS are said to be saying what this article says is being said.
It doesn’t matter. Not a bit.
Whatever becomes of GTSR, as it’s said to be said to be said to be called, GTS will remain a classic.
And that does not matter either.
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It’s said to be said to be nearly magical how that works.