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by cyberferret 3501 days ago
Some of the older music videos are really ingrained in my memory for me - particularly Aha!'s "Take On Me" video, which was a composite of real and hand drawn cartoon imagery all done in the pre digital editing days. Clever stuff.

The early Michael Jackson clips when morphing and digital editing was still in its infancy are also still really cool to look at (particularly "Black & White")

They may seem really dated and cheesy now, but in their day, it was pretty cutting edge stuff.

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"Take On Me" is rotoscoping, the drawings are traces over the video frames. An evolution of that effect was used in the film "A Scanner Darkly" I believe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping