![]() As Doc related to Marty in 1985, he had been "standing on the edge of my toilet, hanging a clock" when he slipped and struck his head, awakening with a vision of the flux capacitor. The clock on the Hill Valley Courthouse became the key to Marty's return to 1985, because it recorded the time and place where lightning would strike, as well as the source for sufficient energy to power the time circuits on the DeLorean time machine to 1985 after being struck by lightning.ĭoc's fascination with clocks led, indirectly, to his discovery of how to travel through time. While the two clocks were in complete synchronization before the trip, Einstein's clock was "exactly one minute behind" afterward. Doc retained one chronometer while the other was hung around Einstein's collar. These had been set to display the hour and the minute only, rather than as a stopwatch. ![]() Doc also used two synchronized, LED-display chronometers during the world's first temporal displacement. Due to a time delaying experiment, all but one became 25 minutes slow. Emmett Brown's studies in time travel and physics.ĭoc had almost thirty synchronized clocks in his residence in 1985. "You'd think a public school would at least have the correct time." " -From Back to the Future by George Gipe (quote, page 141)Ĭlocks were a primary focus of Dr. "Ten seconds slow," Brown muttered, comparing it with his pocket watch. " -From Back to the Future by George Gipe (quote, pages 44 and 45) " "We have about ten minutes to wait," Marty said, looking at the hall clock. "Must be one o'clock," Marty said softly. A smile spread across his face, for he never tired of hearing this strange symphony arranged and orchestrated by the world's most fanatical timekeeper, Doc Brown. For ten seconds, Marty stood still, listening until the last harbinger of the hour died away. Set precisely, every clock with a way to announce the hour went off together - musical chimes, cuckoo sounds, digital beeps. Time was Doc Brown's latest, and perhaps final, dominating interest." -From Back to the Future by George Gipe (quote, page 26) " He was halfway to the workbench where Doc kept his video equipment when a sudden cacophony caused him to jump in spite of himself. The presence of some many timepieces was not accidental. He had everything from cuckoo clocks to digital models - and every one was in dead sync with the others. " Clocks were Doc Brown's favorite collector's item. Due to the background being defocused, I could get away with using this simple method.The brass alarm clock placed on the dashboard of the DeLorean by Doc. ![]() Then I simply animated the stills of the models across the screen, then added motion blur. To complete the illusion, I photographed friends and co-workers on greenscreen and put them in the miniature cars as drivers. It saved us countless hours of having to render CG cars for the number of shots, and no one would be any the wiser if I had not mentioned it here. Some people might be wary of using such a low-tech solution in a film, but if you can get away with it, and it looks good, then there's no reason not to. We put the cars on a lazy susan so that we could move the models around to get the angle we wanted, instead of having to move the camera around. We shot outdoors in natural sunlight to make sure it matched the natural light of the plate. To get the minatures in the shots, my buddy Jonathan and I simply photographed stills of the models against green or blue posterboard depending on the model's color.
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