Aloha Means Goodbye

2008 GI Joe Film Festival Award winner in the "Best Vintage Film" category. Originally produced in 1973 and shot on super 8mm motion picture film by filmaker/animator Carl Piermarini. Assisted by Jack Celli, Peter CampoBasso and Greg Carchidi, this film was shot on a pool table in Carl's basement to keep the set and GI Joes solid while animating. Effects were all done in camera on the set...including explosions using firecrackers left over from the Fourth of July. The GI Joe with lifelike hair later went on to appear in "Magnum Farce" and "Mission Imbecile."

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• animated
• award
• winner
• Leominster
• Aloha
• Means
• Goodbye
• GIJoe
• GI
• Joe
• Carl
• Piermarini
• Jack
• Celli

[luxyinthespace]

Aloha!!! i love your vid!!!

[aghyoul09]

when did you make this ?

very nice work

thank you

[Dragonrider1227]

Pretty damn epic. Nice job

[GovtIssueJoseph]

Aaah,the good ol' days--shooting GI Joe on Super 8 film!

Love the exterior shots and the final explosion--great stuff!

[coolox6]

awesome dude! great job

[paulnikon]

Good job.

[JoeyPencils]

This is better than the last Bond flick....

[bombstalker]

Absolutely awesome. Great fight. Fantastic explosion. All the more amazing considering when it was made...

[gre2381]

Excellent! I love it! I just love how you did the whole story and the feeling of realism when I watched the Joes in action doing things from the morris code to the fight scene, keep up the good work. G Whaley

[ruffinj61]

i thought that was wonderful. the fight in the small set was like watching the old dick tracy fights.