Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
September 2, 2001. New transfer from the first-generation broadcast-quality betacam SP tape source.
Old website description:
"PRODUCTION NOTES (from Andy): This has to be one of the strangest combinations of ideas we have ever done: a video to a Johnny Cash gospel song from 1963, animated with Legos. Dave and I wanted to work on animating the mouths more, and I thought a music video would be a good way to practice. It freed us from having to match a movie shot for shot, while still providing a structure. I'm a big Johnny Cash fan, and this song didn't have a lot of words (plus I liked the idea of doing a religious song in a straightforward manner), so it made a good choice. My wife deemed this video as the best thing we have done so far. Please note that although we find this song to be surely amongst Johnny Cash's best, our choice does not in any way indicate our feelings towards whether or not Biff and Mario were there when the stone was rolled away. See behind-the-scenes photos!
Some technical notes (from Dave): I like the lighting in this one, as it's more dramatic than the flat-lit stuff we had done so far. The three-cross shot at the beginning is cool with the wide-angle lens, and the "video wall" built into the set was actually a small LCD TV fed with various scenes from other movies as well as looping graphics. We also experimented with electronically zooming the image during the editing process, which made for some nice smooth moves that would have been difficult to do during shooting. The stone rolling away was done with a vacuum cleaner, and the light was a 150-watt floodlight behind the set which actually ended up melting a few of the Lego pieces in that area."
September 2, 2001. New transfer from the first-generation broadcast-quality betacam SP tape source.
Old website description:
"PRODUCTION NOTES (from Andy): This has to be one of the strangest combinations of ideas we have ever done: a video to a Johnny Cash gospel song from 1963, animated with Legos. Dave and I wanted to work on animating the mouths more, and I thought a music video would be a good way to practice. It freed us from having to match a movie shot for shot, while still providing a structure. I'm a big Johnny Cash fan, and this song didn't have a lot of words (plus I liked the idea of doing a religious song in a straightforward manner), so it made a good choice. My wife deemed this video as the best thing we have done so far. Please note that although we find this song to be surely amongst Johnny Cash's best, our choice does not in any way indicate our feelings towards whether or not Biff and Mario were there when the stone was rolled away. See behind-the-scenes photos!
Some technical notes (from Dave): I like the lighting in this one, as it's more dramatic than the flat-lit stuff we had done so far. The three-cross shot at the beginning is cool with the wide-angle lens, and the "video wall" built into the set was actually a small LCD TV fed with various scenes from other movies as well as looping graphics. We also experimented with electronically zooming the image during the editing process, which made for some nice smooth moves that would have been difficult to do during shooting. The stone rolling away was done with a vacuum cleaner, and the light was a 150-watt floodlight behind the set which actually ended up melting a few of the Lego pieces in that area."
