Uploaded October 2008 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
Smurf Story Time
Approximate Film Date: February - May 1987
Well, they can't all be fight videos.
In 1987, shortly after I was gifted my first video camera (thanks Mom - no present in history ever enjoyed more mileage), I tried my hand at "stop-motion" filmmaking. The early video cameras really weren't equipped to produce that sort of animated feature, but I made the attempt anyway. I decided to do my best using some Smurf figurines I had mixed in with my enormous collection of Star Wars figures. The original animation was really, really choppy. I also had no real means of dubbing in good sound effects or voiceovers. Worse still, any mistakes that were made during filming had to be corrected right then and there because at that time I had no editing capabilities whatsoever. Corrections had to made during the shoot because that's all I was going to get.
Now, things are a bit different, and I have the editing software to accomplish just about anything that I want to do. In the process of updating and re-editing the hundreds of hours of footage I've taken over the years, I'm leaving nothing undone.
Thus, you have before you one of the latest additions to my videos page. It probably won't generate a lot of nostalgia for those of you that might be awaiting (or fearing) the next video that may or may not have YOU in it. But, hopefully some of you might appreciate it a little bit.
Unfortunately, there's nobody else to share in the blame for this "smurfy" adventure. I did this one all by myself. I figure that since I will soon be embarrassing enough of you, I ought to take one on the chin before I really get going.
Enjoy!
Derek Lloyd
Lloydel Pictures
Smurf Story Time
Approximate Film Date: February - May 1987
Well, they can't all be fight videos.
In 1987, shortly after I was gifted my first video camera (thanks Mom - no present in history ever enjoyed more mileage), I tried my hand at "stop-motion" filmmaking. The early video cameras really weren't equipped to produce that sort of animated feature, but I made the attempt anyway. I decided to do my best using some Smurf figurines I had mixed in with my enormous collection of Star Wars figures. The original animation was really, really choppy. I also had no real means of dubbing in good sound effects or voiceovers. Worse still, any mistakes that were made during filming had to be corrected right then and there because at that time I had no editing capabilities whatsoever. Corrections had to made during the shoot because that's all I was going to get.
Now, things are a bit different, and I have the editing software to accomplish just about anything that I want to do. In the process of updating and re-editing the hundreds of hours of footage I've taken over the years, I'm leaving nothing undone.
Thus, you have before you one of the latest additions to my videos page. It probably won't generate a lot of nostalgia for those of you that might be awaiting (or fearing) the next video that may or may not have YOU in it. But, hopefully some of you might appreciate it a little bit.
Unfortunately, there's nobody else to share in the blame for this "smurfy" adventure. I did this one all by myself. I figure that since I will soon be embarrassing enough of you, I ought to take one on the chin before I really get going.
Enjoy!
Derek Lloyd
Lloydel Pictures
![North River Afternoon [Edited Version]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ls04QVjv4IU/mqdefault.jpg "North River Afternoon [Edited Version]
North River Afternoon [Edited Version]
Approximate Film Date: November 1988
This is an edited version of the day we went to the North River in the late fall of 1988. It is pieced together to the song Monkey by George Michael, which was pretty popular at that time.
The people in the video are (in no particular order): Kevin Driscoll, Jonathan Lee, Derek Lloyd, Sean Callaghan, Chris Johnson, Tricia Crimmi, Maura Roach, Heather Johnston, Dawn McCann, Allison Porter, and Gerrit Hofer.")
